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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 682 610 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.20% 7.04% 7.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 7.97% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 523 283 687
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,375 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,560 £85,400
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +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 11,643 7,651 11,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.71% 88.30% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,298 4,077 8,063
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,743 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -6 262 £65,000 +2.36% 87
Hampshire -8 182 £67,500 +11.57% 52
Surrey +8 106 £65,000 -10.34% 26
Buckinghamshire +8 105 £60,000 - 16
Berkshire -15 103 £70,000 -3.45% 48
West Sussex +11 84 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Oxfordshire -4 54 £65,000 +30.00% 23
Kent -28 27 £29,000 -49.57% 14
East Sussex -17 8 £85,000 +53.15% 3
Isle of Wight +3 6 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Sussex -4 5 £60,000 -22.58% 2
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 18 (2.64%) Confluence
2 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.32%) IIS
4 8 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.73%) nginx
6 4 (0.59%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.88%) Simulink
3 4 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.88%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (60.26%) Azure
2 228 (33.43%) Azure DevOps
3 175 (25.66%) AWS
4 67 (9.82%) SaaS
5 57 (8.36%) GitHub
6 40 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (5.87%) Serverless
7 39 (5.72%) Power Platform
8 32 (4.69%) PaaS
9 29 (4.25%) Azure AKS
9 29 (4.25%) GCP
10 26 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 26 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (3.52%) Azure AI
12 23 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.37%) IaaS
13 22 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 21 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (3.08%) Datadog
15 20 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.81%) Firewall
2 22 (3.23%) VPN
3 11 (1.61%) DNS
4 7 (1.03%) MQTT
5 6 (0.88%) Internet
6 5 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.59%) BGP
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
8 3 (0.44%) DHCP
8 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) Network Security
9 2 (0.29%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Modbus
10 1 (0.15%) NAS
10 1 (0.15%) SAN
10 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 50 (7.33%) MongoDB
3 31 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.52%) Power BI
5 21 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.61%) MySQL
8 8 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.17%) Metadata
9 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.88%) Redis
11 5 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.44%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 96 (14.08%) Git
2 60 (8.80%) GitLab
3 44 (6.45%) JIRA
4 36 (5.28%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.05%) Selenium
7 10 (1.47%) JUnit
7 10 (1.47%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.03%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.88%) JMeter
10 6 (0.88%) NUnit
11 5 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.73%) Mockito
12 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.44%) Snyk
14 2 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 179 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 130 (19.06%) Finance
3 86 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.37%) Retail
5 21 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.79%) Games
7 18 (2.64%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.64%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.35%) Advertising
9 13 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.91%) Marketing
10 9 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.88%) Aviation
11 6 (0.88%) Electronics
12 5 (0.73%) Automotive
12 5 (0.73%) Legal
12 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.59%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.59%) Law
14 3 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 147 (21.55%) Developer
2 146 (21.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 104 (15.25%) Senior
4 90 (13.20%) Lead
5 75 (11.00%) Software Engineer
6 66 (9.68%) .NET Developer
7 55 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (5.72%) Architect
9 34 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (3.37%) Analyst
13 20 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 19 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.64%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.64%) Junior
15 18 (2.64%) Lead Developer
15 18 (2.64%) Team Leader
16 16 (2.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (21.26%) .NET
2 84 (12.32%) ASP.NET
3 63 (9.24%) .NET Core
4 62 (9.09%) HTML
4 62 (9.09%) React
5 61 (8.94%) ASP.NET Core
6 59 (8.65%) CSS
7 52 (7.62%) RESTful
8 50 (7.33%) REST
9 35 (5.13%) Blazor
10 34 (4.99%) ARM Templates
11 31 (4.55%) Entity Framework
12 27 (3.96%) YAML
13 24 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (3.37%) JSON
15 21 (3.08%) ML.NET
15 21 (3.08%) Spring
16 20 (2.93%) Node.js
16 20 (2.93%) Spring Boot
17 19 (2.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.17%) Life Science
12 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.17%) Robotics
13 7 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 110 (16.13%) Linux
2 34 (4.99%) Windows
3 29 (4.25%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.61%) Debian
7 10 (1.47%) CentOS
7 10 (1.47%) VMS
8 5 (0.73%) Unix
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.59%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (48.24%) CI/CD
2 278 (40.76%) Agile
3 161 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 127 (18.62%) Software Engineering
7 110 (16.13%) AI
8 100 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
9 99 (14.52%) Microservices
10 93 (13.64%) Containerisation
11 87 (12.76%) Mentoring
12 80 (11.73%) Computer Science
13 77 (11.29%) Test Automation
14 76 (11.14%) Scrum
15 71 (10.41%) Observability
16 64 (9.38%) Analytics
17 60 (8.80%) SDLC
18 59 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
19 58 (8.50%) Roadmaps
20 56 (8.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.34%) Python
2 153 (22.43%) C#
3 140 (20.53%) SQL
4 94 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 68 (9.97%) PowerShell
6 65 (9.53%) Bash
7 57 (8.36%) Java
8 40 (5.87%) C++
9 38 (5.57%) TypeScript
10 34 (4.99%) Bicep
11 23 (3.37%) C
12 19 (2.79%) PHP
13 16 (2.35%) Go
14 11 (1.61%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
16 9 (1.32%) Groovy
17 8 (1.17%) MATLAB
18 7 (1.03%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.88%) Ruby
19 6 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 108 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.52%) Degree
3 65 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.88%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.15%) CCA
14 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.82%) QA
2 16 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.32%) NIST
4 9 (1.32%) WCAG
5 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) ITGC
7 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 153 (22.43%) Docker
2 18 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.03%) Firmware
5 6 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 168 (24.63%) Terraform
2 143 (20.97%) Kubernetes
3 79 (11.58%) Ansible
4 43 (6.30%) Grafana
5 37 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.76%) Kibana
6 12 (1.76%) Nagios
7 11 (1.61%) Puppet
8 9 (1.32%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.17%) Argo
10 6 (0.88%) Podman
11 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.73%) Packer
11 5 (0.73%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.44%) Istio
12 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.44%) Scalr
13 2 (0.29%) MIIS
13 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 159 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.69%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.52%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.49%) Oracle
5 16 (2.35%) Splunk
6 14 (2.05%) Databricks
6 14 (2.05%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.76%) Facebook
7 12 (1.76%) Google
7 12 (1.76%) YouTube
8 11 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.47%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.32%) Cisco
10 9 (1.32%) SAP
10 9 (1.32%) VMware
11 8 (1.17%) IBM
11 8 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.73%) Juniper
12 5 (0.73%) New Relic