DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,303 7,194 9,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.23% 12.30% 13.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 12.87% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 3,921 6,020
10th Percentile £38,945 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,636 55,896 68,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.65% 95.56% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41,817 28,997 41,145
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England -9 1,429 £60,000 -4.00% 292
South East -6 1,337 £61,500 -5.38% 549
North West -7 891 £62,641 -3.63% 165
South West -5 866 £61,500 -1.60% 144
Midlands -11 729 £58,500 +1.74% 183
Scotland -37 489 £69,000 +6.15% 81
West Midlands -10 478 £60,000 +4.35% 129
Yorkshire -8 444 £59,763 -2.32% 91
East Midlands -13 250 £57,500 -4.17% 48
East of England -26 221 £55,000 -15.38% 104
Wales -9 159 £52,500 +10.53% 32
North East -1 96 £59,750 +8.64% 36
Northern Ireland +1 73 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 284 (5.36%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.36%) GeoServer
2 166 (3.13%) Confluence
3 123 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 111 (2.09%) IIS
5 80 (1.51%) CMS
6 71 (1.34%) Umbraco
7 58 (1.09%) nginx
8 55 (1.04%) Apache
9 51 (0.96%) OpenStack
10 47 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.79%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.79%) Kentico
12 40 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
13 38 (0.72%) Apache Spark
14 17 (0.32%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
16 14 (0.26%) JBoss
16 14 (0.26%) WordPress
17 13 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.36%) Simulink
8 15 (0.28%) Sketch
9 13 (0.25%) Trello
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.057%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) InVision
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 100 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 26 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.17%) Magento
6 8 (0.15%) Shopify
7 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.075%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.075%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.057%) Maximo
9 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.019%) Primavera
11 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.019%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 3,128 (58.99%) Azure
2 1,944 (36.66%) AWS
3 1,523 (28.72%) Azure DevOps
4 539 (10.16%) GCP
5 378 (7.13%) SaaS
6 367 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 364 (6.86%) Serverless
8 243 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 241 (4.54%) GitHub
10 228 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
11 225 (4.24%) IBM Cloud
12 195 (3.68%) PaaS
13 180 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
14 173 (3.26%) Amazon S3
15 172 (3.24%) Azure Functions
16 164 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 146 (2.75%) IaaS
18 135 (2.55%) PowerApps
19 134 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
19 134 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.36%) Firewall
2 154 (2.90%) DNS
3 79 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 77 (1.45%) HTTP
5 75 (1.41%) DHCP
5 75 (1.41%) VPN
6 65 (1.23%) Network Security
7 50 (0.94%) WAN
8 32 (0.60%) LAN
9 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.34%) Internet
10 18 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 16 (0.30%) SSL
12 14 (0.26%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) VLAN
15 9 (0.17%) NGFW
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 588 (11.09%) PostgreSQL
3 335 (6.32%) Relational Database
4 331 (6.24%) NoSQL
5 290 (5.47%) GIS
6 284 (5.36%) QGIS
7 249 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
8 246 (4.64%) MongoDB
9 243 (4.58%) Looker
10 232 (4.37%) BigQuery
11 215 (4.05%) Power BI
12 163 (3.07%) MySQL
13 125 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
13 125 (2.36%) DB2
14 100 (1.89%) Big Data
15 86 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 78 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
17 74 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 65 (1.23%) Hadoop
19 58 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 763 (14.39%) Git
2 466 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 451 (8.50%) JIRA
4 230 (4.34%) Visual Studio
5 205 (3.87%) GitLab
6 103 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 101 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 90 (1.70%) Selenium
9 77 (1.45%) Postman
10 61 (1.15%) Sourcetree
11 60 (1.13%) JUnit
12 58 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 55 (1.04%) NUnit
14 52 (0.98%) Jasmine
15 51 (0.96%) Cucumber
16 50 (0.94%) TeamCity
17 46 (0.87%) SonarQube
18 45 (0.85%) Subversion
19 33 (0.62%) CircleCI
20 32 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,168 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 684 (12.90%) Finance
3 473 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 316 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 292 (5.51%) Law
7 183 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 175 (3.30%) Banking
9 167 (3.15%) Retail
10 159 (3.00%) Aerospace
11 149 (2.81%) Marketing
12 121 (2.28%) Games
13 119 (2.24%) Legal
14 90 (1.70%) Billing
15 68 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 60 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 53 (1.00%) Electronics
18 52 (0.98%) Automotive
19 51 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
20 49 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,410 (26.59%) Developer
2 1,100 (20.74%) Senior
3 717 (13.52%) Software Engineer
4 690 (13.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 533 (10.05%) Lead
6 400 (7.54%) Architect
7 362 (6.83%) Senior Developer
8 296 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 284 (5.36%) .NET Developer
10 280 (5.28%) Data Engineer
11 275 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 263 (4.96%) Software Developer
13 217 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
14 184 (3.47%) Azure Developer
15 181 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 172 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
17 163 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
18 161 (3.04%) C# Developer
19 160 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
20 149 (2.81%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,405 (26.49%) .NET
