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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 115 129 400
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.25% 8.01% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 9.46% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 80 220
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £83,125 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £80,250 £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 2,550 1,364 3,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 72.03% 84.72% 81.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 882 2,510
10th Percentile £29,900 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +39 26 £79,000 +12.86% 2
Southampton -23 22 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Farnborough -15 14 £72,500 +7.41% 6
Romsey +1 11 £57,500 +53.33% 4
Andover - 8 £107,500 - 6
Portsmouth -14 7 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Fareham -14 6 £87,500 +84.21% 9
Eastleigh -10 3 £60,000 -19.73%
Winchester -23 2 £71,250 +9.62% 1
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 4 (3.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.91%) Azure
2 32 (27.83%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (21.74%) AWS
4 13 (11.30%) GitHub
5 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.35%) GCP
6 5 (4.35%) SaaS
6 5 (4.35%) Serverless
7 4 (3.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.48%) Azure Stack
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.61%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.61%) Datadog
8 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) BGP
2 3 (2.61%) Firewall
2 3 (2.61%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.74%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) Broadband
4 1 (0.87%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.74%) Metadata
6 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (25.22%) Git
2 23 (20.00%) GitLab
3 14 (12.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (8.70%) JIRA
5 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
6 7 (6.09%) Selenium
7 6 (5.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.48%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.48%) Snyk
9 3 (2.61%) NUnit
9 3 (2.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.74%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.87%) TestRail
11 1 (0.87%) utPLSQL
General
1 19 (16.52%) Finance
2 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.61%) Legal
5 3 (2.61%) Marketing
5 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.87%) Automotive
6 1 (0.87%) Electronics
6 1 (0.87%) Games
6 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (24.35%) Senior
2 26 (22.61%) Software Engineer
3 14 (12.17%) Developer
3 14 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Lead
5 9 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Architect
6 8 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) .NET
2 8 (6.96%) ASP.NET
2 8 (6.96%) React
2 8 (6.96%) RESTful
3 6 (5.22%) ARM Templates
3 6 (5.22%) REST
4 5 (4.35%) JSON
5 4 (3.48%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.48%) YAML
6 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.61%) Blazor
6 3 (2.61%) Loki
6 3 (2.61%) OpenID
6 3 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.74%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.74%) Laravel
7 2 (1.74%) Middleware
7 2 (1.74%) ML.NET
7 2 (1.74%) OAuth
7 2 (1.74%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Algorithms
2 17 (14.78%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.09%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.35%) FPGA
6 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.61%) PCIe
7 3 (2.61%) Verilog
7 3 (2.61%) VHDL
8 2 (1.74%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.74%) IoT
8 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Linux
2 15 (13.04%) Windows
3 10 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.09%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.74%) VMS
6 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.17%) Agile
2 59 (51.30%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (28.70%) Software Engineering
5 23 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 23 (20.00%) Scrum
6 22 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (16.52%) Observability
7 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.78%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (14.78%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.91%) Software Testing
10 15 (13.04%) AI
10 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 15 (13.04%) Kanban
10 15 (13.04%) Line Management
10 15 (13.04%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.30%) SDLC
11 13 (11.30%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.57%) Python
2 26 (22.61%) C++
3 21 (18.26%) C#
4 15 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 13 (11.30%) C
6 12 (10.43%) Bash
7 10 (8.70%) SQL
8 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
9 6 (5.22%) Bicep
9 6 (5.22%) MATLAB
10 4 (3.48%) PHP
10 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.61%) Embedded C
11 3 (2.61%) Embedded C++
11 3 (2.61%) Java
12 2 (1.74%) Go
13 1 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.87%) SOQL
13 1 (0.87%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 46 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) Degree
3 23 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 21 (18.26%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.70%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.74%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CCA
8 1 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.74%) NCSC
4 2 (1.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.74%) QA
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) Firmware
3 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (26.09%) Terraform
2 23 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.04%) Ansible
4 10 (8.70%) Nagios
5 5 (4.35%) Grafana
5 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.61%) Scalr
7 2 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.74%) MIIS
7 2 (1.74%) Nessus
7 2 (1.74%) Podman
8 1 (0.87%) Packer
8 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) Splunk
3 4 (3.48%) Databricks
4 3 (2.61%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.61%) Cisco
4 3 (2.61%) Coverity
4 3 (2.61%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.61%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.74%) Infor
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.87%) New Relic
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.87%) Sparx
6 1 (0.87%) Tenable