DevOps Jobs in Kent

DevOps
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 47 23
Rank change year-on-year -18 -24 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 8 61 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.02% 4.08% 9.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 4.98% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 47 38
10th Percentile £52,250 £37,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,125 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,000 £115,000 £60,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 1,226 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 86.17% 82.06% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 313 898 542
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in 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
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 6 May 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
Tunbridge Wells +10 2 £60,000 -7.69%
Folkestone - 2 - -
Dartford +8 1 £55,000 -45.00% 5
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP GRC
2 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) npm
4 1 (12.50%) AWS IoT
4 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) ESLint
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (25.00%) Sinon.JS
1 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (25.00%) webpack
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) IoT Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Integration Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (25.00%) EDI
2 2 (25.00%) EDIFACT
2 2 (25.00%) IDoc
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) FMCG
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) TRADACOMS
3 1 (12.50%) Verilog
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (12.50%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Telematics
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Solace
3 1 (12.50%) VMware