DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,775 13,817 25,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.78% 13.93% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 14.58% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,291 8,021 12,856
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 18 May 2024. 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 -12 6,691 £65,000 -7.14% 1,721
UK excluding London -14 5,267 £60,000 -3.23% 1,157
Work from Home -9 3,331 £65,000 -7.14% 1,033
London -5 2,111 £80,000 - 751
North of England -11 1,411 £60,000 -2.64% 288
South East -5 1,321 £61,500 -5.38% 317
North West -7 879 £62,783 -3.41% 169
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 154
Midlands -12 720 £58,500 +1.74% 203
Scotland -38 492 £69,000 +6.15% 67
West Midlands -9 472 £60,000 +4.35% 149
Yorkshire -7 438 £59,526 -3.21% 94
East Midlands -10 247 £57,500 - 53
East of England -32 223 £56,250 -13.46% 70
Wales -8 161 £52,500 +5.00% 43
North East -3 96 £57,750 +5.00% 25
Northern Ireland 0 71 £67,500 +12.50% 31
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

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
1 330 (4.24%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.24%) GeoServer
2 237 (3.05%) Confluence
3 184 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 150 (1.93%) CMS
5 133 (1.71%) IIS
6 95 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 88 (1.13%) Apache
8 83 (1.07%) Apache Spark
8 83 (1.07%) nginx
9 81 (1.04%) Umbraco
10 70 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
11 57 (0.73%) OpenStack
12 48 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.55%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.55%) Kentico
14 34 (0.44%) Drupal
15 31 (0.40%) WordPress
16 28 (0.36%) WebSphere
17 21 (0.27%) Captiva
Applications
1 85 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 24 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.23%) Trello
8 17 (0.22%) Simulink
9 16 (0.21%) Sketch
10 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.077%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.039%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.026%) Notion
14 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) Revit
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 172 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 35 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 15 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.12%) Magento
8 8 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 6 (0.077%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.064%) Maximo
10 5 (0.064%) Primavera
10 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.051%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.051%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,528 (58.24%) Azure
2 2,916 (37.50%) AWS
3 2,263 (29.11%) Azure DevOps
4 847 (10.89%) GCP
5 702 (9.03%) Serverless
6 606 (7.79%) Power Platform
7 527 (6.78%) SaaS
8 450 (5.79%) GitHub
9 384 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
10 367 (4.72%) PaaS
11 350 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
12 288 (3.70%) Amazon S3
13 283 (3.64%) IaaS
14 282 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
15 269 (3.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 267 (3.43%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
18 237 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
19 232 (2.98%) PowerApps
20 228 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 291 (3.74%) Firewall
2 243 (3.13%) DNS
3 129 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 124 (1.59%) VPN
5 123 (1.58%) Network Security
6 105 (1.35%) HTTP
7 102 (1.31%) WAN
8 89 (1.14%) DHCP
9 71 (0.91%) LAN
10 48 (0.62%) Internet
11 32 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.40%) SSL
13 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 19 (0.24%) BGP
14 19 (0.24%) SAN
14 19 (0.24%) SNMP
15 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
16 16 (0.21%) 5G
16 16 (0.21%) IPv4
16 16 (0.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 946 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 729 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 442 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 436 (5.61%) Relational Database
5 341 (4.39%) GIS
6 330 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
6 330 (4.24%) QGIS
7 326 (4.19%) MongoDB
8 320 (4.12%) Power BI
9 259 (3.33%) BigQuery
10 255 (3.28%) Looker
11 228 (2.93%) MySQL
12 213 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
13 207 (2.66%) Big Data
14 192 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 170 (2.19%) Data Lake
16 145 (1.86%) DB2
17 113 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
18 96 (1.23%) DynamoDB
19 94 (1.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,128 (14.51%) Git
2 800 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 627 (8.06%) JIRA
4 337 (4.33%) GitLab
5 302 (3.88%) Visual Studio
6 139 (1.79%) Selenium
7 137 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 136 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 119 (1.53%) Postman
10 99 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 82 (1.05%) Cypress.io
12 76 (0.98%) NUnit
12 76 (0.98%) Sourcetree
13 75 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
14 74 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 74 (0.95%) JUnit
15 62 (0.80%) Subversion
16 57 (0.73%) Artifactory
16 57 (0.73%) CircleCI
17 55 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 1,744 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 1,388 (17.85%) Finance
3 706 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
4 551 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 468 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 394 (5.07%) Law
7 369 (4.75%) Banking
8 275 (3.54%) Marketing
9 228 (2.93%) Retail
10 224 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 174 (2.24%) Legal
12 161 (2.07%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 104 (1.34%) Front Office
15 100 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 96 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 86 (1.11%) Billing
18 79 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
19 77 (0.99%) Telecoms
20 69 (0.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,036 (26.19%) Developer
2 1,672 (21.50%) Senior
3 1,099 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 932 (11.99%) Software Engineer
5 866 (11.14%) Lead
6 653 (8.40%) Architect
7 524 (6.74%) Senior Developer
8 418 (5.38%) .NET Developer
9 401 (5.16%) Data Engineer
10 390 (5.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 359 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 317 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
13 314 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
14 310 (3.99%) Software Developer
15 295 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
16 283 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
