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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 104 132 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.02% 8.32% 9.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 9.98% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 79 92 193
10th Percentile £54,250 £42,625 £44,942
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £80,000 £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 2,485 1,322 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 72.11% 83.30% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 906 2,428
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £36,956
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -6.54%
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 22 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 22 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 28 £79,000 +5.33% 4
Southampton -26 17 £63,750 +10.87% 9
Farnborough -7 11 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Romsey +5 8 £63,750 +70.00% 5
Portsmouth -10 8 £65,000 +14.04% 6
Andover - 7 £115,000 - 2
Fareham -23 4 £112,500 +136.84% 6
Eastleigh -12 3 £60,000 -19.73%
Winchester -22 3 £67,500 +3.85%
Yateley - 1 - - 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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.73%) Azure
2 33 (31.73%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (24.04%) AWS
4 11 (10.58%) GitHub
5 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.81%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.81%) GCP
6 5 (4.81%) Serverless
7 4 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.85%) SaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.88%) Datadog
8 3 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) BGP
1 4 (3.85%) DNS
2 3 (2.88%) Firewall
2 3 (2.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.96%) Broadband
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.96%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) Metadata
4 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Big Data
5 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.96%) Power BI
5 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (24.04%) Git
2 20 (19.23%) GitLab
3 11 (10.58%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (8.65%) JIRA
5 8 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.69%) Selenium
6 6 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (5.77%) Robot Framework
7 5 (4.81%) Snyk
8 3 (2.88%) NUnit
8 3 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.92%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.96%) JUnit
10 1 (0.96%) TestRail
10 1 (0.96%) Toad
General
1 17 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Legal
5 3 (2.88%) Marketing
6 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.96%) Electronics
7 1 (0.96%) Games
7 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.96%) Military
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Senior
2 21 (20.19%) Software Engineer
3 14 (13.46%) Lead
4 13 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Developer
6 10 (9.62%) Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Site Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.65%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) RESTful
3 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET
3 6 (5.77%) React
3 6 (5.77%) REST
4 5 (4.81%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.85%) JSON
6 3 (2.88%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.88%) Loki
6 3 (2.88%) Middleware
6 3 (2.88%) OpenID
6 3 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.88%) YAML
7 2 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.92%) Blazor
7 2 (1.92%) Laravel
7 2 (1.92%) Next.js
7 2 (1.92%) OAuth
7 2 (1.92%) React Native
8 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.92%) FPGA
6 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.96%) GNSS
7 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.08%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Windows
3 8 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.77%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) CentOS
7 1 (0.96%) VMS
7 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.88%) Agile
2 51 (49.04%) CI/CD
3 32 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 23 (22.12%) Scrum
6 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (19.23%) Computer Science
8 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.31%) Observability
10 17 (16.35%) Mentoring
11 16 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (13.46%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (12.50%) Kanban
13 13 (12.50%) Software Testing
14 12 (11.54%) Containerisation
14 12 (11.54%) Line Management
14 12 (11.54%) Roadmaps
14 12 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (10.58%) Test Automation
16 10 (9.62%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.08%) Python
2 17 (16.35%) C#
2 17 (16.35%) C++
3 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.58%) Bash
5 9 (8.65%) SQL
6 8 (7.69%) C
7 6 (5.77%) Bicep
8 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.85%) PHP
9 3 (2.88%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.92%) Go
10 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.96%) Java
11 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) Rust
11 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.96%) SOQL
11 1 (0.96%) SOSL
11 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.23%) Degree
3 19 (18.27%) DV Cleared
4 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 10 (9.62%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.88%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.96%) CCA
9 1 (0.96%) CISSP
9 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
3 2 (1.92%) NIST
3 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (25.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.96%) Firmware
3 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (25.00%) Terraform
2 20 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.42%) Ansible
4 8 (7.69%) Nagios
5 5 (4.81%) Grafana
5 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.88%) Scalr
7 2 (1.92%) MIIS
7 2 (1.92%) Nessus
8 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.96%) Podman
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.69%) Splunk
3 5 (4.81%) Black Duck
3 5 (4.81%) Coverity
4 4 (3.85%) Databricks
5 3 (2.88%) Cisco
5 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.92%) Infor
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.96%) New Relic
7 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.96%) Sparx
7 1 (0.96%) Tenable