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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 185 130 417
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.07% 6.83% 11.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 7.70% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 139 56 236
10th Percentile £48,750 £34,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,563 £75,313
90th Percentile £85,303 £85,350 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

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 3,215 1,689 2,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 70.72% 88.75% 78.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 1,049 2,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,219 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,268
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -3 44 £67,500 +17.39% 12
Farnborough -17 31 £72,500 +23.40% 10
Basingstoke +14 27 £65,000 +6.34% 3
Fareham - 17 £60,000 - 1
Romsey -2 15 £62,500 +66.67%
Portsmouth +2 10 £67,500 +8.00% 7
Andover - 4 £100,000 -
Fleet -3 2 - -
Gosport -7 2 £60,000 -29.99%
Hook - 2 £67,500 -
Yateley - 2 - -
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 8 (4.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) IIS
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Simulink
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (50.81%) Azure
2 51 (27.57%) AWS
3 30 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.19%) GitHub
5 15 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.03%) Serverless
7 12 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.86%) GCP
9 8 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.32%) SaaS
10 7 (3.78%) Azure AI
10 7 (3.78%) Azure Stack
11 6 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.24%) Datadog
11 6 (3.24%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) Firewall
2 6 (3.24%) VPN
3 5 (2.70%) MQTT
4 4 (2.16%) DNS
4 4 (2.16%) Network Security
5 3 (1.62%) NAS
5 3 (1.62%) SAN
5 3 (1.62%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.08%) BGP
6 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.54%) Broadband
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.62%) MySQL
6 3 (1.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.08%) Metadata
7 2 (1.08%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (25.41%) Git
2 24 (12.97%) GitLab
3 14 (7.57%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (7.03%) JIRA
5 11 (5.95%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.16%) Selenium
7 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.62%) NUnit
7 3 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.62%) Snyk
7 3 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.08%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.08%) JMeter
8 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.54%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 41 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Finance
3 24 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.86%) Marketing
5 8 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.16%) Automotive
7 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.62%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Billing
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (25.41%) Software Engineer
2 33 (17.84%) Senior
3 27 (14.59%) Developer
4 26 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (8.65%) Lead
6 14 (7.57%) .NET Developer
7 13 (7.03%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Security Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Architect
10 10 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.73%) .NET
2 16 (8.65%) React
3 15 (8.11%) ASP.NET
3 15 (8.11%) RESTful
4 13 (7.03%) ARM Templates
4 13 (7.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (4.32%) Vue
5 8 (4.32%) YAML
6 7 (3.78%) .NET Core
6 7 (3.78%) Blazor
6 7 (3.78%) CSS
6 7 (3.78%) HTML
6 7 (3.78%) ML.NET
7 6 (3.24%) Kafka
7 6 (3.24%) REST
8 5 (2.70%) Laravel
8 5 (2.70%) Loki
8 5 (2.70%) Node.js
8 5 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.16%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.89%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 17 (9.19%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.32%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.78%) Social Media
6 6 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.24%) FPGA
7 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.70%) PCIe
7 5 (2.70%) Robotics
7 5 (2.70%) Verilog
7 5 (2.70%) VHDL
8 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.62%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (24.86%) Linux
2 23 (12.43%) Windows
3 15 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.95%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.78%) CentOS
7 5 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.08%) Debian
8 2 (1.08%) Rocky
9 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (53.51%) CI/CD
2 79 (42.70%) Agile
3 69 (37.30%) Software Engineering
4 42 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.84%) AI
6 33 (17.84%) Computer Science
7 32 (17.30%) Observability
8 31 (16.76%) Containerisation
9 30 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (15.68%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (14.59%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.97%) Scrum
13 23 (12.43%) Microservices
13 23 (12.43%) Test Automation
14 21 (11.35%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (10.27%) Decision-Making
15 19 (10.27%) Machine Learning
15 19 (10.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.89%) Python
2 38 (20.54%) C++
3 31 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.22%) C#
5 28 (15.14%) SQL
6 24 (12.97%) PowerShell
7 23 (12.43%) C
8 21 (11.35%) Bash
9 17 (9.19%) PHP
10 16 (8.65%) Java
11 12 (6.49%) TypeScript
12 8 (4.32%) MATLAB
13 7 (3.78%) Bicep
14 6 (3.24%) Go
15 5 (2.70%) Embedded C
15 5 (2.70%) Embedded C++
15 5 (2.70%) Rust
16 2 (1.08%) Ruby
16 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (33.51%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.62%) Degree
3 32 (17.30%) SC Cleared
4 23 (12.43%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.65%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CBAP
9 1 (0.54%) CCA
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.54%) MBA
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.78%) QA
2 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.24%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) NCSC
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (33.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) Firmware
2 5 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) KVM
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (28.65%) Terraform
2 46 (24.86%) Kubernetes
3 26 (14.05%) Ansible
4 13 (7.03%) Nagios
5 10 (5.41%) Grafana
5 10 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.24%) Podman
7 5 (2.70%) Argo
7 5 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.62%) Istio
8 3 (1.62%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.62%) Scalr
9 2 (1.08%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.08%) MIIS
9 2 (1.08%) Rancher
9 2 (1.08%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.54%) Nessus
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
10 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.95%) Splunk
3 6 (3.24%) Databricks
3 6 (3.24%) Oracle
4 3 (1.62%) Google
4 3 (1.62%) Infor
4 3 (1.62%) VMware
5 2 (1.08%) NetApp
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco
6 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.54%) New Relic
6 1 (0.54%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.54%) Sparx
6 1 (0.54%) Veracode