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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,706 12,219 21,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.75% 13.81% 15.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 14.45% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,750 7,207 11,404
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 £105,000 £104,806
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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £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 20 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 20 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 -5 2,108 £80,000 - 833
North of England -11 1,424 £60,000 -4.00% 317
South East -5 1,325 £61,500 -5.38% 360
North West -7 889 £62,783 -3.41% 181
South West -3 871 £61,500 -1.60% 164
Midlands -13 719 £58,500 +1.74% 221
West Midlands -10 471 £60,000 +4.35% 161
Yorkshire -7 440 £59,526 -3.21% 104
East Midlands -12 247 £57,500 - 59
East of England -32 224 £55,000 -15.38% 78
North East -1 97 £58,000 +5.45% 32
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 (2.92%) ArcGIS
1 196 (2.92%) GeoServer
2 195 (2.91%) Confluence
3 166 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 143 (2.13%) CMS
5 127 (1.89%) IIS
6 98 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 83 (1.24%) Apache
8 75 (1.12%) nginx
9 73 (1.09%) Apache Spark
10 71 (1.06%) Umbraco
11 70 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
12 58 (0.86%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Kentico
15 33 (0.49%) Drupal
16 26 (0.39%) WordPress
17 21 (0.31%) JBoss
18 19 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 73 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 24 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.27%) Trello
8 16 (0.24%) Simulink
9 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.089%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.060%) Sketch
12 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.045%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.030%) Notion
14 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.015%) Revit
14 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 148 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 32 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.13%) Magento
8 8 (0.12%) Shopify
9 7 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.089%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.075%) Maximo
11 5 (0.075%) Primavera
11 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
13 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,881 (57.87%) Azure
2 2,500 (37.28%) AWS
3 2,013 (30.02%) Azure DevOps
4 708 (10.56%) GCP
5 611 (9.11%) Serverless
6 521 (7.77%) Power Platform
7 449 (6.70%) SaaS
8 387 (5.77%) GitHub
9 329 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
10 312 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
11 305 (4.55%) PaaS
12 276 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 262 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 248 (3.70%) Azure Functions
15 246 (3.67%) IBM Cloud
16 236 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
17 234 (3.49%) IaaS
18 217 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
19 211 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
20 208 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 253 (3.77%) Firewall
2 234 (3.49%) DNS
3 125 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.64%) Network Security
5 103 (1.54%) HTTP
6 99 (1.48%) VPN
7 89 (1.33%) DHCP
8 85 (1.27%) WAN
9 67 (1.00%) LAN
10 38 (0.57%) Internet
11 30 (0.45%) SSL
12 20 (0.30%) Unified Communications
13 19 (0.28%) SAN
13 19 (0.28%) SNMP
14 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 17 (0.25%) 5G
16 15 (0.22%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) MQTT
16 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 596 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 375 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 375 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 295 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 291 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 290 (4.32%) Power BI
7 234 (3.49%) BigQuery
8 210 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 210 (3.13%) Looker
9 208 (3.10%) GIS
10 201 (3.00%) MySQL
11 196 (2.92%) QGIS
12 188 (2.80%) Big Data
13 175 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
14 161 (2.40%) Data Lake
15 145 (2.16%) DB2
16 91 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
17 87 (1.30%) DynamoDB
18 83 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,029 (15.34%) Git
2 705 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 545 (8.13%) JIRA
4 317 (4.73%) GitLab
5 269 (4.01%) Visual Studio
6 126 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 123 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 118 (1.76%) Selenium
9 96 (1.43%) Postman
10 94 (1.40%) TeamCity
11 77 (1.15%) Sourcetree
12 73 (1.09%) NUnit
12 73 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
13 58 (0.86%) Subversion
14 57 (0.85%) Cypress.io
15 56 (0.84%) Artifactory
15 56 (0.84%) Cucumber
16 53 (0.79%) JUnit
16 53 (0.79%) SonarQube
17 52 (0.78%) Jasmine
General
1 1,483 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 1,109 (16.54%) Finance
3 639 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
4 514 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 293 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 273 (4.07%) Banking
7 263 (3.92%) Law
8 205 (3.06%) Retail
9 200 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 172 (2.56%) Marketing
11 152 (2.27%) Aerospace
12 147 (2.19%) Legal
13 118 (1.76%) Games
14 101 (1.51%) Front Office
15 98 (1.46%) Manufacturing
16 91 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
17 79 (1.18%) Billing
18 76 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
19 72 (1.07%) Telecoms
20 64 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,804 (26.90%) Developer
2 1,379 (20.56%) Senior
3 994 (14.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 711 (10.60%) Lead
5 669 (9.98%) Software Engineer
6 557 (8.31%) Architect
7 430 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 400 (5.96%) .NET Developer
9 358 (5.34%) Data Engineer
10 352 (5.25%) Full Stack Developer
11 305 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
12 280 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
13 275 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 262 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
15 259 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
16 240 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
17 231 (3.44%) C# Developer
