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 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 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,749 14,006 25,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.81% 13.82% 15.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 14.46% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,316 8,201 12,900
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,539 £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 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% +2.92% +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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 12 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 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
England -12 6,670 £65,000 -7.14% 1,604
UK excluding London -14 5,235 £60,000 -2.83% 1,016
Work from Home -8 3,324 £65,000 -7.14% 942
London -5 2,118 £80,000 - 648
North of England -11 1,386 £60,000 -2.44% 277
South East -5 1,314 £61,500 -5.38% 220
South West -3 869 £61,500 -1.60% 153
North West -7 862 £62,500 -3.85% 170
Midlands -12 720 £58,500 +1.74% 190
Scotland -37 491 £69,000 +6.15% 62
West Midlands -10 472 £60,000 +4.35% 123
Yorkshire -8 431 £60,000 -2.18% 85
East Midlands -12 248 £57,500 +4.55% 66
East of England -31 228 £57,500 -11.54% 64
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% 32
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
2 237 (3.06%) Confluence
3 189 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 149 (1.92%) CMS
5 133 (1.72%) IIS
6 90 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 86 (1.11%) Apache
8 83 (1.07%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 81 (1.05%) Umbraco
11 77 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
12 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
13 48 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Kentico
15 35 (0.45%) WebSphere
16 33 (0.43%) Drupal
17 32 (0.41%) 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
1 174 (2.25%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 7 (0.090%) Maximo
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 4,527 (58.42%) Azure
2 2,891 (37.31%) AWS
3 2,287 (29.51%) Azure DevOps
4 860 (11.10%) GCP
5 707 (9.12%) Serverless
6 610 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 527 (6.80%) SaaS
8 462 (5.96%) GitHub
9 391 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
10 373 (4.81%) PaaS
11 361 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
12 291 (3.76%) Amazon S3
13 289 (3.73%) IaaS
14 281 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
15 272 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 268 (3.46%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
18 240 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
19 236 (3.05%) PowerApps
20 231 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 288 (3.72%) Firewall
2 244 (3.15%) DNS
3 129 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 125 (1.61%) VPN
5 122 (1.57%) Network Security
6 103 (1.33%) HTTP
7 102 (1.32%) WAN
8 90 (1.16%) 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%) SNMP
13 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 19 (0.25%) SAN
15 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
16 16 (0.21%) IPv4
16 16 (0.21%) MQTT
17 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 945 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 722 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 435 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 429 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 343 (4.43%) GIS
6 333 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 330 (4.26%) QGIS
8 324 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 319 (4.12%) Power BI
10 260 (3.36%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.29%) Looker
12 228 (2.94%) MySQL
13 214 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
14 201 (2.59%) Big Data
15 194 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 163 (2.10%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.87%) DB2
18 115 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
19 95 (1.23%) RDBMS
20 93 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,134 (14.63%) Git
2 798 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 639 (8.25%) JIRA
4 333 (4.30%) GitLab
5 296 (3.82%) Visual Studio
6 142 (1.83%) Selenium
7 139 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 138 (1.78%) Bitbucket
9 120 (1.55%) Postman
10 98 (1.26%) TeamCity
11 85 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 76 (0.98%) JUnit
13 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 74 (0.95%) Cucumber
15 73 (0.94%) NUnit
15 73 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
16 62 (0.80%) Subversion
17 60 (0.77%) Artifactory
18 57 (0.74%) CircleCI
19 54 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 1,701 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 1,397 (18.03%) Finance
3 711 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 538 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 471 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 396 (5.11%) Law
7 374 (4.83%) Banking
8 273 (3.52%) Marketing
9 225 (2.90%) Retail
10 223 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 174 (2.25%) Legal
12 150 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 107 (1.38%) Front Office
15 100 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 97 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
17 82 (1.06%) Billing
18 79 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 77 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
20 66 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,032 (26.22%) Developer
2 1,659 (21.41%) Senior
3 1,111 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 925 (11.94%) Software Engineer
5 875 (11.29%) Lead
6 628 (8.10%) Architect
7 513 (6.62%) Senior Developer
8 402 (5.19%) .NET Developer
9 399 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 382 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
