DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 160 146
Rank change year-on-year -62 -14 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 176 318 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 2.11% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 2.33% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 138 195 332
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £58,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -2.07% +20.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,620 13,675 18,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.62% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 8,566 12,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Thames Valley -72 55 £60,000 -25.00% 17
Hampshire -35 52 £58,350 -10.23% 13
East Sussex +45 35 £80,000 +28.00%
Berkshire -33 32 £60,000 -27.27% 9
Surrey +1 28 £62,500 -21.88% 7
Oxfordshire -9 15 £70,000 -6.98% 5
Buckinghamshire -43 8 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Kent -19 3 £110,000 - 1
Middlesex -10 1 £61,339 +2.23%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 176 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 94 (53.41%) Azure
4 89 (50.57%) Kubernetes
5 86 (48.86%) AWS
6 84 (47.73%) Terraform
7 64 (36.36%) Docker
8 55 (31.25%) Python
9 53 (30.11%) Containerisation
10 51 (28.98%) Jenkins
11 49 (27.84%) Security Cleared
12 45 (25.57%) Linux
13 43 (24.43%) SC Cleared
13 43 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (23.30%) Agile
15 39 (22.16%) Ansible
16 35 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
18 33 (18.75%) Git
19 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
20 30 (17.05%) .NET
21 28 (15.91%) Java
21 28 (15.91%) SaaS
21 28 (15.91%) GitLab
22 26 (14.77%) Test Automation
23 24 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
24 23 (13.07%) PowerShell
24 23 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
24 23 (13.07%) SQL
24 23 (13.07%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (3.98%) nginx
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.41%) Azure
2 86 (48.86%) AWS
3 34 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.91%) SaaS
5 16 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (7.39%) IBM Cloud
6 13 (7.39%) PaaS
7 12 (6.82%) Datadog
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub
9 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.55%) GCP
10 7 (3.98%) IaaS
11 6 (3.41%) Serverless
12 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.27%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) DNS
2 4 (2.27%) LAN
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
2 4 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.27%) WAN
3 3 (1.70%) Firewall
4 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.80%) Hadoop
3 18 (10.23%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.55%) Big Data
5 6 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 51 (28.98%) Jenkins
2 33 (18.75%) Git
3 28 (15.91%) GitLab
4 17 (9.66%) JIRA
5 9 (5.11%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.84%) MSBuild
7 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.70%) Selenium
8 3 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.57%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
10 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.52%) Finance
4 8 (4.55%) Retail
5 4 (2.27%) Electronics
5 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.27%) Marketing
5 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.70%) Automotive
7 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.05%) .NET
2 18 (10.23%) Kafka
2 18 (10.23%) Node.js
3 12 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.98%) JSON
6 5 (2.84%) LDAP
6 5 (2.84%) XML
6 5 (2.84%) YAML
7 2 (1.14%) HTML
7 2 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.57%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.57%) REST
8 1 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Blockchain
1 13 (7.39%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (7.39%) Low-Code
2 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.84%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.57%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) VMS
4 2 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Debian
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 53 (30.11%) Containerisation
4 43 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.30%) Agile
6 35 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (14.77%) Test Automation
8 24 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (12.50%) Microservices
11 21 (11.93%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (10.23%) Software Delivery
13 15 (8.52%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (7.95%) Decision-Making
15 13 (7.39%) Business Analysis
15 13 (7.39%) Configuration Management
15 13 (7.39%) Project Management
15 13 (7.39%) Technology Transformation
16 12 (6.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.25%) Python
2 28 (15.91%) Java
3 23 (13.07%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.07%) SQL
4 17 (9.66%) Bash
5 15 (8.52%) Groovy
6 13 (7.39%) Bicep
7 6 (3.41%) Go
8 3 (1.70%) C#
8 3 (1.70%) C++
8 3 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.70%) Perl
8 3 (1.70%) Ruby
9 2 (1.14%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.80%) Degree
4 17 (9.66%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 64 (36.36%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (50.57%) Kubernetes
2 84 (47.73%) Terraform
3 39 (22.16%) Ansible
4 17 (9.66%) Puppet
5 16 (9.09%) Rancher
6 12 (6.82%) Consul
7 7 (3.98%) Kibana
8 4 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.70%) Grafana
9 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
11 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) IBM
3 10 (5.68%) VMware
4 4 (2.27%) SAP
5 3 (1.70%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.70%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.57%) Google