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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,716 14,019 25,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.84% 13.80% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 14.44% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,292 8,177 12,994
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,000 £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 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 6,641 £65,000 -7.14% 1,663
UK excluding London -13 5,204 £60,000 -2.44% 1,040
Work from Home -9 3,303 £65,000 -7.14% 932
London -6 2,114 £80,000 - 671
North of England -10 1,368 £60,000 -2.18% 281
South East -5 1,301 £61,500 -5.38% 225
South West -2 876 £61,500 -1.60% 157
North West -6 851 £62,500 - 179
Midlands -11 717 £57,500 - 192
Scotland -39 488 £69,000 +3.60% 67
West Midlands -10 467 £60,000 +4.35% 131
Yorkshire -8 424 £60,000 -2.44% 83
East Midlands -10 250 £57,500 +4.55% 60
East of England -29 229 £57,500 -11.54% 71
Wales -4 159 £52,500 +5.00% 34
North East -6 95 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Northern Ireland +5 68 £63,750 +6.25% 31
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 (4.28%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.28%) GeoServer
2 240 (3.11%) Confluence
3 189 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 148 (1.92%) CMS
5 133 (1.72%) IIS
6 90 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
7 85 (1.10%) Apache
8 84 (1.09%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 80 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
10 80 (1.04%) Umbraco
11 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
12 47 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Headless CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Kentico
14 35 (0.45%) WebSphere
15 34 (0.44%) Drupal
16 32 (0.41%) WordPress
17 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 84 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (0.64%) 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%) Sketch
9 13 (0.17%) Simulink
10 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.026%) Notion
13 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.013%) InVision
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 176 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 36 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.13%) Magento
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 7 (0.091%) Maximo
10 6 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.065%) Primavera
11 5 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.065%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.052%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
13 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
13 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,516 (58.53%) Azure
2 2,875 (37.26%) AWS
3 2,300 (29.81%) Azure DevOps
4 859 (11.13%) GCP
5 703 (9.11%) Serverless
6 608 (7.88%) Power Platform
7 525 (6.80%) SaaS
8 458 (5.94%) GitHub
9 392 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
10 375 (4.86%) PaaS
11 362 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
12 290 (3.76%) IaaS
13 288 (3.73%) Amazon S3
14 283 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 272 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 265 (3.43%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.25%) IBM Cloud
18 241 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
19 237 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
20 231 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 287 (3.72%) Firewall
2 247 (3.20%) DNS
3 132 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 126 (1.63%) VPN
5 122 (1.58%) Network Security
6 106 (1.37%) HTTP
7 103 (1.33%) WAN
8 94 (1.22%) DHCP
9 71 (0.92%) LAN
10 50 (0.65%) Internet
11 34 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 29 (0.38%) SSL
13 20 (0.26%) BGP
13 20 (0.26%) SAN
13 20 (0.26%) SNMP
13 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.21%) IPv4
15 16 (0.21%) MQTT
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 939 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 718 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
3 433 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 424 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 343 (4.45%) GIS
6 330 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 330 (4.28%) QGIS
7 321 (4.16%) MongoDB
8 316 (4.10%) Power BI
9 260 (3.37%) BigQuery
10 255 (3.30%) Looker
11 228 (2.95%) MySQL
12 212 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
13 198 (2.57%) Big Data
14 195 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 161 (2.09%) Data Lake
16 145 (1.88%) DB2
17 115 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
18 96 (1.24%) RDBMS
19 88 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,136 (14.72%) Git
2 804 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 645 (8.36%) JIRA
4 340 (4.41%) GitLab
5 295 (3.82%) Visual Studio
6 144 (1.87%) Selenium
7 138 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 138 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 121 (1.57%) Postman
9 98 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 85 (1.10%) Cypress.io
11 76 (0.98%) JUnit
12 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
13 74 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 72 (0.93%) NUnit
14 72 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
15 64 (0.83%) SonarQube
15 64 (0.83%) Subversion
16 62 (0.80%) Artifactory
17 58 (0.75%) CircleCI
General
1 1,674 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 1,411 (18.29%) Finance
3 710 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 534 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 471 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 390 (5.05%) Law
7 385 (4.99%) Banking
8 272 (3.53%) Marketing
9 225 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 225 (2.92%) Retail
10 176 (2.28%) Legal
11 144 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 129 (1.67%) Games
13 107 (1.39%) Front Office
14 97 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 96 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
16 80 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 79 (1.02%) Billing
18 75 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
19 63 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,014 (26.10%) Developer
2 1,644 (21.31%) Senior
3 1,120 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 919 (11.91%) Software Engineer
5 874 (11.33%) Lead
6 619 (8.02%) Architect
7 508 (6.58%) Senior Developer
8 403 (5.22%) .NET Developer
9 399 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 380 (4.92%) Full Stack Developer
11 343 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 329 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
