DevOps Job Trends in the East of England

DevOps
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 34 52
Rank change year-on-year -39 +18 -29
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 129 154 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.09% 5.95% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 6.44% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 99 124 188
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £52,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £84,375 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,500 £87,500 £79,125
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,620
% change year-on-year +1.33% +6.68% -6.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,353 2,393 4,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.65% 92.50% 81.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 1,396 3,681
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the East of England

DevOps
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Cambridgeshire -7 46 £67,500 - 23
Hertfordshire -25 46 £75,000 -3.23% 29
Suffolk +6 14 £68,750 +3.85% 7
Essex -30 12 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Norfolk -21 5 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Bedfordshire -20 4 £45,814 -13.56% 7
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (6.20%) SAS
2 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.55%) Apache
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.78%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.53%) AWS
2 48 (37.21%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.30%) Serverless
5 11 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.75%) Power Platform
7 9 (6.98%) GitHub
8 8 (6.20%) SaaS
9 7 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.88%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.88%) GCP
11 5 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.10%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) SSL
2 1 (0.78%) AMQP
2 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.75%) Big Data
2 7 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.10%) MySQL
5 4 (3.10%) Power BI
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.55%) Metadata
7 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.55%) Redis
7 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.20%) JIRA
3 3 (2.33%) Git
4 2 (1.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 23 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.28%) Finance
3 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Law
4 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.88%) Marketing
5 5 (3.88%) Retail
6 4 (3.10%) Advertising
6 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (25.58%) Senior
2 22 (17.05%) Lead
3 18 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Developer
5 14 (10.85%) Architect
6 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Technical Leader
9 8 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.20%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 8 (6.20%) Technical Manager
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Support Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Software Support Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Team Leader
11 6 (4.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) .NET
2 12 (9.30%) React
2 12 (9.30%) REST
3 10 (7.75%) CSS
3 10 (7.75%) HTML
4 9 (6.98%) Node.js
5 5 (3.88%) Loki
6 4 (3.10%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.10%) PySpark
6 4 (3.10%) SOAP
7 3 (2.33%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.33%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.33%) NestJS
7 3 (2.33%) Next.js
7 3 (2.33%) RESTful
8 2 (1.55%) Blazor
8 2 (1.55%) Flask
8 2 (1.55%) JWT
8 2 (1.55%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.20%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.88%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.33%) IoT
9 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.78%) iPhone
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.98%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.21%) Agile
2 45 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 26 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 26 (20.16%) Software Engineering
4 22 (17.05%) AI
5 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (16.28%) Microservices
6 20 (15.50%) Migration
6 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.73%) Observability
8 17 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.40%) Event-Driven
10 15 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 14 (10.85%) Analytics
11 14 (10.85%) Data Engineering
11 14 (10.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (10.08%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.08%) High Availability
12 13 (10.08%) Incident Response
12 13 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) Python
2 17 (13.18%) SQL
3 15 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.85%) C#
5 10 (7.75%) Bash
6 7 (5.43%) C++
7 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.10%) PHP
9 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (24.03%) Degree
2 15 (11.63%) DBS Check
3 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.75%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.43%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.55%) ACCA
8 2 (1.55%) CIMA
8 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.55%) PMP
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) GSEC
9 1 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.65%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (15.50%) Terraform
2 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.20%) Grafana
4 6 (4.65%) Ansible
5 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.55%) Argo
6 2 (1.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 25 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.65%) Databricks
2 6 (4.65%) SAP
3 5 (3.88%) Pega
4 4 (3.10%) Google
4 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco
6 2 (1.55%) Facebook
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) Cognos
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) Infor
7 1 (0.78%) New Relic