18 228 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 223 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
20 217 (3.24%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,695 (25.28%) .NET
2 981 (14.63%) React
3 775 (11.56%) CSS
4 653 (9.74%) HTML
5 642 (9.57%) AngularJS
6 628 (9.36%) .NET Core
7 583 (8.69%) ASP.NET
8 502 (7.49%) Node.js
9 497 (7.41%) REST
10 439 (6.55%) .NET Framework
11 393 (5.86%) Web Services
12 372 (5.55%) RESTful
13 312 (4.65%) Vue
14 290 (4.32%) JSON
15 275 (4.10%) jQuery
16 261 (3.89%) XML
17 244 (3.64%) Entity Framework
18 230 (3.43%) Spring
19 213 (3.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 203 (3.03%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 380 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 349 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 305 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 296 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 274 (4.09%) Blockchain
6 255 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 244 (3.64%) Data Structures
8 217 (3.24%) Management Information System
9 198 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 189 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
11 155 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 147 (2.19%) Data Centre
13 128 (1.91%) Hedge funds
14 127 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
15 126 (1.88%) Private Cloud
16 115 (1.71%) Mobile App
17 92 (1.37%) IoT
18 78 (1.16%) e-Learning
19 77 (1.15%) Clustering
19 77 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,106 (16.49%) Linux
2 707 (10.54%) Windows
3 203 (3.03%) Android
4 196 (2.92%) Apple iOS
5 187 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 100 (1.49%) Unix
7 96 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 76 (1.13%) CentOS
9 71 (1.06%) Ubuntu
10 65 (0.97%) Debian
11 58 (0.86%) VMS
12 47 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
13 44 (0.66%) Windows 10
14 39 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
15 29 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
16 27 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.15%) AIX
18 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,274 (48.82%) Agile
2 2,166 (32.30%) CI/CD
3 1,447 (21.58%) Software Engineering
4 1,348 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 983 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 971 (14.48%) Scrum
7 902 (13.45%) Mentoring
8 776 (11.57%) Containerisation
9 775 (11.56%) Microservices
10 726 (10.83%) Test Automation
11 723 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
12 614 (9.16%) Continuous Integration
13 588 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence
14 573 (8.54%) Roadmaps
15 555 (8.28%) Web Development
16 535 (7.98%) SDLC
17 522 (7.78%) Design Patterns
18 521 (7.77%) Computer Science
19 503 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 493 (7.35%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,792 (26.72%) Python
2 1,738 (25.92%) C#
3 1,488 (22.19%) JavaScript
4 1,413 (21.07%) SQL
5 1,103 (16.45%) Java
6 597 (8.90%) PowerShell
7 454 (6.77%) TypeScript
8 446 (6.65%) Bash
9 274 (4.09%) Go
10 203 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 194 (2.89%) PHP
12 159 (2.37%) C
13 144 (2.15%) Bicep
14 138 (2.06%) C++
15 112 (1.67%) Ruby
16 87 (1.30%) Shell Script
17 76 (1.13%) VB.NET
18 75 (1.12%) Perl
19 60 (0.89%) Scala
20 56 (0.84%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,135 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 963 (14.36%) Degree
3 841 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 371 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 225 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 223 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 169 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 156 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 132 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 126 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 60 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 57 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 43 (0.64%) MCSE
14 43 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 41 (0.61%) MCSA
16 36 (0.54%) CISSP
17 33 (0.49%) ISTQB
18 30 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 560 (8.35%) QA
2 232 (3.46%) GDPR
3 139 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 48 (0.72%) NIST
7 44 (0.66%) PMO
8 40 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 40 (0.60%) SLA
9 22 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.16%) NCSC
12 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.13%) PSD2
13 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.089%) GRC
15 5 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
16 3 (0.045%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.045%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,280 (19.09%) Docker
2 278 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 164 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 155 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 121 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 62 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.57%) Firmware
9 18 (0.27%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.21%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
13 8 (0.12%) KVM
13 8 (0.12%) XenApp
14 7 (0.10%) IAG
15 6 (0.089%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
16 5 (0.075%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,507 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 1,419 (21.16%) Terraform
3 676 (10.08%) Ansible
4 254 (3.79%) Puppet
5 239 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 156 (2.33%) Grafana
7 147 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 43 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 40 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (0.58%) ZABBIX
12 37 (0.55%) Packer
13 36 (0.54%) Kibana
14 32 (0.48%) HAProxy
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 27 (0.40%) Nagios
16 26 (0.39%) Consul
17 24 (0.36%) Istio
18 20 (0.30%) SCOM
19 17 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,571 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.17%) Google
3 349 (5.20%) Red Hat
4 293 (4.37%) IBM
5 233 (3.47%) Oracle
6 225 (3.36%) VMware
7 198 (2.95%) ESRI
8 191 (2.85%) Databricks
9 101 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 82 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 82 (1.22%) SAP
11 79 (1.18%) Cisco
12 73 (1.09%) Splunk
13 63 (0.94%) Sitecore
14 62 (0.92%) Adobe
15 60 (0.89%) Atlassian
16 56 (0.84%) Citrix
17 48 (0.72%) Salesforce
18 41 (0.61%) WSO2
19 38 (0.57%) Informatica