DevOps Job Trends in Croydon

DevOps
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 9 15 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 12.33% 16.48% 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 16.67% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £61,750
25th Percentile - £81,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% - +26.92%
75th Percentile - £84,313 £83,750
90th Percentile - £85,325 -
South London median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.21% +17.86% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 90 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 82.19% 98.90% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 87
10th Percentile - £41,360 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £51,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.87% +6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £55,938 £83,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £64,600 £85,000 £78,300
South London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Croydon

DevOps
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DevOps

DevOps
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 11 October 2025. 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
Coulsdon - 1 - -
DevOps
South London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 5 (55.56%) JBoss
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SSH
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) FTP
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 2 (22.22%) SMTP
3 1 (11.11%) Broadband
3 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) GIS
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Git
2 5 (55.56%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Subversion
3 2 (22.22%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) Apache Camel
2 5 (55.56%) J2EE
2 5 (55.56%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) SOAP
2 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) BDD
2 5 (55.56%) Kanban
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Thales