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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,670 12,304 20,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.76% 13.70% 15.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 14.32% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,769 7,300 11,427
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 £102,500 £106,250 £105,000
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 73,416 85,899 127,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.47% 95.61% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53,988 50,919 73,096
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
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 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 11 May 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 11 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
London -5 2,118 £80,000 - 621
North of England -11 1,385 £60,000 -2.44% 270
South East -5 1,313 £61,500 -5.38% 216
South West -3 871 £61,500 -1.60% 153
North West -6 861 £62,500 -3.85% 167
Midlands -10 720 £58,500 +1.74% 181
West Midlands -10 472 £60,000 +2.13% 118
Yorkshire -8 431 £60,000 -2.18% 82
East Midlands -11 248 £57,500 +4.55% 62
East of England -32 228 £57,500 -11.54% 64
North East -1 95 £58,000 +5.45% 21
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
1 196 (2.94%) ArcGIS
1 196 (2.94%) GeoServer
2 194 (2.91%) Confluence
3 172 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 141 (2.11%) CMS
5 127 (1.90%) IIS
6 89 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 80 (1.20%) Apache
8 77 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 75 (1.12%) nginx
10 72 (1.08%) Apache Spark
11 71 (1.06%) Umbraco
12 57 (0.85%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Kentico
15 32 (0.48%) Drupal
16 27 (0.40%) WordPress
17 20 (0.30%) JBoss
17 20 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.27%) Trello
8 14 (0.21%) Simulink
9 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.045%) Sketch
12 2 (0.030%) Notion
12 2 (0.030%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 150 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 34 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
5 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.13%) Magento
7 8 (0.12%) Shopify
8 7 (0.10%) Maximo
8 7 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.075%) Primavera
9 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,886 (58.26%) Azure
2 2,457 (36.84%) AWS
3 2,043 (30.63%) Azure DevOps
4 717 (10.75%) GCP
5 619 (9.28%) Serverless
6 519 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 445 (6.67%) SaaS
8 397 (5.95%) GitHub
9 337 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
10 325 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
11 313 (4.69%) PaaS
12 276 (4.14%) Amazon S3
13 265 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 250 (3.75%) Azure Functions
15 247 (3.70%) IBM Cloud
16 241 (3.61%) IaaS
17 240 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 219 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
19 212 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
20 210 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 249 (3.73%) Firewall
2 232 (3.48%) DNS
3 124 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 109 (1.63%) Network Security
5 101 (1.51%) HTTP
5 101 (1.51%) VPN
6 90 (1.35%) DHCP
7 84 (1.26%) WAN
8 66 (0.99%) LAN
9 39 (0.58%) Internet
10 29 (0.43%) SSL
11 20 (0.30%) SAN
11 20 (0.30%) SNMP
11 20 (0.30%) Unified Communications
12 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
13 16 (0.24%) BGP
13 16 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.22%) 5G
14 15 (0.22%) MQTT
15 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 858 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 580 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 376 (5.64%) Relational Database
4 356 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 291 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
6 286 (4.29%) MongoDB
7 282 (4.23%) Power BI
8 234 (3.51%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.15%) Looker
10 209 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 209 (3.13%) GIS
11 202 (3.03%) MySQL
12 196 (2.94%) QGIS
13 178 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 174 (2.61%) Big Data
15 148 (2.22%) Data Lake
16 145 (2.17%) DB2
17 92 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
18 86 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
19 79 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,034 (15.50%) Git
2 703 (10.54%) Jenkins
3 552 (8.28%) JIRA
4 312 (4.68%) GitLab
5 262 (3.93%) Visual Studio
6 126 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 125 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 124 (1.86%) Selenium
9 98 (1.47%) Postman
10 96 (1.44%) TeamCity
11 75 (1.12%) Sourcetree
12 73 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
13 69 (1.03%) NUnit
14 61 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 59 (0.88%) Artifactory
15 59 (0.88%) Subversion
16 57 (0.85%) Cucumber
17 53 (0.79%) JUnit
18 52 (0.78%) Jasmine
19 51 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 1,446 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 1,113 (16.69%) Finance
3 642 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 501 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 295 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 276 (4.14%) Banking
7 264 (3.96%) Law
8 205 (3.07%) Retail
9 192 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 170 (2.55%) Marketing
11 145 (2.17%) Legal
12 139 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 118 (1.77%) Games
14 105 (1.57%) Front Office
15 99 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 91 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 73 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 71 (1.06%) Billing
20 58 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,800 (26.99%) Developer
2 1,364 (20.45%) Senior
3 1,006 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 714 (10.70%) Lead
5 652 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 538 (8.07%) Architect
7 418 (6.27%) Senior Developer
8 389 (5.83%) .NET Developer
9 356 (5.34%) Data Engineer
10 344 (5.16%) Full Stack Developer
11 299 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 287 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
13 267 (4.00%) Software Developer
14 266 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
15 249 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
16 246 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 233 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 224 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
