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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 60 71 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 4.50% 7.35% 9.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 7.78% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 54 50 77
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.86% -4.60%

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 1,100 913 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.52% 94.51% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 653 396 599
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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 January 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 January 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 -7 37 £62,000 +20.39% 17
Bletchley -4 3 £75,000 +25.00%
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 12 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (23.33%) AWS
4 8 (13.33%) GCP
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 6 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) dbt
8 1 (1.67%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.67%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Looker
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 7 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Ant
4 1 (1.67%) Appium
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) Gradle
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Mockito
4 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (11.67%) Law
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Games
3 4 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Lead
1 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) IT Support
2 12 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Software Support Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (8.33%) CRM Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 4 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (41.67%) .NET
2 16 (26.67%) .NET Framework
3 13 (21.67%) ASP.NET
4 12 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 12 (20.00%) WinForms
5 10 (16.67%) Middleware
5 10 (16.67%) REST
6 6 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 6 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (10.00%) SOAP
6 6 (10.00%) Visualforce
7 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (6.67%) gRPC
7 4 (6.67%) htmx
7 4 (6.67%) Kendo UI
7 4 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (6.67%) Sass
7 4 (6.67%) SignalR
8 3 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.00%) Sports Betting
3 2 (3.33%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Windows
2 6 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (38.33%) Agile
4 16 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 16 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Scrum
6 8 (13.33%) AI
6 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (13.33%) Observability
7 7 (11.67%) Community of Practice
7 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (11.67%) CRM
7 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.67%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.00%) Matrix Management
8 6 (10.00%) MVC
8 6 (10.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) C#
2 17 (28.33%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.00%) Python
5 7 (11.67%) Bash
5 7 (11.67%) Java
5 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.00%) Apex Code
6 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.33%) C
8 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Degree
2 15 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Terraform
2 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Sage
2 12 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 12 (20.00%) Xamarin
3 11 (18.33%) MuleSoft
4 6 (10.00%) Google
4 6 (10.00%) Zoho
5 4 (6.67%) Telerik
6 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.67%) Talend