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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 158 129 454
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.03% 8.12% 9.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 9.14% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 116 59 269
10th Percentile £48,750 £35,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,813 £69,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £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 2,786 1,411 3,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 71.09% 88.85% 79.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 833 2,781
10th Percentile £29,350 £27,000 £28,745
25th Percentile £35,750 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -11 38 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Basingstoke +16 26 £75,000 +22.70% 5
Farnborough -17 25 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Romsey +1 14 £62,500 +66.67% 2
Andover - 10 £100,000 - 4
Fareham - 10 £65,000 - 4
Portsmouth -5 6 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Eastleigh -8 2 £60,000 +20.00%
Hook - 2 £67,500 -
Yateley - 2 - -
Fleet -5 1 - -
Winchester -22 1 £67,500 -
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 7 (4.43%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (46.84%) Azure
2 38 (24.05%) AWS
3 31 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (10.13%) GitHub
5 13 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (7.59%) Serverless
7 8 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.43%) Azure Stack
8 7 (4.43%) GCP
9 6 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.80%) SaaS
10 5 (3.16%) Azure AI
10 5 (3.16%) Datadog
11 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) BGP
1 4 (2.53%) MQTT
1 4 (2.53%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.90%) VPN
3 2 (1.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) Broadband
4 1 (0.63%) HTTP
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.27%) Metadata
6 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (25.95%) Git
2 25 (15.82%) GitLab
3 15 (9.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 12 (7.59%) JIRA
5 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.53%) Selenium
7 3 (1.90%) NUnit
7 3 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.27%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) Snyk
8 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.63%) Gatling
9 1 (0.63%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.63%) utPLSQL
General
1 26 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.82%) Finance
3 17 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.80%) Marketing
6 4 (2.53%) Automotive
7 3 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Electronics
8 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (29.11%) Software Engineer
2 34 (21.52%) Senior
3 25 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (13.92%) Developer
5 15 (9.49%) Lead
6 14 (8.86%) Embedded Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Security Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) .NET Developer
9 10 (6.33%) Site Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.43%) Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.13%) .NET
2 15 (9.49%) ASP.NET
3 14 (8.86%) React
4 11 (6.96%) RESTful
5 10 (6.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (5.70%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.43%) REST
8 6 (3.80%) .NET Core
8 6 (3.80%) Blazor
8 6 (3.80%) YAML
9 5 (3.16%) JSON
9 5 (3.16%) Loki
9 5 (3.16%) ML.NET
9 5 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (2.53%) CSS
10 4 (2.53%) HTML
10 4 (2.53%) Kafka
10 4 (2.53%) Vue
11 3 (1.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Algorithms
2 18 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.43%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (4.43%) FPGA
5 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.16%) PCIe
6 5 (3.16%) Verilog
6 5 (3.16%) VHDL
7 4 (2.53%) Robotics
8 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.42%) Linux
2 17 (10.76%) Windows
3 13 (8.23%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.33%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.43%) CentOS
5 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (48.10%) CI/CD
2 72 (45.57%) Agile
3 57 (36.08%) Software Engineering
4 36 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (20.89%) Computer Science
6 28 (17.72%) AI
7 25 (15.82%) Observability
7 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.19%) Containerisation
9 23 (14.56%) Scrum
10 20 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.66%) Kanban
10 20 (12.66%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (12.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (11.39%) Test Automation
13 17 (10.76%) SDLC
14 16 (10.13%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (9.49%) Line Management
15 15 (9.49%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.91%) Python
2 38 (24.05%) C++
3 28 (17.72%) C#
4 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
5 23 (14.56%) C
6 21 (13.29%) PowerShell
6 21 (13.29%) SQL
7 16 (10.13%) Bash
8 15 (9.49%) Java
9 11 (6.96%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.70%) MATLAB
11 7 (4.43%) Bicep
11 7 (4.43%) PHP
12 6 (3.80%) Go
13 5 (3.16%) Embedded C
13 5 (3.16%) Embedded C++
13 5 (3.16%) Rust
14 2 (1.27%) Ruby
14 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (36.08%) Security Cleared
2 38 (24.05%) Degree
3 27 (17.09%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.39%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.76%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CCA
8 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (33.54%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) Firmware
3 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (24.05%) Terraform
2 32 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 19 (12.03%) Ansible
4 13 (8.23%) Nagios
5 6 (3.80%) Grafana
5 6 (3.80%) Podman
5 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.90%) Scalr
8 2 (1.27%) MIIS
8 2 (1.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) Nessus
9 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.59%) Splunk
3 4 (2.53%) Databricks
3 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 3 (1.90%) Cisco
4 3 (1.90%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.90%) Infor
4 3 (1.90%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx
5 1 (0.63%) Tenable
5 1 (0.63%) Veracode