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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 14 30
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 90 223 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.36% 10.10% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 12.42% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 67 125 127
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,942
25th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.76% -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 2,078 1,796 2,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 77.54% 81.30% 85.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 1,018 1,820
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £27,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,041 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +14.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +24 42 £80,000 +10.34% 11
Southampton -25 14 £60,500 +0.83% 8
Farnborough -7 6 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Andover - 6 - - 2
Winchester -11 4 £67,500 +3.85%
Portsmouth -17 4 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Eastleigh -9 3 £60,000 -22.58% 2
Romsey +5 1 £70,000 -12.50%
Hook -5 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 3 (3.33%) Apache
1 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.33%) Appian
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 63 (70.00%) Azure
2 43 (47.78%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (34.44%) AWS
4 15 (16.67%) GitHub
5 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.56%) GCP
7 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.33%) MinIO
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.22%) Serverless
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) BGP
2 2 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) Broadband
3 1 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) Airbyte
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.11%) Big Data
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) DB2
4 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.11%) Metadata
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
4 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (25.56%) Git
2 20 (22.22%) Robot Framework
2 20 (22.22%) Selenium
3 18 (20.00%) Snyk
4 17 (18.89%) GitLab
5 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.67%) Storybook
7 5 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (5.56%) JIRA
8 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) TestRail
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.33%) Marketing
4 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Billing
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.11%) Games
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Lead
1 19 (21.11%) Senior
2 13 (14.44%) Architect
2 13 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Developer
4 8 (8.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Software Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Applications Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.00%) .NET
2 10 (11.11%) Next.js
2 10 (11.11%) React
3 6 (6.67%) Jest
4 5 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.56%) REST
4 5 (5.56%) RESTful
5 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
5 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.44%) Kafka
6 3 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 3 (3.33%) YAML
7 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.22%) JSON
7 2 (2.22%) React Native
8 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.11%) FPGA
6 1 (1.11%) GNSS
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.44%) Linux
2 19 (21.11%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) Android
3 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.11%) VMS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) CI/CD
2 55 (61.11%) Agile
3 34 (37.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.11%) Scrum
5 21 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (23.33%) DevSecOps
5 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 21 (23.33%) Test Management
6 18 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 18 (20.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 18 (20.00%) Secrets Management
7 17 (18.89%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (17.78%) Roadmaps
9 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.33%) Build Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 11 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) C#
3 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.67%) Bash
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.56%) SQL
6 4 (4.44%) Bicep
6 4 (4.44%) C++
7 3 (3.33%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.11%) C
8 1 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) Rust
8 1 (1.11%) SOQL
8 1 (1.11%) SOSL
8 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.56%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.11%) Degree
5 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.33%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) NCSC
2 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (32.22%) Terraform
2 24 (26.67%) Ansible
3 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.67%) Grafana
4 6 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.33%) Nagios
6 2 (2.22%) Nessus
6 2 (2.22%) Sysdig
7 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.11%) Podman
7 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Black Duck
1 18 (20.00%) Coverity
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (4.44%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) Blue Prism
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco
4 3 (3.33%) UiPath
4 3 (3.33%) VMware
5 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.22%) New Relic
5 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.11%) arcserve
6 1 (1.11%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.11%) Okta
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Tenable
6 1 (1.11%) Veeam