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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 13 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 124 369 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 6.04% 10.51% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 13.57% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 63 200 95
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 1,845 2,720 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.82% 77.47% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 1,692 1,197
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,808 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +9 37 £65,000 -3.70% 29
Southampton -6 24 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Eastleigh +13 15 £85,000 - 1
Farnborough -1 8 £66,250 -5.36% 5
Portsmouth -28 8 - - 6
Winchester +7 7 - - 2
Romsey +11 6 £37,500 -37.50%
Gosport +2 2 £85,700 +75.69% 1
Fleet - 2 - -
Hook -4 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 19 (15.32%) Apache
2 9 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.26%) Appian
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.42%) IIS
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (56.45%) Azure
2 58 (46.77%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (29.84%) AWS
4 12 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.06%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.26%) GitHub
6 9 (7.26%) MinIO
7 5 (4.03%) SaaS
8 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.42%) GCP
8 3 (2.42%) Serverless
9 2 (1.61%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.61%) PaaS
9 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) DNS
2 7 (5.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.42%) SMTP
4 2 (1.61%) Firewall
4 2 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.61%) VPN
4 2 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.65%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.84%) Airbyte
4 4 (3.23%) MySQL
5 3 (2.42%) Power BI
6 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.61%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.61%) DB2
6 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (16.94%) Git
2 16 (12.90%) Robot Framework
2 16 (12.90%) Selenium
2 16 (12.90%) Snyk
3 8 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.45%) Storybook
4 5 (4.03%) GitLab
5 2 (1.61%) JIRA
5 2 (1.61%) Postman
5 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.81%) Gradle
6 1 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 36 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (18.55%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.10%) Finance
5 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Billing
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (37.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (15.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 18 (14.52%) Lead
5 16 (12.90%) Architect
6 13 (10.48%) Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Applications Architect
8 9 (7.26%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
9 8 (6.45%) Senior
10 7 (5.65%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.84%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.42%) Junior
12 3 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.42%) Software Architect
12 3 (2.42%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.32%) .NET
2 13 (10.48%) Next.js
3 12 (9.68%) React
4 10 (8.06%) Kafka
5 9 (7.26%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (6.45%) Jest
7 7 (5.65%) YAML
8 6 (4.84%) RESTful
9 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.42%) Middleware
10 3 (2.42%) REST
11 2 (1.61%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.61%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.61%) Node.js
11 2 (1.61%) Vue
11 2 (1.61%) WPF
12 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.81%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.23%) e-Learning
1 35 (28.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.26%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.65%) Life Science
4 7 (5.65%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.65%) SCADA
5 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.42%) PKI
7 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.55%) Linux
2 14 (11.29%) Windows
3 9 (7.26%) CentOS
3 9 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.84%) Android
4 6 (4.84%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) Agile
2 54 (43.55%) Mentoring
3 53 (42.74%) Test Automation
4 46 (37.10%) CI/CD
5 37 (29.84%) AI
6 36 (29.03%) Coaching
7 35 (28.23%) Containerisation
8 23 (18.55%) Microservices
9 21 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (12.90%) DevSecOps
11 16 (12.90%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 16 (12.90%) Interactive Application Security Testing
11 16 (12.90%) Scrum
11 16 (12.90%) Secrets Management
12 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 14 (11.29%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.48%) Data Integration
14 13 (10.48%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.35%) Python
2 17 (13.71%) C#
3 15 (12.10%) SQL
4 11 (8.87%) PHP
5 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.61%) Bicep
8 2 (1.61%) Java
8 2 (1.61%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) C++
9 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) Korn
9 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
9 1 (0.81%) Swift
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.97%) DV Cleared
3 18 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.29%) Degree
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (7.26%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.23%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (25.00%) Ansible
2 23 (18.55%) Terraform
3 13 (10.48%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.03%) Grafana
6 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.81%) Nagios
7 1 (0.81%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.81%) WMI
Vendors
1 35 (28.23%) IBM
2 34 (27.42%) Red Hat
3 16 (12.90%) Black Duck
4 13 (10.48%) Coverity
5 12 (9.68%) VMware
6 9 (7.26%) BiZZdesign
6 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
6 9 (7.26%) UiPath
7 7 (5.65%) Rockwell
7 7 (5.65%) Siemens
8 6 (4.84%) Blue Prism
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle
10 2 (1.61%) Databricks
10 2 (1.61%) Meraki
11 1 (0.81%) arcserve
11 1 (0.81%) Cisco
11 1 (0.81%) Okta
11 1 (0.81%) Progress
11 1 (0.81%) Splunk
11 1 (0.81%) Veeam