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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 700 609 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.28% 7.04% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 7.97% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 536 281 669
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £47,500
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 £85,700 £85,000
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 11,746 7,640 11,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.75% 88.27% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,356 4,069 7,890
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,620
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 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -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 30 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 30 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 -4 268 £65,000 +2.36% 86
Hampshire -10 186 £67,500 +11.57% 45
Surrey +18 112 £65,000 -10.34% 25
Buckinghamshire +14 107 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Berkshire -15 104 £68,750 -11.29% 48
West Sussex +11 85 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Oxfordshire -5 57 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Kent -22 28 £29,000 -49.57% 15
East Sussex -18 8 £85,000 +53.15% 4
Isle of Wight +4 6 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Sussex -4 5 £60,000 -22.58% 1
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 21 (3.00%) Confluence
2 10 (1.43%) IIS
2 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.71%) nginx
5 4 (0.57%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) JBoss
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 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 423 (60.43%) Azure
2 232 (33.14%) Azure DevOps
3 184 (26.29%) AWS
4 72 (10.29%) SaaS
5 58 (8.29%) GitHub
6 41 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (5.86%) Serverless
7 39 (5.57%) Power Platform
8 32 (4.57%) PaaS
9 30 (4.29%) Azure AKS
9 30 (4.29%) GCP
10 27 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 26 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.43%) Azure AI
13 23 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (3.29%) Datadog
13 23 (3.29%) IaaS
14 22 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (3.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.86%) Firewall
2 22 (3.14%) VPN
3 11 (1.57%) DNS
4 7 (1.00%) MQTT
5 6 (0.86%) Internet
6 5 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) BGP
7 4 (0.57%) HTTP
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) NAS
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 1 (0.14%) Broadband
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
10 1 (0.14%) Modbus
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 50 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 32 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.43%) Power BI
5 21 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.86%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.57%) MySQL
8 9 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.14%) Metadata
10 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.86%) Redis
12 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.43%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 98 (14.00%) Git
2 61 (8.71%) GitLab
3 48 (6.86%) JIRA
4 36 (5.14%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.14%) Selenium
7 10 (1.43%) JUnit
7 10 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.00%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.86%) JMeter
10 6 (0.86%) NUnit
11 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.71%) Mockito
12 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.43%) Snyk
14 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 187 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 133 (19.00%) Finance
3 87 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.29%) Retail
5 22 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.71%) Games
6 19 (2.71%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.29%) Advertising
9 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.86%) Marketing
10 10 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.86%) Aviation
11 6 (0.86%) Electronics
11 6 (0.86%) Legal
12 5 (0.71%) Automotive
12 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.57%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.57%) Law
13 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (21.14%) Developer
1 148 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 106 (15.14%) Senior
3 91 (13.00%) Lead
4 75 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 67 (9.57%) .NET Developer
6 55 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
7 41 (5.86%) Architect
8 37 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (4.43%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 28 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (3.29%) Analyst
12 20 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (2.71%) Lead Developer
13 19 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (2.57%) Data Engineer
14 18 (2.57%) Junior
14 18 (2.57%) Team Leader
15 16 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (21.00%) .NET
2 85 (12.14%) ASP.NET
3 64 (9.14%) .NET Core
3 64 (9.14%) React
4 62 (8.86%) HTML
5 61 (8.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 59 (8.43%) CSS
7 54 (7.71%) REST
8 52 (7.43%) RESTful
9 37 (5.29%) Blazor
10 34 (4.86%) ARM Templates
11 31 (4.43%) Entity Framework
12 27 (3.86%) YAML
13 25 (3.57%) JSON
13 25 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.00%) ML.NET
14 21 (3.00%) Node.js
14 21 (3.00%) Spring
15 20 (2.86%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.57%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.71%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.29%) Robotics
13 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.14%) IoT
13 8 (1.14%) Life Science
13 8 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.57%) Linux
2 37 (5.29%) Windows
3 30 (4.29%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.57%) Debian
6 10 (1.43%) CentOS
6 10 (1.43%) VMS
7 5 (0.71%) Unix
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.57%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 286 (40.86%) Agile
3 166 (23.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 131 (18.71%) Software Engineering
7 115 (16.43%) AI
8 103 (14.71%) Microservices
9 101 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 94 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 91 (13.00%) Mentoring
12 82 (11.71%) Computer Science
13 79 (11.29%) Scrum
14 78 (11.14%) Test Automation
15 76 (10.86%) Observability
16 65 (9.29%) Analytics
17 63 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (8.71%) SDLC
19 60 (8.57%) Roadmaps
20 58 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.29%) Python
2 155 (22.14%) C#
3 140 (20.00%) SQL
4 94 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 68 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 66 (9.43%) Bash
7 57 (8.14%) Java
8 40 (5.71%) C++
9 39 (5.57%) TypeScript
10 34 (4.86%) Bicep
11 23 (3.29%) C
12 19 (2.71%) PHP
13 18 (2.57%) Go
14 11 (1.57%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
16 9 (1.29%) Groovy
17 8 (1.14%) MATLAB
18 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.86%) Ruby
19 6 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 110 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.57%) Degree
3 67 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.29%) QA
2 16 (2.29%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.29%) NIST
4 9 (1.29%) WCAG
5 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.57%) ITGC
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (22.57%) Docker
2 18 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.00%) Firmware
6 5 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.29%) KVM
7 2 (0.29%) Xen
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 177 (25.29%) Terraform
2 148 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 81 (11.57%) Ansible
4 46 (6.57%) Grafana
5 39 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.86%) Nagios
7 12 (1.71%) Kibana
8 11 (1.57%) Puppet
9 9 (1.29%) ZABBIX
10 8 (1.14%) Argo
11 6 (0.86%) Podman
12 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.71%) Packer
12 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.57%) Istio
14 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.43%) Scalr
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
15 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 161 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.57%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.43%) Oracle
5 16 (2.29%) Splunk
6 14 (2.00%) Databricks
6 14 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.71%) Facebook
7 12 (1.71%) Google
7 12 (1.71%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.71%) YouTube
8 11 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.57%) VMware
9 10 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.29%) Cisco
10 9 (1.29%) SAP
11 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 8 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.86%) New Relic
13 5 (0.71%) Juniper