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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 15 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 106 315 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.50% 9.46% 6.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 12.18% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 78 167 82
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,000 £56,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.47% +15.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £66,394 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% -

All Process and 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 1,994 2,586 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 84.63% 77.68% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 1,584 1,039
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +14 49 £70,000 +3.70% 11
Southampton -10 17 £60,000 - 8
Farnborough +7 10 £77,500 -8.82% 6
Eastleigh +2 8 £85,000 +18.06% 4
Portsmouth -29 6 £85,000 +30.77% 4
Winchester +4 3 £70,000 +100.00% 2
Fleet - 3 - -
Gosport +3 2 £85,700 +75.69%
Hook -5 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 17 (16.04%) Apache
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.60%) Appian
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) IIS
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (57.55%) Azure
2 44 (41.51%) AWS
3 41 (38.68%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.32%) GitHub
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.60%) MinIO
6 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.72%) GCP
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.83%) Serverless
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.89%) SaaS
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.26%) DNS
2 7 (6.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.83%) SMTP
4 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) Airbyte
3 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.89%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.89%) DB2
4 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.94%) Big Data
5 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.94%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.94%) MySQL
5 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.94%) Redis
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Robot Framework
1 21 (19.81%) Selenium
2 20 (18.87%) Git
3 19 (17.92%) Snyk
4 12 (11.32%) Jenkins
5 10 (9.43%) GitLab
6 8 (7.55%) Storybook
7 4 (3.77%) JIRA
8 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.89%) Postman
8 2 (1.89%) TestRail
8 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.94%) Gradle
9 1 (0.94%) MSI
General
1 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (0.94%) Advertising
7 1 (0.94%) Billing
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Lead
2 18 (16.98%) Architect
3 15 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Developer
5 11 (10.38%) Lead DevOps
5 11 (10.38%) Senior
6 9 (8.49%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Applications Architect
8 7 (6.60%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.66%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Engineering Manager
11 3 (2.83%) Junior
11 3 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.81%) .NET
2 14 (13.21%) Next.js
3 13 (12.26%) React
4 9 (8.49%) Kafka
5 8 (7.55%) Jest
6 7 (6.60%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (6.60%) RESTful
6 7 (6.60%) YAML
7 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.72%) Middleware
9 3 (2.83%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.83%) REST
10 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.89%) Node.js
10 2 (1.89%) React Native
10 2 (1.89%) Vue
10 2 (1.89%) WPF
11 1 (0.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.60%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.72%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.83%) Life Science
5 3 (2.83%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.83%) PKI
5 3 (2.83%) SCADA
6 2 (1.89%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.36%) Linux
2 20 (18.87%) Windows
3 10 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (8.49%) CentOS
5 6 (5.66%) Android
5 6 (5.66%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) Agile
2 55 (51.89%) CI/CD
3 26 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (23.58%) Test Automation
5 22 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (20.75%) Mentoring
5 22 (20.75%) Microservices
6 21 (19.81%) DevSecOps
6 21 (19.81%) Scrum
7 19 (17.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 19 (17.92%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.92%) Secrets Management
7 19 (17.92%) Test Management
8 17 (16.04%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (15.09%) Roadmaps
10 15 (14.15%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.32%) Computer Science
11 12 (11.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 11 (10.38%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.98%) Python
2 14 (13.21%) C#
3 11 (10.38%) PHP
4 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.49%) SQL
6 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.83%) Bash
9 2 (1.89%) Go
9 2 (1.89%) Java
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.94%) C++
10 1 (0.94%) Korn
10 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) Scala
10 1 (0.94%) Swift
10 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 37 (34.91%) DV Cleared
3 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.21%) Degree
5 7 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.72%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.94%) CISSP
9 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) QA
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.94%) NCSC
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (33.02%) Ansible
2 30 (28.30%) Terraform
3 18 (16.98%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.55%) Grafana
6 2 (1.89%) Nessus
6 2 (1.89%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.94%) Nagios
7 1 (0.94%) WMI
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Black Duck
2 17 (16.04%) Coverity
3 10 (9.43%) VMware
4 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.60%) BiZZdesign
5 7 (6.60%) UiPath
6 5 (4.72%) Blue Prism
7 3 (2.83%) Oracle
7 3 (2.83%) Rockwell
7 3 (2.83%) Siemens
8 2 (1.89%) IBM
9 1 (0.94%) arcserve
9 1 (0.94%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco
9 1 (0.94%) New Relic
9 1 (0.94%) Okta
9 1 (0.94%) Progress
9 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.94%) Splunk
9 1 (0.94%) Veeam