Skills required by DevOps and platform jobs in Europe

Delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code and what runs in production. We track 720 live DevOps and platform roles right now, and the single most requested skill among them is Kubernetes, named as a requirement by 49% of the classified sample.

Most requested skills

Share of 571 classified listings that name each skill as a requirement — not merely mention it.

Skills required by open devops roles, most requested first
#	Skill	Share of roles	Listings
1	Kubernetes	49%	278
2	Terraform	40%	229
3	AWS	37%	210
4	Python	30%	171
5	CI/CD	22%	126
6	Docker	22%	123
7	Azure	21%	118
8	Linux	16%	93
9	Ansible	14%	78
10	GCP	13%	75
11	Go	13%	72
12	Bash	9%	53
13	ArgoCD	7%	38
14	GitOps	6%	37
15	GitHub Actions	6%	33
16	Prometheus	5%	30
17	Grafana	5%	29
18	PostgreSQL	5%	26
19	CloudFormation	4%	22
20	Java	4%	20
21	Windows Server	3%	19
22	Microsoft 365	3%	19
23	Jenkins	3%	19
24	Active Directory	3%	18
25	Git	3%	18

How to read this

A share, not a ranking of importance

A skill sitting at 40% is required by two DevOps and platform roles in five. That does not make it four times more valuable than one at 10% — a niche requirement with few candidates can be worth more than a common one. What it does tell you is how many doors the skill opens.

Gaps are worth more than strengths

The useful question is not which of these you already have. It is which of the top few you do not — because that is the one quietly removing you from the largest number of shortlists.

Which of these are missing from your CV?

Upload it once and the same measurement runs against your own skills: which of the requirements above you already cover, which you do not, and what an applicant tracking system makes of the document before a person reads it. Free, no card.

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