DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,831 7,778 14,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 7.87% 13.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 9.18% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 5,330 8,277
10th Percentile £45,750 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,725
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.79% +2.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 3,442 £71,991 +10.76% 3,922
UK excluding London -8 2,249 £65,000 +8.33% 2,618
Work from Home +3 1,846 £70,000 +7.69% 2,505
London +1 1,425 £82,500 +3.13% 2,007
North of England -15 621 £67,500 +12.50% 712
South East -9 592 £67,500 +9.76% 937
North West -45 377 £69,692 +11.51% 435
Midlands -26 318 £60,000 +4.35% 330
South West -6 283 £65,000 +5.69% 251
Scotland +22 237 £71,500 +3.62% 147
West Midlands -16 227 £60,000 - 208
Yorkshire -2 197 £69,000 +15.00% 204
East of England 0 163 £65,000 +13.04% 187
East Midlands -40 91 £65,000 +13.04% 104
Wales -15 52 £63,250 +20.48% 60
North East +9 47 £65,000 +13.04% 79
Northern Ireland -6 13 £55,000 -13.73% 59
Isle of Man +12 1 - - 4

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 280 (7.31%) Confluence
2 116 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 103 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 101 (2.64%) Apache
5 85 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 75 (1.96%) Oracle Application Server
7 35 (0.91%) nginx
8 25 (0.65%) CMS
8 25 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.42%) IIS
11 15 (0.39%) JBoss
12 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.26%) Apache Solr
14 9 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 9 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.21%) CICS
15 8 (0.21%) SAS
16 6 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 43 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.29%) Trello
6 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.18%) Maya
7 7 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.16%) Sketch
9 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.078%) Productboard
11 2 (0.052%) Moqups
11 2 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.026%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.026%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 79 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.10%) Magento
4 4 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 4 (0.10%) Shopify
5 3 (0.078%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.078%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.052%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.052%) Endur
6 2 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.052%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.052%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.052%) Sprinklr
6 2 (0.052%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.026%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2,107 (55.00%) Azure
2 1,436 (37.48%) AWS
3 912 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 619 (16.16%) GCP
5 415 (10.83%) Serverless
6 314 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 287 (7.49%) GitHub
8 280 (7.31%) SaaS
9 228 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (4.59%) PaaS
11 168 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
12 159 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
13 137 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 131 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
15 130 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 129 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
17 120 (3.13%) Amazon S3
18 109 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
19 104 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 102 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.39%) VPN
2 129 (3.37%) Firewall
3 112 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.17%) Network Security
5 61 (1.59%) DNS
6 40 (1.04%) HTTP
7 22 (0.57%) SSL
7 22 (0.57%) WAN
8 20 (0.52%) Internet
9 17 (0.44%) SAN
10 16 (0.42%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.39%) IPsec
12 12 (0.31%) LAN
12 12 (0.31%) Multicast
13 11 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
13 11 (0.29%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.21%) DHCP
14 8 (0.21%) VLAN
15 6 (0.16%) FTP
15 6 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 551 (14.38%) SQL Server
2 183 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 168 (4.39%) Power BI
5 165 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 112 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 98 (2.56%) MongoDB
8 88 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.30%) Big Data
8 88 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 88 (2.30%) MySQL
9 86 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 82 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
11 81 (2.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 81 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
12 74 (1.93%) Apache Iceberg
13 73 (1.91%) Dremio
14 71 (1.85%) Apache Arrow
14 71 (1.85%) Apache Ignite
15 68 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 494 (12.89%) JIRA
2 484 (12.63%) Git
3 387 (10.10%) GitLab
4 376 (9.81%) Jenkins
5 318 (8.30%) SonarQube
6 315 (8.22%) Cucumber
7 296 (7.73%) Maven
8 281 (7.33%) Selenium
9 280 (7.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 250 (6.53%) Bitbucket
11 103 (2.69%) Artifactory
12 102 (2.66%) Visual Studio
13 70 (1.83%) Robot Framework
14 67 (1.75%) JUnit
15 59 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
16 53 (1.38%) Postman
17 52 (1.36%) TeamCity
18 50 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
19 36 (0.94%) Cypress.io
19 36 (0.94%) MSBuild
General
1 1,309 (34.17%) Finance
2 1,107 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 564 (14.72%) Banking
4 438 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 437 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (5.90%) Retail
7 225 (5.87%) Law
8 158 (4.12%) Public Sector
9 130 (3.39%) Front Office
10 117 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 99 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
12 85 (2.22%) Marketing
13 84 (2.19%) Investment Banking
14 79 (2.06%) Military
15 71 (1.85%) Manufacturing
16 69 (1.80%) Games
17 54 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
17 54 (1.41%) Legal
18 36 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 36 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 707 (18.45%) Senior
2 645 (16.84%) Developer
3 509 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 505 (13.18%) Software Engineer
5 469 (12.24%) Lead
6 350 (9.14%) Architect
7 203 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
8 201 (5.25%) Senior Developer
9 199 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 199 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 183 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
