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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 -13 +20
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 181 123 385
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.38% 6.04% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 6.74% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 142 61 203
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,500 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,717 1,825 2,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 69.37% 89.68% 77.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 1,150 1,734
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £33,900
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 0 52 £73,250 +22.08% 38
Farnborough -26 30 £72,500 +9.43% 23
Basingstoke -5 26 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Romsey -9 14 £62,500 +66.67% 7
Fareham - 14 £58,750 - 3
Portsmouth 0 10 £77,500 - 12
Andover - 3 £100,000 -
Fleet +5 2 - - 3
Hook -6 2 £67,500 - 2
Gosport -14 2 £60,000 -29.99%
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 6 (3.31%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) Apache
2 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Simulink
2 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 88 (48.62%) Azure
2 50 (27.62%) AWS
3 24 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.39%) GitHub
5 16 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.18%) GCP
7 10 (5.52%) Serverless
8 8 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.87%) SaaS
10 6 (3.31%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.21%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.66%) Datadog
13 3 (1.66%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.10%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Firewall
2 7 (3.87%) VPN
3 5 (2.76%) DNS
3 5 (2.76%) MQTT
4 4 (2.21%) Network Security
5 3 (1.66%) NAS
5 3 (1.66%) SAN
6 2 (1.10%) BGP
6 2 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.42%) MySQL
3 6 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.66%) Metadata
5 3 (1.66%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.66%) Redis
5 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.10%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Parquet
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (28.73%) Git
2 21 (11.60%) GitLab
3 10 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.87%) JIRA
5 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.66%) Snyk
6 2 (1.10%) ESLint
6 2 (1.10%) JMeter
6 2 (1.10%) Selenium
6 2 (1.10%) Storybook
6 2 (1.10%) Vite
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) ERwin
7 1 (0.55%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.55%) Subversion
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Finance
3 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.97%) Marketing
5 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.76%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.21%) Automotive
7 4 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Billing
8 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (22.10%) Software Engineer
3 39 (21.55%) Senior
4 30 (16.57%) Developer
5 18 (9.94%) .NET Developer
5 18 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Lead
6 14 (7.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (7.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Security Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.42%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) PHP Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Kubernetes Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.41%) Terraform
2 20 (11.05%) .NET
3 17 (9.39%) ASP.NET
3 17 (9.39%) ASP.NET Core
4 16 (8.84%) Vue
5 13 (7.18%) CSS
6 12 (6.63%) React
6 12 (6.63%) RESTful
7 11 (6.08%) HTML
8 10 (5.52%) ARM Templates
9 9 (4.97%) Laravel
10 8 (4.42%) Node.js
10 8 (4.42%) Nuxt
11 7 (3.87%) CakePHP
11 7 (3.87%) HTML5
11 7 (3.87%) Symfony
12 6 (3.31%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.31%) Blazor
12 6 (3.31%) ML.NET
12 6 (3.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.36%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.39%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.39%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.42%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (3.87%) Social Media
5 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.31%) FPGA
5 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.76%) PCIe
6 5 (2.76%) Robotics
6 5 (2.76%) Verilog
6 5 (2.76%) VHDL
7 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.66%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.41%) Linux
2 20 (11.05%) Windows
3 10 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.21%) CentOS
5 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.10%) Debian
6 2 (1.10%) Rocky
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (55.25%) CI/CD
2 62 (34.25%) Agile
2 62 (34.25%) Software Engineering
3 39 (21.55%) Platform Engineering
4 34 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (17.13%) AI
6 31 (17.13%) Containerisation
7 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.92%) Computer Science
8 27 (14.92%) Test Automation
9 25 (13.81%) Microservices
10 24 (13.26%) Observability
11 23 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (12.15%) Software Delivery
13 21 (11.60%) Mentoring
13 21 (11.60%) Scrum
14 19 (10.50%) Clean Code
14 19 (10.50%) Decision-Making
15 18 (9.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.73%) Python
2 33 (18.23%) JavaScript
3 31 (17.13%) C++
4 30 (16.57%) C#
5 26 (14.36%) SQL
6 22 (12.15%) PHP
7 18 (9.94%) C
8 16 (8.84%) Bash
8 16 (8.84%) PowerShell
9 15 (8.29%) Java
9 15 (8.29%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.87%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.76%) Embedded C
11 5 (2.76%) Embedded C++
11 5 (2.76%) Go
11 5 (2.76%) Rust
12 4 (2.21%) Bicep
13 2 (1.10%) Ruby
13 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.34%) Degree
3 33 (18.23%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.36%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.97%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.66%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.10%) CBAP
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CCA
9 1 (0.55%) CSPO
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) QA
2 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (29.28%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Firmware
3 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.66%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.66%) KVM
4 3 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (28.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.36%) Ansible
3 7 (3.87%) Grafana
3 7 (3.87%) Nagios
3 7 (3.87%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.76%) Argo
4 5 (2.76%) Podman
5 4 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.66%) Istio
6 3 (1.66%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.10%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.10%) Packer
7 2 (1.10%) Rancher
7 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) Nessus
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.76%) Google
2 5 (2.76%) Oracle
2 5 (2.76%) Splunk
3 4 (2.21%) Databricks
4 3 (1.66%) VMware
5 2 (1.10%) NetApp
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.55%) Infor
6 1 (0.55%) New Relic
6 1 (0.55%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.55%) Veracode