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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 105 121 386
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.99% 7.80% 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 9.34% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 80 82 208
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.43% +6.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £80,000 £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 2,514 1,295 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 71.54% 83.49% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 877 2,477
10th Percentile £29,025 £28,500 £27,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 3 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 3 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 +37 24 £80,000 +10.34% 2
Southampton -25 19 £67,500 +17.39% 13
Romsey +3 11 £57,500 +53.33% 4
Farnborough -17 11 £72,500 +7.41% 5
Portsmouth -15 7 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Andover - 7 £115,000 - 5
Fareham -17 4 £112,500 +136.84% 9
Eastleigh -11 3 £60,000 -16.67%
Winchester -24 3 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Yateley - 2 - -
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 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.33%) Azure
2 30 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (21.90%) AWS
4 11 (10.48%) GitHub
5 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 5 (4.76%) Serverless
7 4 (3.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.81%) SaaS
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.86%) Datadog
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) BGP
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
2 3 (2.86%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.95%) Broadband
4 1 (0.95%) Network Security
4 1 (0.95%) VPN
4 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.90%) Metadata
4 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.95%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) Git
2 21 (20.00%) GitLab
3 14 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (8.57%) JIRA
5 8 (7.62%) Jenkins
6 6 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (5.71%) Selenium
7 4 (3.81%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.86%) NUnit
8 3 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.86%) Snyk
9 2 (1.90%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.95%) JUnit
10 1 (0.95%) TestRail
10 1 (0.95%) utPLSQL
General
1 17 (16.19%) Finance
2 15 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Legal
4 3 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.95%) Electronics
5 1 (0.95%) Games
5 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.95%) Military
5 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Senior
2 23 (21.90%) Software Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) Lead
5 12 (11.43%) Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Architect
6 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Site Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.57%) .NET
2 7 (6.67%) RESTful
3 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET
3 6 (5.71%) React
3 6 (5.71%) REST
4 5 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.81%) JSON
6 3 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.86%) Loki
6 3 (2.86%) OpenID
6 3 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.86%) YAML
7 2 (1.90%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.90%) Blazor
7 2 (1.90%) Laravel
7 2 (1.90%) Middleware
7 2 (1.90%) Next.js
7 2 (1.90%) OAuth
7 2 (1.90%) React Native
8 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Algorithms
1 17 (16.19%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) FPGA
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.90%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) PCIe
6 2 (1.90%) Verilog
6 2 (1.90%) VHDL
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.81%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.86%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (51.43%) Agile
2 53 (50.48%) CI/CD
3 31 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (27.62%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (20.95%) Scrum
6 21 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 18 (17.14%) Observability
8 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.24%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (15.24%) Mentoring
10 15 (14.29%) Line Management
11 14 (13.33%) Kanban
11 14 (13.33%) Software Testing
12 13 (12.38%) Software Architecture
13 12 (11.43%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.43%) Roadmaps
13 12 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.62%) Python
2 23 (21.90%) C++
3 19 (18.10%) C#
4 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.48%) Bash
5 11 (10.48%) C
6 8 (7.62%) SQL
7 6 (5.71%) Bicep
8 5 (4.76%) MATLAB
9 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.81%) PHP
10 2 (1.90%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.90%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.90%) Go
10 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.95%) SOQL
11 1 (0.95%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.00%) Degree
3 20 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.52%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CCA
8 1 (0.95%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.86%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.90%) NCSC
3 2 (1.90%) NIST
3 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (29.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Firmware
3 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (24.76%) Terraform
2 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.43%) Ansible
4 8 (7.62%) Nagios
5 5 (4.76%) Grafana
5 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.86%) Scalr
7 2 (1.90%) MIIS
7 2 (1.90%) Nessus
8 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.95%) Packer
8 1 (0.95%) Podman
8 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Splunk
3 4 (3.81%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.86%) Cisco
4 3 (2.86%) Coverity
4 3 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.90%) Infor
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle
6 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.95%) New Relic
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Sparx
6 1 (0.95%) Tenable