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DevOps Candidate Interest Index

5,698 of 25,182 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days.

Updated 2026-11-0125,182 candidate decisions

25,182

Recorded decisions

5,698

Positive decisions

1,544

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

#1DevOps3114 of 12198 positive · 1179 candidates · 1621 active jobs26%

#2SRE / Reliability779 of 3013 positive · 468 candidates · 339 active jobs26%

#3Cloud516 of 2571 positive · 458 candidates · 454 active jobs20%

#4Other DevOps165 of 846 positive · 196 candidates · 265 active jobs20%

#5DevSecOps129 of 679 positive · 173 candidates · 159 active jobs19%

#6Data / MLOps26 of 140 positive · 53 candidates · 38 active jobs19%

#7Platform639 of 3551 positive · 402 candidates · 765 active jobs18%

#8Infrastructure301 of 1962 positive · 311 candidates · 390 active jobs15%

#9Linux / Systems27 of 216 positive · 74 candidates · 68 active jobs13%

Interest by country

#1United Arab Emirates116 of 279 positive · 68 candidates42%

#2Ireland223 of 700 positive · 257 candidates32%

#3Netherlands366 of 1239 positive · 308 candidates30%

#4Germany1019 of 3948 positive · 626 candidates26%

#5United Kingdom649 of 2736 positive · 411 candidates24%

#6Canada819 of 3603 positive · 455 candidates23%

#7Spain288 of 1324 positive · 248 candidates22%

#8Australia142 of 671 positive · 170 candidates21%

#9United States1433 of 7178 positive · 716 candidates20%

#10Switzerland118 of 634 positive · 111 candidates19%

Interest by skill

#1NVIDIA DGX Spark21 of 31 positive · 31 candidates68%

#2Kubernetes/EKS42 of 67 positive · 67 candidates63%

#3Kubectl26 of 42 positive · 42 candidates62%

#4AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)23 of 38 positive · 38 candidates61%

#5Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)23 of 38 positive · 38 candidates61%

#6Amazon RDS For PostgreSQL23 of 38 positive · 38 candidates61%

#7MFA20 of 33 positive · 30 candidates61%

#8Azure Site Recovery22 of 38 positive · 36 candidates58%

#9JavaScript30 of 53 positive · 51 candidates57%

#10STIGs22 of 40 positive · 39 candidates55%

Interest by company

#1Anthropic69 of 80 positive · 80 candidates86%

#2KPN23 of 34 positive · 23 candidates68%

#3Onebrief21 of 31 positive · 31 candidates68%

#4MoPla Solutions GmbH37 of 58 positive · 58 candidates64%

#5CERN16 of 25 positive · 23 candidates64%

#6Vori Health23 of 38 positive · 38 candidates61%

#7GSSTech Group17 of 28 positive · 14 candidates61%

#8Super.com30 of 53 positive · 51 candidates57%

#9Boeing21 of 37 positive · 29 candidates57%

#10D-Wave14 of 25 positive · 22 candidates56%

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DevOps Candidate Interest Index. 23% positive apply intent. 5,698 of 25,182 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days. Leading entries: DevOps (12198), SRE / Reliability (3013), Cloud (2571). DevOpsHunt job market data, 2026-11-01.

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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.