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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 102 139 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.21% 8.78% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 10.68% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 80 100 177
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,625 £45,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,175 £72,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £93,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,700
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.40% -5.08%

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 2,322 1,301 3,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 73.06% 82.13% 83.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 909 2,356
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +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 £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 4 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 4 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 39 £76,500 +2.00% 4
Southampton -24 17 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Farnborough -10 8 £72,500 +7.41% 10
Andover - 7 £115,000 -
Portsmouth -9 6 £82,500 +44.74% 3
Winchester -16 4 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Fareham -18 4 £112,500 +136.84% 3
Eastleigh -11 3 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Romsey +6 1 £70,000 +40.00% 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%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (67.65%) Azure
2 44 (43.14%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (28.43%) AWS
4 9 (8.82%) GitHub
5 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.90%) Serverless
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.92%) GCP
7 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
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%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.78%) DNS
2 3 (2.94%) BGP
3 2 (1.96%) Firewall
3 2 (1.96%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) Metadata
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Power BI
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (22.55%) Git
2 18 (17.65%) Selenium
3 16 (15.69%) GitLab
3 16 (15.69%) Robot Framework
4 14 (13.73%) Snyk
5 9 (8.82%) Jenkins
6 8 (7.84%) JIRA
7 6 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.94%) NUnit
9 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.96%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.96%) TestRail
10 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.98%) Toad
11 1 (0.98%) utPLSQL
General
1 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.73%) 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 20 (19.61%) Senior
2 17 (16.67%) Lead
3 14 (13.73%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Architect
6 8 (7.84%) Developer
6 8 (7.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Site Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Software Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) .NET
2 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET
3 6 (5.88%) REST
4 5 (4.90%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.90%) React
4 5 (4.90%) RESTful
5 4 (3.92%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.92%) JSON
6 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
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%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.96%) Blazor
7 2 (1.96%) Kafka
7 2 (1.96%) Next.js
7 2 (1.96%) OAuth
7 2 (1.96%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.98%) FPGA
6 1 (0.98%) GNSS
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) IoT
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.55%) Linux
2 20 (19.61%) Windows
3 6 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 6 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.98%) VMS
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.94%) Agile
2 53 (51.96%) CI/CD
3 40 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (22.55%) Scrum
6 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
7 20 (19.61%) Mentoring
8 19 (18.63%) Observability
9 17 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (16.67%) DevSecOps
9 17 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 17 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 17 (16.67%) Test Management
10 14 (13.73%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (13.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 14 (13.73%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 14 (13.73%) Secrets Management
11 13 (12.75%) Computer Science
11 13 (12.75%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.65%) Python
2 16 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.76%) Bash
4 11 (10.78%) C#
5 8 (7.84%) C++
5 8 (7.84%) SQL
6 7 (6.86%) Bicep
7 6 (5.88%) C
8 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.96%) Go
9 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.96%) PHP
9 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.98%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.98%) Java
10 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.98%) Rust
10 1 (0.98%) SOQL
10 1 (0.98%) SOSL
10 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (36.27%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.47%) DV Cleared
3 14 (13.73%) Degree
4 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.84%) 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%) CISSP
10 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.96%) NCSC
3 2 (1.96%) QA
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (33.33%) Terraform
2 22 (21.57%) Ansible
3 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.86%) Grafana
4 7 (6.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.88%) Nagios
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
8 1 (0.98%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Black Duck
1 14 (13.73%) Coverity
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.86%) Splunk
4 4 (3.92%) Cisco
4 4 (3.92%) Databricks
5 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.96%) New Relic
7 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.98%) arcserve
7 1 (0.98%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.98%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.98%) Infor
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) Sparx
7 1 (0.98%) Tenable
7 1 (0.98%) Veeam