DevOps Job Trends in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 706 517 986
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.77% 5.79% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 6.58% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 534 255 570
10th Percentile £44,125 £37,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +2.94% -2.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

DevOps 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 13,452 7,853 10,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.86% 87.93% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,582 4,211 5,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,024
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +5 269 £67,500 +3.85% 202
Hampshire -12 188 £65,000 +4.00% 89
Surrey +10 127 £64,000 -11.72% 75
Berkshire -5 106 £82,500 +17.86% 111
Buckinghamshire +10 87 £63,500 -9.29% 43
Oxfordshire +8 76 £62,500 +8.70% 49
West Sussex +10 74 £70,000 +16.67% 44
Kent -37 25 £31,250 -16.67% 11
East Sussex -17 8 £97,500 +62.50% 15
Isle of Wight +2 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
Sussex -9 4 £62,500 +38.89% 1
Middlesex 0 1 £38,500 +2.67% 3
Home Counties - 1 - -
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 20 (2.83%) Confluence
2 14 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) IIS
4 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.85%) Simulink
4 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 421 (59.63%) Azure
2 228 (32.29%) Azure DevOps
3 195 (27.62%) AWS
4 73 (10.34%) SaaS
5 58 (8.22%) GitHub
6 49 (6.94%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (5.52%) Serverless
9 38 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 36 (5.10%) GCP
11 30 (4.25%) Azure AKS
11 30 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.97%) PaaS
14 27 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (3.40%) Azure AI
15 24 (3.40%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (2.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.97%) Firewall
1 28 (3.97%) VPN
2 15 (2.12%) DNS
3 7 (0.99%) Internet
3 7 (0.99%) MQTT
4 5 (0.71%) HTTP
5 4 (0.57%) Network Security
5 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.57%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) DHCP
6 3 (0.42%) NAS
6 3 (0.42%) SAN
7 2 (0.28%) BGP
7 2 (0.28%) IPv4
7 2 (0.28%) IPv6
7 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.14%) 5G
8 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.60%) SQL Server
2 58 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.65%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.96%) Power BI
5 33 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.83%) MySQL
8 19 (2.69%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.55%) Metadata
10 16 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.12%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.56%) Star Schema
14 9 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.27%) Redis
14 9 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 116 (16.43%) Git
2 48 (6.80%) JIRA
3 44 (6.23%) GitLab
4 35 (4.96%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (1.98%) Selenium
7 8 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.99%) JMeter
8 7 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.85%) JUnit
10 5 (0.71%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.57%) NUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Mocha
12 3 (0.42%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Snyk
12 3 (0.42%) Storybook
12 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 197 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.70%) Finance
3 60 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.12%) Retail
6 19 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.27%) Marketing
8 15 (2.12%) Advertising
8 15 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.12%) Games
8 15 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.99%) Aviation
11 6 (0.85%) Electronics
11 6 (0.85%) Legal
11 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.71%) Automotive
12 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Banking
13 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (21.67%) Senior
2 152 (21.53%) Developer
3 148 (20.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (12.75%) Lead
5 77 (10.91%) .NET Developer
6 67 (9.49%) Software Engineer
7 51 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
9 39 (5.52%) Architect
10 35 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.26%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.26%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.97%) Analyst
17 20 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (2.83%) Senior Developer
18 19 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (23.94%) Terraform
2 145 (20.54%) .NET
3 89 (12.61%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 66 (9.35%) HTML
6 64 (9.07%) CSS
6 64 (9.07%) React
7 61 (8.64%) .NET Core
8 51 (7.22%) REST
9 50 (7.08%) RESTful
10 37 (5.24%) Blazor
11 32 (4.53%) Entity Framework
12 31 (4.39%) ARM Templates
13 27 (3.82%) Node.js
14 22 (3.12%) YAML
15 21 (2.97%) HTML5
16 20 (2.83%) ML.NET
16 20 (2.83%) Vue
17 19 (2.69%) jQuery
17 19 (2.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.35%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.69%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.12%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
12 13 (1.84%) Robotics
13 12 (1.70%) IoT
14 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.13%) Life Science
16 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
16 8 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 7 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 129 (18.27%) Linux
2 50 (7.08%) Windows
3 26 (3.68%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.56%) Debian
6 8 (1.13%) VMS
7 6 (0.85%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 291 (41.22%) Agile
3 143 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (18.98%) Software Engineering
6 123 (17.42%) AI
7 103 (14.59%) Microservices
8 99 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 99 (14.02%) Mentoring
9 88 (12.46%) Computer Science
10 87 (12.32%) Test Automation
11 85 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 83 (11.76%) Scrum
13 79 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (10.34%) Analytics
14 73 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 71 (10.06%) Observability
16 63 (8.92%) Roadmaps
17 58 (8.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.08%) C#
2 163 (23.09%) Python
3 135 (19.12%) SQL
4 95 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 61 (8.64%) Bash
6 52 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 50 (7.08%) Java
8 48 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.10%) C++
10 29 (4.11%) Bicep
10 29 (4.11%) Go
11 27 (3.82%) PHP
12 20 (2.83%) C
13 13 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.27%) Groovy
16 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.85%) Rust
18 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 121 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 106 (15.01%) Degree
3 80 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.99%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.85%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) PMP
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (12.32%) QA
2 22 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.42%) GDPR
5 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (1.13%) NIST
7 8 (1.13%) WCAG
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) MISRA
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (21.39%) Docker
2 16 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.13%) Firmware
4 8 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.42%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) iptables
8 2 (0.28%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (22.10%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.61%) Ansible
3 43 (6.09%) Grafana
4 36 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.70%) Kibana
6 10 (1.42%) Puppet
7 8 (1.13%) Argo
7 8 (1.13%) Nagios
7 8 (1.13%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.13%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.85%) Packer
9 5 (0.71%) Istio
9 5 (0.71%) Podman
10 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Rancher
12 2 (0.28%) Scalr
Vendors
1 166 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.55%) Google
3 17 (2.41%) Oracle
3 17 (2.41%) Red Hat
4 16 (2.27%) VMware
5 15 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.70%) Databricks
6 12 (1.70%) Facebook
6 12 (1.70%) YouTube
7 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.56%) Splunk
8 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.42%) SAP
9 9 (1.27%) Informatica
9 9 (1.27%) Talend
10 8 (1.13%) IBM
11 7 (0.99%) New Relic
11 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace