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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 607 588 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.04% 7.41% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 8.22% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 469 281 837
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
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 £87,500 £85,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 10,766 7,151 14,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.60% 90.17% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,650 3,519 10,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,070 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +1.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -8 249 £60,000 -7.69% 49
Hampshire -13 155 £67,500 +12.50% 48
Buckinghamshire +15 111 £55,000 -12.00% 12
Berkshire -16 99 £65,000 -13.33% 27
Surrey +7 84 £65,000 -13.33% 20
West Sussex +16 68 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Oxfordshire -6 39 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Kent -12 28 £29,000 -63.75% 6
East Sussex -25 8 £82,500 +52.78%
Sussex -7 7 £65,000 -14.75% 2
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 (2.97%) Confluence
2 7 (1.15%) IIS
2 7 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.66%) CMS
3 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.99%) Simulink
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.33%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 350 (57.66%) Azure
2 212 (34.93%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (24.38%) AWS
4 61 (10.05%) SaaS
5 55 (9.06%) GitHub
6 43 (7.08%) Power Platform
7 35 (5.77%) Serverless
8 34 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (5.44%) PaaS
10 28 (4.61%) Azure AKS
11 26 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (4.28%) IaaS
12 22 (3.62%) Entra ID
13 21 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (3.29%) Azure AI
15 19 (3.13%) GCP
16 18 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (2.97%) OpenShift
17 17 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.78%) Firewall
2 17 (2.80%) VPN
3 11 (1.81%) DNS
4 6 (0.99%) DHCP
5 5 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.82%) MQTT
6 4 (0.66%) BGP
6 4 (0.66%) Internet
6 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.49%) SAN
7 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.16%) Broadband
8 1 (0.16%) HTTP
8 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.16%) Modbus
8 1 (0.16%) Network Security
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 39 (6.43%) MongoDB
3 36 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.79%) Power BI
6 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.32%) Metadata
10 6 (0.99%) Redis
11 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.66%) MySQL
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.49%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.33%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 80 (13.18%) Git
2 57 (9.39%) GitLab
3 37 (6.10%) JIRA
4 26 (4.28%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.31%) Selenium
7 10 (1.65%) JUnit
8 8 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.15%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.99%) JMeter
11 5 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.82%) Mockito
11 5 (0.82%) NUnit
11 5 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 139 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 111 (18.29%) Finance
3 81 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.45%) Retail
5 18 (2.97%) Games
5 18 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.64%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.14%) Advertising
7 13 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.65%) Marketing
9 7 (1.15%) Billing
9 7 (1.15%) Electronics
9 7 (1.15%) Law
10 6 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.82%) Automotive
11 5 (0.82%) Aviation
11 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 142 (23.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 135 (22.24%) Developer
3 86 (14.17%) Senior
4 71 (11.70%) Software Engineer
5 70 (11.53%) Lead
6 56 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
7 46 (7.58%) .NET Developer
8 39 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (6.10%) Architect
10 35 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.61%) Analyst
12 26 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 25 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.97%) Administrator
15 18 (2.97%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (2.80%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.80%) DevOps Administrator
16 17 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (20.76%) .NET
2 66 (10.87%) ASP.NET
3 57 (9.39%) React
4 54 (8.90%) HTML
5 51 (8.40%) .NET Core
5 51 (8.40%) CSS
6 46 (7.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 45 (7.41%) RESTful
8 42 (6.92%) REST
9 26 (4.28%) YAML
10 24 (3.95%) ARM Templates
10 24 (3.95%) Blazor
11 23 (3.79%) Entity Framework
12 22 (3.62%) JSON
13 21 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (3.29%) Spring
15 19 (3.13%) OAuth
16 17 (2.80%) jQuery
16 17 (2.80%) ML.NET
16 17 (2.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.62%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.14%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.98%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.15%) FPGA
12 7 (1.15%) Life Science
12 7 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.98%) Linux
2 31 (5.11%) Ubuntu
3 28 (4.61%) Windows
4 17 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.65%) CentOS
5 10 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.65%) VMS
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.82%) Android
7 5 (0.82%) Unix
8 3 (0.49%) Debian
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (47.94%) CI/CD
2 239 (39.37%) Agile
3 145 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (17.13%) Software Engineering
6 94 (15.49%) AI
7 86 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 80 (13.18%) Containerisation
9 76 (12.52%) Microservices
10 75 (12.36%) Scrum
11 72 (11.86%) Computer Science
12 69 (11.37%) Test Automation
13 56 (9.23%) Kanban
14 54 (8.90%) Mentoring
14 54 (8.90%) Observability
15 51 (8.40%) Machine Learning
16 50 (8.24%) Analytics
16 50 (8.24%) SDLC
17 45 (7.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 153 (25.21%) Python
2 131 (21.58%) C#
3 120 (19.77%) SQL
4 89 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 62 (10.21%) Bash
6 57 (9.39%) Java
7 54 (8.90%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.43%) C++
9 28 (4.61%) TypeScript
10 24 (3.95%) Bicep
11 23 (3.79%) C
12 17 (2.80%) Go
13 10 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.48%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.32%) PHP
16 7 (1.15%) Groovy
17 6 (0.99%) Ruby
17 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.82%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 99 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 92 (15.16%) Degree
3 57 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.99%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.16%) CCA
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.91%) QA
2 17 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.48%) WCAG
5 8 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.99%) NIST
7 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.66%) ITGC
9 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 116 (19.11%) Docker
2 18 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.15%) Firmware
4 5 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 145 (23.89%) Terraform
2 109 (17.96%) Kubernetes
3 75 (12.36%) Ansible
4 34 (5.60%) Grafana
5 29 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.14%) Nagios
7 10 (1.65%) Kibana
8 8 (1.32%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.99%) Podman
10 5 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.82%) Packer
10 5 (0.82%) Puppet
11 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.49%) Argo
12 3 (0.49%) Scalr
12 3 (0.49%) SCCM
12 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
14 1 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 143 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.60%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.61%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 17 (2.80%) Splunk
6 14 (2.31%) VMware
7 12 (1.98%) Databricks
7 12 (1.98%) Oracle
8 11 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.48%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.48%) Facebook
9 9 (1.48%) YouTube
10 8 (1.32%) Cisco
10 8 (1.32%) IBM
10 8 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.82%) F5
12 5 (0.82%) Juniper
12 5 (0.82%) SAP
13 4 (0.66%) Sitecore