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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 116 423 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.94% 11.38% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 14.67% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 216 122
10th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 1,738 2,884 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.04% 77.59% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,895 1,346
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £29,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Basingstoke +6 27 £62,500 - 14
Southampton -3 22 £60,000 -4.00% 22
Eastleigh +12 16 £85,000 - 1
Farnborough +1 10 £66,250 -5.36% 5
Romsey +2 8 £37,500 -36.17%
Portsmouth -24 8 - - 3
Winchester 0 7 - - 3
Gosport +4 2 £85,700 +75.69%
Fleet - 2 - - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (17.24%) Apache
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.03%) Appian
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.59%) IIS
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.41%) Azure
2 47 (40.52%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (24.14%) AWS
4 11 (9.48%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.76%) SaaS
6 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.03%) MinIO
8 6 (5.17%) GitHub
9 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.45%) IaaS
9 4 (3.45%) PaaS
9 4 (3.45%) Serverless
10 3 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.59%) GCP
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (4.31%) DNS
3 4 (3.45%) Firewall
4 3 (2.59%) SMTP
5 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.72%) VPN
5 2 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.45%) Airbyte
3 4 (3.45%) MySQL
3 4 (3.45%) Power BI
4 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.72%) DB2
5 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.86%) Redis
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Git
2 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.03%) Robot Framework
3 7 (6.03%) Selenium
3 7 (6.03%) Snyk
4 6 (5.17%) Storybook
5 4 (3.45%) GitLab
6 3 (2.59%) JIRA
7 2 (1.72%) Postman
7 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.86%) Gradle
8 1 (0.86%) MSI
General
1 38 (32.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.48%) Finance
4 7 (6.03%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (0.86%) Advertising
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (39.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (16.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 19 (16.38%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Architect
4 13 (11.21%) Lead
5 12 (10.34%) Developer
6 11 (9.48%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Applications Architect
7 7 (6.03%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Senior
8 5 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (4.31%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (4.31%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.59%) Software Architect
10 3 (2.59%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) .NET
2 11 (9.48%) React
3 9 (7.76%) Next.js
4 8 (6.90%) Kafka
5 7 (6.03%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (5.17%) Jest
6 6 (5.17%) YAML
7 5 (4.31%) RESTful
8 4 (3.45%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.45%) Vue
9 3 (2.59%) Middleware
9 3 (2.59%) REST
10 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.72%) LAMP
10 2 (1.72%) LDAP
10 2 (1.72%) Node.js
10 2 (1.72%) SAML
10 2 (1.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.17%) e-Learning
1 35 (30.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.03%) Life Science
3 7 (6.03%) Low-Code
3 7 (6.03%) Operational Technology
3 7 (6.03%) SCADA
4 5 (4.31%) PKI
5 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) NHS
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.24%) Linux
2 11 (9.48%) CentOS
2 11 (9.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (6.90%) Windows
4 4 (3.45%) Android
4 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (62.07%) Agile
2 49 (42.24%) Mentoring
3 44 (37.93%) Test Automation
4 37 (31.90%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (31.03%) Coaching
6 35 (30.17%) Containerisation
7 31 (26.72%) CI/CD
8 19 (16.38%) Microservices
9 15 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.34%) Computer Science
11 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 11 (9.48%) Batch Scripting
12 11 (9.48%) Data Integration
13 10 (8.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 10 (8.62%) Software Engineering
14 9 (7.76%) API Management
14 9 (7.76%) Network Monitoring
14 9 (7.76%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.69%) Python
2 15 (12.93%) C#
2 15 (12.93%) PHP
2 15 (12.93%) SQL
3 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) C
6 3 (2.59%) Java
6 3 (2.59%) Perl
7 2 (1.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.86%) C++
8 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.86%) Delphi
8 1 (0.86%) Go
8 1 (0.86%) Korn
8 1 (0.86%) Scala
8 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.34%) Degree
5 4 (3.45%) CISSP
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) CISM
7 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.72%) QA
4 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (5.17%) Docker
3 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (20.69%) Ansible
2 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.21%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.86%) Nagios
6 1 (0.86%) WMI
Vendors
1 35 (30.17%) IBM
2 34 (29.31%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.62%) VMware
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.03%) BiZZdesign
5 7 (6.03%) Black Duck
5 7 (6.03%) Rockwell
5 7 (6.03%) Siemens
5 7 (6.03%) UiPath
6 4 (3.45%) Blue Prism
6 4 (3.45%) Coverity
7 3 (2.59%) Oracle
8 2 (1.72%) Databricks
8 2 (1.72%) Meraki
9 1 (0.86%) Progress
9 1 (0.86%) Splunk