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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -30 +21 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 81 267 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.24% 10.02% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 12.24% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 60 130 87
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,218 £50,900
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,625 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.86% -4.60%

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 2,003 2,181 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.15% 81.87% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,291 1,149
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -5.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%

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 January 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 January 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 +21 37 £78,000 +7.59% 22
Southampton -21 15 £60,000 - 17
Farnborough -2 6 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Winchester -2 4 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Portsmouth -24 4 £85,000 +21.43% 21
Andover - 4 - - 2
Gosport +1 2 £85,700 +75.69%
Eastleigh -6 2 £72,500 -6.45% 2
Hook -3 1 - -
Fleet - 1 - -
Hayling Island - 1 £41,000 -
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 5 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.17%) Appian
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 56 (69.14%) Azure
2 39 (48.15%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (41.98%) AWS
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub
5 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.17%) MinIO
7 4 (4.94%) GCP
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.23%) SaaS
10 1 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.94%) Airbyte
3 2 (2.47%) DB2
3 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.23%) Big Data
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.23%) Metadata
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (27.16%) Robot Framework
1 22 (27.16%) Selenium
2 20 (24.69%) Snyk
3 19 (23.46%) Git
4 9 (11.11%) GitLab
5 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
6 7 (8.64%) Storybook
7 3 (3.70%) JIRA
8 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.47%) TestRail
9 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.23%) Gradle
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Finance
3 3 (3.70%) Aerospace
3 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Billing
5 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Lead
2 16 (19.75%) Architect
3 15 (18.52%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) Developer
5 10 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (8.64%) Software Architect
7 6 (7.41%) Applications Architect
7 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.47%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) .NET
2 13 (16.05%) Next.js
3 10 (12.35%) React
4 7 (8.64%) Jest
4 7 (8.64%) RESTful
5 6 (7.41%) Kafka
5 6 (7.41%) Middleware
6 5 (6.17%) .NET Core
6 5 (6.17%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.70%) YAML
9 2 (2.47%) React Native
9 2 (2.47%) REST
10 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
10 1 (1.23%) Ionic Framework
10 1 (1.23%) Kendo UI
10 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.23%) Regular Expression
10 1 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.17%) Low-Code
3 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.99%) Linux
2 16 (19.75%) Windows
3 6 (7.41%) Android
3 6 (7.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) VMS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (64.20%) Agile
1 52 (64.20%) CI/CD
2 27 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (29.63%) Scrum
3 24 (29.63%) Test Automation
4 22 (27.16%) DevSecOps
5 21 (25.93%) Test Management
6 20 (24.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 20 (24.69%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 20 (24.69%) Secrets Management
7 19 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (23.46%) Mentoring
8 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.52%) Roadmaps
10 14 (17.28%) Microservices
11 13 (16.05%) Software Engineering
11 13 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (14.81%) Build Automation
13 10 (12.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 9 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) Python
2 8 (9.88%) C#
3 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.94%) SQL
5 3 (3.70%) Bash
6 2 (2.47%) Bicep
6 2 (2.47%) PHP
6 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) C++
7 1 (1.23%) Go
7 1 (1.23%) Java
7 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.23%) Perl
7 1 (1.23%) Swift
7 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (41.98%) Security Cleared
2 28 (34.57%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.35%) Degree
5 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (7.41%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (34.57%) Terraform
2 23 (28.40%) Ansible
3 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.41%) Grafana
6 2 (2.47%) Nessus
6 2 (2.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) Black Duck
2 19 (23.46%) Coverity
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (6.17%) UiPath
4 5 (6.17%) VMware
5 4 (4.94%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.47%) New Relic
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle
7 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.23%) arcserve
7 1 (1.23%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Okta
7 1 (1.23%) Progress
7 1 (1.23%) Veeam