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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,812 10,668 22,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.23% 12.91% 15.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 13.52% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,707 6,860 11,271
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 £107,050 £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 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -7 2,106 £81,500 +1.88% 597
North of England -8 1,467 £60,000 -4.00% 265
South East -6 1,355 £61,500 -5.38% 189
North West -7 940 £62,500 -3.85% 155
South West -5 867 £61,500 -1.60% 132
Midlands -12 744 £60,000 +4.35% 162
West Midlands -10 485 £60,000 +4.35% 109
Yorkshire -6 436 £57,500 -4.17% 80
East Midlands -13 259 £57,500 -4.17% 53
East of England -30 228 £57,500 -11.54% 52
North East -10 93 £60,000 +4.35% 30
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
1 202 (2.97%) Confluence
2 189 (2.77%) ArcGIS
2 189 (2.77%) GeoServer
3 151 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 146 (2.14%) CMS
5 133 (1.95%) IIS
6 95 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 86 (1.26%) Apache
8 79 (1.16%) Apache Spark
9 73 (1.07%) Umbraco
10 71 (1.04%) nginx
11 62 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
12 50 (0.73%) OpenStack
13 46 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.63%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.63%) Kentico
15 33 (0.48%) Drupal
16 28 (0.41%) WordPress
17 22 (0.32%) JBoss
18 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 70 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 70 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 28 (0.41%) Photoshop
4 27 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.29%) Simulink
7 17 (0.25%) Trello
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.059%) Sketch
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.044%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.029%) Notion
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
Business Applications
1 148 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 19 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) Magento
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.15%) Shopify
8 7 (0.10%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.073%) Primavera
9 5 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.059%) Ripple
10 4 (0.059%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.044%) Endur
11 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.044%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,944 (57.90%) Azure
2 2,580 (37.87%) AWS
3 2,040 (29.95%) Azure DevOps
4 683 (10.03%) GCP
5 571 (8.38%) Serverless
6 530 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 457 (6.71%) SaaS
8 357 (5.24%) GitHub
9 337 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
10 294 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
11 281 (4.13%) PaaS
12 271 (3.98%) Amazon S3
13 262 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 247 (3.63%) Azure Functions
15 246 (3.61%) IBM Cloud
16 239 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
17 228 (3.35%) IaaS
18 215 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
19 212 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
20 195 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 254 (3.73%) Firewall
2 246 (3.61%) DNS
3 114 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 113 (1.66%) Network Security
5 107 (1.57%) HTTP
6 97 (1.42%) DHCP
7 90 (1.32%) VPN
8 82 (1.20%) WAN
9 64 (0.94%) LAN
10 34 (0.50%) Internet
11 30 (0.44%) SSL
12 20 (0.29%) 5G
13 18 (0.26%) SNMP
13 18 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 17 (0.25%) SAN
15 16 (0.23%) HTTPS
16 15 (0.22%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) MQTT
17 14 (0.21%) VLAN
18 13 (0.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 864 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 611 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 382 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 353 (5.18%) Relational Database
5 304 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 300 (4.40%) Power BI
7 297 (4.36%) MongoDB
8 233 (3.42%) BigQuery
9 213 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 210 (3.08%) Looker
11 202 (2.97%) MySQL
12 199 (2.92%) GIS
13 194 (2.85%) Big Data
14 189 (2.77%) QGIS
15 179 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 165 (2.42%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.13%) DB2
18 110 (1.61%) DynamoDB
19 90 (1.32%) Hadoop
20 85 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,007 (14.78%) Git
2 658 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 544 (7.99%) JIRA
4 327 (4.80%) GitLab
5 279 (4.10%) Visual Studio
6 126 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 122 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 108 (1.59%) Selenium
9 93 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 90 (1.32%) Postman
11 79 (1.16%) Sourcetree
12 78 (1.15%) NUnit
13 75 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
14 59 (0.87%) SonarQube
14 59 (0.87%) Subversion
15 53 (0.78%) JUnit
16 51 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 51 (0.75%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.73%) CircleCI
18 49 (0.72%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,539 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (16.05%) Finance
3 621 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 299 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (3.82%) Law
7 228 (3.35%) Banking
8 223 (3.27%) Retail
9 193 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 173 (2.54%) Marketing
11 159 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 141 (2.07%) Legal
13 117 (1.72%) Games
14 102 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 93 (1.37%) Billing
16 91 (1.34%) Front Office
17 82 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 81 (1.19%) Telecoms
19 79 (1.16%) Electronics
20 74 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,806 (26.51%) Developer
2 1,414 (20.76%) Senior
3 1,008 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 738 (10.83%) Lead
5 666 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 608 (8.93%) Architect
7 451 (6.62%) Senior Developer
8 414 (6.08%) .NET Developer
9 367 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
10 347 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 295 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
12 292 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
13 281 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 266 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
15 265 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
16 251 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
17 250 (3.67%) C# Developer
