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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,821 10,777 22,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.35% 12.92% 15.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 13.54% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,726 6,903 11,341
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 £103,125 £106,250 £103,750
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 77,271 79,617 137,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.26% 95.47% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,529 48,527 74,112
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,250
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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -6 2,120 £82,500 +3.13% 601
North of England -8 1,471 £60,000 -4.00% 262
South East -5 1,353 £61,500 -5.38% 186
North West -7 935 £62,500 -3.85% 154
South West -4 867 £61,500 -1.60% 140
Midlands -11 740 £58,500 +1.74% 170
West Midlands -10 483 £60,000 +4.35% 117
Yorkshire -6 442 £57,500 -4.17% 74
East Midlands -12 257 £57,500 -6.12% 53
East of England -32 225 £57,500 -11.54% 54
North East -6 96 £60,000 +6.19% 34
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
1 203 (2.98%) Confluence
2 196 (2.87%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.87%) GeoServer
3 150 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 148 (2.17%) CMS
5 132 (1.94%) IIS
6 96 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 84 (1.23%) Apache
8 76 (1.11%) Apache Spark
9 73 (1.07%) Umbraco
10 72 (1.06%) nginx
11 63 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
12 52 (0.76%) OpenStack
13 46 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.63%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.63%) Kentico
15 35 (0.51%) Drupal
16 29 (0.43%) WordPress
17 22 (0.32%) JBoss
18 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 72 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 24 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.29%) Simulink
7 17 (0.25%) Trello
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.059%) Sketch
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.044%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.029%) Notion
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
Business Applications
1 148 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 19 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) Magento
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.15%) Shopify
8 9 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.10%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.073%) Primavera
10 5 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.059%) Ripple
11 4 (0.059%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.044%) Endur
12 3 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.044%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,966 (58.14%) Azure
2 2,586 (37.91%) AWS
3 2,048 (30.02%) Azure DevOps
4 696 (10.20%) GCP
5 572 (8.39%) Serverless
6 531 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 454 (6.66%) SaaS
8 363 (5.32%) GitHub
9 336 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
10 295 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
11 285 (4.18%) PaaS
12 271 (3.97%) Amazon S3
13 262 (3.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 246 (3.61%) Azure Functions
14 246 (3.61%) IBM Cloud
15 240 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 226 (3.31%) IaaS
17 218 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
18 212 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
19 197 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 254 (3.72%) Firewall
2 246 (3.61%) DNS
3 117 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 114 (1.67%) Network Security
5 107 (1.57%) HTTP
6 97 (1.42%) DHCP
7 89 (1.30%) VPN
8 82 (1.20%) WAN
9 64 (0.94%) LAN
10 34 (0.50%) Internet
11 30 (0.44%) SSL
12 20 (0.29%) 5G
13 19 (0.28%) SAN
14 18 (0.26%) SNMP
14 18 (0.26%) Unified Communications
15 17 (0.25%) HTTPS
16 15 (0.22%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) MQTT
17 14 (0.21%) SD-WAN
18 13 (0.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 866 (12.70%) SQL Server
2 618 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 383 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 355 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 304 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 300 (4.40%) Power BI
7 295 (4.32%) MongoDB
8 233 (3.42%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 210 (3.08%) Looker
10 206 (3.02%) GIS
11 203 (2.98%) MySQL
12 196 (2.87%) QGIS
13 192 (2.81%) Big Data
14 179 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 164 (2.40%) Data Lake
16 145 (2.13%) DB2
17 106 (1.55%) DynamoDB
18 87 (1.28%) Hadoop
19 84 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,011 (14.82%) Git
2 671 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 547 (8.02%) JIRA
4 328 (4.81%) GitLab
5 281 (4.12%) Visual Studio
6 126 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 121 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 110 (1.61%) Selenium
9 95 (1.39%) TeamCity
10 91 (1.33%) Postman
11 80 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 78 (1.14%) NUnit
13 77 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
14 60 (0.88%) SonarQube
15 58 (0.85%) Subversion
16 53 (0.78%) JUnit
17 52 (0.76%) Artifactory
18 51 (0.75%) Jasmine
19 50 (0.73%) CircleCI
19 50 (0.73%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,540 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (16.13%) Finance
3 623 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (7.49%) Public Sector
5 296 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (3.77%) Law
7 238 (3.49%) Banking
8 217 (3.18%) Retail
9 198 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 172 (2.52%) Marketing
11 159 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 143 (2.10%) Legal
13 117 (1.72%) Games
14 102 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 92 (1.35%) Billing
15 92 (1.35%) Front Office
16 84 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 82 (1.20%) Telecoms
18 77 (1.13%) Electronics
19 74 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,810 (26.54%) Developer
2 1,422 (20.85%) Senior
3 1,013 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 740 (10.85%) Lead
5 667 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 608 (8.91%) Architect
7 450 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 415 (6.08%) .NET Developer
9 366 (5.37%) Full Stack Developer
10 347 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 296 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
12 294 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
13 281 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 268 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 267 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
