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DevOps Candidate Interest Index

4,856 of 18,839 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days.

Updated 2026-09-2718,839 candidate decisions

18,839

Recorded decisions

4,856

Positive decisions

1,080

Distinct candidates

90 days

Window

Positive decisions are a subset of recorded decisions. Each ranking percentage uses that slice's own decision count and privacy-qualified candidate count.

Interest vs active role supply

#1DevOps2621 of 8701 positive · 817 candidates · 950 active jobs30%

#2SRE / Reliability784 of 2621 positive · 368 candidates · 200 active jobs30%

#3Cloud473 of 1798 positive · 335 candidates · 253 active jobs26%

#4DevSecOps108 of 500 positive · 125 candidates · 91 active jobs22%

#5Platform499 of 2694 positive · 294 candidates · 440 active jobs19%

#6Infrastructure224 of 1494 positive · 218 candidates · 223 active jobs15%

#7Other DevOps107 of 719 positive · 132 candidates · 142 active jobs15%

#8Data / MLOps16 of 120 positive · 37 candidates · 28 active jobs13%

#9Linux / Systems23 of 187 positive · 61 candidates · 45 active jobs12%

Interest by country

#1United Arab Emirates96 of 175 positive · 44 candidates55%

#2Netherlands243 of 694 positive · 160 candidates35%

#3Germany1084 of 3904 positive · 512 candidates28%

#4Australia88 of 318 positive · 94 candidates28%

#5Canada868 of 3238 positive · 366 candidates27%

#6United Kingdom650 of 2522 positive · 327 candidates26%

#7Spain171 of 667 positive · 134 candidates26%

#8United States1169 of 4903 positive · 501 candidates24%

#9France352 of 1725 positive · 224 candidates20%

#10Ireland66 of 328 positive · 84 candidates20%

Interest by skill

#1LibreNMS34 of 41 positive · 41 candidates83%

#2Cloud-Infrastrukturen21 of 27 positive · 27 candidates78%

#3IoT17 of 26 positive · 19 candidates65%

#4Cisco Private Cloud15 of 26 positive · 26 candidates58%

#5JavaScript20 of 36 positive · 36 candidates56%

#6Cosign22 of 40 positive · 25 candidates55%

#7Protobuf16 of 29 positive · 28 candidates55%

#8Ruby On Rails28 of 54 positive · 47 candidates52%

#9Grafana Mimir14 of 28 positive · 27 candidates50%

#10Alibaba-Cloud14 of 28 positive · 23 candidates50%

Interest by company

#1ePension34 of 41 positive · 41 candidates83%

#2Crox21 of 27 positive · 27 candidates78%

#3KPN20 of 28 positive · 18 candidates71%

#4GSSTech Group18 of 29 positive · 14 candidates62%

#5Boeing20 of 35 positive · 29 candidates57%

#6D-Wave14 of 25 positive · 22 candidates56%

#7Ioki GmbH14 of 26 positive · 26 candidates54%

#8Super.com20 of 38 positive · 36 candidates53%

#9Cisco38 of 74 positive · 66 candidates51%

#10NXT Hero GmbH16 of 32 positive · 32 candidates50%

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DevOps Candidate Interest Index. 26% positive apply intent. 4,856 of 18,839 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days. Leading entries: DevOps (8701), SRE / Reliability (2621), Cloud (1798). DevOpsHunt job market data, 2026-09-27.

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Methodology

Positive intent combines Apply and Self apply decisions; Pass remains in the denominator.
Every published slice requires at least 25 decisions and 10 distinct candidates.
No user-level data is exposed.

Interpretation: this describes behavior inside DevOpsHunt, not the entire employment market or an application conversion rate.

Definitions

Active and qualified: A live listing that passed DevOpsHunt relevance checks.
New job: First captured by DevOpsHunt during the stated period.
Candidate interest: Aggregated Apply and Self apply intent, not a market-wide conversion rate.