18 240 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
19 228 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 224 (3.29%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,694 (24.87%) .NET
2 972 (14.27%) React
3 780 (11.45%) CSS
4 651 (9.56%) HTML
5 627 (9.20%) AngularJS
6 621 (9.12%) .NET Core
7 588 (8.63%) ASP.NET
8 504 (7.40%) REST
9 497 (7.30%) Node.js
10 458 (6.72%) .NET Framework
11 415 (6.09%) Web Services
12 379 (5.56%) RESTful
13 315 (4.62%) Vue
14 284 (4.17%) jQuery
15 275 (4.04%) JSON
16 258 (3.79%) Entity Framework
16 258 (3.79%) XML
17 220 (3.23%) Spring
18 218 (3.20%) Kafka
19 217 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 368 (5.40%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 305 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 303 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 274 (4.02%) Blockchain
6 244 (3.58%) Data Structures
7 237 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 219 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 203 (2.98%) Algorithms
10 198 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
11 159 (2.33%) Data Centre
12 150 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
13 123 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
14 120 (1.76%) Hedge funds
15 115 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 98 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 95 (1.39%) IoT
17 95 (1.39%) Private Cloud
18 79 (1.16%) Clustering
18 79 (1.16%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,095 (16.07%) Linux
2 721 (10.58%) Windows
3 203 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 198 (2.91%) Android
5 194 (2.85%) Apple iOS
6 106 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 86 (1.26%) Unix
8 75 (1.10%) CentOS
9 71 (1.04%) Ubuntu
10 66 (0.97%) Debian
11 61 (0.90%) VMS
12 48 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
13 45 (0.66%) Windows 10
14 43 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
16 31 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
17 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.16%) AIX
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,261 (47.87%) Agile
2 2,185 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 1,445 (21.21%) Software Engineering
4 1,366 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
5 982 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 967 (14.20%) Scrum
7 951 (13.96%) Mentoring
8 763 (11.20%) Containerisation
9 743 (10.91%) Microservices
10 734 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
11 727 (10.67%) Test Automation
12 631 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
13 604 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence
14 561 (8.24%) Roadmaps
15 550 (8.07%) SDLC
16 545 (8.00%) Computer Science
16 545 (8.00%) Web Development
17 511 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 497 (7.30%) Design Patterns
19 483 (7.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,797 (26.38%) Python
2 1,744 (25.60%) C#
3 1,467 (21.54%) JavaScript
4 1,392 (20.43%) SQL
5 1,051 (15.43%) Java
6 637 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 470 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 442 (6.49%) Bash
9 241 (3.54%) Go
10 206 (3.02%) T-SQL
11 194 (2.85%) PHP
12 170 (2.50%) C
13 152 (2.23%) Bicep
14 149 (2.19%) C++
15 93 (1.37%) Ruby
16 82 (1.20%) Shell Script
17 76 (1.12%) Scala
18 75 (1.10%) VB.NET
19 59 (0.87%) VB
20 56 (0.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,168 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 979 (14.37%) Degree
3 858 (12.60%) SC Cleared
4 395 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 261 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 234 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 178 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 156 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 128 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 127 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 63 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 54 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 42 (0.62%) MCSE
15 41 (0.60%) MCSA
15 41 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 39 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 37 (0.54%) CISSP
18 34 (0.50%) ISTQB
19 28 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 546 (8.02%) QA
2 221 (3.24%) GDPR
3 147 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 49 (0.72%) NIST
7 42 (0.62%) PMO
8 40 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.48%) SLA
10 24 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.21%) NCSC
13 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.12%) PSD2
15 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
16 6 (0.088%) GRC
17 5 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.073%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.059%) EMIR
18 4 (0.059%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,255 (18.42%) Docker
2 284 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 171 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 165 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 112 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 62 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.56%) Firmware
8 33 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.23%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.22%) NFS
11 14 (0.21%) XenApp
12 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.15%) pfSense
14 9 (0.13%) KVM
15 8 (0.12%) HDFS
16 7 (0.10%) IAG
17 6 (0.088%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.073%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,511 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 1,434 (21.05%) Terraform
3 689 (10.11%) Ansible
4 257 (3.77%) Puppet
5 239 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 154 (2.26%) Grafana
7 138 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 44 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 40 (0.59%) ZABBIX
12 37 (0.54%) Packer
13 34 (0.50%) Kibana
14 29 (0.43%) Consul
14 29 (0.43%) HAProxy
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 27 (0.40%) Nagios
16 23 (0.34%) Istio
16 23 (0.34%) SCOM
17 20 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,552 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 370 (5.43%) Google
3 362 (5.31%) Red Hat
4 270 (3.96%) IBM
5 227 (3.33%) VMware
6 193 (2.83%) Oracle
7 191 (2.80%) ESRI
8 189 (2.77%) Databricks
9 94 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 83 (1.22%) Cisco
11 80 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 71 (1.04%) SAP
13 66 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 66 (0.97%) Splunk
14 62 (0.91%) Sitecore
15 61 (0.90%) Adobe
16 51 (0.75%) Citrix
17 48 (0.70%) Salesforce
18 43 (0.63%) Informatica
19 37 (0.54%) Optimizely