16 250 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 249 (3.65%) C# Developer
18 239 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
19 230 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 226 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,697 (24.88%) .NET
2 980 (14.37%) React
3 783 (11.48%) CSS
4 655 (9.60%) HTML
5 633 (9.28%) AngularJS
6 624 (9.15%) .NET Core
7 591 (8.66%) ASP.NET
8 504 (7.39%) REST
9 498 (7.30%) Node.js
10 454 (6.66%) .NET Framework
11 413 (6.05%) Web Services
12 380 (5.57%) RESTful
13 316 (4.63%) Vue
14 285 (4.18%) jQuery
15 276 (4.05%) JSON
16 260 (3.81%) XML
17 258 (3.78%) Entity Framework
18 228 (3.34%) Spring
19 217 (3.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 214 (3.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 373 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 308 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 300 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 274 (4.02%) Blockchain
6 245 (3.59%) Data Structures
7 244 (3.58%) Public Cloud
8 218 (3.20%) Management Information System
9 202 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 197 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
11 158 (2.32%) Data Centre
12 152 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
13 123 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 122 (1.79%) Hedge funds
15 115 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 98 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 97 (1.42%) Private Cloud
18 94 (1.38%) IoT
19 79 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 78 (1.14%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,107 (16.23%) Linux
2 722 (10.58%) Windows
3 201 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 198 (2.90%) Android
5 194 (2.84%) Apple iOS
6 106 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 86 (1.26%) Unix
8 76 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 75 (1.10%) CentOS
10 66 (0.97%) Debian
11 61 (0.89%) VMS
12 48 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
13 44 (0.65%) Windows 10
14 43 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
16 31 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
17 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.16%) AIX
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,276 (48.03%) Agile
2 2,188 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 1,450 (21.26%) Software Engineering
4 1,371 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 992 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 971 (14.24%) Scrum
7 953 (13.97%) Mentoring
8 762 (11.17%) Containerisation
9 746 (10.94%) Microservices
10 734 (10.76%) Test Automation
11 731 (10.72%) Full Stack Development
12 624 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
13 599 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence
14 566 (8.30%) Roadmaps
15 553 (8.11%) Web Development
16 547 (8.02%) SDLC
17 544 (7.98%) Computer Science
18 511 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 500 (7.33%) Design Patterns
20 484 (7.10%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,812 (26.57%) Python
2 1,751 (25.67%) C#
3 1,477 (21.65%) JavaScript
4 1,398 (20.50%) SQL
5 1,057 (15.50%) Java
6 635 (9.31%) PowerShell
7 467 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 442 (6.48%) Bash
9 245 (3.59%) Go
10 206 (3.02%) T-SQL
11 196 (2.87%) PHP
12 168 (2.46%) C
13 153 (2.24%) Bicep
14 146 (2.14%) C++
15 94 (1.38%) Ruby
16 83 (1.22%) Shell Script
17 74 (1.08%) VB.NET
18 73 (1.07%) Scala
19 59 (0.86%) VB
20 56 (0.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,169 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 979 (14.35%) Degree
3 864 (12.67%) SC Cleared
4 393 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 255 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 234 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 180 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 155 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 128 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 128 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 63 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 55 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
12 44 (0.65%) DBS Check
13 42 (0.62%) MCSE
13 42 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.60%) MCSA
15 39 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 37 (0.54%) CISSP
17 36 (0.53%) ISTQB
18 29 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (8.03%) QA
2 223 (3.27%) GDPR
3 148 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 49 (0.72%) NIST
7 43 (0.63%) PMO
8 40 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.50%) SLA
10 24 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.21%) NCSC
13 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.12%) PSD2
15 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
16 6 (0.088%) GRC
17 5 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.073%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.059%) EMIR
18 4 (0.059%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,269 (18.60%) Docker
2 282 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 172 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 167 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 115 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 64 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.56%) Firmware
8 33 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.23%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.22%) NFS
11 14 (0.21%) XenApp
12 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.15%) pfSense
14 9 (0.13%) KVM
15 8 (0.12%) HDFS
16 7 (0.10%) IAG
17 6 (0.088%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.073%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,524 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 1,447 (21.21%) Terraform
3 697 (10.22%) Ansible
4 257 (3.77%) Puppet
5 241 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 156 (2.29%) Grafana
7 142 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 44 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 40 (0.59%) ZABBIX
12 37 (0.54%) Packer
13 34 (0.50%) Kibana
14 29 (0.43%) HAProxy
15 27 (0.40%) Consul
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 27 (0.40%) Nagios
16 23 (0.34%) Istio
16 23 (0.34%) SCOM
17 20 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,556 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 380 (5.57%) Google
3 363 (5.32%) Red Hat
4 273 (4.00%) IBM
5 228 (3.34%) VMware
6 198 (2.90%) ESRI
7 194 (2.84%) Oracle
8 190 (2.79%) Databricks
9 94 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.26%) Cisco
11 80 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 69 (1.01%) SAP
12 69 (1.01%) Splunk
13 66 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 62 (0.91%) Sitecore
15 61 (0.89%) Adobe
16 53 (0.78%) Citrix
17 48 (0.70%) Salesforce
18 43 (0.63%) Informatica
19 37 (0.54%) Optimizely