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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 667 616 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.17% 7.16% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 8.10% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 515 288 727
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,649 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.92% +4.67% -3.57%

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 11,454 7,605 12,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.69% 88.43% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,180 4,021 8,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -8 258 £65,000 +2.36% 86
Hampshire -11 178 £67,500 +11.34% 48
Buckinghamshire +17 105 £60,000 - 22
Surrey +9 102 £65,000 -10.34% 25
Berkshire -16 101 £66,250 -5.36% 40
West Sussex +12 83 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Oxfordshire -3 52 £65,000 +30.00% 24
Kent -18 26 £29,000 -51.67% 10
East Sussex -23 8 £85,000 +47.19% 2
Isle of Wight +5 5 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Sussex -6 5 £60,000 -22.58% 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 18 (2.70%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) IIS
3 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.90%) Simulink
3 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.30%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.90%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 395 (59.22%) Azure
2 226 (33.88%) Azure DevOps
3 167 (25.04%) AWS
4 66 (9.90%) SaaS
5 57 (8.55%) GitHub
6 40 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (5.70%) Serverless
8 36 (5.40%) Power Platform
9 33 (4.95%) PaaS
10 29 (4.35%) Azure AKS
11 27 (4.05%) GCP
12 25 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 25 (3.75%) IaaS
12 25 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.60%) Azure AI
14 22 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (3.30%) Entra ID
15 21 (3.15%) Datadog
16 20 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.35%) Firewall
2 21 (3.15%) VPN
3 11 (1.65%) DNS
4 7 (1.05%) MQTT
5 6 (0.90%) Internet
6 5 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.60%) BGP
7 4 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.45%) DHCP
8 3 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Modbus
10 1 (0.15%) Network Security
10 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 49 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.30%) Power BI
6 19 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.20%) Metadata
9 8 (1.20%) MySQL
10 7 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.90%) Redis
12 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.45%) Spatial Data
14 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.30%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 92 (13.79%) Git
2 62 (9.30%) GitLab
3 44 (6.60%) JIRA
4 36 (5.40%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.10%) Selenium
7 10 (1.50%) JUnit
7 10 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.05%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.90%) JMeter
11 5 (0.75%) Mockito
11 5 (0.75%) NUnit
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.45%) Snyk
14 2 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 169 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.89%) Finance
3 83 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.75%) Retail
5 20 (3.00%) Games
6 18 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.40%) Advertising
9 13 (1.95%) Marketing
10 12 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.05%) Electronics
12 5 (0.75%) Automotive
12 5 (0.75%) Aviation
12 5 (0.75%) Billing
12 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.60%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.60%) Law
13 4 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (21.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (21.29%) Developer
3 102 (15.29%) Senior
4 84 (12.59%) Lead
5 76 (11.39%) Software Engineer
6 64 (9.60%) .NET Developer
7 56 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (5.40%) Architect
8 36 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (3.60%) Analyst
13 21 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (2.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Junior
15 18 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Team Leader
16 17 (2.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (20.84%) .NET
2 81 (12.14%) ASP.NET
3 62 (9.30%) .NET Core
4 61 (9.15%) React
5 60 (9.00%) HTML
6 59 (8.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (8.55%) CSS
8 51 (7.65%) RESTful
9 47 (7.05%) REST
10 33 (4.95%) ARM Templates
10 33 (4.95%) Blazor
11 30 (4.50%) Entity Framework
12 26 (3.90%) YAML
13 24 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (3.45%) JSON
15 21 (3.15%) ML.NET
15 21 (3.15%) Spring
16 20 (3.00%) Node.js
16 20 (3.00%) Spring Boot
17 18 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 23 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.20%) Life Science
12 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.05%) FPGA
12 7 (1.05%) Robotics
12 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 108 (16.19%) Linux
2 33 (4.95%) Windows
3 29 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.50%) CentOS
5 10 (1.50%) Debian
5 10 (1.50%) VMS
6 5 (0.75%) Unix
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.60%) Android
8 2 (0.30%) Rocky
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (48.13%) CI/CD
2 271 (40.63%) Agile
3 158 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 122 (18.29%) Software Engineering
7 108 (16.19%) AI
8 98 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 91 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 91 (13.64%) Microservices
10 80 (11.99%) Computer Science
11 76 (11.39%) Scrum
12 75 (11.24%) Mentoring
13 72 (10.79%) Test Automation
14 70 (10.49%) Observability
15 63 (9.45%) Analytics
16 57 (8.55%) Kanban
16 57 (8.55%) Machine Learning
17 56 (8.40%) SDLC
18 55 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.89%) Python
2 149 (22.34%) C#
3 136 (20.39%) SQL
4 90 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 66 (9.90%) Bash
6 64 (9.60%) PowerShell
7 58 (8.70%) Java
8 42 (6.30%) C++
9 34 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 33 (4.95%) Bicep
11 23 (3.45%) C
12 16 (2.40%) Go
12 16 (2.40%) PHP
13 11 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.35%) Groovy
14 9 (1.35%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.90%) Ruby
17 6 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.84%) Degree
3 62 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.90%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CCA
13 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.15%) MBA
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.00%) QA
2 16 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.35%) NIST
4 9 (1.35%) WCAG
5 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) ITGC
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 147 (22.04%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.20%) Firmware
3 8 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.30%) Xen
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 167 (25.04%) Terraform
2 137 (20.54%) Kubernetes
3 79 (11.84%) Ansible
4 43 (6.45%) Grafana
5 38 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.80%) Kibana
6 12 (1.80%) Nagios
7 10 (1.50%) Puppet
8 8 (1.20%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.05%) Argo
10 6 (0.90%) Podman
10 6 (0.90%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.75%) Packer
12 3 (0.45%) Istio
12 3 (0.45%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.45%) Scalr
13 2 (0.30%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 156 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.95%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.40%) Splunk
5 15 (2.25%) Oracle
6 14 (2.10%) Databricks
6 14 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.80%) Facebook
7 12 (1.80%) Google
7 12 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.80%) YouTube
8 10 (1.50%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.50%) SAP
8 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.35%) Cisco
9 9 (1.35%) VMware
10 8 (1.20%) IBM
10 8 (1.20%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.75%) Juniper
11 5 (0.75%) New Relic