DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,301 1,535 2,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.80% 10.51% 13.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.22% 11.12% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 799 962 1,684
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £78,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,109 13,810 18,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.57% 94.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,848 8,011 11,960
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 -9 470 £59,000 -12.59% 75
Hampshire +5 394 £67,500 +8.00% 79
Berkshire -12 235 £60,000 -14.29% 40
Surrey -9 193 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Oxfordshire -4 118 £59,000 +2.61% 15
Buckinghamshire -19 117 £55,000 -10.20% 20
West Sussex +35 86 £65,000 +18.18% 15
East Sussex 0 80 £66,500 +15.65% 8
Kent -22 60 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Middlesex -14 13 £42,500 -45.16% 2
Sussex - 4 £51,250 - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 56 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.46%) OpenStack
3 37 (2.84%) IIS
4 30 (2.31%) CMS
5 29 (2.23%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.23%) GeoServer
6 24 (1.84%) Headless CMS
6 24 (1.84%) Kentico
7 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (1.61%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.54%) Sitecore CMS
10 12 (0.92%) nginx
11 11 (0.85%) JBoss
12 10 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
13 8 (0.61%) Apache
13 8 (0.61%) Confluence
14 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
15 2 (0.15%) WordPress
16 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 21 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.92%) Simulink
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.077%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.077%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.31%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.077%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 757 (58.19%) Azure
2 431 (33.13%) Azure DevOps
3 391 (30.05%) AWS
4 164 (12.61%) Serverless
5 135 (10.38%) IBM Cloud
6 105 (8.07%) SaaS
7 91 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 89 (6.84%) Azure Functions
9 79 (6.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 78 (6.00%) GCP
11 74 (5.69%) Azure API Management
12 72 (5.53%) Power Platform
13 66 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
14 60 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (4.15%) Power Automate
16 52 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
17 51 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
18 49 (3.77%) PaaS
19 43 (3.31%) GitHub
20 35 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.92%) Firewall
2 50 (3.84%) DNS
3 26 (2.00%) DHCP
4 18 (1.38%) VPN
5 17 (1.31%) Network Security
6 12 (0.92%) HTTP
7 10 (0.77%) 5G
8 9 (0.69%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.54%) SSL
11 6 (0.46%) LAN
11 6 (0.46%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) NAS
12 5 (0.38%) SAN
13 4 (0.31%) MQTT
13 4 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.23%) BGP
15 2 (0.15%) Internet
15 2 (0.15%) Intranet
15 2 (0.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (14.76%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (10.99%) Relational Database
3 125 (9.61%) NoSQL
4 110 (8.46%) SQL Server
5 105 (8.07%) MongoDB
6 74 (5.69%) DB2
7 50 (3.84%) BigQuery
8 49 (3.77%) Looker
9 40 (3.07%) Power BI
10 34 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (2.38%) GIS
12 30 (2.31%) Hadoop
13 29 (2.23%) QGIS
14 27 (2.08%) MySQL
15 21 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (1.46%) Big Data
17 11 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
19 5 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 224 (17.22%) Git
2 188 (14.45%) Jenkins
3 99 (7.61%) JIRA
4 64 (4.92%) GitLab
5 47 (3.61%) Visual Studio
6 39 (3.00%) Selenium
7 33 (2.54%) Subversion
8 28 (2.15%) NUnit
9 27 (2.08%) JUnit
9 27 (2.08%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.46%) Postman
10 19 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (1.00%) MSBuild
12 12 (0.92%) Robot Framework
13 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.77%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.77%) Jasmine
14 10 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.77%) Trac
General
1 292 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 178 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 134 (10.30%) Finance
4 115 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.92%) Aerospace
6 49 (3.77%) Legal
7 46 (3.54%) Retail
8 41 (3.15%) Law
9 39 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.92%) Marketing
11 24 (1.84%) Billing
12 18 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.31%) Electronics
14 13 (1.00%) Games
14 13 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.85%) Banking
17 9 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 402 (30.90%) Developer
2 181 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 181 (13.91%) Senior
3 126 (9.68%) Full Stack Developer
4 110 (8.46%) Lead
5 104 (7.99%) Software Engineer
6 100 (7.69%) Azure Developer
7 91 (6.99%) .NET Developer
7 91 (6.99%) Senior Developer
8 73 (5.61%) Architect
9 69 (5.30%) Java Developer
10 51 (3.92%) Software Developer
11 49 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 47 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
14 43 (3.31%) C# Developer
14 43 (3.31%) Consultant
