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DevOps Candidate Interest Index

5,942 of 26,912 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days.

Updated 2026-11-1526,912 candidate decisions

26,912

Recorded decisions

5,942

Positive decisions

1,662

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

#1DevOps3319 of 13333 positive · 1293 candidates · 1478 active jobs25%

#2SRE / Reliability789 of 3131 positive · 489 candidates · 332 active jobs25%

#3Cloud566 of 2821 positive · 519 candidates · 424 active jobs20%

#4Other DevOps152 of 784 positive · 182 candidates · 222 active jobs19%

#5Data / MLOps26 of 135 positive · 53 candidates · 33 active jobs19%

#6Platform653 of 3853 positive · 421 candidates · 683 active jobs17%

#7DevSecOps121 of 699 positive · 179 candidates · 159 active jobs17%

#8Infrastructure290 of 1948 positive · 307 candidates · 341 active jobs15%

#9Linux / Systems24 of 202 positive · 71 candidates · 47 active jobs12%

Interest by country

#1United Arab Emirates109 of 274 positive · 69 candidates40%

#2Ireland277 of 802 positive · 294 candidates35%

#3Netherlands390 of 1374 positive · 348 candidates28%

#4Germany1026 of 4293 positive · 638 candidates24%

#5Canada814 of 3701 positive · 486 candidates22%

#6Austria10 of 46 positive · 27 candidates22%

#7United States1637 of 7815 positive · 788 candidates21%

#8United Kingdom637 of 3029 positive · 455 candidates21%

#9Spain283 of 1349 positive · 254 candidates21%

#10Australia142 of 723 positive · 178 candidates20%

Interest by skill

#1Unreal Engine24 of 28 positive · 28 candidates86%

#2Microsoft Cost Management19 of 27 positive · 27 candidates70%

#3Kubernetes/EKS43 of 69 positive · 69 candidates62%

#4NVIDIA DGX Spark22 of 36 positive · 36 candidates61%

#5Microservice Architecture15 of 25 positive · 25 candidates60%

#6AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)34 of 60 positive · 60 candidates57%

#7Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)34 of 60 positive · 60 candidates57%

#8Amazon RDS For PostgreSQL34 of 60 positive · 60 candidates57%

#9JavaScript30 of 53 positive · 51 candidates57%

#10Kubectl38 of 69 positive · 66 candidates55%

Interest by company

#1VOID Interactive24 of 26 positive · 26 candidates92%

#2Anthropic71 of 81 positive · 81 candidates88%

#3KD Pharma GmbH19 of 27 positive · 27 candidates70%

#4CERN16 of 25 positive · 23 candidates64%

#5Onebrief22 of 36 positive · 36 candidates61%

#6eSIM Go17 of 28 positive · 28 candidates61%

#7TwinStream15 of 25 positive · 24 candidates60%

#8MoPla Solutions GmbH47 of 80 positive · 80 candidates59%

#9Vori Health34 of 60 positive · 60 candidates57%

#10Super.com30 of 53 positive · 51 candidates57%

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DevOps Candidate Interest Index. 22% positive apply intent. 5,942 of 26,912 recorded decisions showed positive apply intent over 90 days. Leading entries: DevOps (13333), SRE / Reliability (3131), Cloud (2821). DevOpsHunt job market data, 2026-11-15.

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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.