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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,755 14,286 24,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 13.81% 15.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 14.44% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,321 8,330 13,092
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,250 £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 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,725 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.79% +2.88% +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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 5 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 5 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 6,678 £65,000 -7.14% 1,618
UK excluding London -13 5,229 £60,000 -2.79% 1,018
Work from Home -9 3,315 £65,000 -7.14% 894
London -6 2,123 £80,000 - 655
North of England -11 1,371 £60,000 -2.44% 283
South East -5 1,312 £61,500 -5.38% 222
South West -3 877 £61,500 -1.60% 152
North West -5 847 £62,500 - 180
Midlands -10 722 £57,500 - 180
Scotland -40 490 £69,000 +6.15% 70
West Midlands -9 472 £60,000 - 120
Yorkshire -8 429 £60,000 -3.23% 84
East Midlands -10 252 £57,500 +4.55% 59
East of England -24 237 £57,500 -11.54% 69
Wales -5 160 £53,750 +7.50% 33
North East -5 97 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Northern Ireland +1 67 £63,750 +6.25% 28
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 (4.26%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.26%) GeoServer
2 244 (3.15%) Confluence
3 192 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 149 (1.92%) CMS
5 131 (1.69%) IIS
6 92 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 86 (1.11%) Apache
8 85 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
8 85 (1.10%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 79 (1.02%) Umbraco
11 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
12 47 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Headless CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Kentico
14 35 (0.45%) Drupal
15 34 (0.44%) WebSphere
16 33 (0.43%) WordPress
17 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 84 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.23%) Trello
8 15 (0.19%) Sketch
9 13 (0.17%) Simulink
10 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.064%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.026%) Notion
13 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 176 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 37 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.13%) Magento
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 7 (0.090%) Maximo
10 6 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.064%) Primavera
11 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.064%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.052%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
13 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
13 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,524 (58.34%) Azure
2 2,870 (37.01%) AWS
3 2,316 (29.86%) Azure DevOps
4 863 (11.13%) GCP
5 711 (9.17%) Serverless
6 612 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 526 (6.78%) SaaS
8 458 (5.91%) GitHub
9 394 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
10 377 (4.86%) PaaS
11 369 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
12 294 (3.79%) Amazon S3
12 294 (3.79%) IaaS
13 285 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
14 272 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 266 (3.43%) Azure Functions
16 251 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
17 245 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
18 243 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
19 233 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 286 (3.69%) Firewall
2 250 (3.22%) DNS
3 134 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 129 (1.66%) VPN
5 122 (1.57%) Network Security
6 106 (1.37%) HTTP
7 102 (1.32%) WAN
8 94 (1.21%) DHCP
9 71 (0.92%) LAN
10 50 (0.64%) Internet
11 33 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.40%) SSL
13 20 (0.26%) BGP
13 20 (0.26%) SAN
13 20 (0.26%) SNMP
13 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.21%) IPv4
15 16 (0.21%) MQTT
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 945 (12.19%) SQL Server
2 720 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
3 431 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 429 (5.53%) NoSQL
5 343 (4.42%) GIS
6 330 (4.26%) QGIS
7 329 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
8 325 (4.19%) MongoDB
9 321 (4.14%) Power BI
10 261 (3.37%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.29%) Looker
12 229 (2.95%) MySQL
13 215 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
14 193 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
15 192 (2.48%) Big Data
16 153 (1.97%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.87%) DB2
18 119 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
19 96 (1.24%) RDBMS
20 89 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,135 (14.64%) Git
2 819 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 650 (8.38%) JIRA
4 347 (4.47%) GitLab
5 292 (3.77%) Visual Studio
6 146 (1.88%) Selenium
7 139 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 137 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 126 (1.62%) Postman
10 99 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 85 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 77 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 76 (0.98%) JUnit
14 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
15 73 (0.94%) NUnit
16 71 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
17 66 (0.85%) Artifactory
18 65 (0.84%) SonarQube
19 64 (0.83%) Subversion
20 58 (0.75%) CircleCI
General
1 1,662 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1,421 (18.32%) Finance
3 714 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 534 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 482 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 395 (5.09%) Banking
7 393 (5.07%) Law
8 270 (3.48%) Marketing
9 226 (2.91%) Retail
10 224 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 181 (2.33%) Legal
12 140 (1.81%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 109 (1.41%) Front Office
15 100 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 97 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 80 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.02%) Billing
19 76 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 64 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,022 (26.07%) Developer
2 1,668 (21.51%) Senior
3 1,121 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 918 (11.84%) Software Engineer
5 880 (11.35%) Lead
6 610 (7.87%) Architect
7 514 (6.63%) Senior Developer
8 411 (5.30%) Data Engineer
9 407 (5.25%) .NET Developer
10 380 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
11 342 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 328 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 315 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