19 217 (3.25%) C# Developer
20 212 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,691 (25.35%) .NET
2 974 (14.60%) React
3 768 (11.51%) CSS
4 651 (9.76%) HTML
5 644 (9.66%) AngularJS
6 632 (9.48%) .NET Core
7 582 (8.73%) ASP.NET
8 494 (7.41%) Node.js
9 486 (7.29%) REST
10 437 (6.55%) .NET Framework
11 380 (5.70%) Web Services
12 371 (5.56%) RESTful
13 311 (4.66%) Vue
14 302 (4.53%) JSON
15 271 (4.06%) jQuery
16 256 (3.84%) XML
17 237 (3.55%) Entity Framework
18 229 (3.43%) Spring
19 211 (3.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 205 (3.07%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 376 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 349 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 304 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 291 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 275 (4.12%) Blockchain
6 260 (3.90%) Public Cloud
7 247 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 214 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 197 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 178 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 153 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
12 145 (2.17%) Data Centre
13 132 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 123 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
15 116 (1.74%) Hedge funds
15 116 (1.74%) Mobile App
16 93 (1.39%) IoT
17 77 (1.15%) e-Learning
18 70 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 69 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1,119 (16.78%) Linux
2 708 (10.61%) Windows
3 204 (3.06%) Android
4 197 (2.95%) Apple iOS
5 188 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 108 (1.62%) Unix
7 96 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 79 (1.18%) CentOS
9 68 (1.02%) Ubuntu
10 63 (0.94%) Debian
11 61 (0.91%) VMS
12 46 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
13 41 (0.61%) Windows 10
14 40 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
15 28 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
17 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.15%) AIX
19 8 (0.12%) CoreOS
20 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,254 (48.79%) Agile
2 2,190 (32.83%) CI/CD
3 1,430 (21.44%) Software Engineering
4 1,329 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
5 988 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 977 (14.65%) Scrum
7 884 (13.25%) Mentoring
8 766 (11.48%) Microservices
9 764 (11.45%) Containerisation
10 733 (10.99%) Test Automation
11 704 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
12 614 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
13 584 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 562 (8.43%) Roadmaps
15 558 (8.37%) Web Development
16 536 (8.04%) SDLC
17 516 (7.74%) Design Patterns
18 500 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
19 496 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
19 496 (7.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,785 (26.76%) Python
2 1,742 (26.12%) C#
3 1,473 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 1,432 (21.47%) SQL
5 1,087 (16.30%) Java
6 605 (9.07%) PowerShell
7 453 (6.79%) TypeScript
8 443 (6.64%) Bash
9 268 (4.02%) Go
10 201 (3.01%) T-SQL
11 198 (2.97%) PHP
12 156 (2.34%) C
13 147 (2.20%) Bicep
14 129 (1.93%) C++
15 116 (1.74%) Ruby
16 85 (1.27%) Shell Script
17 78 (1.17%) Perl
18 74 (1.11%) VB.NET
19 55 (0.82%) Kotlin
19 55 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,123 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 941 (14.11%) Degree
3 830 (12.44%) SC Cleared
4 352 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 222 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 211 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 163 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 154 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 137 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 124 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 60 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 59 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 45 (0.67%) MCSE
14 43 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.61%) MCSA
16 40 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 36 (0.54%) CISSP
18 32 (0.48%) ISTQB
19 31 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 560 (8.40%) QA
2 238 (3.57%) GDPR
3 138 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 48 (0.72%) PMO
7 46 (0.69%) NIST
8 39 (0.58%) SLA
9 37 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.16%) NCSC
13 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.13%) PSD2
14 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.090%) GRC
16 5 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
17 3 (0.045%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.045%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,283 (19.24%) Docker
2 284 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 161 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 158 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 119 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.57%) Firmware
9 21 (0.31%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.19%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
13 7 (0.10%) IAG
13 7 (0.10%) KVM
14 6 (0.090%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.090%) VirtualBox
15 5 (0.075%) XenApp
16 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.045%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,495 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 1,418 (21.26%) Terraform
3 676 (10.13%) Ansible
4 256 (3.84%) Puppet
5 228 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 158 (2.37%) Grafana
7 146 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 43 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 38 (0.57%) Kibana
10 38 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 37 (0.55%) Packer
11 37 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.46%) HAProxy
13 27 (0.40%) Consul
13 27 (0.40%) Nagios
14 26 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.39%) Istio
15 20 (0.30%) SCOM
16 19 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,573 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.21%) Google
3 345 (5.17%) Red Hat
4 301 (4.51%) IBM
5 234 (3.51%) Oracle
6 228 (3.42%) VMware
7 198 (2.97%) ESRI
8 193 (2.89%) Databricks
9 103 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 88 (1.32%) SAP
11 82 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 79 (1.18%) Cisco
13 75 (1.12%) Splunk
14 63 (0.94%) Sitecore
15 61 (0.91%) Citrix
16 60 (0.90%) Adobe
17 57 (0.85%) Atlassian
18 47 (0.70%) Salesforce
19 41 (0.61%) WSO2
20 38 (0.57%) Informatica