Devops continues to expand in development environments everywhere from small startups to the largest global enterprises. The worldwide devops market, including products and services, increased from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $12.4 billion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company. The firm predicts the market will expand to $37.33 billion by 2029.
As increasingly complex IT infrastructure makes IT processes more complicated, devops becomes more essential for its ability to move complex management processes out of human hands with the help of automation. “Organizations across sectors are under sustained pressure to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at greater scale, while also managing increasingly complex cloud and hybrid environments,” says Tasha Jones, creator of Espire Collective, a talent marketplace. “Devops practices sit at the center of that challenge.”
The demand isn’t just about volume but about proven abilities, Jones adds. “There is a nuanced imbalance between the number of people in the market and the availability of experienced practitioners who can design, scale, and govern devops systems effectively,” she says. “Certifications are one way employers try to reduce uncertainty, especially as devops responsibilities expand beyond tooling into reliability, security, and operational resilience.”
