DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,235 7,431 9,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.37% 12.35% 13.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 12.92% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,400 4,012 6,061
10th Percentile £38,890 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +2.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -11 1,386 £60,000 -2.44% 274
South East -5 1,314 £61,500 -5.38% 219
South West -3 869 £61,500 -1.60% 155
North West -7 862 £62,500 -3.85% 167
Midlands -12 720 £58,500 +1.74% 186
Scotland -37 491 £69,000 +6.15% 60
West Midlands -10 472 £60,000 +4.35% 120
Yorkshire -8 431 £60,000 -2.18% 85
East Midlands -12 248 £57,500 +4.55% 65
East of England -31 228 £57,500 -11.54% 65
Wales -4 160 £52,500 +5.00% 37
North East -2 95 £58,000 +5.45% 22
Northern Ireland +2 69 £63,750 +6.25% 31
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 284 (5.43%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.43%) GeoServer
2 164 (3.13%) Confluence
3 133 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 112 (2.14%) IIS
5 79 (1.51%) CMS
6 70 (1.34%) Umbraco
7 58 (1.11%) nginx
8 53 (1.01%) Apache
9 51 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
9 51 (0.97%) OpenStack
10 42 (0.80%) Headless CMS
10 42 (0.80%) Kentico
11 41 (0.78%) Apache Spark
12 40 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
13 28 (0.53%) WebSphere
14 22 (0.42%) Captiva
14 22 (0.42%) FileNet
15 17 (0.32%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 57 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.29%) Simulink
7 15 (0.29%) Sketch
8 14 (0.27%) Trello
9 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.038%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) InVision
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 102 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) Maximo
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.076%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.076%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
9 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,079 (58.82%) Azure
2 1,858 (35.49%) AWS
3 1,533 (29.28%) Azure DevOps
4 557 (10.64%) GCP
5 379 (7.24%) Serverless
6 377 (7.20%) SaaS
7 351 (6.70%) Power Platform
8 261 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
9 256 (4.89%) GitHub
10 232 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
11 228 (4.36%) IBM Cloud
12 196 (3.74%) PaaS
13 179 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 173 (3.30%) Azure Functions
15 171 (3.27%) Amazon S3
16 163 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
17 148 (2.83%) IaaS
18 138 (2.64%) PowerApps
19 135 (2.58%) Azure API Management
19 135 (2.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 177 (3.38%) Firewall
2 146 (2.79%) DNS
3 79 (1.51%) VPN
4 76 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.38%) HTTP
6 71 (1.36%) DHCP
7 63 (1.20%) Network Security
8 49 (0.94%) WAN
9 32 (0.61%) LAN
10 20 (0.38%) Internet
11 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.29%) MQTT
12 15 (0.29%) SSL
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) BGP
14 10 (0.19%) NGFW
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
15 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 563 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
3 343 (6.55%) Relational Database
4 313 (5.98%) NoSQL
5 293 (5.60%) GIS
6 284 (5.43%) QGIS
7 243 (4.64%) Looker
7 243 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 238 (4.55%) BigQuery
9 235 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
10 196 (3.74%) Power BI
11 163 (3.11%) MySQL
12 125 (2.39%) DB2
13 121 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
14 101 (1.93%) Big Data
15 87 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 86 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
17 63 (1.20%) RDBMS
18 61 (1.17%) Hadoop
19 56 (1.07%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 784 (14.98%) Git
2 470 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 453 (8.65%) JIRA
4 225 (4.30%) Visual Studio
5 203 (3.88%) GitLab
6 105 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 101 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 101 (1.93%) Selenium
8 80 (1.53%) Postman
9 68 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 61 (1.17%) JUnit
10 61 (1.17%) Sourcetree
11 56 (1.07%) Cucumber
12 53 (1.01%) Jasmine
13 51 (0.97%) NUnit
14 49 (0.94%) TeamCity
15 45 (0.86%) Subversion
16 38 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
17 33 (0.63%) SonarQube
18 32 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,106 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 718 (13.72%) Finance
3 484 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 378 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 324 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 293 (5.60%) Law
7 214 (4.09%) Banking
8 172 (3.29%) Retail
9 162 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 149 (2.85%) Marketing
11 139 (2.66%) Aerospace
12 123 (2.35%) Legal
13 120 (2.29%) Games
14 78 (1.49%) Billing
15 69 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 65 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (0.96%) Automotive
18 48 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 47 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
20 43 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,393 (26.61%) Developer
2 1,075 (20.53%) Senior
3 731 (13.96%) Software Engineer
4 672 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 536 (10.24%) Lead
6 355 (6.78%) Architect
7 348 (6.65%) Senior Developer
8 286 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 285 (5.44%) Data Engineer
10 268 (5.12%) Full Stack Developer
11 264 (5.04%) .NET Developer
12 252 (4.81%) Software Developer
13 215 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
14 174 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 173 (3.30%) Azure Developer
16 166 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
17 165 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
17 165 (3.15%) Principal Engineer
18 150 (2.87%) C# Developer
19 149 (2.85%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,398 (26.70%) .NET
2 951 (18.17%) React
3 782 (14.94%) CSS
4 620 (11.84%) .NET Core
