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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,739 11,917 21,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.66% 13.70% 15.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 14.33% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,751 7,054 11,288
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 £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 74,286 83,164 132,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.41% 95.59% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,336 49,441 73,222
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,384
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 £93,750 £102,500 £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 25 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 25 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 2,113 £80,000 - 977
North of England -10 1,432 £60,000 -4.00% 314
South East -5 1,335 £61,500 -5.38% 542
North West -7 892 £62,783 -3.41% 183
South West -4 869 £61,500 -1.60% 148
Midlands -12 730 £58,500 +1.74% 191
West Midlands -9 479 £60,000 +4.35% 135
Yorkshire -7 446 £60,000 -1.93% 97
East Midlands -11 250 £57,500 -4.17% 51
East of England -27 221 £55,000 -15.38% 101
North East -2 96 £59,750 +8.64% 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
1 198 (2.94%) Confluence
2 196 (2.91%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.91%) GeoServer
3 161 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 144 (2.14%) CMS
5 129 (1.91%) IIS
6 98 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 84 (1.25%) Apache
8 75 (1.11%) nginx
9 73 (1.08%) Apache Spark
9 73 (1.08%) Umbraco
10 68 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
11 57 (0.85%) OpenStack
12 47 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.64%) Kentico
14 34 (0.50%) Drupal
15 27 (0.40%) WordPress
16 22 (0.33%) JBoss
17 18 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 74 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 24 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.27%) Simulink
8 17 (0.25%) Trello
9 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.059%) Sketch
12 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.045%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.030%) Notion
14 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.015%) Revit
14 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 148 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 30 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.15%) Magento
8 8 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.12%) Shopify
9 6 (0.089%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.074%) Primavera
10 5 (0.074%) 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%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.045%) Maximo
12 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,914 (58.08%) Azure
2 2,527 (37.50%) AWS
3 2,021 (29.99%) Azure DevOps
4 714 (10.60%) GCP
5 599 (8.89%) Serverless
6 529 (7.85%) Power Platform
7 446 (6.62%) SaaS
8 376 (5.58%) GitHub
9 330 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 306 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
11 302 (4.48%) PaaS
12 276 (4.10%) Amazon S3
13 263 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 246 (3.65%) Azure Functions
14 246 (3.65%) IBM Cloud
15 238 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 230 (3.41%) IaaS
17 216 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 216 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
18 211 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 252 (3.74%) Firewall
2 240 (3.56%) DNS
3 125 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.63%) Network Security
5 106 (1.57%) HTTP
6 95 (1.41%) VPN
7 92 (1.37%) DHCP
8 85 (1.26%) WAN
9 67 (0.99%) LAN
10 37 (0.55%) Internet
11 30 (0.45%) SSL
12 19 (0.28%) SAN
12 19 (0.28%) SNMP
12 19 (0.28%) Unified Communications
13 18 (0.27%) 5G
13 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.21%) BGP
15 14 (0.21%) MQTT
15 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 864 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 603 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
3 378 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 370 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 301 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
6 296 (4.39%) Power BI
7 288 (4.27%) MongoDB
8 233 (3.46%) BigQuery
9 212 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
10 210 (3.12%) Looker
11 206 (3.06%) GIS
12 200 (2.97%) MySQL
13 196 (2.91%) QGIS
14 189 (2.80%) Big Data
15 175 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 162 (2.40%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.15%) DB2
18 93 (1.38%) DynamoDB
19 85 (1.26%) Hadoop
20 84 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,025 (15.21%) Git
2 703 (10.43%) Jenkins
3 546 (8.10%) JIRA
4 322 (4.78%) GitLab
5 272 (4.04%) Visual Studio
6 126 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 122 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 110 (1.63%) Selenium
9 96 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 93 (1.38%) Postman
11 78 (1.16%) Sourcetree
12 75 (1.11%) NUnit
13 74 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
14 59 (0.88%) SonarQube
15 58 (0.86%) Subversion
16 52 (0.77%) Artifactory
16 52 (0.77%) JUnit
17 51 (0.76%) Jasmine
18 50 (0.74%) CircleCI
19 49 (0.73%) Cucumber
General
1 1,505 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 1,102 (16.35%) Finance
3 628 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 288 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 265 (3.93%) Banking
7 258 (3.83%) Law
8 209 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 202 (3.00%) Retail
10 175 (2.60%) Marketing
11 158 (2.34%) Aerospace
12 143 (2.12%) Legal
13 118 (1.75%) Games
14 98 (1.45%) Front Office
14 98 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 88 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 82 (1.22%) Billing
17 77 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 75 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 67 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,804 (26.77%) Developer
2 1,392 (20.66%) Senior
3 1,008 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 707 (10.49%) Lead
5 662 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 570 (8.46%) Architect
7 436 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 406 (6.02%) .NET Developer
9 356 (5.28%) Full Stack Developer
10 353 (5.24%) Data Engineer
11 303 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
12 285 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 277 (4.11%) Software Developer
14 269 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
15 264 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
