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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,267 7,397 9,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.35% 12.54% 13.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% 13.12% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,393 3,938 6,054
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +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 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
10th Percentile £27,250 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 -11 1,411 £60,000 -2.64% 296
South East -5 1,321 £61,500 -5.38% 340
North West -7 879 £62,783 -3.41% 172
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 156
Midlands -12 720 £58,500 +1.74% 207
Scotland -38 492 £69,000 +6.15% 66
West Midlands -9 472 £60,000 +4.35% 152
Yorkshire -7 438 £59,526 -3.21% 96
East Midlands -10 247 £57,500 - 54
East of England -32 223 £56,250 -13.46% 72
Wales -8 161 £52,500 +5.00% 43
North East -3 96 £57,750 +5.00% 28
Northern Ireland 0 71 £67,500 +12.50% 29
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 (5.39%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.39%) GeoServer
2 165 (3.13%) Confluence
3 128 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 111 (2.11%) IIS
5 80 (1.52%) CMS
6 70 (1.33%) Umbraco
7 58 (1.10%) nginx
8 54 (1.03%) Apache
9 50 (0.95%) OpenStack
10 47 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.80%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.80%) Kentico
12 40 (0.76%) Apache Spark
12 40 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
13 23 (0.44%) WebSphere
14 17 (0.32%) Captiva
14 17 (0.32%) FileNet
14 17 (0.32%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 59 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 17 (0.32%) Simulink
8 15 (0.28%) Sketch
9 14 (0.27%) Trello
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.095%) 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%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 100 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.095%) Maximo
8 4 (0.076%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.076%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,090 (58.67%) Azure
2 1,885 (35.79%) AWS
3 1,522 (28.90%) Azure DevOps
4 547 (10.39%) GCP
5 380 (7.21%) SaaS
6 377 (7.16%) Serverless
7 348 (6.61%) Power Platform
8 253 (4.80%) GitHub
9 251 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
10 228 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
10 228 (4.33%) IBM Cloud
11 195 (3.70%) PaaS
12 180 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 173 (3.28%) Azure Functions
14 171 (3.25%) Amazon S3
15 162 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 148 (2.81%) IaaS
17 134 (2.54%) Azure API Management
17 134 (2.54%) Power Automate
17 134 (2.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.38%) Firewall
2 146 (2.77%) DNS
3 79 (1.50%) VPN
4 77 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.40%) HTTP
6 71 (1.35%) DHCP
7 64 (1.22%) Network Security
8 50 (0.95%) WAN
9 32 (0.61%) LAN
10 19 (0.36%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 16 (0.30%) SSL
12 15 (0.28%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) NGFW
14 10 (0.19%) VLAN
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 621 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 570 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
3 342 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 321 (6.09%) NoSQL
5 291 (5.52%) GIS
6 284 (5.39%) QGIS
7 247 (4.69%) MongoDB
8 243 (4.61%) Looker
9 236 (4.48%) BigQuery
10 232 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
11 195 (3.70%) Power BI
12 164 (3.11%) MySQL
13 125 (2.37%) DB2
14 122 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
15 99 (1.88%) Big Data
16 86 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 85 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
18 63 (1.20%) Hadoop
18 63 (1.20%) RDBMS
19 62 (1.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 780 (14.81%) Git
2 472 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 449 (8.52%) JIRA
4 229 (4.35%) Visual Studio
5 203 (3.85%) GitLab
6 102 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 101 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 101 (1.92%) Selenium
8 80 (1.52%) Postman
9 66 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 61 (1.16%) Sourcetree
11 59 (1.12%) JUnit
12 57 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 53 (1.01%) Jasmine
13 53 (1.01%) NUnit
14 49 (0.93%) TeamCity
15 45 (0.85%) Subversion
16 35 (0.66%) SonarQube
17 33 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
18 32 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,140 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 712 (13.52%) Finance
3 480 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 388 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 321 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 294 (5.58%) Law
7 206 (3.91%) Banking
8 172 (3.27%) Retail
9 162 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 150 (2.85%) Aerospace
11 148 (2.81%) Marketing
12 122 (2.32%) Legal
13 121 (2.30%) Games
14 82 (1.56%) Billing
15 68 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 63 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (0.97%) Automotive
18 50 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
19 48 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
20 46 (0.87%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,399 (26.56%) Developer
2 1,093 (20.75%) Senior
3 736 (13.97%) Software Engineer
4 671 (12.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 531 (10.08%) Lead
6 375 (7.12%) Architect
7 356 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 294 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 286 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 276 (5.24%) .NET Developer
11 271 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
12 260 (4.94%) Software Developer
13 211 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 178 (3.38%) Azure Developer
14 178 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 169 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
16 164 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
17 160 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