13 316 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
14 302 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 300 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
16 283 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 274 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
18 265 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 230 (2.98%) Analyst
20 228 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,968 (25.51%) .NET
2 1,227 (15.90%) React
3 993 (12.87%) CSS
4 801 (10.38%) .NET Core
5 759 (9.84%) HTML
6 700 (9.07%) AngularJS
7 623 (8.07%) ASP.NET
8 605 (7.84%) Node.js
9 513 (6.65%) REST
10 465 (6.03%) .NET Framework
11 422 (5.47%) Web Services
12 410 (5.31%) RESTful
13 356 (4.61%) Vue
14 339 (4.39%) JSON
14 339 (4.39%) PostGIS
15 330 (4.28%) Leaflet
15 330 (4.28%) OpenLayers
16 285 (3.69%) Spring
17 269 (3.49%) jQuery
18 266 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 437 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 359 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 331 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 328 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 320 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
6 277 (3.59%) Blockchain
7 255 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 249 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 211 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 203 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
11 179 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
12 167 (2.16%) Private Cloud
13 165 (2.14%) Data Centre
14 148 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
15 133 (1.72%) Mobile App
16 119 (1.54%) Hedge funds
17 116 (1.50%) Onboarding
18 111 (1.44%) IoT
19 83 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
20 77 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,299 (16.84%) Linux
2 791 (10.25%) Windows
3 216 (2.80%) Android
3 216 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 205 (2.66%) Apple iOS
5 152 (1.97%) Unix
6 108 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 91 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 86 (1.11%) CentOS
9 64 (0.83%) Debian
9 64 (0.83%) VMS
10 46 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
11 40 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 40 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
14 15 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,912 (50.70%) Agile
2 2,517 (32.62%) CI/CD
3 1,828 (23.69%) Software Engineering
4 1,521 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
5 1,141 (14.79%) Scrum
6 1,101 (14.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,085 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 887 (11.50%) Microservices
9 844 (10.94%) Test Automation
10 837 (10.85%) Containerisation
11 809 (10.48%) Full Stack Development
12 784 (10.16%) Actionable Insight
13 762 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
14 705 (9.14%) Web Development
15 656 (8.50%) SDLC
16 641 (8.31%) Roadmaps
17 634 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
18 575 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 564 (7.31%) TDD
20 551 (7.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,074 (26.88%) Python
2 2,008 (26.02%) C#
3 1,802 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 1,663 (21.55%) SQL
5 1,232 (15.97%) Java
6 663 (8.59%) PowerShell
7 507 (6.57%) Bash
8 495 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 316 (4.10%) Go
10 218 (2.83%) PHP
11 209 (2.71%) T-SQL
12 165 (2.14%) C
13 156 (2.02%) Ruby
14 155 (2.01%) Bicep
15 145 (1.88%) C++
16 113 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 101 (1.31%) Perl
18 79 (1.02%) VB.NET
19 67 (0.87%) Groovy
20 62 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,367 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 1,087 (14.09%) Degree
3 1,057 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 385 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 240 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 212 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 173 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 172 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 165 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 129 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 65 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 60 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 53 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.69%) CISSP
14 46 (0.60%) MCSE
15 45 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 44 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 42 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 41 (0.53%) MCSA
19 38 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 637 (8.26%) QA
2 278 (3.60%) GDPR
3 145 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 104 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.96%) PMO
7 47 (0.61%) NIST
8 40 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 38 (0.49%) SLA
10 33 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.19%) NCSC
13 10 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.12%) PSD2
15 7 (0.091%) ISO 13485
15 7 (0.091%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.078%) GRC
17 5 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,417 (18.36%) Docker
2 318 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 161 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 124 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 61 (0.79%) 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 (0.078%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.078%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.065%) Xen
17 4 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,628 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 1,567 (20.31%) Terraform
3 765 (9.91%) Ansible
4 261 (3.38%) Puppet
5 240 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 195 (2.53%) Grafana
7 156 (2.02%) 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
11 37 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.36%) Istio
15 26 (0.34%) Consul
16 25 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
17 24 (0.31%) Nagios
18 22 (0.29%) Rancher
19 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,747 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 485 (6.29%) Google
3 350 (4.54%) Red Hat
4 343 (4.45%) IBM
5 332 (4.30%) ESRI
6 283 (3.67%) Oracle
7 249 (3.23%) VMware
8 214 (2.77%) Databricks
9 133 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 106 (1.37%) SAP
11 104 (1.35%) Cisco
12 102 (1.32%) Splunk
13 97 (1.26%) Dynatrace
14 77 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 65 (0.84%) Salesforce
16 63 (0.82%) Adobe
17 62 (0.80%) Sitecore
18 60 (0.78%) Citrix
19 42 (0.54%) WSO2
20 37 (0.48%) Sparx