DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Hampshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Hampshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 59 92
Rank change year-on-year -39 +33 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 28 121 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 1.24% 3.65% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 3.76% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10 46 26
10th Percentile £63,500 £42,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £45,233 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% -15.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,688 £83,438
90th Percentile - £77,500 £88,125
South East median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% -6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 2,119 3,218 1,699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 97.13% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 2,028 1,125
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -1.82%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 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
Eastleigh +8 11 £85,000 +30.77%
Winchester +12 4 £65,000 - 3
Southampton +6 3 £50,000 -9.09%
Romsey +27 2 - -
Basingstoke -13 2 £75,000 +3.45%
Hook - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Hampshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) AI
2 16 (57.14%) Coaching
2 16 (57.14%) IBM
2 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
3 15 (53.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (28.57%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) Windows
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
6 5 (17.86%) Linux
6 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
7 2 (7.14%) Azure
7 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
7 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 2 (7.14%) Terraform
7 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (3.57%) Ansible
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Black Duck
8 1 (3.57%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (3.57%) Continuous Integration

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) Snyk
General
1 17 (60.71%) Public Sector
2 16 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) e-Learning
1 16 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) AI
2 16 (57.14%) Coaching
2 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
4 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (3.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (3.57%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.57%) Project Management
6 1 (3.57%) Secrets Management
6 1 (3.57%) Software Delivery
6 1 (3.57%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Nagios
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) IBM
2 15 (53.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Black Duck
3 1 (3.57%) Coverity
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk