DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 214 120
Rank change year-on-year +4 -94 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 110 193 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 1.11% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.18% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 54 165 215
10th Percentile £47,375 - £53,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,875 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £89,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 9,055 16,323 11,053
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 94.24% 90.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,058 11,528 7,534
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 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
Hampshire +45 51 £67,500 +28.57% 12
Thames Valley +30 25 £70,000 -3.45% 13
Berkshire +28 20 £65,000 -21.21% 3
West Sussex +40 13 £60,000 - 3
Surrey +8 13 £70,000 +27.27% 5
East Sussex +8 4 £85,000 +17.24% 3
Kent +24 3 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +18 3 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Oxfordshire +36 2 £63,750 -12.07% 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, 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.

1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (45.45%) Azure
3 46 (41.82%) Agile
4 42 (38.18%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (37.27%) Mentoring
6 39 (35.45%) Kubernetes
6 39 (35.45%) Containerisation
6 39 (35.45%) AWS
6 39 (35.45%) Test Automation
7 37 (33.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (32.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 36 (32.73%) IBM
9 35 (31.82%) e-Learning
9 35 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 35 (31.82%) Coaching
10 34 (30.91%) Terraform
10 34 (30.91%) Red Hat
11 29 (26.36%) Python
12 26 (23.64%) Linux
13 22 (20.00%) Serverless
14 21 (19.09%) Docker
15 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
16 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (16.36%) Jenkins
17 17 (15.45%) Active Directory
18 16 (14.55%) Windows
18 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
18 16 (14.55%) Deployment Automation
18 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
18 16 (14.55%) AWS Lambda

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 5 (4.55%) nginx
2 4 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.45%) Azure
2 42 (38.18%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (35.45%) AWS
4 22 (20.00%) Serverless
5 16 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (6.36%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.45%) AWS KMS
9 5 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.64%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.64%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.64%) CloudFront
10 4 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.64%) SSL
2 13 (11.82%) SSH
3 11 (10.00%) Broadband
4 7 (6.36%) Firewall
5 4 (3.64%) DNS
6 2 (1.82%) FTP
6 2 (1.82%) HTTP
6 2 (1.82%) Internet
6 2 (1.82%) Network Security
6 2 (1.82%) SMTP
7 1 (0.91%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.91%) IPsec
7 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.55%) MySQL
3 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.91%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.91%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.82%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) MSBuild
General
1 37 (33.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
2 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Finance
4 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) RESTful
1 11 (10.00%) Web Services
2 6 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.55%) .NET
4 4 (3.64%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.64%) Loki
5 2 (1.82%) LAMP
6 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.91%) JSON
6 1 (0.91%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.91%) Node.js
6 1 (0.91%) React
6 1 (0.91%) REST
6 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.82%) e-Learning
1 35 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.91%) Onboarding
4 11 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (10.00%) Cyberattack
4 11 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 11 (10.00%) PKI
5 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) IoT
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.91%) Life Science
7 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.64%) Linux
2 16 (14.55%) Windows
3 4 (3.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.82%) VMS
4 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (41.82%) Agile
3 41 (37.27%) Mentoring
4 39 (35.45%) Containerisation
4 39 (35.45%) Test Automation
5 36 (32.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 35 (31.82%) Coaching
7 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (14.55%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (14.55%) Microservices
10 15 (13.64%) Key Management
11 13 (11.82%) Server Management
12 12 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
13 11 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 11 (10.00%) Use Case
13 11 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 7 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (5.45%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.36%) Python
2 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.36%) C#
3 7 (6.36%) Java
4 5 (4.55%) Perl
4 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.55%) SQL
5 4 (3.64%) Bash
5 4 (3.64%) Bicep
5 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.64%) PHP
6 3 (2.73%) Go
6 3 (2.73%) Groovy
7 2 (1.82%) C
7 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (0.91%) GDPR
2 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 21 (19.09%) Docker
2 17 (15.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.82%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.91%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 39 (35.45%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.91%) Terraform
3 10 (9.09%) Ansible
4 8 (7.27%) Grafana
4 8 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.64%) Nessus
5 4 (3.64%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.82%) Kubespray
7 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.91%) Nagios
7 1 (0.91%) Packer
7 1 (0.91%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (32.73%) IBM
2 34 (30.91%) Red Hat
3 13 (11.82%) Rackspace
4 11 (10.00%) Thales
5 4 (3.64%) Juniper
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) VMware
7 1 (0.91%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) Splunk