Most In-Demand DevOps Skills
The most in-demand skills for DevOps roles right now are cloud, devops, ci-cd — ranked across 615980 open postings.
Updated October 8, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | 43,600 | -1,865 |
| 2 | devops | 41,578 | -2,638 |
| 3 | ci-cd | 36,910 | -1,563 |
| 4 | automation | 29,274 | -210 |
| 5 | kubernetes | 28,208 | -2,333 |
| 6 | aws | 26,457 | -1,003 |
| 7 | terraform | 25,751 | -1,626 |
| 8 | infrastructure-as-code | 25,231 | -612 |
| 9 | azure | 24,406 | -1,387 |
| 10 | python | 24,079 | -1,044 |
| 11 | linux | 21,725 | +1,165 |
| 12 | docker | 19,185 | -1,418 |
| 13 | networking | 18,043 | +679 |
| 14 | ai | 17,764 | -44 |
| 15 | bash | 17,105 | -331 |
| 16 | observability | 14,566 | +259 |
| 17 | ansible | 14,242 | -92 |
| 18 | github | 11,934 | -385 |
| 19 | gcp | 11,657 | -49 |
| 20 | jenkins | 11,435 | -772 |
| 21 | gitlab | 10,089 | -132 |
| 22 | grafana | 10,069 | -1,028 |
| 23 | agile | 9,854 | -1,159 |
| 24 | api | 9,417 | -24 |
| 25 | git | 9,361 | -905 |
| 26 | prometheus | 9,174 | -904 |
| 27 | powershell | 8,918 | +327 |
| 28 | github-actions | 8,508 | -448 |
| 29 | sql | 8,198 | +257 |
| 30 | cloud-native | 7,084 | -989 |
| 31 | azure-devops | 6,919 | -1,528 |
| 32 | containerization | 6,884 | -458 |
| 33 | dns | 6,772 | +738 |
| 34 | firewall | 6,631 | +963 |
| 35 | iam | 6,568 | +136 |
| 36 | java | 6,467 | -321 |
| 37 | vmware | 5,627 | +927 |
| 38 | helm | 5,530 | -838 |
| 39 | gitops | 5,421 | +50 |
| 40 | postgresql | 5,339 | +159 |