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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 99 164 244
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.41% 9.15% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 11.19% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 75 115 143
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £44,953
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £85,350 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £80,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 2,198 1,466 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 75.61% 81.76% 84.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 959 2,165
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £75,000
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 14 March 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 14 March 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 41 £78,000 +7.59% 6
Southampton -27 16 £60,250 +0.42% 12
Farnborough -7 7 £72,500 +7.41% 6
Andover - 6 - -
Portsmouth -16 5 £83,750 +26.42% 7
Winchester -9 4 £67,500 +3.85%
Eastleigh -13 3 £60,000 -22.58% 5
Fareham -14 2 £100,000 +110.53% 5
Romsey +6 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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) Apache
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.02%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 68 (68.69%) Azure
2 45 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (29.29%) AWS
4 12 (12.12%) GitHub
5 7 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.04%) GCP
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.03%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.03%) Serverless
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.02%) MinIO
8 2 (2.02%) SaaS
9 1 (1.01%) Datadog
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.12%) DNS
2 3 (3.03%) BGP
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 2 (2.02%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (1.01%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.02%) Airbyte
3 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.01%) Big Data
4 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.01%) Metadata
4 1 (1.01%) MySQL
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.01%) Power BI
4 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) Git
2 20 (20.20%) Selenium
3 19 (19.19%) Robot Framework
4 17 (17.17%) GitLab
4 17 (17.17%) Snyk
5 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 7 (7.07%) JIRA
7 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.02%) NUnit
9 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.02%) Storybook
9 2 (2.02%) TestRail
10 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.01%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.01%) JUnit
10 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.01%) Toad
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (4.04%) Marketing
4 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Billing
6 1 (1.01%) Electronics
6 1 (1.01%) Games
6 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.01%) Legal
6 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Lead
2 17 (17.17%) Senior
3 14 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.12%) Architect
6 11 (11.11%) Developer
7 8 (8.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Site Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Applications Architect
11 3 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.15%) .NET
2 7 (7.07%) React
3 6 (6.06%) ASP.NET
3 6 (6.06%) Next.js
3 6 (6.06%) REST
3 6 (6.06%) RESTful
4 5 (5.05%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.04%) JSON
6 3 (3.03%) Kafka
6 3 (3.03%) Middleware
7 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.02%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.02%) Blazor
7 2 (2.02%) Jest
7 2 (2.02%) React Native
7 2 (2.02%) YAML
8 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.01%) FPGA
5 1 (1.01%) GNSS
5 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.01%) IoT
5 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.25%) Linux
2 22 (22.22%) Windows
3 6 (6.06%) Ubuntu
3 6 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.03%) CentOS
6 2 (2.02%) Android
6 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.01%) VMS
7 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 56 (56.57%) Agile
3 40 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (27.27%) Scrum
5 23 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 20 (20.20%) DevSecOps
7 20 (20.20%) Mentoring
7 20 (20.20%) Test Management
8 17 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (17.17%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 17 (17.17%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 17 (17.17%) Roadmaps
8 17 (17.17%) Secrets Management
8 17 (17.17%) Software Engineering
9 14 (14.14%) Observability
10 13 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 12 (12.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.17%) Python
2 13 (13.13%) C#
2 13 (13.13%) PowerShell
3 10 (10.10%) Bash
4 7 (7.07%) C++
4 7 (7.07%) SQL
5 6 (6.06%) Bicep
6 5 (5.05%) C
6 5 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.02%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.01%) Java
9 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.01%) Rust
9 1 (1.01%) SOQL
9 1 (1.01%) SOSL
9 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (41.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.31%) DV Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) Degree
4 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.07%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.01%) CISSP
10 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (2.02%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (15.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.01%) Firmware
2 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (34.34%) Terraform
2 25 (25.25%) Ansible
3 18 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.06%) Grafana
4 6 (6.06%) Nagios
4 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.02%) Nessus
5 2 (2.02%) Sysdig
6 1 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.01%) MIIS
6 1 (1.01%) Podman
6 1 (1.01%) Puppet
6 1 (1.01%) Scalr
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) Black Duck
1 17 (17.17%) Coverity
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.07%) Splunk
4 4 (4.04%) Cisco
5 3 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.02%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.02%) New Relic
6 2 (2.02%) UiPath
6 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.01%) arcserve
7 1 (1.01%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.01%) Databricks
7 1 (1.01%) Okta
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Veeam