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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 187 117 434
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.59% 5.93% 11.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 6.67% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 146 56 221
10th Percentile £50,625 £37,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £61,125 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -5.96% -
75th Percentile £79,688 £84,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 3,616 1,754 2,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 69.39% 88.90% 77.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 1,084 1,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 12 September 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 12 September 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
Southampton -1 51 £70,000 +19.15% 19
Farnborough -23 32 £72,500 +9.43% 15
Basingstoke +3 27 £65,000 +4.00% 12
Romsey -2 15 £62,500 +66.67% 1
Fareham - 15 £60,000 - 1
Portsmouth +2 10 £71,250 - 6
Andover - 4 £100,000 - 1
Fleet +4 2 - -
Gosport -8 2 £60,000 -29.99%
Hook - 2 £67,500 -
Yateley - 2 - - 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 5 (2.67%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.07%) Apache
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Simulink
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 92 (49.20%) Azure
2 56 (29.95%) AWS
3 26 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.09%) GitHub
5 15 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.95%) GCP
6 13 (6.95%) Serverless
7 12 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.28%) SaaS
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.21%) Azure AI
9 6 (3.21%) Datadog
9 6 (3.21%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.60%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) Firewall
2 7 (3.74%) VPN
3 5 (2.67%) DNS
3 5 (2.67%) MQTT
4 4 (2.14%) Network Security
5 3 (1.60%) BGP
5 3 (1.60%) NAS
5 3 (1.60%) SAN
6 2 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.07%) WAN
7 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.67%) MySQL
5 4 (2.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.07%) Metadata
7 2 (1.07%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (25.67%) Git
2 21 (11.23%) GitLab
3 13 (6.95%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.28%) JIRA
6 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.60%) Selenium
6 3 (1.60%) Snyk
7 2 (1.07%) JMeter
7 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.53%) ESLint
8 1 (0.53%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.53%) NUnit
8 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.53%) Storybook
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.72%) Finance
3 18 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.28%) Marketing
5 5 (2.67%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.14%) Automotive
6 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.07%) Banking
8 2 (1.07%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Senior
2 42 (22.46%) Software Engineer
3 37 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.51%) Developer
5 16 (8.56%) .NET Developer
5 16 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Lead
7 12 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Architect
9 10 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Embedded Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.21%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.27%) Terraform
2 19 (10.16%) .NET
3 16 (8.56%) ASP.NET
4 15 (8.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (7.49%) React
5 14 (7.49%) RESTful
6 11 (5.88%) Vue
7 10 (5.35%) ARM Templates
7 10 (5.35%) CSS
8 9 (4.81%) HTML
9 8 (4.28%) Laravel
9 8 (4.28%) YAML
10 6 (3.21%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.21%) Blazor
10 6 (3.21%) Kafka
10 6 (3.21%) ML.NET
10 6 (3.21%) Nuxt
11 5 (2.67%) Loki
11 5 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.67%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.37%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.16%) Algorithms
3 17 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.28%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Social Media
6 6 (3.21%) FPGA
6 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.67%) PCIe
7 5 (2.67%) Robotics
7 5 (2.67%) Verilog
7 5 (2.67%) VHDL
8 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (24.06%) Linux
2 20 (10.70%) Windows
3 11 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.14%) CentOS
5 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.07%) Debian
6 2 (1.07%) Rocky
7 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (54.01%) CI/CD
2 68 (36.36%) Agile
3 65 (34.76%) Software Engineering
4 39 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (19.25%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.11%) AI
7 32 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.58%) Containerisation
9 30 (16.04%) Observability
10 29 (15.51%) Computer Science
11 24 (12.83%) Microservices
11 24 (12.83%) Test Automation
12 23 (12.30%) Scrum
13 22 (11.76%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (10.16%) Decision-Making
14 19 (10.16%) Roadmaps
14 19 (10.16%) SDLC
14 19 (10.16%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.88%) Python
2 34 (18.18%) C++
3 31 (16.58%) C#
3 31 (16.58%) JavaScript
4 27 (14.44%) SQL
5 20 (10.70%) PHP
5 20 (10.70%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.16%) C
7 18 (9.63%) Bash
8 15 (8.02%) Java
9 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.74%) MATLAB
11 6 (3.21%) Bicep
12 5 (2.67%) Embedded C
12 5 (2.67%) Embedded C++
12 5 (2.67%) Go
12 5 (2.67%) Rust
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
13 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.25%) Degree
3 35 (18.72%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.37%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CBAP
8 1 (0.53%) CCA
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.53%) MBA
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.35%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (31.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Firmware
3 4 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.60%) KVM
4 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.07%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.90%) Ansible
3 10 (5.35%) Grafana
3 10 (5.35%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.28%) Nagios
5 5 (2.67%) Argo
5 5 (2.67%) Podman
6 4 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.60%) Istio
7 3 (1.60%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.60%) Scalr
8 2 (1.07%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.07%) Packer
8 2 (1.07%) Rancher
8 2 (1.07%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.53%) MIIS
9 1 (0.53%) Nessus
9 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.67%) Databricks
2 5 (2.67%) Google
2 5 (2.67%) Oracle
2 5 (2.67%) Splunk
3 3 (1.60%) Infor
3 3 (1.60%) VMware
4 2 (1.07%) NetApp
4 2 (1.07%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco
5 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.53%) New Relic
5 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.53%) Sparx
5 1 (0.53%) Veracode