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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,288 7,420 9,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.38% 12.55% 13.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 13.12% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,398 3,957 6,104
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +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 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 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 20 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 20 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 1,424 £60,000 -4.00% 316
South East -5 1,325 £61,500 -5.38% 350
North West -7 889 £62,783 -3.41% 182
South West -3 871 £61,500 -1.60% 170
Midlands -13 719 £58,500 +1.74% 225
Scotland -36 492 £69,500 +6.92% 68
West Midlands -10 471 £60,000 +4.35% 163
Yorkshire -7 440 £59,526 -3.21% 103
East Midlands -12 247 £57,500 - 61
East of England -32 224 £55,000 -15.38% 72
Wales -9 161 £52,500 +7.69% 45
North East -1 97 £58,000 +5.45% 31
Northern Ireland +4 72 £67,500 +12.50% 30
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 (5.37%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.37%) GeoServer
2 166 (3.14%) Confluence
3 128 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 110 (2.08%) IIS
5 80 (1.51%) CMS
6 70 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 58 (1.10%) nginx
8 55 (1.04%) Apache
9 52 (0.98%) OpenStack
10 47 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.79%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.79%) Kentico
12 40 (0.76%) Apache Spark
12 40 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
13 23 (0.43%) WebSphere
14 18 (0.34%) Jupyter
15 17 (0.32%) Captiva
15 17 (0.32%) FileNet
16 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 59 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 17 (0.32%) Simulink
8 15 (0.28%) Sketch
9 14 (0.26%) Trello
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.095%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.057%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 100 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.095%) Maximo
8 4 (0.076%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.076%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,103 (58.68%) Azure
2 1,908 (36.08%) AWS
3 1,520 (28.74%) Azure DevOps
4 549 (10.38%) GCP
5 383 (7.24%) SaaS
6 377 (7.13%) Serverless
7 358 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 256 (4.84%) GitHub
9 249 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
10 228 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
11 227 (4.29%) IBM Cloud
12 196 (3.71%) PaaS
13 179 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
14 173 (3.27%) Amazon S3
14 173 (3.27%) Azure Functions
15 162 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
16 150 (2.84%) IaaS
17 134 (2.53%) Power Automate
17 134 (2.53%) PowerApps
18 133 (2.52%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 179 (3.39%) Firewall
2 148 (2.80%) DNS
3 79 (1.49%) VPN
4 77 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.40%) HTTP
6 71 (1.34%) DHCP
7 64 (1.21%) Network Security
8 50 (0.95%) WAN
9 32 (0.61%) LAN
10 19 (0.36%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 16 (0.30%) SSL
12 15 (0.28%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
13 11 (0.21%) VLAN
14 9 (0.17%) BGP
14 9 (0.17%) NGFW
14 9 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 618 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 578 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 343 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 326 (6.16%) NoSQL
5 292 (5.52%) GIS
6 284 (5.37%) QGIS
7 249 (4.71%) MongoDB
8 243 (4.60%) Looker
9 242 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
10 236 (4.46%) BigQuery
11 205 (3.88%) Power BI
12 163 (3.08%) MySQL
13 125 (2.36%) DB2
14 122 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
15 100 (1.89%) Big Data
16 85 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 85 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
17 67 (1.27%) DynamoDB
18 65 (1.23%) Hadoop
19 63 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 782 (14.79%) Git
2 473 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 450 (8.51%) JIRA
4 229 (4.33%) Visual Studio
5 204 (3.86%) GitLab
6 102 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 102 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 101 (1.91%) Selenium
8 80 (1.51%) Postman
9 66 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 61 (1.15%) Sourcetree
11 60 (1.13%) JUnit
12 57 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 53 (1.00%) Jasmine
13 53 (1.00%) NUnit
14 49 (0.93%) TeamCity
15 45 (0.85%) Subversion
16 36 (0.68%) SonarQube
17 33 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
18 32 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,145 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 712 (13.46%) Finance
3 480 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 320 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 294 (5.56%) Law
7 205 (3.88%) Banking
8 172 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
9 170 (3.21%) Retail
10 150 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 148 (2.80%) Marketing
12 122 (2.31%) Legal
13 121 (2.29%) Games
14 85 (1.61%) Billing
15 68 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 63 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 52 (0.98%) Automotive
18 50 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
19 49 (0.93%) Electronics
19 49 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,404 (26.55%) Developer
2 1,095 (20.71%) Senior
3 739 (13.98%) Software Engineer
4 674 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 534 (10.10%) Lead
6 384 (7.26%) Architect
7 357 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 294 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 287 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 276 (5.22%) .NET Developer
11 273 (5.16%) Full Stack Developer
12 260 (4.92%) Software Developer
13 210 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
14 178 (3.37%) Azure Developer
14 178 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 166 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