16 247 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 239 (3.55%) C# Developer
18 236 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
19 234 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 221 (3.28%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,689 (25.06%) .NET
2 969 (14.38%) React
3 780 (11.57%) CSS
4 654 (9.70%) HTML
5 638 (9.47%) AngularJS
6 620 (9.20%) .NET Core
7 581 (8.62%) ASP.NET
8 502 (7.45%) Node.js
9 499 (7.40%) REST
10 448 (6.65%) .NET Framework
11 398 (5.91%) Web Services
12 373 (5.53%) RESTful
13 311 (4.61%) Vue
14 285 (4.23%) JSON
15 278 (4.13%) jQuery
16 264 (3.92%) XML
17 250 (3.71%) Entity Framework
18 226 (3.35%) Spring
19 215 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 203 (3.01%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 383 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 311 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 299 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 273 (4.05%) Blockchain
6 253 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 244 (3.62%) Data Structures
8 218 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 200 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 196 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
11 153 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 148 (2.20%) Data Centre
13 127 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 125 (1.85%) Hedge funds
15 119 (1.77%) Private Cloud
16 114 (1.69%) Mobile App
17 92 (1.37%) IoT
18 83 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
19 79 (1.17%) e-Learning
20 78 (1.16%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,103 (16.37%) Linux
2 715 (10.61%) Windows
3 200 (2.97%) Android
4 194 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 190 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 102 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 96 (1.42%) Unix
8 75 (1.11%) CentOS
9 71 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 66 (0.98%) Debian
11 60 (0.89%) VMS
12 48 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
13 44 (0.65%) Windows 10
14 40 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
15 30 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
16 29 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.15%) AIX
20 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,280 (48.67%) Agile
2 2,186 (32.44%) CI/CD
3 1,438 (21.34%) Software Engineering
4 1,354 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 994 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 975 (14.47%) Scrum
7 923 (13.70%) Mentoring
8 771 (11.44%) Containerisation
9 759 (11.26%) Microservices
10 733 (10.88%) Test Automation
11 720 (10.68%) Full Stack Development
12 616 (9.14%) Continuous Integration
13 594 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 564 (8.37%) Roadmaps
15 555 (8.24%) Web Development
16 536 (7.95%) SDLC
17 530 (7.86%) Computer Science
18 510 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 510 (7.57%) Design Patterns
19 486 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,802 (26.74%) Python
2 1,734 (25.73%) C#
3 1,485 (22.04%) JavaScript
4 1,395 (20.70%) SQL
5 1,079 (16.01%) Java
6 612 (9.08%) PowerShell
7 449 (6.66%) TypeScript
8 444 (6.59%) Bash
9 265 (3.93%) Go
10 204 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 191 (2.83%) PHP
12 161 (2.39%) C
13 147 (2.18%) Bicep
14 136 (2.02%) C++
15 107 (1.59%) Ruby
16 86 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 75 (1.11%) VB.NET
18 69 (1.02%) Perl
19 67 (0.99%) Scala
20 56 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,160 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 966 (14.33%) Degree
3 859 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 380 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 239 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 235 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 182 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 155 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 129 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 128 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 62 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 56 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 43 (0.64%) MCSE
15 42 (0.62%) PMI Certification
16 41 (0.61%) MCSA
17 40 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 36 (0.53%) CISSP
19 33 (0.49%) ISTQB
20 29 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (8.18%) QA
2 228 (3.38%) GDPR
3 140 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 50 (0.74%) NIST
7 43 (0.64%) PMO
8 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.58%) SLA
10 24 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.25%) 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 (0.089%) GRC
16 5 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.059%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
18 3 (0.045%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,284 (19.05%) Docker
2 276 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 168 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 158 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 122 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 64 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.56%) Firmware
9 18 (0.27%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.22%) NFS
11 10 (0.15%) HDFS
11 10 (0.15%) pfSense
11 10 (0.15%) XenApp
12 8 (0.12%) KVM
13 7 (0.10%) IAG
13 7 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.089%) VirtualBox
15 5 (0.074%) DFS Replication
16 4 (0.059%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,517 (22.51%) Kubernetes
2 1,443 (21.41%) Terraform
3 693 (10.28%) Ansible
4 255 (3.78%) Puppet
5 239 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 157 (2.33%) Grafana
7 145 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 44 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 39 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 39 (0.58%) ZABBIX
11 38 (0.56%) Packer
12 34 (0.50%) Kibana
13 31 (0.46%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.42%) Nagios
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.36%) Consul
17 22 (0.33%) Istio
18 21 (0.31%) SCOM
19 18 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,570 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 408 (6.05%) Google
3 355 (5.27%) Red Hat
4 286 (4.24%) IBM
5 227 (3.37%) VMware
6 219 (3.25%) Oracle
7 198 (2.94%) ESRI
8 189 (2.80%) Databricks
9 103 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 80 (1.19%) Cisco
10 80 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 76 (1.13%) SAP
12 74 (1.10%) Splunk
13 63 (0.93%) Adobe
13 63 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 63 (0.93%) Sitecore
14 55 (0.82%) Citrix
15 49 (0.73%) Salesforce
16 40 (0.59%) WSO2
17 37 (0.55%) Optimizely