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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -32 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 463 549 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.49% 8.20% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 9.13% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 361 347 756
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,644
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.40% -5.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -5.71%

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 9,823 6,015 13,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 74.09% 89.83% 84.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,344 3,268 9,583
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
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 5 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 5 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 -18 190 £55,000 -15.38% 99
Hampshire -23 102 £71,250 +14.00% 41
Buckinghamshire +10 86 £52,500 -12.50% 31
Berkshire -22 85 £50,000 -35.48% 43
Surrey -28 63 £62,500 -16.67% 20
West Sussex -2 45 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Kent -11 28 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Oxfordshire -15 19 £70,000 +30.84% 25
East Sussex -23 12 £82,500 +73.68% 1
Middlesex +6 10 - - 1
Isle of Wight - 8 £42,000 - 2
Sussex -13 4 £67,500 -10.00% 2
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 (1.94%) IIS
2 7 (1.51%) Confluence
3 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.65%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Camunda
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.65%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 263 (56.80%) Azure
2 170 (36.72%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (25.49%) AWS
4 55 (11.88%) GitHub
5 37 (7.99%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.56%) SaaS
7 30 (6.48%) PaaS
7 30 (6.48%) Serverless
8 24 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (4.54%) GCP
11 20 (4.32%) IaaS
12 19 (4.10%) Amazon S3
12 19 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (4.10%) OpenShift
13 18 (3.89%) Entra ID
14 14 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.26%) Firewall
2 20 (4.32%) DNS
3 13 (2.81%) VPN
4 6 (1.30%) DHCP
5 5 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.08%) 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 41 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.24%) Power BI
3 12 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.51%) MySQL
8 5 (1.08%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.65%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 2 (0.43%) Metadata
11 1 (0.22%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (12.96%) Git
2 44 (9.50%) GitLab
3 32 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.83%) JIRA
5 25 (5.40%) Selenium
6 16 (3.46%) Robot Framework
7 14 (3.02%) Snyk
8 8 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.51%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.30%) JUnit
10 6 (1.30%) MLflow
11 5 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.86%) git-flow
12 4 (0.86%) Mockito
12 4 (0.86%) NUnit
12 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.86%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
General
1 125 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 99 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (18.36%) Finance
4 25 (5.40%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.89%) Retail
6 16 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.46%) Law
7 13 (2.81%) Games
7 13 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.94%) Billing
9 8 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.30%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.86%) Banking
12 4 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.86%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
13 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 105 (22.68%) Developer
2 88 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (14.69%) Lead
4 66 (14.25%) Senior
5 38 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (7.13%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (6.05%) Architect
9 27 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (3.67%) Administrator
11 17 (3.67%) Analyst
11 17 (3.67%) DevOps Administrator
11 17 (3.67%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (3.46%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 13 (2.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.81%) Team Leader
16 12 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.52%) .NET
2 50 (10.80%) React
3 46 (9.94%) REST
4 37 (7.99%) CSS
5 36 (7.78%) HTML
6 32 (6.91%) ASP.NET
7 24 (5.18%) Middleware
8 23 (4.97%) .NET Framework
9 21 (4.54%) React Native
10 20 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (4.10%) RESTful
12 18 (3.89%) Bootstrap
13 17 (3.67%) .NET Core
13 17 (3.67%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.67%) JSON
14 16 (3.46%) OAuth
14 16 (3.46%) SOAP
14 16 (3.46%) YAML
15 15 (3.24%) Spring
15 15 (3.24%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.75%) Low-Code
4 21 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.10%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.16%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.51%) Life Science
10 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.65%) Animation
11 3 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 3 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.69%) Linux
2 35 (7.56%) Windows
3 18 (3.89%) Ubuntu
4 13 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.30%) Unix
5 6 (1.30%) VMS
5 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.08%) CentOS
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.43%) Android
7 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Debian
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (50.32%) CI/CD
2 195 (42.12%) Agile
3 139 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (13.61%) Test Automation
7 61 (13.17%) Scrum
8 60 (12.96%) Containerisation
9 56 (12.10%) AI
10 53 (11.45%) Computer Science
11 52 (11.23%) Microservices
12 51 (11.02%) Software Engineering
13 49 (10.58%) Mentoring
14 43 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 43 (9.29%) Observability
15 38 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (7.78%) Data Modelling
17 35 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (7.56%) Deployment Automation
18 32 (6.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 114 (24.62%) Python
2 85 (18.36%) SQL
3 77 (16.63%) C#
4 50 (10.80%) JavaScript
5 44 (9.50%) Bash
6 42 (9.07%) Java
7 37 (7.99%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.24%) Apex Code
8 15 (3.24%) C++
8 15 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.02%) Go
10 13 (2.81%) Bicep
11 8 (1.73%) C
12 7 (1.51%) Groovy
12 7 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.08%) Perl
13 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 3 (0.65%) ABAP
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 74 (15.98%) Degree
3 38 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (7.13%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.89%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.51%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.30%) 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%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) LPIC
15 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.34%) QA
2 14 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.38%) NIST
4 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.51%) NCSC
5 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.86%) ITGC
8 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
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 73 (15.77%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (24.41%) Terraform
2 85 (18.36%) Kubernetes
3 69 (14.90%) Ansible
4 28 (6.05%) Grafana
5 25 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.73%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.30%) Nagios
7 6 (1.30%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.08%) Kibana
8 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.08%) SCCM
9 4 (0.86%) Packer
9 4 (0.86%) Puppet
10 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.65%) Scalr
11 2 (0.43%) Argo
11 2 (0.43%) MIIS
11 2 (0.43%) Nessus
11 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 99 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.05%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.54%) MuleSoft
5 17 (3.67%) VMware
6 14 (3.02%) Black Duck
6 14 (3.02%) Coverity
7 10 (2.16%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.16%) Databricks
7 10 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.16%) Oracle
8 9 (1.94%) Cisco
8 9 (1.94%) Splunk
9 8 (1.73%) IBM
9 8 (1.73%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.30%) Sage
10 6 (1.30%) Veeam
10 6 (1.30%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.08%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.08%) SolarWinds