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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 45 26
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 -10
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing DevOps 51 46 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.81% 3.47% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 4.44% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 23 37 27
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,000 £44,920
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £115,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% - -

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 1,036 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 76.77% 78.07% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 402 629 400
10th Percentile £25,250 £28,000 £28,450
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,563 £65,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Kent over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

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 23 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Rochester - 8 £85,700 -
Tunbridge Wells +9 6 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Chatham -4 2 £67,500 -3.57%
Folkestone - 2 - -
West Malling - 1 £55,000 - 1
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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.92%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (45.10%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) AWS
3 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (7.84%) Route 53
5 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.88%) Pulumi
6 3 (5.88%) Serverless
7 2 (3.92%) GCP
7 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.96%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) DHCP
1 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 6 (11.76%) Broadband
3 5 (9.80%) SAN
3 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.88%) SSH
4 3 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (1.96%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
1 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.96%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) Maven
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Automotive
3 5 (9.80%) Games
4 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (3.92%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Software Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Technical Support
6 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Technical Support
6 5 (9.80%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Middleware
2 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (5.88%) RESTful
2 3 (5.88%) Web Services
3 2 (3.92%) .NET
3 2 (3.92%) EDI
3 2 (3.92%) EDIFACT
3 2 (3.92%) IDoc
3 2 (3.92%) React
4 1 (1.96%) ADO
4 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (1.96%) JPA
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.96%) Spring
4 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) FMCG
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (5.88%) Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Mentoring
2 20 (39.22%) Agile
3 16 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
7 10 (19.61%) SDLC
8 9 (17.65%) Configuration Management
9 8 (15.69%) Computer Science
9 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (15.69%) Design Patterns
9 8 (15.69%) Logistics
9 8 (15.69%) Open Source
9 8 (15.69%) UML
9 8 (15.69%) Waterfall
10 7 (13.73%) Scrum
11 6 (11.76%) Software Testing
11 6 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) SQL
2 7 (13.73%) Python
3 5 (9.80%) Bicep
3 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.84%) Java
4 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.84%) X++
5 3 (5.88%) Bash
5 3 (5.88%) Go
6 2 (3.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (15.69%) Chartered Engineer
1 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) ISEB
2 6 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (13.73%) QA
3 6 (11.76%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.88%) NIST
5 2 (3.92%) GRC
5 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.84%) Docker
4 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (19.61%) SCCM
3 5 (9.80%) MaaS360
3 5 (9.80%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Argo
4 3 (5.88%) Kustomize
4 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) VMware
3 5 (9.80%) 3PAR
3 5 (9.80%) McAfee
3 5 (9.80%) NetApp
3 5 (9.80%) SolarWinds
3 5 (9.80%) Sophos
3 5 (9.80%) Veeam
4 4 (7.84%) Google
5 3 (5.88%) Thales
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Citrix
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.96%) Solace