15 40 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
16 39 (3.00%) C# .NET Developer
17 38 (2.92%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (29.21%) .NET
2 208 (15.99%) React
3 190 (14.60%) CSS
4 177 (13.60%) AngularJS
5 176 (13.53%) HTML
6 169 (12.99%) ASP.NET
7 161 (12.38%) Node.js
8 149 (11.45%) Web Services
9 146 (11.22%) REST
10 129 (9.92%) .NET Core
11 109 (8.38%) Vue
12 107 (8.22%) jQuery
13 90 (6.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 85 (6.53%) .NET Framework
14 85 (6.53%) RESTful
15 81 (6.23%) ASP.NET Core
16 75 (5.76%) Ember.js
17 74 (5.69%) Backbone.js
18 69 (5.30%) XML
19 67 (5.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.30%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.22%) Algorithms
4 100 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 99 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.30%) Data Structures
7 71 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (4.46%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.69%) IoT
10 47 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (2.84%) Cloud Native
12 35 (2.69%) Management Information System
13 30 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.84%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.84%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.77%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.46%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.38%) PMI
18 16 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
19 14 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 307 (23.60%) Linux
2 219 (16.83%) Windows
3 85 (6.53%) Android
3 85 (6.53%) Apple iOS
4 50 (3.84%) Windows Server
5 44 (3.38%) CentOS
6 42 (3.23%) Debian
7 40 (3.07%) Alpine Linux
8 19 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.92%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.77%) VMS
13 7 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.23%) Unix
15 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (46.27%) Agile
2 422 (32.44%) CI/CD
3 348 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
4 228 (17.52%) Software Engineering
5 186 (14.30%) Artificial Intelligence
6 184 (14.14%) Test Automation
7 174 (13.37%) Scrum
7 174 (13.37%) Web Development
8 172 (13.22%) Microservices
9 167 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
10 162 (12.45%) Computer Science
11 157 (12.07%) MVC
12 149 (11.45%) User Experience
13 148 (11.38%) Design Patterns
14 129 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
15 124 (9.53%) Project Management
16 123 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 122 (9.38%) Mentoring
18 121 (9.30%) Containerisation
19 116 (8.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 363 (27.90%) C#
2 350 (26.90%) Python
3 334 (25.67%) JavaScript
4 267 (20.52%) SQL
5 250 (19.22%) Java
6 86 (6.61%) PowerShell
7 62 (4.77%) Bash
8 50 (3.84%) C++
9 43 (3.31%) C
10 37 (2.84%) Bicep
11 36 (2.77%) TypeScript
12 28 (2.15%) Go
13 24 (1.84%) PHP
14 17 (1.31%) VB.NET
15 16 (1.23%) Perl
15 16 (1.23%) VBScript
16 15 (1.15%) Groovy
16 15 (1.15%) VB
17 13 (1.00%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 279 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 266 (20.45%) Degree
3 217 (16.68%) SC Cleared
4 131 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.84%) Master's Degree
7 60 (4.61%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (3.15%) MCSA
9 41 (3.15%) MCSE
10 36 (2.77%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (1.46%) PMI Certification
14 13 (1.00%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 8 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (9.22%) QA
2 39 (3.00%) GDPR
3 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.54%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.077%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.077%) NCSC
8 1 (0.077%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.077%) PMO
8 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 285 (21.91%) Docker
2 68 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 52 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.77%) Firmware
7 10 (0.77%) NFS
7 10 (0.77%) pfSense
8 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) QEMU
10 2 (0.15%) Xen
11 1 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.077%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.077%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 307 (23.60%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.91%) Terraform
3 149 (11.45%) Ansible
4 39 (3.00%) Puppet
5 24 (1.84%) ZABBIX
6 19 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.46%) Grafana
7 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.23%) SCCM
8 15 (1.15%) Rancher
8 15 (1.15%) SCOM
9 14 (1.08%) WSUS
10 12 (0.92%) Consul
11 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.77%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.61%) Kibana
12 8 (0.61%) MIIS
13 7 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
13 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 305 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 137 (10.53%) IBM
3 126 (9.68%) Red Hat
4 59 (4.53%) Google
5 53 (4.07%) VMware
6 35 (2.69%) WSO2
7 30 (2.31%) ESRI
7 30 (2.31%) Oracle
8 26 (2.00%) Sitecore
9 19 (1.46%) Optimizely
10 17 (1.31%) Juniper
11 16 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.23%) Veeam
12 15 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.08%) SAP
14 13 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.92%) Xilinx
16 11 (0.85%) Nintex
17 10 (0.77%) McAfee
18 8 (0.61%) IFS