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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 693 535 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.78% 5.96% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 6.77% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 528 249 575
10th Percentile £44,625 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
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 £71,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +4.41% -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 13,107 7,907 10,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.52% 88.04% 80.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,396 4,166 5,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,000
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 £68,750
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% -7.26%

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 15 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 15 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 +2 262 £67,500 +3.85% 229
Hampshire -8 185 £67,500 +8.87% 99
Surrey +6 123 £64,000 -10.18% 89
Berkshire -10 100 £82,500 +3.13% 120
Buckinghamshire +18 89 £63,500 -9.29% 50
West Sussex +9 76 £70,000 +16.67% 47
Oxfordshire +7 73 £62,500 +16.28% 60
Kent -30 26 £31,250 -16.67% 12
Isle of Wight 0 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
East Sussex -17 6 £85,000 +30.77% 21
Sussex -9 4 £62,500 +38.89% 1
Middlesex 0 1 £38,500 +2.67% 5
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 19 (2.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.59%) IIS
4 8 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) JBoss
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 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.87%) Simulink
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (59.31%) Azure
2 220 (31.75%) Azure DevOps
3 188 (27.13%) AWS
4 73 (10.53%) SaaS
5 57 (8.23%) GitHub
6 45 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 39 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (5.63%) Serverless
8 35 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 33 (4.76%) GCP
10 30 (4.33%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 28 (4.04%) PaaS
12 27 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (3.46%) Azure AI
13 24 (3.46%) Entra ID
14 22 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.90%) VPN
2 26 (3.75%) Firewall
3 14 (2.02%) DNS
4 7 (1.01%) MQTT
5 6 (0.87%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
7 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
10 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (4.47%) Power BI
6 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.31%) MySQL
7 16 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.16%) Metadata
9 14 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.44%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.30%) Redis
12 9 (1.30%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 110 (15.87%) Git
2 43 (6.20%) GitLab
3 42 (6.06%) JIRA
4 34 (4.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.88%) Selenium
7 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.87%) JMeter
9 6 (0.87%) JUnit
10 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.72%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.58%) NUnit
12 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.43%) Snyk
12 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.29%) Mocha
13 2 (0.29%) Mockito
General
1 193 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.18%) Finance
3 62 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.17%) Retail
6 18 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.16%) Advertising
7 15 (2.16%) Games
7 15 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.16%) Marketing
8 14 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.01%) Aviation
11 6 (0.87%) Electronics
11 6 (0.87%) Legal
12 5 (0.72%) Automotive
12 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Banking
13 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (21.50%) Developer
2 147 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 145 (20.92%) Senior
4 92 (13.28%) Lead
5 77 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 67 (9.67%) Software Engineer
7 51 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (6.20%) Senior DevOps
9 38 (5.48%) Architect
10 33 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.32%) Lead Developer
16 21 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (2.89%) Project Manager
18 19 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
19 18 (2.60%) Analyst
19 18 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (24.39%) Terraform
2 145 (20.92%) .NET
3 89 (12.84%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.81%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.24%) HTML
6 62 (8.95%) React
7 61 (8.80%) .NET Core
7 61 (8.80%) CSS
8 51 (7.36%) REST
9 49 (7.07%) RESTful
10 37 (5.34%) Blazor
11 32 (4.62%) Entity Framework
12 30 (4.33%) ARM Templates
13 24 (3.46%) Node.js
14 22 (3.17%) YAML
15 20 (2.89%) ML.NET
16 19 (2.74%) jQuery
16 19 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (2.74%) Spring
16 19 (2.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 63 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (1.73%) IoT
11 12 (1.73%) Robotics
12 9 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.15%) Life Science
13 8 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.01%) Social Media
14 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (17.60%) Linux
2 45 (6.49%) Windows
3 26 (3.75%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.73%) Debian
7 10 (1.44%) VMS
8 7 (1.01%) CentOS
9 4 (0.58%) Android
9 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (47.33%) CI/CD
2 280 (40.40%) Agile
3 142 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 137 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (18.90%) Software Engineering
7 118 (17.03%) AI
8 99 (14.29%) Microservices
9 96 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 96 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 84 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 81 (11.69%) Test Automation
12 78 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 76 (10.97%) Scrum
14 75 (10.82%) Platform Engineering
15 73 (10.53%) Observability
16 71 (10.25%) Containerisation
17 70 (10.10%) Analytics
18 62 (8.95%) Roadmaps
19 57 (8.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (24.24%) C#
2 156 (22.51%) Python
3 132 (19.05%) SQL
4 90 (12.99%) JavaScript
5 58 (8.37%) Bash
6 53 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 49 (7.07%) Java
8 45 (6.49%) TypeScript
9 35 (5.05%) C++
10 29 (4.18%) Bicep
11 27 (3.90%) Go
12 23 (3.32%) PHP
13 19 (2.74%) C
14 13 (1.88%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.30%) Groovy
15 9 (1.30%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.01%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 117 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.43%) Degree
3 79 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.87%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.41%) QA
2 20 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.15%) GDPR
6 8 (1.15%) NIST
6 8 (1.15%) WCAG
7 7 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 149 (21.50%) Docker
2 16 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.01%) Firmware
5 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) iptables
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 154 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.69%) Ansible
3 44 (6.35%) Grafana
4 36 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.73%) Kibana
6 11 (1.59%) Puppet
7 9 (1.30%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.15%) Argo
8 8 (1.15%) Nagios
9 7 (1.01%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.87%) Packer
11 5 (0.72%) Istio
11 5 (0.72%) Podman
12 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.29%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.29%) Rancher
14 2 (0.29%) Scalr
Vendors
1 163 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.60%) Red Hat
3 17 (2.45%) Oracle
4 16 (2.31%) Google
4 16 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.16%) VMware
6 12 (1.73%) Databricks
6 12 (1.73%) Facebook
6 12 (1.73%) YouTube
7 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.59%) Splunk
8 10 (1.44%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.44%) SAP
9 8 (1.15%) IBM
10 7 (1.01%) Informatica
10 7 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.01%) New Relic
10 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.01%) Talend
11 6 (0.87%) Dynatrace