DevOps Jobs in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,691 12,182 21,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.74% 13.81% 15.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 14.44% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,750 7,166 11,337
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £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 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £106,125 £104,806
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,598 84,339 129,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 95.60% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53,968 50,108 73,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England region 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
London -5 2,111 £80,000 - 763
North of England -11 1,411 £60,000 -2.64% 296
South East -5 1,321 £61,500 -5.38% 340
North West -7 879 £62,783 -3.41% 172
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 156
Midlands -12 720 £58,500 +1.74% 207
West Midlands -9 472 £60,000 +4.35% 152
Yorkshire -7 438 £59,526 -3.21% 96
East Midlands -10 247 £57,500 - 54
East of England -32 223 £56,250 -13.46% 72
North East -3 96 £57,750 +5.00% 28
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 196 (2.93%) ArcGIS
1 196 (2.93%) GeoServer
2 195 (2.91%) Confluence
3 167 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 142 (2.12%) CMS
5 127 (1.90%) IIS
6 94 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 82 (1.23%) Apache
8 75 (1.12%) nginx
9 74 (1.11%) Apache Spark
10 71 (1.06%) Umbraco
11 70 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
12 56 (0.84%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Kentico
15 33 (0.49%) Drupal
16 26 (0.39%) WordPress
17 20 (0.30%) JBoss
18 18 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 73 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 18 (0.27%) Trello
7 16 (0.24%) Simulink
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.090%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.060%) Sketch
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.045%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.030%) Notion
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 148 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 32 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.13%) Magento
8 8 (0.12%) Shopify
9 7 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.090%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.075%) Maximo
11 5 (0.075%) Primavera
11 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
13 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,882 (58.02%) Azure
2 2,478 (37.03%) AWS
3 2,023 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
4 709 (10.60%) GCP
5 616 (9.21%) Serverless
6 515 (7.70%) Power Platform
7 445 (6.65%) SaaS
8 388 (5.80%) GitHub
9 330 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
10 313 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
11 307 (4.59%) PaaS
12 273 (4.08%) Amazon S3
13 264 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 249 (3.72%) Azure Functions
15 247 (3.69%) IBM Cloud
16 237 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 235 (3.51%) IaaS
18 217 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
19 209 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
19 209 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 251 (3.75%) Firewall
2 232 (3.47%) DNS
3 124 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.64%) Network Security
5 103 (1.54%) HTTP
6 99 (1.48%) VPN
7 89 (1.33%) DHCP
8 84 (1.26%) WAN
9 66 (0.99%) LAN
10 37 (0.55%) Internet
11 30 (0.45%) SSL
12 20 (0.30%) Unified Communications
13 19 (0.28%) SAN
13 19 (0.28%) SNMP
14 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.24%) 5G
16 15 (0.22%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) MQTT
16 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 860 (12.85%) SQL Server
2 588 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 374 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 371 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 289 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 288 (4.30%) MongoDB
7 283 (4.23%) Power BI
8 234 (3.50%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.14%) Looker
10 208 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
11 207 (3.09%) GIS
12 202 (3.02%) MySQL
13 196 (2.93%) QGIS
14 181 (2.71%) Big Data
15 176 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 155 (2.32%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.17%) DB2
18 90 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
19 83 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
20 82 (1.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,031 (15.41%) Git
2 707 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 544 (8.13%) JIRA
4 317 (4.74%) GitLab
5 268 (4.01%) Visual Studio
6 125 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 123 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
8 121 (1.81%) Selenium
9 97 (1.45%) Postman
9 97 (1.45%) TeamCity
10 76 (1.14%) Sourcetree
11 75 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 72 (1.08%) NUnit
13 59 (0.88%) Subversion
14 58 (0.87%) Cypress.io
15 57 (0.85%) Cucumber
16 56 (0.84%) Artifactory
17 52 (0.78%) Jasmine
17 52 (0.78%) JUnit
17 52 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 1,480 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 1,109 (16.57%) Finance
3 639 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 510 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 293 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 276 (4.12%) Banking
7 263 (3.93%) Law
8 208 (3.11%) Retail
9 193 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 172 (2.57%) Marketing
11 152 (2.27%) Aerospace
12 145 (2.17%) Legal
13 118 (1.76%) Games
14 102 (1.52%) Front Office
15 99 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 91 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
17 76 (1.14%) Billing
18 75 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
19 72 (1.08%) Telecoms
20 61 (0.91%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,802 (26.93%) Developer
2 1,374 (20.54%) Senior
3 994 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 708 (10.58%) Lead
5 666 (9.95%) Software Engineer
6 554 (8.28%) Architect
7 427 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 402 (6.01%) .NET Developer
9 358 (5.35%) Data Engineer
10 349 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
11 299 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
12 283 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 275 (4.11%) Software Developer
14 262 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
15 259 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 240 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
