DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 125 194
Rank change year-on-year -71 +69 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 170 310 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.13% 2.68% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.92% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 146 205 291
10th Percentile - £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.33% - +11.11%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 July 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 July 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
Hampshire -26 73 £55,000 -26.67%
Surrey +1 48 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Thames Valley -78 33 £72,500 +3.57% 4
Berkshire -50 17 £82,500 +4.76% 1
Oxfordshire -34 10 £72,500 +7.41% 2
East Sussex +19 8 £72,500 +16.00% 1
Kent -21 6 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Buckinghamshire -24 6 £57,500 -17.86% 1
West Sussex -5 1 £60,000 -11.11%
Middlesex -16 1 £61,339 +2.23%
Sussex - 1 £60,000 -
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 122 (71.76%) Azure
3 101 (59.41%) AWS
4 87 (51.18%) Python
5 74 (43.53%) Java
6 72 (42.35%) SQL
7 69 (40.59%) SC Cleared
7 69 (40.59%) Security Cleared
8 66 (38.82%) Kubernetes
9 65 (38.24%) CI/CD
10 59 (34.71%) Terraform
10 59 (34.71%) Node.js
11 57 (33.53%) Hadoop
11 57 (33.53%) PostgreSQL
11 57 (33.53%) Docker
12 55 (32.35%) Kafka
12 55 (32.35%) MongoDB
13 49 (28.82%) Containerisation
14 42 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 41 (24.12%) Azure DevOps
16 40 (23.53%) Git
17 38 (22.35%) Agile
18 35 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (17.06%) Jenkins
20 27 (15.88%) Social Skills
21 26 (15.29%) Ansible
22 25 (14.71%) Linux
22 25 (14.71%) PowerShell
23 21 (12.35%) Bash
24 19 (11.18%) SaaS

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 4 (2.35%) IIS
1 4 (2.35%) nginx
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 122 (71.76%) Azure
2 101 (59.41%) AWS
3 41 (24.12%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (11.18%) SaaS
5 12 (7.06%) IBM Cloud
6 11 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.88%) PaaS
8 9 (5.29%) Azure AKS
8 9 (5.29%) GCP
8 9 (5.29%) GitHub
9 8 (4.71%) Azure Pipelines
9 8 (4.71%) Serverless
10 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.12%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.53%) IaaS
12 5 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) DNS
1 3 (1.76%) Firewall
1 3 (1.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (33.53%) Hadoop
1 57 (33.53%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (32.35%) MongoDB
3 18 (10.59%) Big Data
4 15 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 13 (7.65%) NoSQL
6 11 (6.47%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (23.53%) Git
2 29 (17.06%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.88%) GitLab
4 9 (5.29%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.53%) Selenium
6 5 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.35%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.76%) JIRA
8 3 (1.76%) JUnit
9 1 (0.59%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.59%) Subversion
9 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.59%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 27 (15.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.59%) Finance
3 10 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.71%) Marketing
5 6 (3.53%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.76%) Automotive
7 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.18%) Electronics
7 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.18%) Retail
7 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.59%) Advertising
8 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.71%) Node.js
2 55 (32.35%) Kafka
3 14 (8.24%) .NET
4 10 (5.88%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.12%) RESTful
6 6 (3.53%) JSON
7 5 (2.94%) XML
8 4 (2.35%) Loki
8 4 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.76%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.76%) YAML
10 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.18%) HTML
10 2 (1.18%) LDAP
11 1 (0.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.06%) Blockchain
2 12 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.35%) Replication
4 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.71%) Linux
2 6 (3.53%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) CentOS
3 2 (1.18%) Debian
3 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 49 (28.82%) Containerisation
4 42 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (22.35%) Agile
6 35 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (11.18%) DevSecOps
8 16 (9.41%) Software Engineering
9 15 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (8.82%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.82%) Microservices
10 14 (8.24%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (7.65%) High Availability
11 13 (7.65%) SDLC
11 13 (7.65%) Software Testing
12 12 (7.06%) Business Analysis
12 12 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (7.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (51.18%) Python
2 74 (43.53%) Java
3 72 (42.35%) SQL
4 25 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 21 (12.35%) Bash
6 14 (8.24%) Bicep
7 10 (5.88%) Groovy
8 7 (4.12%) C#
8 7 (4.12%) C++
9 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.18%) C
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) Go
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (40.59%) SC Cleared
1 69 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.82%) Degree
3 11 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) QA
2 5 (2.94%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (33.53%) Docker
2 12 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 59 (34.71%) Terraform
3 26 (15.29%) Ansible
4 13 (7.65%) Puppet
5 8 (4.71%) Grafana
5 8 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.76%) Podman
8 2 (1.18%) Consul
8 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.59%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (7.06%) IBM
2 11 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.94%) Veracode
4 4 (2.35%) New Relic
5 3 (1.76%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.76%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) Splunk
6 2 (1.18%) Talend
7 1 (0.59%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.59%) Google
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) VMware