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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 162 130 454
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.00% 7.62% 9.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 8.62% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 120 59 271
10th Percentile £48,750 £35,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 2,866 1,508 3,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 70.84% 88.34% 79.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 915 2,737
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -4 39 £67,500 +12.50% 15
Basingstoke +19 27 £71,250 +17.28% 4
Farnborough -18 25 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Romsey 0 14 £62,500 +66.67% 2
Fareham - 10 £65,000 - 4
Andover - 9 £100,000 - 5
Portsmouth -2 6 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Fleet -5 2 - -
Eastleigh -11 2 £60,000 -25.00%
Yateley - 2 - - 1
Hook - 2 £67,500 -
Winchester -24 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 7 (4.32%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.15%) Azure
2 39 (24.07%) AWS
3 32 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.11%) GitHub
5 15 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (7.41%) Serverless
7 8 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.32%) Azure Stack
8 7 (4.32%) GCP
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.70%) Azure AI
9 6 (3.70%) SaaS
10 5 (3.09%) Datadog
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (2.47%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) BGP
1 4 (2.47%) MQTT
1 4 (2.47%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.85%) VPN
3 2 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (0.62%) Broadband
4 1 (0.62%) HTTP
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.62%) Power BI
7 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.62%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (25.31%) Git
2 26 (16.05%) GitLab
3 15 (9.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 12 (7.41%) JIRA
5 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.47%) Selenium
7 3 (1.85%) NUnit
7 3 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.85%) Snyk
7 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.23%) JMeter
8 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.62%) JUnit
9 1 (0.62%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.62%) Toad
General
1 28 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.05%) Finance
3 17 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.32%) Marketing
5 4 (2.47%) Automotive
6 3 (1.85%) Legal
7 2 (1.23%) Electronics
7 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.62%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (28.40%) Software Engineer
2 33 (20.37%) Senior
3 24 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (14.20%) Developer
5 15 (9.26%) Lead
6 14 (8.64%) Embedded Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Security Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Site Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Architect
11 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.49%) .NET
2 16 (9.88%) ASP.NET
3 15 (9.26%) React
4 12 (7.41%) RESTful
5 11 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (6.17%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.32%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.32%) Blazor
7 7 (4.32%) REST
8 6 (3.70%) ML.NET
8 6 (3.70%) YAML
9 5 (3.09%) JSON
9 5 (3.09%) Loki
9 5 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (2.47%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (2.47%) CSS
10 4 (2.47%) HTML
10 4 (2.47%) Kafka
10 4 (2.47%) Vue
11 3 (1.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Algorithms
2 18 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.32%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (4.32%) FPGA
5 6 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.09%) PCIe
6 5 (3.09%) Verilog
6 5 (3.09%) VHDL
7 4 (2.47%) Robotics
8 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.23%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.46%) Linux
2 18 (11.11%) Windows
3 13 (8.02%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.17%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.32%) CentOS
5 7 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (48.77%) CI/CD
2 74 (45.68%) Agile
3 58 (35.80%) Software Engineering
4 38 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (20.37%) Computer Science
6 29 (17.90%) AI
7 27 (16.67%) Observability
8 25 (15.43%) Containerisation
8 25 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (14.20%) Scrum
10 20 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.35%) Kanban
11 19 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 17 (10.49%) SDLC
14 16 (9.88%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (9.88%) Mentoring
15 15 (9.26%) Line Management
15 15 (9.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.72%) Python
2 38 (23.46%) C++
3 29 (17.90%) C#
4 25 (15.43%) JavaScript
5 23 (14.20%) C
6 22 (13.58%) PowerShell
6 22 (13.58%) SQL
7 17 (10.49%) Bash
8 15 (9.26%) Java
9 11 (6.79%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.56%) MATLAB
11 8 (4.94%) Bicep
11 8 (4.94%) PHP
12 6 (3.70%) Go
13 5 (3.09%) Embedded C
13 5 (3.09%) Embedded C++
13 5 (3.09%) Rust
14 2 (1.23%) Ruby
14 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 58 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.46%) Degree
3 27 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.73%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.49%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.47%) QA
3 3 (1.85%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (32.72%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Firmware
3 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (25.31%) Terraform
2 34 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.35%) Ansible
4 13 (8.02%) Nagios
5 6 (3.70%) Grafana
5 6 (3.70%) Podman
5 6 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.85%) Scalr
8 2 (1.23%) Argo
8 2 (1.23%) MIIS
8 2 (1.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) Nessus
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.41%) Splunk
3 4 (2.47%) Databricks
3 4 (2.47%) Oracle
4 3 (1.85%) Cisco
4 3 (1.85%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.85%) Infor
4 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.62%) Sparx
5 1 (0.62%) Tenable
5 1 (0.62%) Veracode