16 164 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
17 159 (3.01%) C# Developer
18 157 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
19 149 (2.82%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,404 (26.55%) .NET
2 952 (18.00%) React
3 787 (14.88%) CSS
4 622 (11.76%) .NET Core
5 578 (10.93%) HTML
6 521 (9.85%) AngularJS
7 472 (8.93%) Node.js
8 464 (8.77%) ASP.NET
9 361 (6.83%) .NET Framework
10 346 (6.54%) REST
11 299 (5.65%) Web Services
12 286 (5.41%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.37%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.37%) OpenLayers
14 271 (5.12%) Vue
15 261 (4.94%) RESTful
16 223 (4.22%) jQuery
17 220 (4.16%) JSON
18 204 (3.86%) Spring
19 202 (3.82%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 336 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 290 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 276 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 243 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 225 (4.25%) Blockchain
6 214 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 182 (3.44%) Data Structures
8 175 (3.31%) Algorithms
9 162 (3.06%) Management Information System
10 141 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 137 (2.59%) Private Cloud
12 126 (2.38%) Data Centre
13 102 (1.93%) Mobile App
14 100 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
15 93 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
16 92 (1.74%) IoT
17 74 (1.40%) Low-Code
18 72 (1.36%) Onboarding
19 71 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
20 67 (1.27%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 902 (17.06%) Linux
2 568 (10.74%) Windows
3 172 (3.25%) Android
4 162 (3.06%) Apple iOS
5 138 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 70 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 68 (1.29%) CentOS
8 68 (1.29%) Unix
9 65 (1.23%) Debian
10 47 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
11 42 (0.79%) VMS
12 27 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
12 27 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 26 (0.49%) Windows 10
14 23 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
16 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,810 (53.14%) Agile
2 1,572 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 1,292 (24.43%) Software Engineering
4 1,096 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 795 (15.03%) Mentoring
6 746 (14.11%) Scrum
7 644 (12.18%) Actionable Insight
8 643 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 602 (11.38%) Web Development
10 572 (10.82%) Continuous Integration
11 565 (10.68%) Full Stack Development
12 546 (10.33%) Test Automation
13 542 (10.25%) Microservices
14 536 (10.14%) Containerisation
15 473 (8.94%) SDLC
16 465 (8.79%) Roadmaps
17 464 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence
18 441 (8.34%) Design Patterns
19 414 (7.83%) MVC
20 405 (7.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,411 (26.68%) C#
2 1,347 (25.47%) JavaScript
3 1,264 (23.90%) Python
4 1,069 (20.22%) SQL
5 786 (14.86%) Java
6 376 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 342 (6.47%) TypeScript
8 324 (6.13%) Bash
9 160 (3.03%) PHP
10 140 (2.65%) T-SQL
11 127 (2.40%) C
12 126 (2.38%) Go
13 106 (2.00%) C++
14 91 (1.72%) Bicep
15 82 (1.55%) Ruby
16 74 (1.40%) VB.NET
17 73 (1.38%) Shell Script
18 56 (1.06%) Perl
18 56 (1.06%) VB
19 55 (1.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,103 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 842 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 833 (15.75%) Degree
4 276 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 201 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 152 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 128 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 110 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 97 (1.83%) Master's Degree
11 52 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 44 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 43 (0.81%) MCSE
14 41 (0.78%) MCSA
15 39 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 33 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 32 (0.61%) CISSP
19 31 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 29 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (8.55%) QA
2 220 (4.16%) GDPR
3 105 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 64 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (1.12%) PMO
6 39 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (0.51%) NIST
9 23 (0.43%) SLA
10 22 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.25%) NCSC
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.095%) 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 (16.47%) Docker
2 167 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 132 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 119 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 108 (2.04%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 23 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.30%) 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%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,001 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 914 (17.28%) Terraform
3 512 (9.68%) Ansible
4 152 (2.87%) Puppet
5 134 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 125 (2.36%) Grafana
7 91 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.61%) ZABBIX
10 27 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.43%) Kibana
13 21 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.38%) SCOM
15 18 (0.34%) HAProxy
15 18 (0.34%) SCCM
16 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.26%) WSUS
18 13 (0.25%) Consul
18 13 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,167 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 369 (6.98%) Google
3 288 (5.45%) Red Hat
4 285 (5.39%) ESRI
4 285 (5.39%) IBM
5 187 (3.54%) Oracle
6 181 (3.42%) VMware
7 99 (1.87%) Databricks
8 84 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 54 (1.02%) SAP
10 54 (1.02%) Splunk
11 53 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 49 (0.93%) Cisco
13 47 (0.89%) Sitecore
14 36 (0.68%) Optimizely
15 35 (0.66%) WSO2
16 34 (0.64%) Citrix
17 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics
18 31 (0.59%) Informatica