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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 102 131 353
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.99% 8.29% 9.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 9.98% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 77 91 190
10th Percentile £49,750 £42,500 £44,697
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,125 £78,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £92,750
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 2,458 1,313 3,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 72.04% 83.10% 82.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 903 2,437
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £36,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 19 April 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 19 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
Basingstoke +34 31 £79,000 +5.33% 4
Southampton -29 17 £63,750 +15.91% 5
Farnborough -8 9 £72,500 +7.41% 11
Portsmouth -8 8 £73,750 +29.39% 5
Andover - 7 £115,000 - 2
Romsey +5 6 £63,750 +70.00% 5
Fareham -22 4 £112,500 +136.84% 5
Eastleigh -12 3 £60,000 -19.73%
Winchester -22 3 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Fleet - 1 - -
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 3 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.80%) Azure
2 36 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (24.51%) AWS
4 10 (9.80%) GitHub
5 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.90%) GCP
6 5 (4.90%) Serverless
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.92%) SaaS
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.94%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.94%) Datadog
8 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (2.94%) BGP
2 3 (2.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) Broadband
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Metadata
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.98%) Power BI
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 19 (18.63%) GitLab
3 11 (10.78%) Selenium
4 10 (9.80%) JIRA
5 9 (8.82%) Jenkins
5 9 (8.82%) Robot Framework
5 9 (8.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (6.86%) Snyk
7 6 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.94%) NUnit
8 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.96%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.96%) TestRail
9 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.98%) JUnit
10 1 (0.98%) Toad
10 1 (0.98%) utPLSQL
General
1 20 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Finance
4 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Legal
5 3 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (0.98%) Electronics
6 1 (0.98%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.98%) Military
6 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) Senior
2 19 (18.63%) Software Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) Lead
4 12 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Architect
6 10 (9.80%) Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Site Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) .NET
2 7 (6.86%) RESTful
3 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 6 (5.88%) React
3 6 (5.88%) REST
4 5 (4.90%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.92%) JSON
6 3 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.94%) Loki
6 3 (2.94%) Middleware
6 3 (2.94%) OpenID
6 3 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.94%) YAML
7 2 (1.96%) Blazor
7 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.96%) Laravel
7 2 (1.96%) Next.js
7 2 (1.96%) OAuth
7 2 (1.96%) React Native
8 1 (0.98%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.80%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.96%) FPGA
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) GNSS
7 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) IoT
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.55%) Linux
2 16 (15.69%) Windows
3 7 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.94%) CentOS
7 1 (0.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.90%) Agile
2 51 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (23.53%) Scrum
5 23 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (22.55%) Software Engineering
6 21 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 18 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 18 (17.65%) Observability
8 17 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (13.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 14 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 13 (12.75%) Roadmaps
10 13 (12.75%) Software Testing
10 13 (12.75%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.76%) Kanban
12 11 (10.78%) DevSecOps
12 11 (10.78%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.55%) Python
2 15 (14.71%) C#
2 15 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 14 (13.73%) C++
4 12 (11.76%) Bash
5 9 (8.82%) SQL
6 7 (6.86%) C
7 6 (5.88%) Bicep
8 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.92%) PHP
9 3 (2.94%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.96%) Go
10 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.98%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.98%) Java
11 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.98%) SOQL
11 1 (0.98%) SOSL
11 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.57%) DV Cleared
3 18 (17.65%) Degree
4 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 10 (9.80%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.94%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.98%) CCA
10 1 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) NCSC
3 2 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (24.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Terraform
2 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.69%) Ansible
4 7 (6.86%) Nagios
5 6 (5.88%) Grafana
5 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.94%) Scalr
7 2 (1.96%) MIIS
7 2 (1.96%) Nessus
8 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.98%) Podman
8 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Black Duck
2 7 (6.86%) Coverity
2 7 (6.86%) Splunk
3 4 (3.92%) Databricks
4 3 (2.94%) Cisco
4 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.96%) Infor
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.98%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.98%) New Relic
6 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.98%) Sparx
6 1 (0.98%) Tenable