5 576 (11.00%) HTML
6 522 (9.97%) AngularJS
7 465 (8.88%) ASP.NET
7 465 (8.88%) Node.js
8 357 (6.82%) .NET Framework
9 332 (6.34%) REST
10 289 (5.52%) Web Services
11 287 (5.48%) PostGIS
12 284 (5.43%) Leaflet
12 284 (5.43%) OpenLayers
13 267 (5.10%) Vue
14 264 (5.04%) RESTful
15 225 (4.30%) JSON
16 221 (4.22%) jQuery
17 203 (3.88%) Spring
18 198 (3.78%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 339 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 290 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 271 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 246 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 226 (4.32%) Blockchain
6 215 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 181 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 175 (3.34%) Algorithms
9 159 (3.04%) Management Information System
10 142 (2.71%) Private Cloud
11 132 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
12 126 (2.41%) Data Centre
13 98 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
13 98 (1.87%) Mobile App
14 93 (1.78%) IoT
15 89 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
16 76 (1.45%) Low-Code
17 71 (1.36%) Onboarding
18 66 (1.26%) e-Learning
19 60 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 909 (17.36%) Linux
2 566 (10.81%) Windows
3 173 (3.30%) Android
4 163 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 136 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 78 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 75 (1.43%) Unix
8 71 (1.36%) CentOS
9 68 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 63 (1.20%) Debian
11 46 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
12 42 (0.80%) VMS
13 28 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.50%) Windows 10
15 25 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
16 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
17 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
18 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 8 (0.15%) CoreOS
20 7 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,773 (52.97%) Agile
2 1,567 (29.93%) CI/CD
3 1,281 (24.47%) Software Engineering
4 1,085 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 787 (15.03%) Mentoring
6 745 (14.23%) Scrum
7 646 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 644 (12.30%) Actionable Insight
9 604 (11.54%) Web Development
10 563 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
11 553 (10.56%) Full Stack Development
12 542 (10.35%) Test Automation
13 535 (10.22%) Microservices
14 527 (10.07%) Containerisation
15 475 (9.07%) SDLC
16 461 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
17 457 (8.73%) Roadmaps
18 437 (8.35%) Design Patterns
19 417 (7.97%) MVC
20 389 (7.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,407 (26.88%) C#
2 1,346 (25.71%) JavaScript
3 1,256 (23.99%) Python
4 1,077 (20.57%) SQL
5 779 (14.88%) Java
6 378 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 339 (6.48%) TypeScript
8 324 (6.19%) Bash
9 163 (3.11%) PHP
10 140 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 127 (2.43%) Go
12 124 (2.37%) C
13 101 (1.93%) C++
14 92 (1.76%) Bicep
15 85 (1.62%) Ruby
16 72 (1.38%) VB.NET
17 71 (1.36%) Shell Script
18 56 (1.07%) Groovy
18 56 (1.07%) Perl
18 56 (1.07%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,093 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 834 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 816 (15.59%) Degree
4 260 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 191 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 152 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 131 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 110 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 94 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 45 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 45 (0.86%) MCSE
13 41 (0.78%) MCSA
14 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.65%) ISTQB
17 32 (0.61%) CISSP
18 31 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 29 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (8.50%) QA
2 227 (4.34%) GDPR
3 102 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 64 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.18%) PMO
6 40 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (0.50%) NIST
9 22 (0.42%) SLA
10 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.25%) NCSC
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.096%) GRC
17 4 (0.076%) MISRA
17 4 (0.076%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.038%) IEC 61508
18 2 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 871 (16.64%) Docker
2 167 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 130 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.50%) Firmware
8 24 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.34%) vSphere
10 13 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.19%) NFS
11 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 7 (0.13%) IAG
12 7 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.076%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.076%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 995 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 922 (17.61%) Terraform
3 505 (9.65%) Ansible
4 150 (2.87%) Puppet
5 134 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 124 (2.37%) Grafana
7 90 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 26 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (0.48%) Kibana
12 22 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.38%) SCOM
14 18 (0.34%) Rancher
14 18 (0.34%) SCCM
15 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.27%) WSUS
18 13 (0.25%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,167 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 371 (7.09%) Google
3 293 (5.60%) IBM
4 285 (5.44%) ESRI
4 285 (5.44%) Red Hat
5 191 (3.65%) Oracle
6 184 (3.51%) VMware
7 99 (1.89%) Databricks
8 87 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 60 (1.15%) SAP
11 54 (1.03%) Splunk
12 50 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 49 (0.94%) Cisco
14 47 (0.90%) Sitecore
15 37 (0.71%) Citrix
16 36 (0.69%) Optimizely
17 35 (0.67%) WSO2
18 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics
19 31 (0.59%) Adobe