DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 720 1,794 2,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.32% 10.43% 15.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.01% 10.97% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 458 1,142 1,584
10th Percentile £46,750 £41,763 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,506 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,196 16,354 17,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 93.10% 95.12% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,827 9,899 11,715
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -1 380 £65,000 -3.70% 116
Berkshire 0 240 £62,500 -10.71% 60
Hampshire -19 101 £65,000 +4.00% 39
East Sussex 0 97 £65,799 -9.24% 21
Buckinghamshire +1 91 £67,500 -3.57% 29
Surrey +4 83 £60,000 -14.29% 41
Oxfordshire +13 49 £65,000 +8.33% 27
West Sussex +20 43 £66,250 +15.22% 14
Kent -19 19 £60,000 - 25
Middlesex +8 2 £42,500 -23.42%
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 25 (3.47%) Apache
2 23 (3.19%) MS Exchange
3 20 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.08%) CMS
4 15 (2.08%) Confluence
4 15 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 14 (1.94%) IIS
6 11 (1.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (1.39%) WebSphere
8 9 (1.25%) JBoss
9 8 (1.11%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.97%) Kentico
10 7 (0.97%) nginx
11 6 (0.83%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.56%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.25%) AutoCAD
2 9 (1.25%) PTC Creo
2 9 (1.25%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Simulink
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 426 (59.17%) Azure
2 219 (30.42%) Azure DevOps
3 216 (30.00%) AWS
4 70 (9.72%) Serverless
5 66 (9.17%) Power Platform
6 65 (9.03%) SaaS
7 64 (8.89%) PaaS
8 52 (7.22%) GCP
9 51 (7.08%) IaaS
10 38 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (3.33%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.33%) GitHub
14 23 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (2.92%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.06%) DNS
2 18 (2.50%) Firewall
3 13 (1.81%) HTTP
4 12 (1.67%) DHCP
4 12 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.11%) SSL
6 5 (0.69%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 4 (0.56%) VoIP
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) SSH
9 2 (0.28%) Converged Networks
9 2 (0.28%) FTP
9 2 (0.28%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.28%) LAN
9 2 (0.28%) SMTP
9 2 (0.28%) VPN
10 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.14%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.06%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.11%) Relational Database
3 41 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (5.28%) Power BI
5 29 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.92%) MySQL
7 20 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.64%) Big Data
9 18 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.25%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.25%) Metadata
12 9 (1.25%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.25%) SAP HANA
12 9 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.11%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 115 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 113 (15.69%) Git
3 83 (11.53%) JIRA
4 54 (7.50%) Selenium
5 31 (4.31%) GitLab
6 25 (3.47%) Robot Framework
7 20 (2.78%) TeamCity
8 17 (2.36%) Postman
9 14 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (1.67%) Artifactory
10 12 (1.67%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.53%) JUnit
12 10 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.39%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.25%) Chocolatey
14 8 (1.11%) git-flow
14 8 (1.11%) JMeter
14 8 (1.11%) TestLink
14 8 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (19.31%) Finance
2 128 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 65 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.47%) Legal
6 24 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 21 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (2.08%) Retail
9 14 (1.94%) Law
10 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.97%) Automotive
12 6 (0.83%) Banking
12 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.83%) Marketing
13 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.56%) Police
15 3 (0.42%) Aviation
15 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (21.11%) Developer
2 143 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 107 (14.86%) Senior
4 78 (10.83%) Architect
5 58 (8.06%) Analyst
6 52 (7.22%) .NET Developer
7 50 (6.94%) Lead
8 43 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 42 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (4.03%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.47%) Java Developer
12 25 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
13 24 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (3.19%) Solutions Analyst
15 21 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (2.92%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (23.47%) .NET
2 66 (9.17%) REST
3 63 (8.75%) AngularJS
4 54 (7.50%) Node.js
5 53 (7.36%) HTML
6 50 (6.94%) CSS
7 47 (6.53%) React
8 41 (5.69%) ASP.NET
9 39 (5.42%) .NET Core
9 39 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
10 34 (4.72%) .NET Framework
11 33 (4.58%) RESTful
11 33 (4.58%) Spring
12 31 (4.31%) SOAP
13 29 (4.03%) Blazor
13 29 (4.03%) JSON
14 28 (3.89%) Web Services
14 28 (3.89%) XML
15 26 (3.61%) Spring Boot
16 24 (3.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.47%) Public Cloud
3 24 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.19%) Client/Server
5 21 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.78%) PKI
7 18 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.50%) Low-Code
8 17 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.36%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.25%) Digital Media
10 9 (1.25%) IoT
10 9 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.69%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
15 3 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (18.47%) Linux
2 105 (14.58%) Windows
3 49 (6.81%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.53%) Android
6 11 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) Unix
10 3 (0.42%) Debian
10 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
12 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (50.14%) Agile
2 234 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 158 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (17.22%) Microservices
5 113 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 107 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 102 (14.17%) Actionable Insight
8 94 (13.06%) Software Engineering
9 85 (11.81%) Mentoring
10 75 (10.42%) Scrum
11 71 (9.86%) Containerisation
12 62 (8.61%) TDD
13 60 (8.33%) Design Patterns
14 58 (8.06%) Analytics
14 58 (8.06%) Migration
15 56 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (7.22%) Roadmaps
17 49 (6.81%) Full Stack Development
18 48 (6.67%) ITIL
18 48 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 184 (25.56%) Python
2 180 (25.00%) C#
3 168 (23.33%) SQL
4 144 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 119 (16.53%) PowerShell
6 89 (12.36%) Java
7 80 (11.11%) Bash
8 36 (5.00%) VBScript
9 35 (4.86%) Bicep
10 29 (4.03%) TypeScript
11 27 (3.75%) Perl
12 26 (3.61%) Go
13 23 (3.19%) PHP
14 19 (2.64%) C++
14 19 (2.64%) Shell Script
15 18 (2.50%) Groovy
16 14 (1.94%) MATLAB
16 14 (1.94%) Ruby
16 14 (1.94%) VB
17 11 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 149 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 109 (15.14%) Degree
3 103 (14.31%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.22%) CCNA
9 13 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (1.25%) MCSA
10 9 (1.25%) MCSE
11 7 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.83%) QA
2 21 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.36%) GDPR
4 9 (1.25%) PMO
5 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.28%) COBIT
7 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.28%) IASME
8 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 153 (21.25%) Docker
2 56 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.42%) vSphere
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.14%) Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 169 (23.47%) Kubernetes
1 169 (23.47%) Terraform
2 110 (15.28%) Ansible
3 24 (3.33%) SCOM
4 23 (3.19%) SCCM
5 20 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (2.36%) WSUS
7 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.25%) Packer
9 8 (1.11%) Puppet
9 8 (1.11%) Rancher
10 5 (0.69%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.69%) Nagios
10 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.56%) Grafana
11 4 (0.56%) Kibana
11 4 (0.56%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.42%) Consul
13 2 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 175 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.11%) Oracle
3 41 (5.69%) VMware
4 20 (2.78%) Cisco
4 20 (2.78%) Databricks
4 20 (2.78%) IBM
5 19 (2.64%) SAP
6 14 (1.94%) WSO2
7 11 (1.53%) AppDynamics
7 11 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.25%) MathWorks
8 9 (1.25%) PTC
8 9 (1.25%) TOWER Software
9 8 (1.11%) Remedy
9 8 (1.11%) Xamarin
10 7 (0.97%) Informatica
10 7 (0.97%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.83%) Google
11 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow