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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 118 318 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.14% 9.50% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 12.25% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 76 171 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £63,500 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.79% +1.54% -

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 1,972 2,596 1,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.96% 77.56% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 1,597 1,074
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £29,575
25th Percentile £33,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +15 49 £70,000 +3.70% 13
Southampton -11 19 £60,000 -2.04% 8
Eastleigh +5 11 £85,000 +17.24% 3
Farnborough +6 9 £66,250 -22.06% 7
Winchester +8 6 £70,000 +100.00% 4
Portsmouth -34 6 £85,000 +30.77% 4
Fleet - 3 - -
Romsey +11 2 - -
Gosport +3 2 £85,700 +75.69%
Hook -6 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 18 (15.25%) Apache
2 9 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.63%) Appian
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.54%) IIS
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.00%) Azure
2 44 (37.29%) AWS
3 41 (34.75%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
4 10 (8.47%) GitHub
5 9 (7.63%) MinIO
5 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.54%) GCP
7 3 (2.54%) Serverless
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.69%) SaaS
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.02%) DNS
2 7 (5.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.54%) SMTP
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.08%) Airbyte
3 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.69%) DB2
4 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.85%) Big Data
5 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.85%) Redis
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (19.49%) Robot Framework
1 23 (19.49%) Selenium
2 21 (17.80%) Snyk
3 20 (16.95%) Git
4 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.78%) GitLab
5 8 (6.78%) Storybook
6 4 (3.39%) JIRA
7 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.69%) Postman
7 2 (1.69%) TestRail
7 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.85%) Gradle
8 1 (0.85%) MSI
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.56%) Finance
3 16 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Billing
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (24.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (19.49%) Lead
3 19 (16.10%) Architect
4 13 (11.02%) Developer
5 11 (9.32%) Lead DevOps
5 11 (9.32%) Senior
6 10 (8.47%) Applications Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.08%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Engineering Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Junior
11 3 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) .NET
2 14 (11.86%) Next.js
3 12 (10.17%) React
4 11 (9.32%) Kafka
5 9 (7.63%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (6.78%) Jest
7 7 (5.93%) YAML
8 6 (5.08%) RESTful
9 5 (4.24%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (4.24%) Middleware
10 3 (2.54%) REST
11 2 (1.69%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.69%) Node.js
11 2 (1.69%) Vue
11 2 (1.69%) WPF
12 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.56%) e-Learning
1 16 (13.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.63%) Low-Code
3 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.24%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Life Science
5 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.54%) PKI
5 3 (2.54%) SCADA
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Linux
2 20 (16.95%) Windows
3 10 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (7.63%) CentOS
5 6 (5.08%) Android
5 6 (5.08%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (61.02%) Agile
2 54 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 41 (34.75%) Test Automation
4 35 (29.66%) Mentoring
5 25 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (20.34%) Microservices
7 22 (18.64%) DevSecOps
8 21 (17.80%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 21 (17.80%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 21 (17.80%) Secrets Management
9 20 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.95%) Test Management
10 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (16.10%) Scrum
10 19 (16.10%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (15.25%) AI
12 17 (14.41%) Coaching
13 16 (13.56%) Containerisation
13 16 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.95%) Python
2 14 (11.86%) C#
3 11 (9.32%) PHP
4 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.63%) SQL
6 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.54%) Bash
9 2 (1.69%) Go
9 2 (1.69%) Java
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Korn
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Perl
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
10 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (39.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.66%) DV Cleared
3 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.86%) Degree
5 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.24%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Ansible
2 32 (27.12%) Terraform
3 17 (14.41%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.78%) Grafana
6 2 (1.69%) Nessus
6 2 (1.69%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) Nagios
7 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (17.80%) Black Duck
2 18 (15.25%) Coverity
3 16 (13.56%) IBM
4 15 (12.71%) Red Hat
5 12 (10.17%) VMware
6 9 (7.63%) BiZZdesign
6 9 (7.63%) UiPath
7 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
8 6 (5.08%) Blue Prism
9 3 (2.54%) Oracle
9 3 (2.54%) Rockwell
9 3 (2.54%) Siemens
10 1 (0.85%) arcserve
10 1 (0.85%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco
10 1 (0.85%) New Relic
10 1 (0.85%) Okta
10 1 (0.85%) Progress
10 1 (0.85%) Splunk
10 1 (0.85%) Veeam