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DevOps Candidate Interest Index

5,899 of 26,263 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days.

Updated 2026-11-0826,263 candidate decisions

26,263

Recorded decisions

5,899

Positive decisions

1,619

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

#1SRE / Reliability791 of 3072 positive · 479 candidates · 353 active jobs26%

#2DevOps3295 of 13055 positive · 1252 candidates · 1594 active jobs25%

#3Cloud537 of 2687 positive · 494 candidates · 456 active jobs20%

#4Other DevOps160 of 809 positive · 189 candidates · 238 active jobs20%

#5Data / MLOps25 of 135 positive · 50 candidates · 41 active jobs19%

#6Platform651 of 3654 positive · 416 candidates · 749 active jobs18%

#7DevSecOps124 of 703 positive · 179 candidates · 155 active jobs18%

#8Infrastructure290 of 1938 positive · 308 candidates · 380 active jobs15%

#9Linux / Systems24 of 204 positive · 69 candidates · 57 active jobs12%

Interest by country

#1United Arab Emirates107 of 272 positive · 66 candidates39%

#2Ireland265 of 749 positive · 289 candidates35%

#3Netherlands378 of 1343 positive · 335 candidates28%

#4Germany1038 of 4168 positive · 638 candidates25%

#5Canada862 of 3726 positive · 483 candidates23%

#6United Kingdom664 of 2840 positive · 454 candidates23%

#7Spain286 of 1361 positive · 256 candidates21%

#8United States1535 of 7537 positive · 747 candidates20%

#9Australia142 of 711 positive · 175 candidates20%

#10Switzerland120 of 641 positive · 113 candidates19%

Interest by skill

#1Microsoft Cost Management19 of 25 positive · 25 candidates76%

#2Kubernetes/EKS43 of 69 positive · 69 candidates62%

#3NVIDIA DGX Spark21 of 34 positive · 34 candidates62%

#4JavaScript30 of 53 positive · 51 candidates57%

#5AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)29 of 52 positive · 52 candidates56%

#6Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)29 of 52 positive · 52 candidates56%

#7Amazon RDS For PostgreSQL29 of 52 positive · 52 candidates56%

#8Groundcover52 of 97 positive · 93 candidates54%

#9Kubectl33 of 61 positive · 58 candidates54%

#10Azure Site Recovery22 of 41 positive · 39 candidates54%

Interest by company

#1Anthropic71 of 82 positive · 82 candidates87%

#2KD Pharma GmbH19 of 25 positive · 25 candidates76%

#3KPN19 of 30 positive · 20 candidates63%

#4MoPla Solutions GmbH45 of 73 positive · 73 candidates62%

#5Onebrief21 of 34 positive · 34 candidates62%

#6TwinStream15 of 25 positive · 24 candidates60%

#7eSIM Go15 of 25 positive · 25 candidates60%

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

#9Vori Health29 of 52 positive · 52 candidates56%

#10Boeing24 of 43 positive · 35 candidates56%

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DevOps Candidate Interest Index. 22% positive apply intent. 5,899 of 26,263 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days. Leading entries: SRE / Reliability (3072), DevOps (13055), Cloud (2687). DevOpsHunt job market data, 2026-11-08.

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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.