18 158 (3.00%) C# Developer
19 149 (2.83%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,405 (26.68%) .NET
2 952 (18.07%) React
3 784 (14.89%) CSS
4 622 (11.81%) .NET Core
5 575 (10.92%) HTML
6 520 (9.87%) AngularJS
7 470 (8.92%) Node.js
8 464 (8.81%) ASP.NET
9 361 (6.85%) .NET Framework
10 338 (6.42%) REST
11 293 (5.56%) Web Services
12 286 (5.43%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.39%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.39%) OpenLayers
14 271 (5.15%) Vue
15 261 (4.96%) RESTful
16 223 (4.23%) jQuery
17 221 (4.20%) JSON
18 203 (3.85%) Spring
19 202 (3.84%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 336 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 290 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 274 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
4 243 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 225 (4.27%) Blockchain
6 213 (4.04%) Cloud Native
7 182 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 175 (3.32%) Algorithms
9 160 (3.04%) Management Information System
10 137 (2.60%) Private Cloud
11 134 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
12 127 (2.41%) Data Centre
13 100 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
13 100 (1.90%) Mobile App
14 91 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
14 91 (1.73%) IoT
15 74 (1.40%) Low-Code
16 71 (1.35%) Onboarding
17 70 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 67 (1.27%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 902 (17.13%) Linux
2 568 (10.78%) Windows
3 172 (3.27%) Android
4 162 (3.08%) Apple iOS
5 139 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 78 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 69 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 68 (1.29%) CentOS
8 68 (1.29%) Unix
9 64 (1.22%) Debian
10 47 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
11 42 (0.80%) VMS
12 27 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
12 27 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 26 (0.49%) Windows 10
14 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
16 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,804 (53.24%) Agile
2 1,571 (29.83%) CI/CD
3 1,287 (24.44%) Software Engineering
4 1,087 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
5 791 (15.02%) Mentoring
6 743 (14.11%) Scrum
7 644 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
8 642 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 602 (11.43%) Web Development
10 566 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
11 562 (10.67%) Full Stack Development
12 546 (10.37%) Test Automation
13 539 (10.23%) Microservices
14 532 (10.10%) Containerisation
15 475 (9.02%) SDLC
16 464 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
17 461 (8.75%) Roadmaps
18 442 (8.39%) Design Patterns
19 414 (7.86%) MVC
20 392 (7.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,412 (26.81%) C#
2 1,344 (25.52%) JavaScript
3 1,259 (23.90%) Python
4 1,069 (20.30%) SQL
5 781 (14.83%) Java
6 379 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 339 (6.44%) TypeScript
8 324 (6.15%) Bash
9 160 (3.04%) PHP
10 140 (2.66%) T-SQL
11 127 (2.41%) C
12 125 (2.37%) Go
13 106 (2.01%) C++
14 91 (1.73%) Bicep
15 83 (1.58%) Ruby
16 74 (1.40%) VB.NET
17 72 (1.37%) Shell Script
18 56 (1.06%) VB
19 55 (1.04%) Groovy
19 55 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,097 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 840 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 828 (15.72%) Degree
4 271 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 199 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 153 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 127 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 111 (2.11%) AWS Certification
10 95 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 52 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 44 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 44 (0.84%) MCSE
13 41 (0.78%) MCSA
14 39 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 33 (0.63%) ISTQB
17 32 (0.61%) CISSP
18 31 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 29 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (8.56%) QA
2 220 (4.18%) GDPR
3 104 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 64 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (1.12%) PMO
6 39 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (0.49%) NIST
9 22 (0.42%) SLA
10 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.23%) NCSC
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.095%) GRC
17 4 (0.076%) MISRA
17 4 (0.076%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 12207
18 2 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 870 (16.52%) Docker
2 166 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 132 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 108 (2.05%) Hyper-V
6 44 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 24 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.32%) 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 (0.076%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.076%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 996 (18.91%) Kubernetes
2 917 (17.41%) Terraform
3 507 (9.63%) Ansible
4 152 (2.89%) Puppet
5 133 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 124 (2.35%) Grafana
7 91 (1.73%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 26 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.46%) Kibana
11 24 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.38%) SCOM
14 18 (0.34%) SCCM
15 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.27%) Rancher
17 14 (0.27%) WSUS
18 13 (0.25%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,165 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 369 (7.01%) Google
3 287 (5.45%) Red Hat
4 286 (5.43%) IBM
5 285 (5.41%) ESRI
6 187 (3.55%) Oracle
7 183 (3.47%) VMware
8 99 (1.88%) Databricks
9 83 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 54 (1.03%) SAP
11 54 (1.03%) Splunk
12 52 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 49 (0.93%) Cisco
14 47 (0.89%) Sitecore
15 36 (0.68%) Citrix
15 36 (0.68%) Optimizely
16 34 (0.65%) WSO2
17 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics
18 31 (0.59%) Informatica