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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 512 580 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.53% 7.51% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 8.31% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 399 329 811
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +7.69% -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 10,499 6,980 13,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.48% 90.41% 84.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,980 3,425 9,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -4 225 £60,000 -7.69% 91
Hampshire -18 115 £70,000 +16.67% 58
Buckinghamshire +9 101 £57,500 -4.17% 19
Berkshire -16 95 £50,000 -35.48% 44
Surrey -7 69 £62,500 -15.25% 16
West Sussex +8 53 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Oxfordshire -10 29 £70,000 +32.08% 30
Kent -23 27 £29,000 -51.67% 6
East Sussex -25 11 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Isle of Wight -3 5 £41,500 -43.15% 1
Sussex -11 5 £60,000 -20.00%
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 9 (1.76%) Confluence
2 6 (1.17%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.98%) CMS
3 5 (0.98%) IIS
4 4 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.59%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Simulink
3 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 288 (56.25%) Azure
2 174 (33.98%) Azure DevOps
3 128 (25.00%) AWS
4 54 (10.55%) GitHub
5 45 (8.79%) Power Platform
6 40 (7.81%) SaaS
7 27 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (4.49%) PaaS
10 20 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.91%) Serverless
11 19 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.71%) GCP
11 19 (3.71%) IaaS
11 19 (3.71%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 16 (3.13%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.64%) Firewall
2 14 (2.73%) VPN
3 13 (2.54%) DNS
4 7 (1.37%) DHCP
5 5 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.78%) BGP
6 4 (0.78%) SAN
7 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.39%) Internet
8 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.20%) Broadband
9 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.20%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.20%) Modbus
9 1 (0.20%) MPLS
9 1 (0.20%) Network Security
9 1 (0.20%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.20%) SSL
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.91%) Power BI
3 16 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 15 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.17%) Metadata
9 5 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.78%) MySQL
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.39%) GIS
12 2 (0.39%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (12.30%) Git
2 56 (10.94%) GitLab
3 31 (6.05%) JIRA
4 27 (5.27%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.93%) Selenium
6 14 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.37%) JUnit
9 6 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.98%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.98%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.78%) Mockito
11 4 (0.78%) NUnit
11 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.78%) Snyk
11 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.59%) MLflow
12 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 92 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (17.97%) Finance
3 21 (4.10%) Public Sector
3 21 (4.10%) Retail
4 16 (3.13%) Games
5 15 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.54%) Law
7 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.76%) Billing
9 8 (1.56%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Legal
11 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.78%) Advertising
12 4 (0.78%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.78%) Marketing
12 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.59%) Electronics
13 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (22.66%) Developer
2 113 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (14.84%) Senior
4 72 (14.06%) Lead
5 49 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 37 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (6.25%) Architect
9 28 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (3.71%) Analyst
11 19 (3.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.52%) Administrator
12 18 (3.52%) DevOps Administrator
12 18 (3.52%) Systems Administrator
12 18 (3.52%) Team Leader
13 17 (3.32%) .NET Developer
14 16 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
15 15 (2.93%) DevOps Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.93%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (18.75%) .NET
2 48 (9.38%) React
3 44 (8.59%) REST
4 40 (7.81%) CSS
5 39 (7.62%) HTML
6 35 (6.84%) ASP.NET
7 32 (6.25%) RESTful
8 27 (5.27%) .NET Core
9 24 (4.69%) Middleware
10 22 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.10%) JSON
11 21 (4.10%) OAuth
12 20 (3.91%) React Native
12 20 (3.91%) SOAP
13 19 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 17 (3.32%) Bootstrap
15 15 (2.93%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.93%) Spring
15 15 (2.93%) YAML
16 13 (2.54%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.10%) Low-Code
5 19 (3.71%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.52%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.37%) Life Science
12 7 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.98%) FPGA
15 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.82%) Linux
2 24 (4.69%) Ubuntu
3 23 (4.49%) Windows
4 17 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.15%) VMS
6 7 (1.37%) CentOS
6 7 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.17%) Unix
7 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.59%) Debian
10 2 (0.39%) Android
10 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (50.98%) CI/CD
2 206 (40.23%) Agile
3 139 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (14.26%) AI
6 73 (14.26%) Containerisation
7 66 (12.89%) Software Engineering
8 63 (12.30%) Scrum
9 60 (11.72%) Test Automation
10 54 (10.55%) Computer Science
11 53 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (9.96%) Microservices
13 48 (9.38%) Data Modelling
14 45 (8.79%) Observability
15 44 (8.59%) Mentoring
16 41 (8.01%) Kanban
17 39 (7.62%) Deployment Automation
18 37 (7.23%) Analytics
19 36 (7.03%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.78%) Python
2 88 (17.19%) C#
3 85 (16.60%) SQL
4 59 (11.52%) JavaScript
5 50 (9.77%) Bash
6 43 (8.40%) Java
7 37 (7.23%) PowerShell
8 28 (5.47%) C++
9 17 (3.32%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.54%) Apex Code
10 13 (2.54%) C
10 13 (2.54%) Go
11 12 (2.34%) Bicep
12 7 (1.37%) Groovy
13 6 (1.17%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.98%) Perl
14 5 (0.98%) PHP
14 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Ruby
16 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.26%) Degree
3 52 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.27%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.78%) ICAEW
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.03%) QA
2 17 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.56%) NIST
4 8 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.17%) WCAG
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (0.78%) ITGC
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.59%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.39%) GDPR
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (18.75%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) Firmware
4 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (24.22%) Terraform
2 96 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 70 (13.67%) Ansible
4 28 (5.47%) Grafana
5 25 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.95%) Nagios
7 8 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.98%) Packer
8 5 (0.98%) Puppet
9 4 (0.78%) Kibana
9 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.59%) Scalr
10 3 (0.59%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.39%) MIIS
11 2 (0.39%) Nessus
11 2 (0.39%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 112 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 26 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.10%) MuleSoft
5 16 (3.13%) VMware
6 12 (2.34%) Databricks
7 10 (1.95%) AppDynamics
7 10 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.95%) Splunk
8 8 (1.56%) Cisco
8 8 (1.56%) IBM
8 8 (1.56%) Oracle
8 8 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.98%) F5
9 5 (0.98%) Juniper
9 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.98%) Veeam
10 4 (0.78%) 3PAR
10 4 (0.78%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.78%) SolarWinds