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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 90 177 206
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.29% 8.91% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 11.02% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 67 120 133
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,203
25th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £88,875 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £94,500
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 2,100 1,606 2,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 76.70% 80.87% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 970 1,914
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,961 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +11.92% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 28 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 28 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 +25 43 £80,000 +10.34% 7
Southampton -28 12 £60,500 +0.83% 8
Farnborough -9 6 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Andover - 6 - - 2
Winchester -11 4 £67,500 +3.85%
Portsmouth -17 4 £85,000 +21.43% 3
Eastleigh -11 3 £60,000 -22.58% 2
Romsey +1 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 2 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 62 (68.89%) Azure
2 43 (47.78%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (32.22%) AWS
4 13 (14.44%) GitHub
5 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.44%) GCP
6 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.33%) MinIO
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) BGP
2 2 (2.22%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.11%) Broadband
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%) Relational Database
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 24 (26.67%) Git
2 20 (22.22%) Robot Framework
2 20 (22.22%) Selenium
3 18 (20.00%) GitLab
3 18 (20.00%) Snyk
4 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (7.78%) JIRA
6 6 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.33%) Storybook
8 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) TestRail
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.11%) JUnit
9 1 (1.11%) NUnit
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Marketing
4 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.11%) Billing
5 1 (1.11%) Electronics
5 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.11%) Games
5 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Lead
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 13 (14.44%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Software Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Applications Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) .NET
2 8 (8.89%) Next.js
2 8 (8.89%) React
3 5 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.56%) RESTful
4 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.44%) Kafka
4 4 (4.44%) REST
5 3 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.33%) Jest
5 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.22%) JSON
6 2 (2.22%) React Native
7 1 (1.11%) Kendo UI
7 1 (1.11%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.11%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (1.11%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
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 23 (25.56%) Linux
2 20 (22.22%) Windows
3 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) Android
4 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.33%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) VMS
5 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 55 (61.11%) Agile
3 36 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (32.22%) 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%) Continuous Integration
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 16 (17.78%) Roadmaps
8 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 13 (14.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 12 (13.33%) Build Automation
11 11 (12.22%) Software Testing
11 11 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) Python
2 13 (14.44%) C#
3 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.78%) Bash
5 6 (6.67%) C++
6 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.56%) SQL
6 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.44%) Bicep
8 3 (3.33%) C
9 2 (2.22%) Go
9 2 (2.22%) MATLAB
9 2 (2.22%) PHP
10 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.11%) Rust
10 1 (1.11%) SOQL
10 1 (1.11%) SOSL
10 1 (1.11%) Swift
10 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.56%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) Degree
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.33%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CISSP
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Terraform
2 24 (26.67%) Ansible
3 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) 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 5 (5.56%) Splunk
4 4 (4.44%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.33%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.33%) Cisco
5 3 (3.33%) UiPath
5 3 (3.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
6 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.11%) arcserve
7 1 (1.11%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.11%) Okta
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) Tenable
7 1 (1.11%) Veeam