11 350 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 318 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 317 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
14 304 (3.92%) Software Developer
15 300 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
16 287 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
17 273 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
18 269 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 230 (2.97%) Analyst
20 227 (2.93%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,979 (25.54%) .NET
2 1,224 (15.80%) React
3 996 (12.85%) CSS
4 803 (10.36%) .NET Core
5 763 (9.85%) HTML
6 695 (8.97%) AngularJS
7 623 (8.04%) ASP.NET
8 607 (7.83%) Node.js
9 516 (6.66%) REST
10 469 (6.05%) .NET Framework
11 423 (5.46%) Web Services
12 407 (5.25%) RESTful
13 356 (4.59%) Vue
14 339 (4.37%) PostGIS
15 338 (4.36%) JSON
16 330 (4.26%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.26%) OpenLayers
17 283 (3.65%) Spring
18 271 (3.50%) jQuery
19 266 (3.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 447 (5.77%) Product Ownership
2 357 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 330 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 321 (4.14%) Public Cloud
4 321 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 277 (3.57%) Blockchain
6 255 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 250 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 211 (2.72%) Algorithms
9 192 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
10 179 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 166 (2.14%) Data Centre
11 166 (2.14%) Private Cloud
12 149 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 134 (1.73%) Mobile App
14 117 (1.51%) Hedge funds
15 115 (1.48%) Onboarding
16 112 (1.45%) IoT
17 94 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
18 78 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,278 (16.49%) Linux
2 770 (9.94%) Windows
3 217 (2.80%) Android
4 213 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 205 (2.65%) Apple iOS
6 151 (1.95%) Unix
7 102 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 90 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 87 (1.12%) CentOS
10 65 (0.84%) VMS
11 63 (0.81%) Debian
12 46 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
13 41 (0.53%) Windows 10
14 39 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
15 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
20 8 (0.10%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,937 (50.81%) Agile
2 2,531 (32.66%) CI/CD
3 1,819 (23.47%) Software Engineering
4 1,535 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 1,124 (14.51%) Scrum
6 1,100 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,087 (14.03%) Mentoring
8 881 (11.37%) Microservices
9 843 (10.88%) Test Automation
10 825 (10.65%) Containerisation
11 810 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
12 760 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
13 756 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
14 701 (9.05%) Web Development
15 655 (8.45%) Artificial Intelligence
16 651 (8.40%) Roadmaps
17 650 (8.39%) SDLC
18 584 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 564 (7.28%) TDD
20 551 (7.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,080 (26.84%) Python
2 2,010 (25.94%) C#
3 1,802 (23.25%) JavaScript
4 1,670 (21.55%) SQL
5 1,246 (16.08%) Java
6 643 (8.30%) PowerShell
7 497 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 496 (6.40%) Bash
9 318 (4.10%) Go
10 216 (2.79%) PHP
11 211 (2.72%) T-SQL
12 168 (2.17%) C
13 154 (1.99%) Ruby
14 153 (1.97%) Bicep
15 149 (1.92%) C++
16 113 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 99 (1.28%) Perl
18 79 (1.02%) VB.NET
19 70 (0.90%) Groovy
20 63 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,372 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 1,097 (14.16%) Degree
3 1,065 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 392 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 242 (3.12%) Azure Certification
6 214 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 177 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 172 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 168 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 128 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 65 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 59 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.67%) CISSP
14 45 (0.58%) MCSE
14 45 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 44 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 41 (0.53%) MCSA
18 38 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 637 (8.22%) QA
2 279 (3.60%) GDPR
3 151 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 103 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.95%) PMO
7 48 (0.62%) 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 13 (0.17%) 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 1,399 (18.05%) Docker
2 316 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 177 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 162 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 120 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) 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
16 5 (0.065%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,630 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 1,575 (20.33%) Terraform
3 764 (9.86%) Ansible
4 261 (3.37%) Puppet
5 238 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 192 (2.48%) Grafana
7 158 (2.04%) 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 37 (0.48%) 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 1,756 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 476 (6.14%) Google
3 347 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 341 (4.40%) IBM
5 332 (4.28%) ESRI
6 289 (3.73%) Oracle
7 245 (3.16%) VMware
8 215 (2.77%) Databricks
9 134 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 107 (1.38%) SAP
11 105 (1.36%) Splunk
12 102 (1.32%) Cisco
13 98 (1.26%) 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%) Informatica