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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,785 14,331 24,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.89% 13.81% 15.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 14.44% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,342 8,366 13,118
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 3 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 3 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 6,706 £65,000 -7.14% 1,566
UK excluding London -12 5,246 £60,000 -2.44% 994
Work from Home -9 3,327 £65,000 -7.14% 877
London -6 2,132 £80,000 - 622
North of England -11 1,376 £60,000 -2.44% 279
South East -4 1,320 £61,500 -5.38% 211
South West -3 877 £61,500 -1.60% 150
North West -6 848 £62,500 - 183
Midlands -9 726 £57,500 - 178
Scotland -42 490 £69,000 +4.58% 71
West Midlands -9 474 £60,000 - 113
Yorkshire -8 432 £60,000 -4.00% 77
East Midlands -7 254 £57,500 +4.55% 62
East of England -25 236 £57,500 -11.54% 67
Wales -4 161 £52,500 +3.85% 29
North East -7 98 £57,750 +5.00% 20
Northern Ireland +2 67 £63,750 +6.25% 30
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 (4.24%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.24%) GeoServer
2 244 (3.13%) Confluence
3 194 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 150 (1.93%) CMS
5 131 (1.68%) IIS
6 99 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 87 (1.12%) Apache
8 85 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
8 85 (1.09%) nginx
9 83 (1.07%) Apache Spark
10 79 (1.01%) Umbraco
11 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
12 47 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Headless CMS
13 42 (0.54%) Kentico
14 35 (0.45%) Drupal
15 34 (0.44%) WebSphere
16 33 (0.42%) WordPress
17 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 84 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.33%) 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 (0.064%) 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%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 177 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 37 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) Magento
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.10%) Maximo
7 8 (0.10%) Shopify
8 6 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.064%) Primavera
9 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.064%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.051%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.051%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
11 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,540 (58.32%) Azure
2 2,880 (36.99%) AWS
3 2,329 (29.92%) Azure DevOps
4 865 (11.11%) GCP
5 718 (9.22%) Serverless
6 616 (7.91%) Power Platform
7 527 (6.77%) SaaS
8 460 (5.91%) GitHub
9 395 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
10 377 (4.84%) PaaS
11 371 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
12 294 (3.78%) Amazon S3
12 294 (3.78%) IaaS
13 286 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 274 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 268 (3.44%) Azure Functions
16 250 (3.21%) IBM Cloud
17 248 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
18 245 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
19 233 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 286 (3.67%) Firewall
2 250 (3.21%) DNS
3 134 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 129 (1.66%) VPN
5 122 (1.57%) Network Security
6 106 (1.36%) HTTP
7 102 (1.31%) WAN
8 94 (1.21%) DHCP
9 71 (0.91%) LAN
10 50 (0.64%) Internet
11 33 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.40%) 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
1 945 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 721 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 431 (5.54%) NoSQL
4 430 (5.52%) Relational Database
5 344 (4.42%) GIS
6 333 (4.28%) MongoDB
7 332 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 330 (4.24%) QGIS
9 324 (4.16%) Power BI
10 261 (3.35%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.28%) Looker
12 231 (2.97%) MySQL
13 215 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
14 193 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
15 192 (2.47%) Big Data
16 154 (1.98%) Data Lake
17 144 (1.85%) DB2
18 121 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
19 95 (1.22%) RDBMS
20 89 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,139 (14.63%) Git
2 819 (10.52%) Jenkins
3 650 (8.35%) JIRA
4 348 (4.47%) GitLab
5 292 (3.75%) Visual Studio
6 147 (1.89%) Selenium
7 139 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 138 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 127 (1.63%) Postman
10 99 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 85 (1.09%) Cypress.io
12 77 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 76 (0.98%) JUnit
14 75 (0.96%) Sourcetree
15 74 (0.95%) NUnit
16 71 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
17 66 (0.85%) Artifactory
18 65 (0.83%) SonarQube
19 64 (0.82%) Subversion
20 59 (0.76%) CircleCI
General
1 1,671 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 1,428 (18.34%) Finance
3 715 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 533 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 488 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 396 (5.09%) Banking
7 393 (5.05%) Law
8 271 (3.48%) Marketing
9 226 (2.90%) Retail
10 225 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 181 (2.32%) Legal
12 140 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 109 (1.40%) Front Office
15 101 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 97 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 81 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.01%) Billing
19 76 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 64 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,029 (26.06%) Developer
2 1,674 (21.50%) Senior
3 1,126 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 920 (11.82%) Software Engineer
5 881 (11.32%) Lead
6 609 (7.82%) Architect
7 514 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 413 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 410 (5.27%) .NET Developer
10 381 (4.89%) Full Stack Developer
11 342 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 330 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
13 315 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 299 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
16 285 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
17 278 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
18 269 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 236 (3.03%) Analyst
