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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 712 581 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.05% 6.41% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 7.30% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 548 268 634
10th Percentile £43,638 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,375 £85,865 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +3.70% -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 12,531 7,963 11,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.28% 87.80% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,997 4,296 7,050
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £80,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -4 266 £66,250 +1.92% 167
Hampshire -7 197 £65,000 +7.44% 70
Surrey +15 123 £65,000 -7.14% 50
Berkshire -11 101 £78,750 - 85
Buckinghamshire +16 98 £61,250 -9.26% 38
West Sussex +13 77 £70,000 +16.67% 22
Oxfordshire +7 67 £62,500 +25.00% 46
Kent -27 27 £31,250 -16.67% 13
Isle of Wight +3 7 £50,000 -31.51% 3
East Sussex -22 6 £85,000 +17.24% 14
Sussex -5 5 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Middlesex -1 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 20 (2.81%) Confluence
2 12 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.54%) IIS
4 8 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.70%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) 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 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Simulink
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) 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
1 437 (61.38%) Azure
2 230 (32.30%) Azure DevOps
3 198 (27.81%) AWS
4 74 (10.39%) SaaS
5 58 (8.15%) GitHub
6 40 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 40 (5.62%) Serverless
7 37 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (5.06%) GCP
9 35 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 29 (4.07%) Azure AKS
11 28 (3.93%) Azure Key Vault
11 28 (3.93%) PaaS
12 26 (3.65%) Azure AI
12 26 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 23 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (2.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.51%) Firewall
2 23 (3.23%) VPN
3 14 (1.97%) DNS
4 7 (0.98%) MQTT
5 6 (0.84%) Internet
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.56%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) NAS
8 3 (0.42%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) IPv4
9 2 (0.28%) IPv6
9 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.06%) SQL Server
2 57 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 55 (7.72%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (3.65%) Power BI
6 22 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.39%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.25%) MySQL
9 13 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.83%) Metadata
10 12 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.12%) Redis
13 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.98%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 111 (15.59%) Git
2 48 (6.74%) GitLab
3 44 (6.18%) JIRA
4 34 (4.78%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.11%) Selenium
7 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.12%) JUnit
7 8 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.84%) JMeter
9 6 (0.84%) NUnit
9 6 (0.84%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.56%) Mockito
11 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.42%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 202 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.12%) Finance
3 76 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.81%) Retail
6 19 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.53%) Games
8 17 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.11%) Advertising
10 14 (1.97%) Marketing
11 13 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.69%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.98%) Aviation
13 7 (0.98%) Legal
14 6 (0.84%) Electronics
14 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.70%) Automotive
15 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (21.77%) Developer
2 141 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 133 (18.68%) Senior
4 96 (13.48%) Lead
5 78 (10.96%) .NET Developer
6 73 (10.25%) Software Engineer
7 53 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (5.62%) Architect
9 34 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.23%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (2.81%) Analyst
15 20 (2.81%) Project Manager
16 19 (2.67%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (2.53%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (24.02%) Terraform
2 152 (21.35%) .NET
3 91 (12.78%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.55%) ASP.NET Core
4 68 (9.55%) HTML
5 65 (9.13%) .NET Core
5 65 (9.13%) React
6 64 (8.99%) CSS
7 56 (7.87%) REST
8 53 (7.44%) RESTful
9 39 (5.48%) Blazor
10 32 (4.49%) Entity Framework
11 31 (4.35%) ARM Templates
12 26 (3.65%) YAML
13 24 (3.37%) Node.js
14 22 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (2.95%) JSON
15 21 (2.95%) ML.NET
15 21 (2.95%) Spring
15 21 (2.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (1.69%) IoT
9 12 (1.69%) Robotics
10 11 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.40%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.12%) Life Science
13 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.85%) Linux
2 44 (6.18%) Windows
3 25 (3.51%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.69%) Debian
7 10 (1.40%) VMS
8 7 (0.98%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) Android
9 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.42%) Rocky
10 3 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (47.75%) CI/CD
2 293 (41.15%) Agile
3 151 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (21.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 147 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 137 (19.24%) Software Engineering
7 119 (16.71%) AI
8 108 (15.17%) Microservices
9 102 (14.33%) Mentoring
10 101 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 86 (12.08%) Computer Science
11 86 (12.08%) Containerisation
12 85 (11.94%) Test Automation
13 77 (10.81%) Scrum
13 77 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 76 (10.67%) Observability
15 73 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (9.69%) Analytics
17 64 (8.99%) Roadmaps
18 59 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.60%) C#
2 164 (23.03%) Python
3 143 (20.08%) SQL
4 93 (13.06%) JavaScript
5 61 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 60 (8.43%) Bash
7 52 (7.30%) Java
8 43 (6.04%) TypeScript
9 38 (5.34%) C++
10 31 (4.35%) Bicep
11 22 (3.09%) C
11 22 (3.09%) PHP
12 20 (2.81%) Go
13 13 (1.83%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.26%) Groovy
15 8 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.98%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.84%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.70%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 117 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 103 (14.47%) Degree
3 79 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.84%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.08%) QA
2 19 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.12%) NIST
5 8 (1.12%) WCAG
6 6 (0.84%) GDPR
7 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
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
1 154 (21.63%) Docker
2 16 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.98%) Firmware
5 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.70%) 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
1 150 (21.07%) Kubernetes
2 79 (11.10%) Ansible
3 43 (6.04%) Grafana
4 35 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.69%) Kibana
6 11 (1.54%) Puppet
7 10 (1.40%) Nagios
8 9 (1.26%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.12%) Argo
10 6 (0.84%) Packer
11 5 (0.70%) Istio
11 5 (0.70%) Podman
12 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.56%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.42%) Scalr
14 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 167 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.37%) Red Hat
3 18 (2.53%) Oracle
3 18 (2.53%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.11%) Google
5 13 (1.83%) Databricks
6 12 (1.69%) Facebook
6 12 (1.69%) Splunk
6 12 (1.69%) VMware
6 12 (1.69%) YouTube
7 11 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.40%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.26%) SAP
10 8 (1.12%) IBM
10 8 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.84%) New Relic
13 5 (0.70%) Cisco
13 5 (0.70%) Informatica