DevOps Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 39 34
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 -23
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 107 65 113
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.09% 6.09% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.19% 6.39% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 82 26 88
10th Percentile £24,000 £41,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,781 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £76,875 £69,563 £62,969
90th Percentile £87,375 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,307 1,017 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 74.39% 95.22% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 879 334 1,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,750 £28,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -4 85 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Newport Pagnell +6 9 £65,000 -
Marlow +4 7 £46,250 -7.50% 2
Aylesbury - 3 - - 3
High Wycombe - 1 - - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.74%) CMS
1 4 (3.74%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.34%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) AWS
3 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.41%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.67%) SaaS
8 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (3.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (2.80%) IaaS
9 3 (2.80%) PaaS
10 2 (1.87%) GitHub
10 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.93%) GCP
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) Data Lake
1 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) JIRA
1 6 (5.61%) Zephyr
2 4 (3.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.35%) Games
3 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.41%) Finance
4 7 (6.54%) Law
5 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.80%) Marketing
7 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.89%) Architect
3 13 (12.15%) Lead
4 10 (9.35%) Analyst
4 10 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Consultant
5 8 (7.48%) Developer
5 8 (7.48%) DevOps Consultant
5 8 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.54%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
6 7 (6.54%) Head of IT
6 7 (6.54%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 7 (6.54%) Team Leader
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) CRM Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Integration Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) .NET
2 10 (9.35%) REST
3 8 (7.48%) Middleware
3 8 (7.48%) SOAP
4 5 (4.67%) JSON
4 5 (4.67%) JWT
4 5 (4.67%) Kafka
4 5 (4.67%) OAuth
4 5 (4.67%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.67%) RESTful
4 5 (4.67%) XML
5 4 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (3.74%) Visualforce
5 4 (3.74%) XML Messaging
6 3 (2.80%) Playwright
7 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.87%) MACH
7 2 (1.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) CI/CD
2 43 (40.19%) Agile
3 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (19.63%) Data Modelling
4 21 (19.63%) Test Automation
5 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (17.76%) Scrum
7 18 (16.82%) ITIL
8 17 (15.89%) Computer Science
9 16 (14.95%) AI
9 16 (14.95%) Analytics
10 15 (14.02%) CRM
10 15 (14.02%) Roadmaps
11 14 (13.08%) ITSM
12 12 (11.21%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (11.21%) Microservices
13 11 (10.28%) IT Strategy
14 10 (9.35%) Business Strategy
14 10 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) SQL
2 13 (12.15%) Python
3 9 (8.41%) Java
4 5 (4.67%) C#
5 4 (3.74%) Apex Code
5 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.87%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (20.56%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.41%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.61%) ICAEW
5 6 (5.61%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) QA
2 10 (9.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.28%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.48%) MuleSoft
4 6 (5.61%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.74%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.80%) Adobe
6 3 (2.80%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.93%) Laserfiche
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk