DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 159 141
Rank change year-on-year -59 -18 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 173 317 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.04% 2.10% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 2.32% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 136 195 331
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £58,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -2.07% +20.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -78 53 £60,000 -25.00% 17
Hampshire -39 51 £57,925 -10.88% 13
East Sussex +41 35 £80,000 +28.00%
Berkshire -27 30 £59,175 -28.27% 9
Surrey +6 27 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Oxfordshire -10 15 £70,000 -6.98% 5
Buckinghamshire -42 8 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Kent -21 3 £110,000 - 1
Middlesex -10 1 £61,339 +2.23%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (57.80%) CI/CD
3 93 (53.76%) Azure
4 87 (50.29%) Kubernetes
5 84 (48.55%) AWS
6 82 (47.40%) Terraform
7 62 (35.84%) Docker
8 53 (30.64%) Python
9 52 (30.06%) Containerisation
10 49 (28.32%) Jenkins
11 47 (27.17%) Security Cleared
12 43 (24.86%) Linux
13 42 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (23.70%) SC Cleared
15 40 (23.12%) Agile
16 38 (21.97%) Ansible
17 35 (20.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 34 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
19 32 (18.50%) Social Skills
19 32 (18.50%) Git
20 30 (17.34%) .NET
21 28 (16.18%) SaaS
22 27 (15.61%) Java
22 27 (15.61%) GitLab
23 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
24 23 (13.29%) PowerShell
24 23 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
24 23 (13.29%) SQL
24 23 (13.29%) Microsoft
24 23 (13.29%) Deployment Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.05%) nginx
2 2 (1.16%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 93 (53.76%) Azure
2 84 (48.55%) AWS
3 34 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (16.18%) SaaS
5 16 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (7.51%) IBM Cloud
6 13 (7.51%) PaaS
7 12 (6.94%) Datadog
8 9 (5.20%) GitHub
9 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.62%) GCP
10 7 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.47%) IaaS
11 6 (3.47%) Serverless
12 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) DNS
1 4 (2.31%) LAN
1 4 (2.31%) Network Security
1 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.31%) WAN
2 3 (1.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.98%) Hadoop
3 18 (10.40%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.62%) Big Data
5 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 49 (28.32%) Jenkins
2 32 (18.50%) Git
3 27 (15.61%) GitLab
4 16 (9.25%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.89%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.73%) Selenium
7 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) Subversion
9 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 32 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.83%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.09%) Finance
4 8 (4.62%) Retail
5 4 (2.31%) Electronics
5 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.31%) Marketing
5 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.73%) Automotive
7 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.34%) .NET
2 18 (10.40%) Kafka
2 18 (10.40%) Node.js
3 11 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.62%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.05%) JSON
6 5 (2.89%) XML
6 5 (2.89%) YAML
7 4 (2.31%) LDAP
8 2 (1.16%) HTML
9 1 (0.58%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.58%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.51%) Blockchain
1 13 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (7.51%) Low-Code
2 10 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.89%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.73%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (24.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.31%) VMS
2 4 (2.31%) Windows
3 2 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (0.58%) Debian
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (57.80%) CI/CD
3 52 (30.06%) Containerisation
4 42 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (23.12%) Agile
6 35 (20.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
8 23 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (13.29%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (12.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (12.14%) Continuous Delivery
10 21 (12.14%) Microservices
11 18 (10.40%) Software Delivery
12 14 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (7.51%) Business Analysis
13 13 (7.51%) Configuration Management
13 13 (7.51%) Decision-Making
13 13 (7.51%) Project Management
13 13 (7.51%) Technology Transformation
14 12 (6.94%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.64%) Python
2 27 (15.61%) Java
3 23 (13.29%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.29%) SQL
4 16 (9.25%) Bash
5 14 (8.09%) Groovy
6 13 (7.51%) Bicep
7 6 (3.47%) Go
8 3 (1.73%) C#
8 3 (1.73%) C++
8 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.73%) Ruby
9 2 (1.16%) C
10 1 (0.58%) Perl
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.98%) Degree
4 17 (9.83%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.89%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (35.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (50.29%) Kubernetes
2 82 (47.40%) Terraform
3 38 (21.97%) Ansible
4 17 (9.83%) Puppet
5 16 (9.25%) Rancher
6 12 (6.94%) Consul
7 7 (4.05%) Kibana
8 4 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.73%) Grafana
9 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.58%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.58%) Packer
10 1 (0.58%) Podman
10 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) IBM
3 9 (5.20%) VMware
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
5 3 (1.73%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.73%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.16%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.58%) Google