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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +18
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 179 123 390
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.35% 6.00% 10.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 6.68% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 140 61 204
10th Percentile £52,500 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,313 £85,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 3,713 1,840 2,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 69.43% 89.76% 77.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 1,155 1,738
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -2 52 £73,250 +22.08% 37
Farnborough -27 30 £72,500 +9.43% 25
Basingstoke -1 26 £60,000 -7.69% 22
Romsey -9 14 £62,500 +66.67% 4
Fareham - 14 £58,750 - 3
Portsmouth +2 8 £75,000 - 12
Andover - 3 £100,000 -
Fleet +5 2 - - 3
Hook -5 2 £67,500 - 3
Gosport -11 2 £60,000 -29.99%
Yateley - 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 6 (3.35%) Confluence
2 3 (1.68%) Apache
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Simulink
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 88 (49.16%) Azure
2 49 (27.37%) AWS
3 24 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.94%) GitHub
4 16 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.26%) GCP
6 10 (5.59%) Serverless
7 8 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.35%) Azure AI
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.79%) SaaS
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.68%) Datadog
11 3 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.12%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Firewall
2 7 (3.91%) VPN
3 5 (2.79%) DNS
3 5 (2.79%) MQTT
4 4 (2.23%) Network Security
5 3 (1.68%) NAS
5 3 (1.68%) SAN
6 2 (1.12%) BGP
6 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.47%) MySQL
3 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.68%) Metadata
5 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Parquet
7 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (29.05%) Git
2 21 (11.73%) GitLab
3 10 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.59%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.91%) JIRA
5 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.68%) Snyk
6 2 (1.12%) ESLint
6 2 (1.12%) JMeter
6 2 (1.12%) Selenium
6 2 (1.12%) Storybook
6 2 (1.12%) Vite
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.56%) ERwin
7 1 (0.56%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.56%) Subversion
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 16 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.03%) Marketing
5 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.79%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.23%) Automotive
7 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Billing
8 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.79%) Senior
2 39 (21.79%) Software Engineer
3 30 (16.76%) Developer
4 18 (10.06%) .NET Developer
4 18 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Lead
5 14 (7.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Senior DevOps
6 13 (7.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Security Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Architect
9 9 (5.03%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.47%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) PHP Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.70%) Terraform
2 20 (11.17%) .NET
3 17 (9.50%) ASP.NET
3 17 (9.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (7.82%) Vue
5 13 (7.26%) CSS
6 12 (6.70%) React
6 12 (6.70%) RESTful
7 11 (6.15%) HTML
8 10 (5.59%) ARM Templates
9 9 (5.03%) Laravel
10 8 (4.47%) Nuxt
11 7 (3.91%) CakePHP
11 7 (3.91%) HTML5
11 7 (3.91%) Symfony
12 6 (3.35%) Blazor
12 6 (3.35%) Kafka
12 6 (3.35%) ML.NET
12 6 (3.35%) Node.js
12 6 (3.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.53%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.50%) Algorithms
3 15 (8.38%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.47%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.91%) Social Media
6 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.35%) FPGA
6 6 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.79%) PCIe
7 5 (2.79%) Robotics
7 5 (2.79%) Verilog
7 5 (2.79%) VHDL
8 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.68%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.70%) Linux
2 20 (11.17%) Windows
3 10 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.23%) CentOS
5 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.12%) Debian
6 2 (1.12%) Rocky
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.75%) CI/CD
2 62 (34.64%) Agile
3 60 (33.52%) Software Engineering
4 39 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
5 34 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (17.32%) Containerisation
8 30 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.20%) AI
10 27 (15.08%) Computer Science
11 26 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 24 (13.41%) Microservices
12 24 (13.41%) Observability
13 21 (11.73%) Scrum
13 21 (11.73%) Software Delivery
13 21 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (11.17%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.61%) Decision-Making
16 18 (10.06%) Clean Code
16 18 (10.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.05%) Python
2 33 (18.44%) JavaScript
3 31 (17.32%) C++
4 30 (16.76%) C#
5 26 (14.53%) SQL
6 22 (12.29%) PHP
7 18 (10.06%) C
8 16 (8.94%) Bash
8 16 (8.94%) PowerShell
9 15 (8.38%) Java
10 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.91%) MATLAB
12 5 (2.79%) Embedded C
12 5 (2.79%) Embedded C++
12 5 (2.79%) Go
12 5 (2.79%) Rust
13 4 (2.23%) Bicep
14 2 (1.12%) Ruby
14 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.55%) Degree
3 33 (18.44%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.53%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.03%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CBAP
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CCA
9 1 (0.56%) CSPO
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (29.61%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Firmware
3 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.68%) KVM
4 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (28.49%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.53%) Ansible
3 7 (3.91%) Grafana
3 7 (3.91%) Nagios
3 7 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.79%) Argo
4 5 (2.79%) Podman
5 4 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.68%) Istio
6 3 (1.68%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.12%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.12%) Packer
7 2 (1.12%) Rancher
7 2 (1.12%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.56%) Nessus
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.79%) Google
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle
2 5 (2.79%) Splunk
3 4 (2.23%) Databricks
4 3 (1.68%) VMware
5 2 (1.12%) NetApp
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.56%) Infor
6 1 (0.56%) New Relic
6 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.56%) Veracode