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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 636 601 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.11% 7.21% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 8.09% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 489 285 830
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%

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 11,119 7,429 14,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.91% 89.07% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 3,835 10,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,925 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
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 5 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 5 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 -8 251 £62,500 -2.72% 101
Hampshire -15 163 £67,500 +11.57% 67
Buckinghamshire +15 106 £60,000 - 22
Berkshire -17 101 £65,000 -10.65% 54
Surrey +15 97 £65,000 -11.86% 34
West Sussex +14 77 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Oxfordshire -5 44 £65,000 +30.00% 26
Kent -14 26 £29,000 -63.75% 6
East Sussex -24 9 £85,000 +53.15% 2
Sussex -7 5 £60,000 -21.31% 3
Isle of Wight -1 4 £50,000 -31.51% 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 (2.83%) Confluence
2 9 (1.42%) IIS
3 7 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.63%) CMS
5 4 (0.63%) nginx
5 4 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Simulink
3 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.47%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 378 (59.43%) Azure
2 226 (35.53%) Azure DevOps
3 160 (25.16%) AWS
4 61 (9.59%) SaaS
5 60 (9.43%) GitHub
6 43 (6.76%) Power Platform
7 40 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.82%) Serverless
9 35 (5.50%) PaaS
10 29 (4.56%) Azure AKS
11 28 (4.40%) IaaS
12 27 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.77%) Azure AI
14 22 (3.46%) GCP
14 22 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (3.30%) Entra ID
16 20 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 20 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (2.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.56%) Firewall
2 21 (3.30%) VPN
3 10 (1.57%) DNS
4 6 (0.94%) Internet
4 6 (0.94%) MQTT
5 5 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.63%) BGP
6 4 (0.63%) DHCP
6 4 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.47%) HTTP
8 1 (0.16%) Broadband
8 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.16%) Modbus
8 1 (0.16%) Network Security
8 1 (0.16%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.16%) SQL Server
2 47 (7.39%) MongoDB
3 44 (6.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.62%) Power BI
6 17 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.73%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.26%) Metadata
10 6 (0.94%) MySQL
10 6 (0.94%) Redis
11 5 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.47%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.31%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (13.36%) Git
2 63 (9.91%) GitLab
3 39 (6.13%) JIRA
4 33 (5.19%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (2.04%) Selenium
7 10 (1.57%) JUnit
7 10 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.10%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.94%) JMeter
11 5 (0.79%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.79%) Mockito
11 5 (0.79%) NUnit
12 4 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.47%) Snyk
14 2 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 151 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 121 (19.03%) Finance
3 84 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.25%) Retail
5 20 (3.14%) Games
6 17 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.36%) Advertising
7 15 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.73%) Marketing
9 10 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.10%) Electronics
11 6 (0.94%) Billing
11 6 (0.94%) Law
12 5 (0.79%) Automotive
12 5 (0.79%) Aviation
12 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.63%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (22.64%) Developer
2 143 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (14.47%) Senior
4 74 (11.64%) Lead
4 74 (11.64%) Software Engineer
5 58 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
6 57 (8.96%) .NET Developer
7 39 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (5.82%) Architect
9 34 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (3.77%) Analyst
13 20 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 19 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.83%) Administrator
15 18 (2.83%) Systems Administrator
16 17 (2.67%) DevOps Administrator
16 17 (2.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (21.54%) .NET
2 77 (12.11%) ASP.NET
3 61 (9.59%) React
4 59 (9.28%) .NET Core
4 59 (9.28%) HTML
5 56 (8.81%) CSS
6 55 (8.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 51 (8.02%) RESTful
8 45 (7.08%) REST
9 31 (4.87%) ARM Templates
10 30 (4.72%) Blazor
11 27 (4.25%) Entity Framework
12 26 (4.09%) YAML
13 23 (3.62%) JSON
13 23 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.30%) ML.NET
15 20 (3.14%) Spring
16 19 (2.99%) OAuth
16 19 (2.99%) Spring Boot
17 17 (2.67%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.46%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.26%) Life Science
11 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.10%) FPGA
11 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 105 (16.51%) Linux
2 31 (4.87%) Ubuntu
2 31 (4.87%) Windows
3 15 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.57%) CentOS
5 10 (1.57%) VMS
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.79%) Debian
7 5 (0.79%) Unix
8 4 (0.63%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (48.74%) CI/CD
2 255 (40.09%) Agile
3 153 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (17.77%) Software Engineering
6 111 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 105 (16.51%) AI
8 95 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (14.15%) Containerisation
10 84 (13.21%) Microservices
11 75 (11.79%) Computer Science
11 75 (11.79%) Scrum
12 70 (11.01%) Test Automation
13 62 (9.75%) Mentoring
13 62 (9.75%) Observability
14 59 (9.28%) Analytics
15 57 (8.96%) Machine Learning
16 55 (8.65%) Kanban
16 55 (8.65%) SDLC
17 48 (7.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 162 (25.47%) Python
2 143 (22.48%) C#
3 130 (20.44%) SQL
4 93 (14.62%) JavaScript
5 68 (10.69%) Bash
6 63 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 58 (9.12%) Java
8 40 (6.29%) C++
9 32 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.87%) Bicep
11 23 (3.62%) C
12 17 (2.67%) Go
13 11 (1.73%) PHP
14 10 (1.57%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.42%) Groovy
15 9 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.94%) Ruby
17 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.79%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 103 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 94 (14.78%) Degree
3 57 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.42%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.94%) ICAEW
11 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.16%) CCA
13 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.33%) QA
2 14 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.42%) NIST
5 9 (1.42%) WCAG
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.63%) ITGC
8 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) GDPR
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 133 (20.91%) Docker
2 16 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.26%) Firmware
4 6 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 155 (24.37%) Terraform
2 124 (19.50%) Kubernetes
3 79 (12.42%) Ansible
4 37 (5.82%) Grafana
5 32 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.04%) Nagios
7 11 (1.73%) Kibana
8 8 (1.26%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.10%) Puppet
10 6 (0.94%) Podman
11 5 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.79%) Packer
12 4 (0.63%) Argo
12 4 (0.63%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.47%) Scalr
14 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
15 1 (0.16%) Nessus
15 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 153 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.35%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.67%) Splunk
5 14 (2.20%) MuleSoft
6 13 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.04%) Oracle
7 12 (1.89%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) VMware
8 11 (1.73%) Facebook
8 11 (1.73%) YouTube
9 9 (1.42%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.26%) Cisco
10 8 (1.26%) IBM
10 8 (1.26%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.94%) Google
11 6 (0.94%) SAP
12 5 (0.79%) F5
12 5 (0.79%) Juniper