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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,666 12,374 20,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.77% 13.71% 15.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 14.33% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,761 7,318 11,424
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 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £105,000
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 73,307 86,321 126,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.63% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,944 51,052 72,863
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,332 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
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 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 May 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 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
London -6 2,114 £80,000 - 616
North of England -11 1,376 £60,000 -2.44% 269
South East -5 1,316 £61,500 -5.38% 205
South West -2 874 £61,500 -1.60% 155
North West -6 854 £62,500 -3.85% 170
Midlands -10 722 £57,500 - 179
West Midlands -10 472 £60,000 +4.35% 118
Yorkshire -7 429 £60,000 -2.44% 79
East Midlands -11 250 £57,500 +4.55% 60
East of England -29 227 £57,500 -11.54% 68
North East -7 95 £58,000 +5.45% 20
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
1 196 (2.94%) ArcGIS
1 196 (2.94%) GeoServer
2 195 (2.93%) Confluence
3 173 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 141 (2.12%) CMS
5 128 (1.92%) IIS
6 89 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 79 (1.19%) Apache
8 78 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 76 (1.14%) nginx
10 72 (1.08%) Apache Spark
11 71 (1.07%) Umbraco
12 57 (0.86%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.65%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.65%) Kentico
15 32 (0.48%) Drupal
16 26 (0.39%) WordPress
17 20 (0.30%) JBoss
17 20 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.27%) Trello
8 14 (0.21%) Simulink
9 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.045%) Sketch
12 2 (0.030%) Notion
12 2 (0.030%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 151 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
3 34 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
5 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.14%) Magento
7 8 (0.12%) Shopify
8 7 (0.11%) Maximo
9 6 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.075%) Primavera
10 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (0.075%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,884 (58.27%) Azure
2 2,456 (36.84%) AWS
3 2,053 (30.80%) Azure DevOps
4 717 (10.76%) GCP
5 617 (9.26%) Serverless
6 522 (7.83%) Power Platform
7 444 (6.66%) SaaS
8 395 (5.93%) GitHub
9 340 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
10 325 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
11 314 (4.71%) PaaS
12 274 (4.11%) Amazon S3
13 269 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 250 (3.75%) Azure Functions
15 247 (3.71%) IBM Cloud
16 241 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
16 241 (3.62%) IaaS
17 219 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 218 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
19 210 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 250 (3.75%) Firewall
2 233 (3.50%) DNS
3 125 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.65%) Network Security
5 103 (1.55%) HTTP
6 101 (1.52%) VPN
7 92 (1.38%) DHCP
8 84 (1.26%) WAN
9 66 (0.99%) LAN
10 39 (0.59%) Internet
11 29 (0.44%) SSL
12 20 (0.30%) SAN
12 20 (0.30%) SNMP
12 20 (0.30%) Unified Communications
13 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
14 16 (0.24%) BGP
14 16 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.23%) 5G
15 15 (0.23%) MQTT
16 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 854 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 579 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
3 376 (5.64%) Relational Database
4 353 (5.30%) NoSQL
5 289 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
6 286 (4.29%) MongoDB
7 283 (4.25%) Power BI
8 234 (3.51%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.15%) Looker
10 209 (3.14%) GIS
11 208 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
12 203 (3.05%) MySQL
13 196 (2.94%) QGIS
14 178 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 174 (2.61%) Big Data
16 148 (2.22%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.18%) DB2
18 92 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
19 86 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
20 79 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,039 (15.59%) Git
2 714 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 553 (8.30%) JIRA
4 321 (4.82%) GitLab
5 263 (3.95%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 125 (1.88%) Selenium
8 124 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 99 (1.49%) Postman
10 97 (1.46%) TeamCity
11 75 (1.13%) Sourcetree
12 72 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
13 69 (1.04%) NUnit
14 61 (0.92%) Cypress.io
15 60 (0.90%) Artifactory
15 60 (0.90%) Subversion
16 57 (0.86%) Cucumber
16 57 (0.86%) SonarQube
17 53 (0.80%) JUnit
18 52 (0.78%) Jasmine
General
1 1,440 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 1,112 (16.68%) Finance
3 642 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 502 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 295 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 275 (4.13%) Banking
7 262 (3.93%) Law
8 201 (3.02%) Retail
9 194 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
10 170 (2.55%) Marketing
11 146 (2.19%) Legal
12 139 (2.09%) Aerospace
13 118 (1.77%) Games
14 105 (1.58%) Front Office
15 96 (1.44%) Manufacturing
16 92 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 73 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
19 69 (1.04%) Billing
20 59 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,795 (26.93%) Developer
2 1,363 (20.45%) Senior
3 1,015 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 716 (10.74%) Lead
5 647 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 540 (8.10%) Architect
7 418 (6.27%) Senior Developer
8 388 (5.82%) .NET Developer
9 357 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 344 (5.16%) Full Stack Developer
11 299 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
12 294 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 267 (4.01%) Software Developer
14 265 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
15 248 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 246 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 233 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 224 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
19 216 (3.24%) C# Developer
20 213 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,691 (25.37%) .NET