17 274 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
18 265 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 241 (3.10%) C# Developer
20 229 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,992 (25.62%) .NET
2 1,230 (15.82%) React
3 1,000 (12.86%) CSS
4 800 (10.29%) .NET Core
5 762 (9.80%) HTML
6 697 (8.96%) AngularJS
7 626 (8.05%) ASP.NET
8 615 (7.91%) Node.js
9 521 (6.70%) REST
10 474 (6.10%) .NET Framework
11 431 (5.54%) Web Services
12 410 (5.27%) RESTful
13 357 (4.59%) Vue
14 337 (4.33%) PostGIS
15 330 (4.24%) Leaflet
15 330 (4.24%) OpenLayers
16 328 (4.22%) JSON
17 286 (3.68%) Spring
18 274 (3.52%) jQuery
19 271 (3.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 446 (5.74%) Product Ownership
2 356 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 328 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 324 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 317 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 276 (3.55%) Blockchain
7 252 (3.24%) Data Structures
8 250 (3.22%) Management Information System
9 212 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 194 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 181 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
12 168 (2.16%) Data Centre
13 159 (2.05%) Private Cloud
14 153 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
15 134 (1.72%) Mobile App
16 123 (1.58%) Hedge funds
17 117 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
18 115 (1.48%) Onboarding
19 110 (1.41%) IoT
20 78 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,262 (16.23%) Linux
2 770 (9.90%) Windows
3 216 (2.78%) Android
4 212 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 204 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 141 (1.81%) Unix
7 102 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 84 (1.08%) CentOS
10 64 (0.82%) Debian
10 64 (0.82%) VMS
11 47 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
12 42 (0.54%) Windows 10
13 39 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
14 29 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
15 27 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
16 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
16 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.13%) AIX
17 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,966 (51.01%) Agile
2 2,520 (32.41%) CI/CD
3 1,828 (23.51%) Software Engineering
4 1,548 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 1,116 (14.35%) Scrum
6 1,096 (14.10%) Mentoring
7 1,088 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 884 (11.37%) Microservices
9 835 (10.74%) Test Automation
10 830 (10.68%) Full Stack Development
11 829 (10.66%) Containerisation
12 758 (9.75%) Continuous Integration
13 755 (9.71%) Actionable Insight
14 699 (8.99%) Web Development
15 659 (8.48%) Artificial Intelligence
16 657 (8.45%) Roadmaps
17 652 (8.39%) SDLC
18 585 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 569 (7.32%) TDD
20 562 (7.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,082 (26.78%) Python
2 2,017 (25.94%) C#
3 1,809 (23.27%) JavaScript
4 1,657 (21.31%) SQL
5 1,255 (16.14%) Java
6 640 (8.23%) PowerShell
7 496 (6.38%) Bash
8 494 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 319 (4.10%) Go
10 212 (2.73%) PHP
10 212 (2.73%) T-SQL
11 171 (2.20%) C
12 157 (2.02%) C++
13 152 (1.95%) Ruby
14 150 (1.93%) Bicep
15 113 (1.45%) Shell Script
16 95 (1.22%) Perl
17 81 (1.04%) VB.NET
18 70 (0.90%) Groovy
19 64 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,381 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 1,113 (14.32%) Degree
3 1,074 (13.81%) SC Cleared
4 406 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 244 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 225 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 182 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 171 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 167 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 129 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 64 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 57 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.67%) CISSP
14 51 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 47 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 47 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 44 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 44 (0.57%) MCSE
17 41 (0.53%) MCSA
18 39 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 640 (8.23%) QA
2 271 (3.49%) GDPR
3 151 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 103 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 70 (0.90%) PMO
7 49 (0.63%) NIST
8 41 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.50%) SLA
10 33 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.15%) NCSC
14 10 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.12%) PSD2
16 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
16 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.077%) GRC
18 5 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,394 (17.93%) Docker
2 309 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 180 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 160 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 122 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 22 (0.28%) vSphere
10 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.18%) NFS
12 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 11 (0.14%) IAG
14 10 (0.13%) HDFS
14 10 (0.13%) pfSense
15 9 (0.12%) KVM
16 7 (0.090%) XenApp
17 6 (0.077%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.064%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,630 (20.96%) Kubernetes
2 1,572 (20.22%) Terraform
3 759 (9.76%) Ansible
4 259 (3.33%) Puppet
5 242 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 188 (2.42%) Grafana
7 159 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 46 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 44 (0.57%) Kibana
11 40 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.49%) Packer
12 38 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.35%) Nagios
15 26 (0.33%) Consul
15 26 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.33%) Istio
16 20 (0.26%) SCOM
17 19 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,754 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 475 (6.11%) Google
3 350 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 332 (4.27%) ESRI
4 332 (4.27%) IBM
5 283 (3.64%) Oracle
6 244 (3.14%) VMware
7 213 (2.74%) Databricks
8 129 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 103 (1.32%) Cisco
9 103 (1.32%) Splunk
10 99 (1.27%) SAP
11 98 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 80 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 65 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 64 (0.82%) Sitecore
15 62 (0.80%) Adobe
16 58 (0.75%) Citrix
17 41 (0.53%) WSO2
18 38 (0.49%) Informatica