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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 +12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 186 115 403
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.50% 5.88% 10.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 6.58% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 145 55 206
10th Percentile £50,250 £41,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 3,684 1,748 2,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 69.37% 89.32% 77.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,616 1,087 1,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 50 £72,500 +20.83% 19
Farnborough -22 32 £72,500 +9.43% 21
Basingstoke +2 28 £62,500 -1.96% 22
Romsey -7 15 £62,500 +66.67% 8
Fareham - 15 £60,000 - 3
Portsmouth +5 9 £72,500 - 8
Andover - 4 £100,000 - 1
Fleet +2 2 - - 1
Gosport -10 2 £60,000 -29.99%
Hook - 2 £67,500 -
Yateley - 2 - - 1
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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 4 (2.15%) IIS
3 3 (1.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Simulink
2 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (48.39%) Azure
2 54 (29.03%) AWS
3 23 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.68%) GitHub
5 16 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.99%) GCP
7 11 (5.91%) Serverless
8 10 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.76%) SaaS
10 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.23%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.15%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.15%) Datadog
11 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.61%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.84%) Firewall
2 7 (3.76%) VPN
3 5 (2.69%) DNS
3 5 (2.69%) MQTT
4 4 (2.15%) Network Security
5 3 (1.61%) NAS
5 3 (1.61%) SAN
6 2 (1.08%) BGP
6 2 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.30%) MySQL
3 7 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.61%) Metadata
6 3 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.08%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.54%) Parquet
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (27.96%) Git
2 23 (12.37%) GitLab
3 12 (6.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.84%) JIRA
6 3 (1.61%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.61%) Snyk
7 2 (1.08%) ESLint
7 2 (1.08%) JMeter
7 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 2 (1.08%) Storybook
7 2 (1.08%) Vite
8 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.54%) Subversion
8 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.28%) Finance
3 16 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.84%) Marketing
5 6 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.15%) Automotive
7 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Billing
8 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Electronics
9 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (23.12%) Senior
2 42 (22.58%) Software Engineer
3 39 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (16.13%) Developer
5 17 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (8.60%) .NET Developer
7 14 (7.53%) Lead
8 13 (6.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.91%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.38%) Architect
12 9 (4.84%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (4.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (4.84%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.81%) Terraform
2 18 (9.68%) .NET
3 15 (8.06%) ASP.NET
3 15 (8.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (7.53%) React
4 14 (7.53%) RESTful
4 14 (7.53%) Vue
5 13 (6.99%) CSS
6 11 (5.91%) HTML
6 11 (5.91%) Laravel
7 10 (5.38%) ARM Templates
8 8 (4.30%) Nuxt
9 7 (3.76%) CakePHP
9 7 (3.76%) HTML5
9 7 (3.76%) Symfony
10 6 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.23%) Blazor
10 6 (3.23%) ML.NET
10 6 (3.23%) Node.js
10 6 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.98%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.22%) Algorithms
3 16 (8.60%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.30%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.76%) Social Media
6 6 (3.23%) FPGA
6 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.69%) PCIe
7 5 (2.69%) Robotics
7 5 (2.69%) Verilog
7 5 (2.69%) VHDL
8 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.61%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.81%) Linux
2 21 (11.29%) Windows
3 11 (5.91%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.15%) CentOS
5 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.08%) Debian
6 2 (1.08%) Rocky
7 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 70 (37.63%) Agile
3 64 (34.41%) Software Engineering
4 38 (20.43%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.20%) AI
7 32 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 30 (16.13%) Computer Science
10 27 (14.52%) Observability
11 26 (13.98%) Scrum
11 26 (13.98%) Test Automation
12 25 (13.44%) Microservices
13 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (10.22%) Decision-Making
14 19 (10.22%) SDLC
14 19 (10.22%) Software Architecture
14 19 (10.22%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.03%) Python
2 34 (18.28%) C++
3 33 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.13%) C#
5 26 (13.98%) SQL
6 24 (12.90%) PHP
7 19 (10.22%) C
8 17 (9.14%) Bash
8 17 (9.14%) PowerShell
9 15 (8.06%) Java
10 13 (6.99%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.76%) MATLAB
12 5 (2.69%) Embedded C
12 5 (2.69%) Embedded C++
12 5 (2.69%) Go
12 5 (2.69%) Rust
13 4 (2.15%) Bicep
14 2 (1.08%) Ruby
14 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.89%) Degree
3 35 (18.82%) SC Cleared
4 26 (13.98%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.08%) CBAP
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CCA
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.99%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) NCSC
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (30.65%) Docker
2 5 (2.69%) Firmware
3 4 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.61%) KVM
4 3 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.52%) Ansible
3 8 (4.30%) Grafana
3 8 (4.30%) Nagios
3 8 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.69%) Argo
4 5 (2.69%) Podman
5 4 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.61%) Istio
6 3 (1.61%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.08%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.08%) Packer
7 2 (1.08%) Rancher
7 2 (1.08%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.54%) Nessus
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Scalr
Vendors
1 27 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.69%) Databricks
2 5 (2.69%) Google
2 5 (2.69%) Oracle
2 5 (2.69%) Splunk
3 3 (1.61%) Infor
3 3 (1.61%) VMware
4 2 (1.08%) NetApp
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.54%) New Relic
5 1 (0.54%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.54%) Sparx
5 1 (0.54%) Veracode