DevOps Jobs in Kent

DevOps
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 21 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 61 105 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.09% 9.14% 12.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 9.55% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 38 43
10th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £48,125 £41,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £63,760 £85,000
South East median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +10.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,226 1,099 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.28% 95.65% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 898 540 713
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,800 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Kent.

Salary trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Kent over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Kent region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Chatham +13 7 £86,000 +28.94% 5
Maidstone -19 6 £110,000 +100.00%
Tunbridge Wells -7 5 £65,000 +8.33%
Sevenoaks -6 4 £41,250 -21.43%
Tonbridge -10 4 £40,000 -
Canterbury -12 3 - -
Westerham - 3 - -
Sittingbourne - 2 £60,000 - 1
Ramsgate - 2 £62,500 -
Sandwich - 2 - -
Dartford -10 1 £100,000 +66.67%
West Malling - 1 £55,000 -
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 42 (68.85%) Azure
2 28 (45.90%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (40.98%) AWS
4 14 (22.95%) PaaS
5 11 (18.03%) GCP
6 10 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (16.39%) IaaS
6 10 (16.39%) Serverless
7 7 (11.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (11.48%) Azure Functions
8 6 (9.84%) Azure App Service
8 6 (9.84%) SaaS
9 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.92%) OneDrive
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (3.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) DHCP
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.39%) Relational Database
3 9 (14.75%) MySQL
3 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (11.48%) DynamoDB
6 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
6 6 (9.84%) Looker
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.64%) Power BI
9 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) NUnit
2 3 (4.92%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
3 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.64%) Vite
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Legal
4 3 (4.92%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Back Office
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Architect
2 9 (14.75%) Backend Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Azure Developer
4 7 (11.48%) AWS Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Principal Data Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior
6 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.56%) C++ Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Cloud Security Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.90%) .NET
2 12 (19.67%) RESTful
3 11 (18.03%) AngularJS
4 10 (16.39%) .NET Framework
4 10 (16.39%) Web Services
5 9 (14.75%) ASP.NET
6 8 (13.11%) .NET Core
6 8 (13.11%) CSS
6 8 (13.11%) HTML
7 7 (11.48%) Blazor
7 7 (11.48%) Entity Framework
7 7 (11.48%) gRPC
8 6 (9.84%) React
9 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (6.56%) CSS3
10 4 (6.56%) HTML5
10 4 (6.56%) LINQ
10 4 (6.56%) WPF
11 3 (4.92%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (4.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.28%) e-Learning
7 2 (3.28%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.64%) Blog
8 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) VMS
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) CI/CD
2 26 (42.62%) Microservices
3 21 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (32.79%) Agile
5 15 (24.59%) Architectural Patterns
6 14 (22.95%) Computer Science
7 13 (21.31%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.03%) Data Protection
8 11 (18.03%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (18.03%) Software Architecture
9 10 (16.39%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (14.75%) Clean Code
10 9 (14.75%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (13.11%) Code Quality
11 8 (13.11%) Data Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (13.11%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) C#
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.56%) C++
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) Java
5 3 (4.92%) Python
6 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
2 12 (19.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (16.39%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.56%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) ISEB
7 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.23%) GDPR
2 10 (16.39%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.39%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Grafana
3 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Google
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) AppDynamics
3 3 (4.92%) Citrix
3 3 (4.92%) New Relic
4 2 (3.28%) Cognizant
4 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.64%) Sitecore