17 229 (3.42%) C# Developer
18 228 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 226 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
20 216 (3.23%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,698 (25.38%) .NET
2 978 (14.62%) React
3 770 (11.51%) CSS
4 648 (9.68%) HTML
5 642 (9.59%) AngularJS
6 629 (9.40%) .NET Core
7 582 (8.70%) ASP.NET
8 499 (7.46%) Node.js
9 492 (7.35%) REST
10 440 (6.58%) .NET Framework
11 387 (5.78%) Web Services
12 372 (5.56%) RESTful
13 312 (4.66%) Vue
14 292 (4.36%) JSON
15 274 (4.10%) jQuery
16 261 (3.90%) XML
17 244 (3.65%) Entity Framework
18 230 (3.44%) Spring
19 212 (3.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 203 (3.03%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 378 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 348 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 304 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 294 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 274 (4.10%) Blockchain
6 256 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 244 (3.65%) Data Structures
8 215 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 198 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 181 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
11 155 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
12 147 (2.20%) Data Centre
13 127 (1.90%) Private Cloud
14 125 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
15 122 (1.82%) Hedge funds
16 116 (1.73%) Mobile App
17 91 (1.36%) IoT
18 78 (1.17%) e-Learning
19 76 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
20 71 (1.06%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,107 (16.54%) Linux
2 709 (10.60%) Windows
3 203 (3.03%) Android
4 196 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 187 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 101 (1.51%) Unix
7 97 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 76 (1.14%) CentOS
9 69 (1.03%) Ubuntu
10 64 (0.96%) Debian
11 60 (0.90%) VMS
12 47 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
13 42 (0.63%) Windows 10
14 39 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
15 29 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
16 27 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.15%) AIX
18 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,276 (48.96%) Agile
2 2,175 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 1,443 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 1,341 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
5 978 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 972 (14.53%) Scrum
7 895 (13.38%) Mentoring
8 773 (11.55%) Microservices
9 771 (11.52%) Containerisation
10 728 (10.88%) Test Automation
11 718 (10.73%) Full Stack Development
12 611 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
13 589 (8.80%) Artificial Intelligence
14 570 (8.52%) Roadmaps
15 555 (8.29%) Web Development
16 539 (8.06%) SDLC
17 524 (7.83%) Design Patterns
18 516 (7.71%) Computer Science
19 501 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 493 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,788 (26.72%) Python
2 1,745 (26.08%) C#
3 1,477 (22.07%) JavaScript
4 1,418 (21.19%) SQL
5 1,097 (16.40%) Java
6 602 (9.00%) PowerShell
7 450 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 447 (6.68%) Bash
9 268 (4.01%) Go
10 202 (3.02%) T-SQL
11 194 (2.90%) PHP
12 159 (2.38%) C
13 145 (2.17%) Bicep
14 138 (2.06%) C++
15 115 (1.72%) Ruby
16 86 (1.29%) Shell Script
17 76 (1.14%) VB.NET
18 75 (1.12%) Perl
19 57 (0.85%) Scala
20 56 (0.84%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,132 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 958 (14.32%) Degree
3 841 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 368 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 224 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 223 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 168 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 157 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 132 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 125 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 59 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 57 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 44 (0.66%) MCSE
14 43 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 41 (0.61%) MCSA
16 36 (0.54%) CISSP
17 33 (0.49%) ISTQB
18 30 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 562 (8.40%) QA
2 232 (3.47%) GDPR
3 138 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 47 (0.70%) NIST
7 44 (0.66%) PMO
8 39 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 39 (0.58%) SLA
9 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.15%) NCSC
12 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.13%) PSD2
13 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.090%) GRC
15 5 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
16 3 (0.045%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.045%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,278 (19.10%) Docker
2 277 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 163 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 121 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.57%) Firmware
9 20 (0.30%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.21%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
13 7 (0.10%) IAG
13 7 (0.10%) KVM
13 7 (0.10%) XenApp
14 6 (0.090%) VirtualBox
15 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
16 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,498 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 1,417 (21.18%) Terraform
3 671 (10.03%) Ansible
4 254 (3.80%) Puppet
5 232 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 154 (2.30%) Grafana
7 147 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 43 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 40 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.57%) ZABBIX
12 37 (0.55%) Kibana
12 37 (0.55%) Packer
13 31 (0.46%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.40%) Nagios
15 26 (0.39%) Consul
15 26 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.36%) Istio
17 20 (0.30%) SCOM
18 17 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,573 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 416 (6.22%) Google
3 348 (5.20%) Red Hat
4 295 (4.41%) IBM
5 232 (3.47%) Oracle
6 226 (3.38%) VMware
7 198 (2.96%) ESRI
8 191 (2.85%) Databricks
9 100 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 82 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 82 (1.23%) SAP
11 79 (1.18%) Cisco
12 73 (1.09%) Splunk
13 63 (0.94%) Sitecore
14 61 (0.91%) Adobe
15 59 (0.88%) Atlassian
16 58 (0.87%) Citrix
17 48 (0.72%) Salesforce
18 40 (0.60%) WSO2
19 38 (0.57%) Informatica