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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 126 136 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.51% 8.38% 10.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 9.77% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 100 77 225
10th Percentile £48,625 £41,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.77% +2.31%
75th Percentile £80,313 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £81,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -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 2,583 1,392 3,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 71.97% 85.82% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 860 2,531
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,725 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -24 27 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Basingstoke +36 25 £78,000 +15.56% 2
Farnborough -17 15 £72,500 +7.41% 8
Romsey -3 13 £62,500 +66.67% 3
Andover - 9 £100,000 - 4
Fareham -10 8 £72,500 +52.63% 6
Portsmouth -7 7 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Eastleigh -8 3 £60,000 -22.58%
Yateley - 2 - - 1
Winchester -20 1 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Hook - 1 £67,500 -
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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.17%) Azure
2 32 (25.40%) AWS
3 31 (24.60%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.90%) GitHub
5 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.14%) Serverless
7 8 (6.35%) GCP
8 6 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Stack
9 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.97%) SaaS
10 4 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.38%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.38%) Datadog
11 3 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) BGP
1 4 (3.17%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.38%) Firewall
2 3 (2.38%) MQTT
3 2 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.79%) Broadband
4 1 (0.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.79%) Power BI
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (27.78%) Git
2 24 (19.05%) GitLab
3 14 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (7.94%) JIRA
5 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.76%) Selenium
7 4 (3.17%) Snyk
8 3 (2.38%) NUnit
8 3 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.38%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.59%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.79%) utPLSQL
General
1 20 (15.87%) Finance
1 20 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.38%) Automotive
4 3 (2.38%) Legal
4 3 (2.38%) Marketing
5 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.79%) Electronics
6 1 (0.79%) Games
6 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (26.19%) Software Engineer
2 29 (23.02%) Senior
3 17 (13.49%) Developer
4 14 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.11%) Lead
5 9 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Security Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Site Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.32%) .NET
2 10 (7.94%) ASP.NET
3 9 (7.14%) React
3 9 (7.14%) RESTful
4 7 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 6 (4.76%) REST
6 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (3.97%) JSON
7 4 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.17%) YAML
8 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.38%) Blazor
8 3 (2.38%) CSS
8 3 (2.38%) HTML
8 3 (2.38%) Kafka
8 3 (2.38%) Loki
8 3 (2.38%) OpenID
8 3 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (2.38%) Vue
9 2 (1.59%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Algorithms
2 19 (15.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.76%) FPGA
5 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.17%) PCIe
6 4 (3.17%) Verilog
6 4 (3.17%) VHDL
7 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.38%) Robotics
8 2 (1.59%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.59%) IoT
8 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.98%) Linux
2 17 (13.49%) Windows
3 11 (8.73%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.35%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.97%) CentOS
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.17%) CI/CD
2 65 (51.59%) Agile
3 42 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 37 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.63%) Scrum
6 25 (19.84%) Computer Science
7 22 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.87%) Kanban
10 19 (15.08%) AI
10 19 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 19 (15.08%) Observability
11 18 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (12.70%) Mentoring
13 16 (12.70%) Roadmaps
13 16 (12.70%) Software Testing
13 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
14 15 (11.90%) Line Management
15 14 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.75%) Python
2 29 (23.02%) C++
3 23 (18.25%) C#
4 16 (12.70%) C
4 16 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 14 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.11%) SQL
6 12 (9.52%) Bash
7 8 (6.35%) Java
7 8 (6.35%) MATLAB
8 6 (4.76%) Bicep
8 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.97%) PHP
10 4 (3.17%) Embedded C
10 4 (3.17%) Embedded C++
10 4 (3.17%) Rust
11 3 (2.38%) Go
12 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (42.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.02%) Degree
3 26 (20.63%) SC Cleared
4 22 (17.46%) DV Cleared
5 12 (9.52%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) CCA
8 1 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
8 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.59%) NCSC
4 2 (1.59%) NIST
4 2 (1.59%) QA
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Firmware
3 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (26.19%) Terraform
2 27 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.08%) Ansible
4 11 (8.73%) Nagios
5 4 (3.17%) Grafana
5 4 (3.17%) Podman
5 4 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.38%) Scalr
7 2 (1.59%) MIIS
7 2 (1.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) Nessus
8 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Splunk
3 4 (3.17%) Databricks
4 3 (2.38%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.38%) Cisco
4 3 (2.38%) Coverity
4 3 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.38%) Oracle
4 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.59%) Infor
6 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.79%) New Relic
6 1 (0.79%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Sparx
6 1 (0.79%) Tenable