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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 703 513 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.76% 5.76% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 6.55% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 527 250 556
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,825
% change year-on-year +3.57% +1.71% -1.68%

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 13,437 7,830 10,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.81% 87.95% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,576 4,186 5,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +7 268 £67,500 +3.85% 205
Hampshire -14 186 £65,000 +4.00% 101
Surrey +11 127 £64,000 -11.72% 75
Berkshire -2 107 £82,500 +24.53% 111
Buckinghamshire +10 85 £63,500 -9.29% 45
Oxfordshire +12 76 £62,500 +6.38% 49
West Sussex +9 74 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Kent -33 25 £31,250 -16.67% 13
East Sussex -15 9 £97,500 +62.50% 12
Isle of Wight 0 6 £50,000 -31.51% 4
Sussex -10 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Middlesex -1 1 £38,500 +2.67% 3
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 (2.84%) Confluence
2 14 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) IIS
4 7 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
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 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.85%) Simulink
4 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 419 (59.60%) Azure
2 225 (32.01%) Azure DevOps
3 194 (27.60%) AWS
4 73 (10.38%) SaaS
5 59 (8.39%) GitHub
6 49 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 41 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (5.41%) Serverless
9 37 (5.26%) GCP
10 30 (4.27%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (3.98%) PaaS
13 27 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.41%) Azure AI
15 23 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.27%) Entra ID
16 21 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.13%) Firewall
1 29 (4.13%) VPN
2 15 (2.13%) DNS
3 8 (1.14%) Internet
4 7 (1.00%) MQTT
5 5 (0.71%) HTTP
6 4 (0.57%) Network Security
6 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) NAS
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) BGP
8 2 (0.28%) IPv4
8 2 (0.28%) IPv6
8 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.14%) 5G
9 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.66%) SQL Server
2 56 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.68%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.98%) Power BI
5 34 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.99%) MySQL
8 20 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.56%) Metadata
10 16 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.13%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.56%) Star Schema
14 9 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.28%) Redis
14 9 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.14%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
17 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
17 3 (0.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 117 (16.64%) Git
2 48 (6.83%) JIRA
3 44 (6.26%) GitLab
4 35 (4.98%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.85%) Selenium
7 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.00%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.85%) JUnit
9 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.71%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.43%) Mocha
11 3 (0.43%) NUnit
11 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.43%) Snyk
11 3 (0.43%) Storybook
12 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 196 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.63%) Finance
3 61 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.13%) Retail
6 18 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.28%) Marketing
8 15 (2.13%) Advertising
8 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.99%) Games
10 13 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (0.85%) Electronics
12 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.71%) Automotive
13 5 (0.71%) Legal
13 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Banking
14 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (21.76%) Senior
2 151 (21.48%) Developer
3 147 (20.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 89 (12.66%) Lead
5 76 (10.81%) .NET Developer
6 67 (9.53%) Software Engineer
7 50 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
8 45 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
9 39 (5.55%) Architect
10 35 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.27%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.27%) Project Manager
15 21 (2.99%) Analyst
15 21 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.84%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (23.90%) Terraform
2 143 (20.34%) .NET
3 87 (12.38%) ASP.NET
4 67 (9.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (9.25%) HTML
6 64 (9.10%) React
7 63 (8.96%) CSS
8 60 (8.53%) .NET Core
9 51 (7.25%) REST
10 49 (6.97%) RESTful
11 37 (5.26%) Blazor
12 31 (4.41%) Entity Framework
13 30 (4.27%) ARM Templates
14 26 (3.70%) Node.js
15 21 (2.99%) HTML5
15 21 (2.99%) YAML
16 20 (2.84%) ML.NET
16 20 (2.84%) Vue
17 19 (2.70%) jQuery
17 19 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.39%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.28%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
12 13 (1.85%) Robotics
13 12 (1.71%) IoT
14 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.14%) Life Science
16 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 8 (1.14%) Virtual Team
17 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 7 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 130 (18.49%) Linux
2 50 (7.11%) Windows
3 26 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.56%) Debian
6 8 (1.14%) VMS
7 6 (0.85%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (47.80%) CI/CD
2 290 (41.25%) Agile
3 143 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (19.06%) Software Engineering
6 124 (17.64%) AI
7 102 (14.51%) Microservices
8 100 (14.22%) Mentoring
9 98 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 88 (12.52%) Computer Science
11 86 (12.23%) Test Automation
12 85 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 83 (11.81%) Scrum
14 79 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
15 74 (10.53%) Containerisation
16 73 (10.38%) Analytics
17 71 (10.10%) Observability
18 63 (8.96%) Roadmaps
19 59 (8.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.90%) C#
2 162 (23.04%) Python
3 133 (18.92%) SQL
4 95 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.53%) Bash
6 51 (7.25%) PowerShell
7 50 (7.11%) Java
8 48 (6.83%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.12%) C++
10 30 (4.27%) Go
11 28 (3.98%) Bicep
12 27 (3.84%) PHP
13 20 (2.84%) C
14 13 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.28%) Groovy
17 7 (1.00%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.85%) Rust
19 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
19 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 121 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 106 (15.08%) Degree
3 80 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.85%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) PMP
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (12.38%) QA
2 22 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.42%) GDPR
5 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (1.14%) NIST
7 8 (1.14%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) MISRA
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (21.48%) Docker
2 16 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.14%) Firmware
4 8 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) 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
1 156 (22.19%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.81%) Ansible
3 43 (6.12%) Grafana
4 36 (5.12%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.71%) Kibana
6 10 (1.42%) Puppet
7 8 (1.14%) Argo
7 8 (1.14%) Nagios
7 8 (1.14%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.14%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.85%) Packer
9 5 (0.71%) Istio
9 5 (0.71%) Podman
10 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Rancher
13 1 (0.14%) Scalr
Vendors
1 165 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.70%) Google
3 17 (2.42%) Oracle
3 17 (2.42%) Red Hat
4 16 (2.28%) VMware
5 15 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.71%) Databricks
6 12 (1.71%) Facebook
6 12 (1.71%) YouTube
7 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.56%) Splunk
8 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.42%) SAP
9 9 (1.28%) Informatica
9 9 (1.28%) Talend
10 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 7 (1.00%) New Relic
11 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace