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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,744 13,997 24,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.81% 13.81% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 14.45% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,309 8,180 12,909
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,935 £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 £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 6,666 £65,000 -7.14% 1,595
UK excluding London -14 5,233 £60,000 -2.44% 1,004
Work from Home -9 3,313 £65,000 -7.14% 918
London -6 2,114 £80,000 - 652
North of England -11 1,376 £60,000 -2.44% 271
South East -5 1,316 £61,500 -5.38% 211
South West -2 874 £61,500 -1.60% 158
North West -6 854 £62,500 -3.85% 173
Midlands -10 722 £57,500 - 179
Scotland -40 490 £69,000 +5.87% 67
West Midlands -10 472 £60,000 +4.35% 119
Yorkshire -7 429 £60,000 -2.44% 78
East Midlands -11 250 £57,500 +4.55% 59
East of England -29 227 £57,500 -11.54% 66
Wales -6 161 £52,500 +5.00% 33
North East -7 95 £58,000 +5.45% 20
Northern Ireland +2 69 £63,750 +6.25% 37
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
2 238 (3.07%) Confluence
3 190 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 149 (1.92%) CMS
5 134 (1.73%) IIS
6 90 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 85 (1.10%) Apache
8 84 (1.08%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 81 (1.05%) Umbraco
11 78 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
12 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
13 48 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.56%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.56%) Kentico
15 35 (0.45%) WebSphere
16 33 (0.43%) Drupal
17 31 (0.40%) WordPress
18 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 85 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (0.63%) 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%) Simulink
8 15 (0.19%) Sketch
9 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.026%) Notion
12 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.013%) InVision
13 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 175 (2.26%) 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 9 (0.12%) Magento
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 7 (0.090%) Maximo
9 7 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.065%) Primavera
10 5 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (0.065%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.052%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4,525 (58.43%) Azure
2 2,891 (37.33%) AWS
3 2,300 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
4 860 (11.11%) GCP
5 703 (9.08%) Serverless
6 611 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 527 (6.81%) SaaS
8 460 (5.94%) GitHub
9 392 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
10 374 (4.83%) PaaS
11 362 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
12 289 (3.73%) Amazon S3
12 289 (3.73%) IaaS
13 283 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 271 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 266 (3.43%) Azure Functions
16 251 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
17 243 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 239 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
19 234 (3.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 290 (3.74%) Firewall
2 245 (3.16%) DNS
3 130 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 126 (1.63%) VPN
5 123 (1.59%) Network Security
6 105 (1.36%) HTTP
7 102 (1.32%) WAN
8 92 (1.19%) DHCP
9 71 (0.92%) LAN
10 50 (0.65%) Internet
11 33 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 30 (0.39%) 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
1 941 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 720 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 435 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 425 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 343 (4.43%) GIS
6 331 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 330 (4.26%) QGIS
8 324 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 320 (4.13%) Power BI
10 260 (3.36%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.29%) Looker
12 230 (2.97%) MySQL
13 213 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
14 201 (2.60%) Big Data
15 194 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
16 163 (2.10%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.87%) DB2
18 115 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
19 95 (1.23%) RDBMS
20 90 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,139 (14.71%) Git
2 814 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 641 (8.28%) JIRA
4 347 (4.48%) GitLab
5 297 (3.84%) Visual Studio
6 144 (1.86%) Selenium
7 139 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 138 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 121 (1.56%) Postman
10 99 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 85 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 76 (0.98%) JUnit
13 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 74 (0.96%) Cucumber
15 73 (0.94%) NUnit
16 72 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
17 65 (0.84%) SonarQube
18 63 (0.81%) Subversion
19 61 (0.79%) Artifactory
20 59 (0.76%) CircleCI
General
1 1,692 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 1,397 (18.04%) Finance
3 711 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 539 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 471 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 393 (5.07%) Law
7 373 (4.82%) Banking
8 271 (3.50%) Marketing
9 225 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
10 221 (2.85%) Retail
11 175 (2.26%) Legal
12 148 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.67%) Games
14 107 (1.38%) Front Office
15 98 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 97 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 80 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.02%) Billing
19 77 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
20 63 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,020 (26.08%) Developer
2 1,657 (21.40%) Senior
3 1,126 (14.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 920 (11.88%) Software Engineer
5 876 (11.31%) Lead
6 630 (8.14%) Architect
7 511 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 401 (5.18%) .NET Developer
8 401 (5.18%) Data Engineer
9 382 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
10 349 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
11 330 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 317 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
13 304 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 299 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
15 287 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 273 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
17 269 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 230 (2.97%) Analyst
19 227 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,976 (25.52%) .NET
2 1,226 (15.83%) React
3 996 (12.86%) CSS
4 803 (10.37%) .NET Core
5 762 (9.84%) HTML
6 698 (9.01%) AngularJS
7 623 (8.04%) ASP.NET
8 607 (7.84%) Node.js
9 513 (6.62%) REST
10 470 (6.07%) .NET Framework
11 421 (5.44%) Web Services
12 411 (5.31%) RESTful
13 355 (4.58%) Vue
14 340 (4.39%) JSON
15 339 (4.38%) PostGIS
16 330 (4.26%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.26%) OpenLayers
17 283 (3.65%) Spring
18 270 (3.49%) jQuery
19 268 (3.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 444 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 358 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 333 (4.30%) Public Cloud
4 329 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 322 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
6 277 (3.58%) Blockchain
7 256 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 251 (3.24%) Management Information System
9 211 (2.72%) Algorithms
10 204 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
11 179 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 166 (2.14%) Data Centre
12 166 (2.14%) Private Cloud
13 149 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
14 134 (1.73%) Mobile App
15 117 (1.51%) Hedge funds
16 115 (1.49%) Onboarding
17 111 (1.43%) IoT
18 94 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
19 78 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,298 (16.76%) Linux
2 781 (10.09%) Windows
3 216 (2.79%) Android
4 214 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 205 (2.65%) Apple iOS
6 152 (1.96%) Unix
7 105 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 87 (1.12%) CentOS
10 65 (0.84%) VMS
11 64 (0.83%) 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 25 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
16 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
19 8 (0.10%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,928 (50.72%) Agile
2 2,537 (32.76%) CI/CD
3 1,830 (23.63%) Software Engineering
4 1,530 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1,138 (14.70%) Scrum
6 1,113 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,081 (13.96%) Mentoring
8 892 (11.52%) Microservices
9 842 (10.87%) Test Automation
10 838 (10.82%) Containerisation
11 810 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
12 775 (10.01%) Actionable Insight
13 760 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
14 702 (9.07%) Web Development
15 649 (8.38%) SDLC
16 646 (8.34%) Roadmaps
17 644 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
18 581 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
19 565 (7.30%) TDD
20 557 (7.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,085 (26.92%) Python
2 2,010 (25.96%) C#
3 1,805 (23.31%) JavaScript
4 1,667 (21.53%) SQL
5 1,235 (15.95%) Java
6 660 (8.52%) PowerShell
7 509 (6.57%) Bash
8 497 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 318 (4.11%) Go
10 217 (2.80%) PHP
11 211 (2.72%) T-SQL
12 168 (2.17%) C
13 156 (2.01%) Ruby
14 154 (1.99%) Bicep
15 149 (1.92%) C++
16 113 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 100 (1.29%) Perl
18 79 (1.02%) VB.NET
19 70 (0.90%) Groovy
20 63 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,375 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 1,092 (14.10%) Degree
3 1,068 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 387 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 241 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 215 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 176 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 173 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 167 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 128 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 65 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 60 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.67%) CISSP
14 46 (0.59%) MCSE
15 45 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 44 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 43 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 41 (0.53%) MCSA
19 38 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 634 (8.19%) QA
2 279 (3.60%) GDPR
3 147 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 102 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.96%) PMO
7 47 (0.61%) NIST
8 40 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.50%) SLA
10 33 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.18%) 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 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,416 (18.29%) Docker
2 315 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 179 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 161 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 121 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 62 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 23 (0.30%) 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 (0.065%) Xen
17 4 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,637 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 1,580 (20.40%) Terraform
3 768 (9.92%) Ansible
4 262 (3.38%) Puppet
5 250 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 204 (2.63%) Grafana
7 157 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 45 (0.58%) Kibana
10 38 (0.49%) Packer
10 38 (0.49%) ZABBIX
11 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
13 28 (0.36%) Istio
14 27 (0.35%) Consul
14 27 (0.35%) Nagios
15 26 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
16 22 (0.28%) Rancher
17 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,749 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 474 (6.12%) Google
3 349 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 342 (4.42%) IBM
5 332 (4.29%) ESRI
6 285 (3.68%) Oracle
7 247 (3.19%) VMware
8 216 (2.79%) Databricks
9 134 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 107 (1.38%) SAP
11 106 (1.37%) Splunk
12 103 (1.33%) Cisco
13 98 (1.27%) Dynatrace
14 78 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 64 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 64 (0.83%) Sitecore
16 61 (0.79%) Adobe
17 60 (0.77%) Citrix
18 42 (0.54%) WSO2
19 38 (0.49%) Sparx