2 975 (14.63%) React
3 768 (11.52%) CSS
4 650 (9.75%) HTML
5 646 (9.69%) AngularJS
6 632 (9.48%) .NET Core
7 582 (8.73%) ASP.NET
8 494 (7.41%) Node.js
9 484 (7.26%) REST
10 438 (6.57%) .NET Framework
11 379 (5.69%) Web Services
12 375 (5.63%) RESTful
13 310 (4.65%) Vue
14 304 (4.56%) JSON
15 270 (4.05%) jQuery
16 258 (3.87%) XML
17 237 (3.56%) Entity Framework
18 228 (3.42%) Spring
19 211 (3.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 205 (3.08%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 374 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 350 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 303 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 291 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 275 (4.13%) Blockchain
6 267 (4.01%) Public Cloud
7 248 (3.72%) Data Structures
8 215 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 197 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 185 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
11 153 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
12 145 (2.18%) Data Centre
13 132 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 123 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
15 116 (1.74%) Hedge funds
15 116 (1.74%) Mobile App
16 92 (1.38%) IoT
17 77 (1.16%) e-Learning
18 70 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 68 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1,133 (17.00%) Linux
2 714 (10.71%) Windows
3 203 (3.05%) Android
4 197 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 189 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 109 (1.64%) Unix
7 99 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 79 (1.19%) CentOS
9 69 (1.04%) Ubuntu
10 64 (0.96%) Debian
11 61 (0.92%) VMS
12 46 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
13 40 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 40 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 28 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
15 25 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
16 13 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.15%) AIX
18 8 (0.12%) CoreOS
19 7 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,248 (48.72%) Agile
2 2,193 (32.90%) CI/CD
3 1,436 (21.54%) Software Engineering
4 1,325 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
5 995 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 987 (14.81%) Scrum
7 881 (13.22%) Mentoring
8 773 (11.60%) Microservices
9 772 (11.58%) Containerisation
10 732 (10.98%) Test Automation
11 703 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
12 614 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
13 578 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
14 559 (8.39%) Web Development
15 558 (8.37%) Roadmaps
16 534 (8.01%) SDLC
17 516 (7.74%) Design Patterns
18 507 (7.61%) Actionable Insight
19 497 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
20 493 (7.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,789 (26.84%) Python
2 1,743 (26.15%) C#
3 1,475 (22.13%) JavaScript
4 1,428 (21.42%) SQL
5 1,080 (16.20%) Java
6 616 (9.24%) PowerShell
7 453 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 451 (6.77%) Bash
9 268 (4.02%) Go
10 201 (3.02%) T-SQL
11 199 (2.99%) PHP
12 156 (2.34%) C
13 148 (2.22%) Bicep
14 129 (1.94%) C++
15 118 (1.77%) Ruby
16 85 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 79 (1.19%) Perl
18 74 (1.11%) VB.NET
19 55 (0.83%) Kotlin
19 55 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,126 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 938 (14.07%) Degree
3 835 (12.53%) SC Cleared
4 349 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 221 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 212 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 162 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 155 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 137 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 124 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 60 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 60 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 46 (0.69%) MCSE
13 43 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.62%) MCSA
15 40 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 36 (0.54%) CISSP
17 32 (0.48%) ISTQB
18 31 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 559 (8.39%) QA
2 238 (3.57%) GDPR
3 134 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 86 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 48 (0.72%) PMO
7 45 (0.68%) NIST
8 39 (0.59%) SLA
9 38 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.18%) NCSC
13 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.14%) PSD2
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.090%) GRC
16 5 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
17 3 (0.045%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.045%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,294 (19.41%) Docker
2 282 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 162 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 157 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 120 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 62 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.57%) Firmware
9 21 (0.32%) vSphere
10 15 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.20%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
13 7 (0.11%) IAG
13 7 (0.11%) KVM
14 6 (0.090%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.090%) VirtualBox
15 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.060%) XenApp
16 3 (0.045%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,501 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 1,422 (21.33%) Terraform
3 679 (10.19%) Ansible
4 257 (3.86%) Puppet
5 235 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 165 (2.48%) Grafana
7 145 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 43 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 38 (0.57%) Kibana
10 38 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 37 (0.56%) Packer
12 36 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.47%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.41%) Consul
14 27 (0.41%) Nagios
15 26 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.39%) Istio
16 20 (0.30%) SCOM
17 19 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,569 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 412 (6.18%) Google
3 347 (5.21%) Red Hat
4 302 (4.53%) IBM
5 230 (3.45%) Oracle
6 229 (3.44%) VMware
7 198 (2.97%) ESRI
8 193 (2.90%) Databricks
9 103 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 88 (1.32%) SAP
11 82 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 79 (1.19%) Cisco
13 76 (1.14%) Splunk
14 63 (0.95%) Sitecore
15 60 (0.90%) Adobe
15 60 (0.90%) Citrix
16 57 (0.86%) Atlassian
17 47 (0.71%) Salesforce
18 41 (0.62%) WSO2
19 37 (0.56%) Optimizely