2 938 (17.69%) React
3 791 (14.92%) CSS
4 619 (11.67%) .NET Core
5 582 (10.97%) HTML
6 518 (9.77%) AngularJS
7 471 (8.88%) Node.js
8 463 (8.73%) ASP.NET
9 369 (6.96%) .NET Framework
10 347 (6.54%) REST
11 304 (5.73%) Web Services
12 286 (5.39%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.36%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.36%) OpenLayers
14 270 (5.09%) Vue
15 256 (4.83%) RESTful
16 224 (4.22%) jQuery
17 214 (4.04%) JSON
18 207 (3.90%) Entity Framework
19 199 (3.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 339 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 288 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 278 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
4 235 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 225 (4.24%) Blockchain
6 218 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 183 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 176 (3.32%) Algorithms
9 163 (3.07%) Management Information System
10 149 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
11 126 (2.38%) Data Centre
12 123 (2.32%) Private Cloud
13 101 (1.90%) Mobile App
14 97 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
15 92 (1.73%) IoT
16 91 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
17 81 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
18 73 (1.38%) Low-Code
19 71 (1.34%) Onboarding
20 68 (1.28%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 894 (16.86%) Linux
2 573 (10.81%) Windows
3 171 (3.22%) Android
4 161 (3.04%) Apple iOS
5 139 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 73 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (1.26%) CentOS
9 66 (1.24%) Debian
10 59 (1.11%) Unix
11 48 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
12 43 (0.81%) VMS
13 29 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
14 28 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
15 26 (0.49%) Windows 10
16 24 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
17 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
20 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,807 (52.93%) Agile
2 1,592 (30.02%) CI/CD
3 1,268 (23.91%) Software Engineering
4 1,096 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
5 812 (15.31%) Mentoring
6 754 (14.22%) Scrum
7 647 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 634 (11.96%) Actionable Insight
9 603 (11.37%) Web Development
10 563 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
11 562 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
12 551 (10.39%) Test Automation
13 524 (9.88%) Microservices
14 523 (9.86%) Containerisation
15 474 (8.94%) SDLC
16 471 (8.88%) Artificial Intelligence
17 456 (8.60%) Roadmaps
18 426 (8.03%) Design Patterns
19 415 (7.83%) MVC
20 408 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,416 (26.70%) C#
2 1,343 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 1,267 (23.89%) Python
4 1,046 (19.72%) SQL
5 758 (14.29%) Java
6 385 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 340 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 312 (5.88%) Bash
9 159 (3.00%) PHP
10 140 (2.64%) T-SQL
11 129 (2.43%) C
12 116 (2.19%) Go
13 104 (1.96%) C++
14 95 (1.79%) Bicep
15 73 (1.38%) Ruby
15 73 (1.38%) VB.NET
16 72 (1.36%) Shell Script
17 57 (1.07%) VB
18 53 (1.00%) Groovy
19 47 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,126 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 862 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 835 (15.75%) Degree
4 284 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 215 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 125 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 116 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 98 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 51 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 45 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 43 (0.81%) MCSE
14 41 (0.77%) MCSA
15 38 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 33 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 32 (0.60%) CISSP
19 30 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 29 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 442 (8.33%) QA
2 210 (3.96%) GDPR
3 105 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 64 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (1.09%) PMO
6 39 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.53%) NIST
9 24 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.41%) SLA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.25%) NCSC
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.094%) GRC
17 4 (0.075%) MISRA
17 4 (0.075%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.038%) IEC 61508
18 2 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 877 (16.54%) Docker
2 166 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 136 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 120 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 111 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 46 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 23 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.30%) vSphere
10 13 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.19%) NFS
11 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 7 (0.13%) IAG
12 7 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.075%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.075%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,012 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 929 (17.52%) Terraform
3 526 (9.92%) Ansible
4 151 (2.85%) Puppet
5 135 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 128 (2.41%) Grafana
7 90 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 36 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.60%) ZABBIX
10 27 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (0.43%) Kibana
13 21 (0.40%) SCOM
14 19 (0.36%) SCCM
15 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.28%) WSUS
18 12 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,164 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 357 (6.73%) Google
3 293 (5.53%) Red Hat
4 285 (5.37%) ESRI
5 269 (5.07%) IBM
6 184 (3.47%) VMware
7 164 (3.09%) Oracle
8 98 (1.85%) Databricks
9 84 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 57 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 56 (1.06%) Splunk
13 50 (0.94%) Cisco
14 47 (0.89%) Sitecore
15 44 (0.83%) SAP
16 36 (0.68%) Optimizely
17 34 (0.64%) WSO2
18 33 (0.62%) Citrix
19 32 (0.60%) Qualtrics
20 31 (0.58%) Informatica