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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 464 582 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.33% 8.57% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 9.53% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 369 348 767
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +1.33% +6.87% -6.43%

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 10,200 6,104 13,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.24% 89.87% 84.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,542 3,280 9,731
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -19 198 £55,000 -14.73% 92
Hampshire -21 101 £71,250 +18.75% 52
Buckinghamshire -5 92 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Berkshire -20 88 £50,000 -33.33% 46
Surrey -30 65 £62,500 -16.67% 21
West Sussex +1 48 £70,000 +12.00% 15
Kent -19 26 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Oxfordshire -25 18 £71,250 +34.43% 16
East Sussex -28 11 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Isle of Wight +6 7 £41,500 -7.78% 1
Sussex -10 5 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Middlesex +8 2 - - 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 8 (1.72%) IIS
2 7 (1.51%) Confluence
3 5 (1.08%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.65%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (54.74%) Azure
2 161 (34.70%) Azure DevOps
3 115 (24.78%) AWS
4 56 (12.07%) GitHub
5 37 (7.97%) SaaS
6 35 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.39%) PaaS
7 25 (5.39%) Serverless
8 24 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (4.53%) IaaS
11 20 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (4.09%) GCP
12 19 (4.09%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.45%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.45%) Entra ID
15 15 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (2.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.68%) Firewall
2 15 (3.23%) DNS
3 14 (3.02%) VPN
4 5 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.08%) DHCP
5 4 (0.86%) SAN
6 3 (0.65%) BGP
7 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.22%) Broadband
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.22%) Modbus
8 1 (0.22%) MPLS
8 1 (0.22%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.80%) Power BI
3 12 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.16%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.29%) MySQL
8 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.86%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.65%) Metadata
10 3 (0.65%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.43%) GIS
12 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 56 (12.07%) Git
2 47 (10.13%) GitLab
3 31 (6.68%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.25%) JIRA
5 20 (4.31%) Selenium
6 10 (2.16%) Robot Framework
7 8 (1.72%) Snyk
7 8 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.29%) JUnit
9 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.08%) MLflow
11 4 (0.86%) Mockito
11 4 (0.86%) NUnit
11 4 (0.86%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 122 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 95 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (16.59%) Finance
4 24 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.09%) Retail
6 16 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.45%) Law
7 14 (3.02%) Games
8 12 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.94%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.94%) Billing
10 6 (1.29%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.86%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
13 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Aviation
14 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 103 (22.20%) Developer
2 90 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (15.30%) Senior
4 69 (14.87%) Lead
5 38 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (7.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.47%) Architect
9 28 (6.03%) Senior DevOps
10 23 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (3.88%) Administrator
11 18 (3.88%) DevOps Administrator
11 18 (3.88%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (3.45%) Analyst
12 16 (3.45%) Power Platform Developer
12 16 (3.45%) Team Leader
13 15 (3.23%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.23%) Senior Systems Administrator
14 13 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.18%) .NET
2 46 (9.91%) React
3 45 (9.70%) REST
4 32 (6.90%) CSS
5 31 (6.68%) HTML
6 30 (6.47%) ASP.NET
7 26 (5.60%) Middleware
8 21 (4.53%) React Native
8 21 (4.53%) RESTful
9 20 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (3.88%) Bootstrap
11 17 (3.66%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.66%) .NET Framework
11 17 (3.66%) JSON
11 17 (3.66%) OAuth
11 17 (3.66%) SOAP
12 15 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (3.23%) Spring
12 15 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.53%) Low-Code
5 19 (4.09%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.16%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.29%) Life Science
12 4 (0.86%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.87%) Linux
2 29 (6.25%) Windows
3 18 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 14 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.72%) VMS
6 7 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.29%) CentOS
7 6 (1.29%) Unix
8 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.65%) Debian
11 2 (0.43%) Android
11 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 193 (41.59%) Agile
3 138 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (13.58%) Scrum
7 62 (13.36%) Containerisation
8 56 (12.07%) AI
8 56 (12.07%) Test Automation
9 53 (11.42%) Software Engineering
10 52 (11.21%) Computer Science
11 49 (10.56%) Microservices
12 43 (9.27%) Observability
13 41 (8.84%) Mentoring
14 40 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (8.41%) Data Modelling
16 35 (7.54%) Analytics
16 35 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (7.54%) Deployment Automation
17 34 (7.33%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 116 (25.00%) Python
2 84 (18.10%) SQL
3 74 (15.95%) C#
4 46 (9.91%) JavaScript
5 44 (9.48%) Bash
6 43 (9.27%) Java
7 35 (7.54%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.88%) C++
9 15 (3.23%) Apex Code
9 15 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.02%) Bicep
11 13 (2.80%) Go
12 8 (1.72%) C
13 7 (1.51%) Groovy
14 5 (1.08%) Perl
14 5 (1.08%) PHP
14 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.86%) Ruby
16 3 (0.65%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 78 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.73%) Degree
3 43 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.51%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.29%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.43%) CISSP
15 1 (0.22%) CISM
15 1 (0.22%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.54%) QA
2 16 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.94%) NIST
4 7 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.86%) ITGC
7 4 (0.86%) NCSC
7 4 (0.86%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (17.03%) Docker
2 10 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (23.71%) Terraform
2 86 (18.53%) Kubernetes
3 64 (13.79%) Ansible
4 29 (6.25%) Grafana
5 25 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.72%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.51%) Nagios
8 5 (1.08%) Kibana
8 5 (1.08%) Puppet
8 5 (1.08%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.86%) Packer
9 4 (0.86%) SCCM
10 3 (0.65%) Scalr
10 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.43%) Argo
11 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.43%) MIIS
11 2 (0.43%) Nessus
12 1 (0.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 98 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.03%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.39%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.74%) MuleSoft
5 15 (3.23%) VMware
6 12 (2.59%) Databricks
7 10 (2.16%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.16%) Oracle
8 9 (1.94%) Splunk
9 8 (1.72%) Black Duck
9 8 (1.72%) Cisco
9 8 (1.72%) Coverity
9 8 (1.72%) IBM
9 8 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.08%) F5
10 5 (1.08%) Juniper
10 5 (1.08%) SAP
10 5 (1.08%) Veeam
11 4 (0.86%) Xamarin