14 300 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 299 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
16 281 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
17 276 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
18 265 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 234 (3.02%) Analyst
19 234 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,978 (25.51%) .NET
2 1,230 (15.86%) React
3 992 (12.79%) CSS
4 801 (10.33%) .NET Core
5 757 (9.76%) HTML
6 699 (9.01%) AngularJS
7 622 (8.02%) ASP.NET
8 603 (7.78%) Node.js
9 516 (6.65%) REST
10 464 (5.98%) .NET Framework
11 418 (5.39%) Web Services
12 411 (5.30%) RESTful
13 357 (4.60%) Vue
14 346 (4.46%) JSON
15 339 (4.37%) PostGIS
16 330 (4.26%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.26%) OpenLayers
17 288 (3.71%) Spring
18 269 (3.47%) jQuery
19 266 (3.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 441 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 360 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 338 (4.36%) Public Cloud
4 328 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 320 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
6 279 (3.60%) Blockchain
7 254 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 254 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 211 (2.72%) Algorithms
9 204 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
10 180 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
11 167 (2.15%) Private Cloud
12 166 (2.14%) Data Centre
13 148 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
14 133 (1.72%) Mobile App
15 116 (1.50%) IoT
15 116 (1.50%) Onboarding
16 113 (1.46%) Hedge funds
17 77 (0.99%) e-Learning
17 77 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,306 (16.84%) Linux
2 796 (10.26%) Windows
3 219 (2.82%) Android
4 218 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 208 (2.68%) Apple iOS
6 155 (2.00%) Unix
7 107 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 85 (1.10%) CentOS
10 65 (0.84%) VMS
11 63 (0.81%) Debian
12 46 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
13 40 (0.52%) Windows 10
13 40 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
14 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
15 23 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
16 15 (0.19%) CoreOS
17 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,915 (50.48%) Agile
2 2,540 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 1,832 (23.62%) Software Engineering
4 1,523 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 1,139 (14.69%) Scrum
6 1,106 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,091 (14.07%) Mentoring
8 891 (11.49%) Microservices
9 843 (10.87%) Test Automation
10 842 (10.86%) Containerisation
11 814 (10.50%) Full Stack Development
12 784 (10.11%) Actionable Insight
13 766 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
14 706 (9.10%) Web Development
15 655 (8.45%) SDLC
16 642 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
16 642 (8.28%) Roadmaps
17 576 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 565 (7.29%) TDD
19 553 (7.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,094 (27.00%) Python
2 2,017 (26.01%) C#
3 1,800 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 1,688 (21.77%) SQL
5 1,232 (15.89%) Java
6 680 (8.77%) PowerShell
7 518 (6.68%) Bash
8 500 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 314 (4.05%) Go
10 219 (2.82%) PHP
11 213 (2.75%) T-SQL
12 165 (2.13%) C
13 159 (2.05%) Ruby
14 153 (1.97%) Bicep
15 146 (1.88%) C++
16 114 (1.47%) Shell Script
17 106 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.02%) VB.NET
19 69 (0.89%) Groovy
20 61 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,364 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 1,099 (14.17%) Degree
3 1,059 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 386 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 239 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 211 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 179 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 173 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 165 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 131 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 66 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 61 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 60 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
14 53 (0.68%) CISSP
15 46 (0.59%) MCSE
16 45 (0.58%) PMI Certification
17 43 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 42 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 41 (0.53%) MCSA
20 40 (0.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 642 (8.28%) QA
2 280 (3.61%) GDPR
3 147 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 109 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 91 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.95%) PMO
7 47 (0.61%) NIST
8 40 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.48%) SLA
10 33 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) NCSC
13 15 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.12%) PSD2
15 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
15 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.077%) GRC
17 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,432 (18.47%) Docker
2 331 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 188 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 166 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 125 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 24 (0.31%) vSphere
10 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.17%) NFS
11 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 11 (0.14%) IAG
13 10 (0.13%) HDFS
13 10 (0.13%) pfSense
14 9 (0.12%) KVM
15 6 (0.077%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.077%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.064%) Xen
17 4 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,632 (21.04%) Kubernetes
2 1,563 (20.15%) Terraform
3 766 (9.88%) Ansible
4 264 (3.40%) Puppet
5 234 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 196 (2.53%) Grafana
7 156 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.58%) Kibana
10 43 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 39 (0.50%) Packer
11 39 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.35%) Istio
15 26 (0.34%) Consul
16 25 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
16 25 (0.32%) Nagios
17 22 (0.28%) Rancher
18 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,754 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 488 (6.29%) Google
3 352 (4.54%) Red Hat
4 346 (4.46%) IBM
5 332 (4.28%) ESRI
6 284 (3.66%) Oracle
7 258 (3.33%) VMware
8 218 (2.81%) Databricks
9 131 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 111 (1.43%) Cisco
11 106 (1.37%) SAP
12 102 (1.32%) Splunk
13 96 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 81 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 67 (0.86%) Citrix
16 64 (0.83%) Salesforce
17 63 (0.81%) Adobe
18 62 (0.80%) Sitecore
19 42 (0.54%) WSO2
20 38 (0.49%) Sparx