11 178 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
12 156 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 148 (3.86%) Analyst
14 141 (3.68%) Python Engineer
15 126 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
16 114 (2.98%) .NET Developer
17 104 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
18 99 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
19 97 (2.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 607 (15.84%) .NET
2 579 (15.11%) React
3 448 (11.69%) HTML
4 440 (11.49%) CSS
5 439 (11.46%) Kafka
6 386 (10.08%) Spring
7 368 (9.61%) Spring Boot
8 322 (8.41%) REST
9 270 (7.05%) RESTful
10 229 (5.98%) Redux
11 217 (5.66%) JPA
12 204 (5.32%) AngularJS
13 195 (5.09%) .NET Framework
14 193 (5.04%) Hibernate
15 183 (4.78%) Node.js
16 166 (4.33%) .NET Core
17 152 (3.97%) ASP.NET
18 117 (3.05%) PySpark
19 110 (2.87%) JSON
20 109 (2.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 426 (11.12%) Product Ownership
2 285 (7.44%) Enterprise Software
3 244 (6.37%) Cloud Native
4 160 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 109 (2.85%) Public Cloud
6 93 (2.43%) Mobile App
7 90 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 86 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 81 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
10 71 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 62 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.41%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.31%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 36 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (0.86%) Clustering
17 31 (0.81%) Private Cloud
18 30 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 476 (12.42%) Linux
2 291 (7.60%) Windows
3 89 (2.32%) Unix
4 70 (1.83%) Android
5 68 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 58 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 53 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.63%) VMS
9 23 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.55%) CentOS
11 20 (0.52%) zOS
12 17 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
14 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
15 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.26%) Debian
16 10 (0.26%) Mac OS
16 10 (0.26%) Solaris
17 5 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,919 (50.09%) Agile
2 1,887 (49.26%) CI/CD
3 1,013 (26.44%) Software Engineering
4 859 (22.42%) Microservices
5 792 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
6 777 (20.28%) Containerisation
7 745 (19.45%) Mentoring
8 668 (17.44%) Test Automation
9 608 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 574 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 499 (13.03%) SDLC
12 467 (12.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 442 (11.54%) Analytics
14 389 (10.15%) TDD
15 369 (9.63%) Roadmaps
16 347 (9.06%) Coaching
17 342 (8.93%) Computer Science
17 342 (8.93%) Front End Development
18 337 (8.80%) Performance Optimisation
19 304 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (26.73%) Python
2 970 (25.32%) SQL
3 907 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 851 (22.21%) Java
5 671 (17.52%) C#
6 363 (9.48%) PowerShell
7 319 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 260 (6.79%) Bash
9 177 (4.62%) Go
10 68 (1.77%) C++
11 60 (1.57%) Bicep
12 59 (1.54%) PHP
13 51 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 48 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 43 (1.12%) C
16 39 (1.02%) Shell Script
17 38 (0.99%) Apex Code
18 34 (0.89%) Scala
19 26 (0.68%) Ruby
20 25 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 612 (15.97%) Degree
2 357 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 265 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 229 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 138 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 124 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 110 (2.87%) DBS Check
8 106 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 75 (1.96%) DV Cleared
10 66 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 47 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 33 (0.86%) PhD
14 31 (0.81%) PMI Certification
15 30 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
16 21 (0.55%) CISSP
16 21 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (14.43%) QA
2 164 (4.28%) GDPR
3 128 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 76 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 67 (1.75%) NIST
7 65 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 51 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 43 (1.12%) SLA
10 38 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 28 (0.73%) NCSC
12 25 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.31%) PMO
14 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.21%) Basel III
15 8 (0.21%) IFRS
15 8 (0.21%) IFRS 9
16 7 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
16 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,109 (28.95%) Docker
2 77 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 59 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.29%) vSphere
8 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.16%) Postfix
9 6 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.13%) HDFS
11 3 (0.078%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.078%) Firmware
12 2 (0.052%) KVM
12 2 (0.052%) NFS
12 2 (0.052%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.026%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.026%) NDS
13 1 (0.026%) RACF
13 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1,185 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 829 (21.64%) Terraform
3 365 (9.53%) Ansible
4 131 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 129 (3.37%) Grafana
6 54 (1.41%) Puppet
7 52 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 34 (0.89%) Istio
9 29 (0.76%) Argo
10 28 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.68%) Nagios
12 13 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
13 11 (0.29%) Nessus
13 11 (0.29%) Packer
13 11 (0.29%) Podman
14 10 (0.26%) CASB
14 10 (0.26%) Kibana
14 10 (0.26%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 752 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 211 (5.51%) Solace
3 202 (5.27%) Google
4 201 (5.25%) Oracle
5 156 (4.07%) Databricks
6 100 (2.61%) IBM
7 98 (2.56%) VMware
8 95 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 88 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 79 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.49%) SAP
12 43 (1.12%) Splunk
13 40 (1.04%) Cisco
14 33 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 32 (0.84%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.68%) Informatica
17 24 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 23 (0.60%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.55%) New Relic
19 21 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud