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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 134 145 415
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.73% 9.28% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 10.69% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 104 81 233
10th Percentile £47,875 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,750 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -8.65% +2.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 2,596 1,357 3,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 72.31% 86.88% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 808 2,585
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,463 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -19 32 £67,500 +17.39% 8
Basingstoke +24 25 £76,500 +22.40% 4
Farnborough -15 18 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Romsey +1 13 £62,500 +66.67% 3
Fareham -9 9 £70,000 +47.37% 2
Andover - 9 £100,000 - 5
Portsmouth -3 6 £65,000 -5.45% 4
Eastleigh -9 2 £60,000 -11.11%
Yateley - 2 - - 1
Winchester -22 1 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Hook - 1 £67,500 - 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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (50.75%) Azure
2 33 (24.63%) AWS
3 31 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.45%) GitHub
5 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.72%) Serverless
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.48%) Azure Stack
7 6 (4.48%) GCP
8 5 (3.73%) SaaS
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (2.99%) Datadog
9 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.24%) Azure AI
10 3 (2.24%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) BGP
1 4 (2.99%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) MQTT
3 2 (1.49%) DNS
3 2 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) Broadband
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.49%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (27.61%) Git
2 23 (17.16%) GitLab
3 14 (10.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (8.21%) JIRA
5 6 (4.48%) Selenium
6 5 (3.73%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.99%) Snyk
8 3 (2.24%) NUnit
8 3 (2.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.24%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.49%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.75%) utPLSQL
General
1 22 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.67%) Finance
3 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.99%) Automotive
5 4 (2.99%) Marketing
6 3 (2.24%) Legal
7 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) Software Engineer
2 31 (23.13%) Senior
3 19 (14.18%) Developer
4 17 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (11.19%) Lead
6 11 (8.21%) Embedded Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Security Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.22%) .NET Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Architect
12 5 (3.73%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) .NET
2 12 (8.96%) ASP.NET
3 10 (7.46%) React
4 9 (6.72%) RESTful
5 8 (5.97%) ARM Templates
6 7 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (4.48%) REST
8 5 (3.73%) JSON
8 5 (3.73%) YAML
9 4 (2.99%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (2.99%) Blazor
9 4 (2.99%) CSS
9 4 (2.99%) HTML
9 4 (2.99%) Loki
9 4 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.99%) Vue
10 3 (2.24%) Kafka
10 3 (2.24%) ML.NET
10 3 (2.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Algorithms
2 19 (14.18%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.22%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (5.22%) FPGA
4 6 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.73%) PCIe
5 5 (3.73%) Verilog
5 5 (3.73%) VHDL
6 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Robotics
8 2 (1.49%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.87%) Linux
2 19 (14.18%) Windows
3 12 (8.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.72%) Ubuntu
5 6 (4.48%) CentOS
5 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.49%) CI/CD
2 66 (49.25%) Agile
3 47 (35.07%) Software Engineering
4 35 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (20.15%) Computer Science
6 24 (17.91%) Scrum
7 23 (17.16%) AI
7 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (14.93%) Containerisation
8 20 (14.93%) Observability
9 19 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (14.18%) Kanban
10 18 (13.43%) Test Automation
11 17 (12.69%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.94%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (11.19%) Line Management
13 15 (11.19%) Software Testing
14 14 (10.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.58%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) C++
3 25 (18.66%) C#
4 20 (14.93%) C
5 18 (13.43%) PowerShell
6 17 (12.69%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.69%) SQL
7 14 (10.45%) Bash
8 10 (7.46%) Java
9 9 (6.72%) MATLAB
10 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.48%) Bicep
11 6 (4.48%) PHP
12 5 (3.73%) Embedded C
12 5 (3.73%) Embedded C++
13 4 (2.99%) Go
13 4 (2.99%) Rust
14 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.13%) Degree
3 25 (18.66%) SC Cleared
4 21 (15.67%) DV Cleared
5 14 (10.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CCA
8 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.49%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (34.33%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Firmware
3 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (26.12%) Terraform
2 28 (20.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.93%) Ansible
4 12 (8.96%) Nagios
5 5 (3.73%) Grafana
5 5 (3.73%) Podman
5 5 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.24%) Scalr
8 2 (1.49%) MIIS
8 2 (1.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.75%) Nessus
9 1 (0.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.21%) Splunk
3 4 (2.99%) Databricks
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle
4 3 (2.24%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.24%) Cisco
4 3 (2.24%) Coverity
4 3 (2.24%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.24%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.49%) Infor
6 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.75%) New Relic
6 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.75%) Sparx
6 1 (0.75%) Tenable