DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 187 217
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 89 67 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.65% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.17% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 65 58 121
10th Percentile £24,000 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £56,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £85,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 12,808 5,710 14,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 84.59% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,538 3,601 11,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £35,750
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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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 +18 49 £50,000 -28.57% 21
Berkshire +16 23 £65,000 - 10
Buckinghamshire -11 19 £24,000 -65.71% 8
West Sussex -15 13 £50,000 -16.67%
Hampshire -25 12 £77,500 +19.23% 1
Surrey -18 10 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Oxfordshire -4 7 £75,000 - 3
Kent - 3 £90,000 -
Sussex - 2 £60,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.45%) Terraform
3 33 (37.08%) Azure
4 30 (33.71%) AWS
5 23 (25.84%) Ansible
5 23 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
5 23 (25.84%) Linux
6 22 (24.72%) Kubernetes
7 21 (23.60%) Bash
8 20 (22.47%) GitLab
8 20 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (22.47%) Red Hat
8 20 (22.47%) Security Cleared
9 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.73%) Docker
9 14 (15.73%) Git
10 13 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (14.61%) SaaS
10 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
11 12 (13.48%) Agile
11 12 (13.48%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (13.48%) Ubuntu
12 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.36%) Observability
12 11 (12.36%) OpenShift
12 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
13 10 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (11.24%) Jenkins

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 33 (37.08%) Azure
2 30 (33.71%) AWS
3 23 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (14.61%) SaaS
5 11 (12.36%) OpenShift
6 10 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.11%) GitHub
8 8 (8.99%) Datadog
8 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.74%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.74%) Serverless
10 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.25%) GCP
11 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) DNS
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
2 2 (2.25%) BGP
3 1 (1.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) GitLab
2 14 (15.73%) Git
3 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.62%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.62%) JIRA
6 4 (4.49%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.87%) Finance
2 7 (7.87%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.25%) Games
5 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (8.99%) OAuth
2 8 (8.99%) SAML
3 7 (7.87%) JSON
4 5 (5.62%) REST
5 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.49%) YAML
6 2 (2.25%) React
6 2 (2.25%) Spring
7 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Life Science
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.84%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
5 13 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.48%) Agile
7 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.36%) Observability
8 8 (8.99%) Batch Processing
9 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (7.87%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.74%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (6.74%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (6.74%) Integration Testing
10 6 (6.74%) Microservices
11 5 (5.62%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (5.62%) Secrets Management
11 5 (5.62%) Security Hardening
12 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.60%) Bash
2 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.24%) Python
4 6 (6.74%) Groovy
4 6 (6.74%) Java
5 4 (4.49%) Perl
6 2 (2.25%) Bicep
6 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (40.45%) Terraform
2 23 (25.84%) Ansible
3 22 (24.72%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
4 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Red Hat
2 8 (8.99%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.62%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.25%) Cisco
6 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk
7 1 (1.12%) VMware