DevOps Job Trends in Hampshire

DevOps
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 135 146 429
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.76% 9.28% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 10.63% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 103 80 241
10th Percentile £47,750 £38,725 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -9.02% +2.31%
75th Percentile £79,375 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,625 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,581 1,374 3,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 71.79% 87.35% 80.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 819 2,660
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,375 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £76,525
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 Hampshire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Hampshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
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 within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Southampton -17 32 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Basingstoke +21 24 £75,000 +20.97% 3
Farnborough -17 21 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Romsey +1 13 £62,500 +66.67% 1
Fareham -14 9 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Andover - 9 £100,000 - 6
Portsmouth 0 6 £65,000 -5.45% 7
Eastleigh -8 2 £60,000 +20.00%
Yateley - 2 - - 1
Winchester -20 1 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Hook - 1 £67,500 - 2
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.63%) Azure
2 33 (24.44%) AWS
3 28 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.37%) GitHub
5 11 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.67%) Serverless
7 7 (5.19%) Azure Stack
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.44%) GCP
9 5 (3.70%) SaaS
10 4 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (2.96%) Datadog
10 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.22%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.22%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) BGP
1 4 (2.96%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.22%) MQTT
3 2 (1.48%) Firewall
3 2 (1.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.74%) Broadband
4 1 (0.74%) DNS
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.48%) Metadata
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (27.41%) Git
2 24 (17.78%) GitLab
3 14 (10.37%) Visual Studio Code
4 12 (8.89%) JIRA
5 5 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.96%) Selenium
7 3 (2.22%) NUnit
7 3 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.48%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.48%) Snyk
8 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.74%) JMeter
9 1 (0.74%) JUnit
9 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.74%) Toad
9 1 (0.74%) utPLSQL
General
1 22 (16.30%) Finance
1 22 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.96%) Automotive
4 4 (2.96%) Marketing
5 3 (2.22%) Legal
6 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.74%) Electronics
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (28.15%) Software Engineer
2 32 (23.70%) Senior
3 19 (14.07%) Developer
3 19 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.37%) Lead
5 11 (8.15%) Embedded Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (5.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.19%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Architect
10 5 (3.70%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.63%) .NET
2 12 (8.89%) ASP.NET
3 11 (8.15%) React
4 9 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 9 (6.67%) RESTful
5 7 (5.19%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (4.44%) REST
7 5 (3.70%) JSON
7 5 (3.70%) YAML
8 4 (2.96%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.96%) Blazor
8 4 (2.96%) CSS
8 4 (2.96%) HTML
8 4 (2.96%) Loki
8 4 (2.96%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.96%) Vue
9 3 (2.22%) Kafka
9 3 (2.22%) ML.NET
9 3 (2.22%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) Algorithms
2 17 (12.59%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (5.19%) FPGA
4 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.70%) PCIe
4 5 (3.70%) Verilog
4 5 (3.70%) VHDL
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Robotics
7 2 (1.48%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.67%) Linux
2 18 (13.33%) Windows
3 13 (9.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.41%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.19%) CentOS
5 7 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (50.37%) CI/CD
2 67 (49.63%) Agile
3 48 (35.56%) Software Engineering
4 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (20.74%) Computer Science
6 23 (17.04%) AI
6 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.30%) Scrum
8 21 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 20 (14.81%) Observability
10 19 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.07%) Kanban
11 17 (12.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (12.59%) Test Automation
12 16 (11.85%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (11.11%) Line Management
13 15 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 15 (11.11%) Software Testing
14 14 (10.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.81%) Python
2 33 (24.44%) C++
3 25 (18.52%) C#
4 20 (14.81%) C
5 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
6 18 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 17 (12.59%) SQL
8 15 (11.11%) Bash
9 11 (8.15%) Java
10 9 (6.67%) MATLAB
11 8 (5.93%) TypeScript
12 7 (5.19%) PHP
13 5 (3.70%) Bicep
13 5 (3.70%) Embedded C
13 5 (3.70%) Embedded C++
13 5 (3.70%) Go
14 4 (2.96%) Rust
15 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.70%) Degree
3 24 (17.78%) SC Cleared
4 19 (14.07%) DV Cleared
5 14 (10.37%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CCA
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.48%) QA
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (35.56%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Firmware
3 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (24.44%) Terraform
2 29 (21.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.07%) Ansible
4 13 (9.63%) Nagios
5 6 (4.44%) Podman
6 5 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (3.70%) Grafana
6 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.22%) Scalr
8 2 (1.48%) MIIS
8 2 (1.48%) Puppet
9 1 (0.74%) Nessus
9 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) Splunk
3 4 (2.96%) Databricks
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco
4 3 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.48%) Infor
6 1 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.74%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.74%) Coverity
6 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Sparx
6 1 (0.74%) Tenable