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Within eleven jobs
At the top of DevOps jobs there is no leader. Terraform / IaC, Python and Kubernetes are named in 248, 246 and 237 of the 567 job ads we read.
By the Glassbox team · the week of 12 October 2026 · a four minute read
This story keeps to one week, 12 October 2026. The DevOps page starts a new count every Monday.
Terraform / IaC is named in 248 of the 567 DevOps jobs we could read, 44%.
| Bay | Jobs | Share | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraform / IaC | 248 of 567 | 44% | |
| Python | 246 of 567 | 43% | 147 |
| Kubernetes | 237 of 567 | 42% |
Each container is one job. Every bay is 6 containers across and 2 deep, so height is the count, and the count is painted on the end. A job that names two of these skills stands in two bays.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
We counted 571 DevOps jobs at 298 employers in the week of 12 October 2026, and could read 567 of them. Each container on the quay is one job. A bay is a skill, and its stack is as high as the number of jobs that name it.
Terraform / IaC, 248. Python, 246. Kubernetes, 237. 248 minus 237 is 11, the number of jobs between first and third. Eleven jobs is less than one row of containers.
From the quay, Terraform / IaC and Python stand at the same height. The two jobs between them sit at the back of the top layer. Kubernetes is one row short.
Past Kubernetes, the stacks fall away.
Python is the one language among the three. The page charts six more, each named by jobs at 10 or more employers. Go is next, at 128.
Python is named in 246 of the 567 DevOps jobs we could read, 43%, by jobs at 147 employers. In the 369 senior DevOps jobs the share is 49%.
| Bay | Jobs | Share | Employers | Senior share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 246 of 567 | 43% | 147 | 49% |
| Go | 128 of 567 | 23% | 81 | 25% |
| Bash | 88 of 567 | 16% | 76 | 16% |
| TypeScript | 70 of 567 | 12% | 45 | 14% |
| SQL | 51 of 567 | 9% | 42 | 10% |
| PowerShell | 46 of 567 | 8% | 39 | 6% |
| Java | 44 of 567 | 8% | 37 | 9% |
Python's stack again, beside the other six languages the page charts. Only languages named by jobs at 10 or more employers are on the quay. The readout also gives the share in the 369 senior DevOps jobs.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
361 of the 567 jobs name at least one language, and 264 name two or more. 567 minus 361 leaves 206 that name none.
One of the seven languages is named more often across all 567 jobs than in the 369 senior ones: PowerShell, 8% against 6%. Python goes the other way, 43% against 49%.
Some bays are painted but not stacked.
The page gives the rest of its skills as shares of the 567 jobs, not as counts. A share is not a count, so we won't stack one. These bays are marked out on the concrete with the share painted on, and left empty.
Painted length is the share of the 567 DevOps jobs we could read that name each skill. Each zone says how many of the 567 name at least one skill in that group. A job can name skills in several zones.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
388 of the 567 jobs name a skill in DevOps and operations, and 260 name one in cloud. After the three stacks come AWS, at 39%, and CI/CD, at 38%.
On the far quay, one short stack.
13 of the 571 DevOps jobs are internships. That is the fewest of the five pages we count: 238 of the 561 entry level software jobs are internships, 211 of the 2,781 software engineering jobs, 41 of the 569 AI jobs, 27 of the 351 machine learning jobs.
Senior 370 of the 571 DevOps jobs are senior, lead or principal.
| Bay | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 370 of 571 | |
| Not stated | 116 of 571 | |
| Mid level | 47 of 571 | |
| Junior | 38 of 571 | |
| Internships | 13 of 571 | 2% |
Of the 571 DevOps jobs. Senior means a senior, lead or principal level. Junior means intern, entry level or junior, so the 13 internships stand in the junior stack too. Hatched: no level stated.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
370 of the 571 jobs are senior, lead or principal. 38 read as intern, entry level or junior, 47 as mid level, and 116 don't say.
The years, stacked.
302 of the 571 jobs state a number of years. The other 269 don't say. Drive to a stack to read some of the titles on its doors.
Not stated 269 of the 571 DevOps jobs state no number of years. Among the 30 titles the page lists, these show none: Systems Engineer, GitStart · Infrastructure Engineer, Tailscale · Senior CX Platform Engineer, GitLab · Platform Engineering, Polar.
| Bay | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Not stated | 269 of 571 |
| 5 to 7 years | 155 of 302 |
| 8 or more | 68 of 302 |
| 3 to 4 years | 55 of 302 |
| 0 to 2 years | 24 of 302 |
Of the 302 DevOps jobs that state a number of years. The hatched stack is the 269 of the 571 that state none. The titles come from the 30 the page lists, titles and employers only.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
155 of the 302 ask for 5 to 7 years. 55 plus 155 plus 68 is 278: of the 302 that state a number, 278 ask for three years or more. 24 ask for 0 to 2.
Ships and flags.
Where the jobs say they are. 227 of the 571 name a place in the US, 157 a place elsewhere, and 187 no country we can read.
In the US 227 of the 571 DevOps jobs name a place in the US.
| Bay | Jobs |
|---|---|
| In the US | 227 of 571 |
| No country | 187 of 571 |
| Elsewhere | 157 of 571 |
Each container is one job, of 571. Hatched: the job names no country we can read. Countries one by one are too few to show.
Source: Glassbox count, week of 12 October 2026 · how we count
199 of the 571 jobs, 35%, are marked remote by their job board. 298 employers posted the 571 jobs, and no single one dominates: Cloudflare has the most, 27.
Eleven jobs.
Three skills within eleven jobs of each other, at the top of the 567 DevOps jobs we could read that week. We count the words in the jobs. What they mean for you is yours to read.
Next Monday we count again.
Curious how many of these skills are already on your CV?
One week, 12 October 2026. The DevOps page counts again on Monday.
How we counted
This page counts the DevOps jobs: titles that name DevOps, site reliability, platform, infrastructure, cloud or systems engineering.
The job type comes from the title. Senior means a senior, lead or principal level in the same job type.
We look for about 250 named skills, by fixed rules, in the 567 ads long enough to read. The other 4 were too short.
The stacks: one container per job, 6 across and 2 deep, so a layer is 12 jobs. A job that names several skills stands in several bays. Skills the page gives only as a share are painted on the concrete and not stacked. Titles and employers are quoted from the page, never the ads.
The jobs come from public job boards, read every six hours: employers' own boards on Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and Workable, and job sites such as Remote OK, Remotive, Arbeitnow, Jobicy, Himalayas and We Work Remotely. Each job counts once, however many boards or cities list it.
What we can't see: jobs on boards we don't read, and jobs never posted in public; skills a job names in words that aren't on our list; whether a job is filled, how many people apply, or who gets hired.