AIOps Job Trends in the South East

AIOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AIOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 - 359
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AIOps 7 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.056% - 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% - 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £52,500
75th Percentile - - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £165,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -45.45% +214.29% -1.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

AIOps 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,387 6,305 12,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.63% 90.16% 85.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,949 3,264 9,157
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AIOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

AIOps job vacancy trend in the South East

AIOps
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIOps

AIOps
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Thames Valley - 3 - - 1
East Sussex - 2 £85,000 -
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
AIOps
England

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Broadband
2 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (42.86%) Games
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Intelligent Automation Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Low-Code
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 4 (57.14%) Intelligent Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
4 3 (42.86%) API Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Application Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Runbook
4 3 (42.86%) Sequence Diagram
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (14.29%) Pega
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) UiPath