19 236 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,985 (25.50%) .NET
2 1,230 (15.80%) React
3 995 (12.78%) CSS
4 803 (10.31%) .NET Core
5 759 (9.75%) HTML
6 701 (9.00%) AngularJS
7 623 (8.00%) ASP.NET
8 603 (7.75%) Node.js
9 518 (6.65%) REST
10 464 (5.96%) .NET Framework
11 418 (5.37%) Web Services
12 412 (5.29%) RESTful
13 358 (4.60%) Vue
14 346 (4.44%) JSON
15 339 (4.35%) PostGIS
16 330 (4.24%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.24%) OpenLayers
17 287 (3.69%) Spring
18 269 (3.46%) jQuery
19 266 (3.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 443 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 359 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 338 (4.34%) Public Cloud
4 331 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 321 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
6 278 (3.57%) Blockchain
7 262 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 254 (3.26%) Data Structures
9 211 (2.71%) Algorithms
10 204 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
11 180 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 168 (2.16%) Private Cloud
13 166 (2.13%) Data Centre
14 148 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
15 133 (1.71%) Mobile App
16 116 (1.49%) IoT
16 116 (1.49%) Onboarding
17 113 (1.45%) Hedge funds
18 77 (0.99%) Low-Code
19 76 (0.98%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,308 (16.80%) Linux
2 797 (10.24%) Windows
3 219 (2.81%) Android
3 219 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 208 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 155 (1.99%) Unix
6 108 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 91 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 85 (1.09%) CentOS
9 65 (0.83%) VMS
10 63 (0.81%) Debian
11 46 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
12 40 (0.51%) Windows 10
12 40 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
14 23 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
15 15 (0.19%) CoreOS
16 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,928 (50.46%) Agile
2 2,551 (32.77%) CI/CD
3 1,835 (23.57%) Software Engineering
4 1,528 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
5 1,142 (14.67%) Scrum
6 1,111 (14.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,095 (14.07%) Mentoring
8 894 (11.48%) Microservices
9 846 (10.87%) Containerisation
10 845 (10.85%) Test Automation
11 816 (10.48%) Full Stack Development
12 784 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
13 766 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
14 707 (9.08%) Web Development
15 656 (8.43%) SDLC
16 642 (8.25%) Roadmaps
17 641 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
18 576 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 571 (7.33%) TDD
20 554 (7.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,110 (27.10%) Python
2 2,025 (26.01%) C#
3 1,807 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 1,702 (21.86%) SQL
5 1,236 (15.88%) Java
6 691 (8.88%) PowerShell
7 526 (6.76%) Bash
8 502 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 314 (4.03%) Go
10 221 (2.84%) PHP
11 215 (2.76%) T-SQL
12 165 (2.12%) C
13 160 (2.06%) Ruby
14 153 (1.97%) Bicep
15 146 (1.88%) C++
16 114 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 107 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.01%) VB.NET
19 69 (0.89%) Groovy
20 62 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,365 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 1,113 (14.30%) Degree
3 1,060 (13.62%) SC Cleared
4 392 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 239 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 211 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 180 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 175 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 165 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 131 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 67 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 66 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 61 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 53 (0.68%) CISSP
15 47 (0.60%) CCNA
16 46 (0.59%) MCSE
17 45 (0.58%) PMI Certification
18 43 (0.55%) DBS Check
19 42 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 41 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 646 (8.30%) QA
2 281 (3.61%) GDPR
3 147 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 110 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 91 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.95%) PMO
7 47 (0.60%) NIST
8 40 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.48%) SLA
10 33 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.21%) NCSC
13 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.12%) PSD2
14 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
14 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.077%) GRC
16 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,437 (18.46%) Docker
2 338 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 188 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 166 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 125 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 24 (0.31%) 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 (0.077%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.077%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.064%) Xen
17 4 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,636 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 1,570 (20.17%) Terraform
3 769 (9.88%) Ansible
4 265 (3.40%) Puppet
5 233 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 196 (2.52%) Grafana
7 156 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.58%) Kibana
10 43 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 39 (0.50%) Packer
11 39 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.35%) Istio
15 26 (0.33%) Consul
16 25 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
16 25 (0.32%) Nagios
17 22 (0.28%) Rancher
18 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,757 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 491 (6.31%) Google
3 352 (4.52%) Red Hat
4 346 (4.44%) IBM
5 332 (4.26%) ESRI
6 283 (3.64%) Oracle
7 258 (3.31%) VMware
8 219 (2.81%) Databricks
9 132 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 118 (1.52%) Cisco
11 106 (1.36%) SAP
12 102 (1.31%) Splunk
13 95 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 81 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 67 (0.86%) Citrix
16 64 (0.82%) Salesforce
17 63 (0.81%) Adobe
18 62 (0.80%) Sitecore
19 42 (0.54%) WSO2
20 38 (0.49%) Informatica