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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 707 550 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.00% 6.15% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 7.03% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 542 254 605
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £79,688 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.70% +7.41% -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 12,621 7,820 10,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.35% 87.50% 80.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,088 4,178 6,357
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,050
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.75% -3.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,475 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 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 4 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 0 267 £67,500 +3.85% 136
Hampshire -1 192 £67,500 +11.57% 74
Surrey +15 122 £65,000 -10.34% 52
Berkshire -10 100 £82,500 +3.13% 68
Buckinghamshire +20 95 £62,500 -10.71% 30
West Sussex +14 76 £70,000 +16.67% 26
Oxfordshire +4 72 £62,500 +25.00% 39
Kent -31 28 £31,250 -16.67% 9
Isle of Wight +2 7 £50,000 -31.51% 2
Sussex -6 5 £60,000 +33.33% 5
East Sussex -19 5 £85,000 +17.24% 11
Middlesex -3 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 (2.83%) Confluence
2 14 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) IIS
4 8 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) 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 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.85%) Simulink
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 430 (60.82%) Azure
2 231 (32.67%) Azure DevOps
3 193 (27.30%) AWS
4 74 (10.47%) SaaS
5 57 (8.06%) GitHub
6 44 (6.22%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.66%) Serverless
8 38 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (5.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 34 (4.81%) GCP
11 30 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (4.10%) Azure AKS
13 28 (3.96%) PaaS
14 26 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.54%) Azure AI
15 25 (3.54%) Entra ID
16 22 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.68%) Firewall
2 25 (3.54%) VPN
3 14 (1.98%) DNS
4 7 (0.99%) MQTT
5 6 (0.85%) Internet
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) NAS
8 3 (0.42%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.28%) IPv4
9 2 (0.28%) IPv6
9 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.44%) SQL Server
2 59 (8.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 56 (7.92%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (4.24%) Power BI
6 22 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.40%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.26%) MySQL
9 15 (2.12%) Metadata
10 14 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.70%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.27%) Star Schema
14 8 (1.13%) Redis
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
16 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 113 (15.98%) Git
2 46 (6.51%) GitLab
3 44 (6.22%) JIRA
4 34 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (1.98%) Selenium
7 8 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.99%) JUnit
9 6 (0.85%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.71%) NUnit
11 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.42%) Mockito
12 3 (0.42%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 198 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.67%) Finance
3 70 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (2.97%) Retail
6 19 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.40%) Games
8 16 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.12%) Advertising
9 15 (2.12%) Marketing
10 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.99%) Aviation
12 7 (0.99%) Legal
13 6 (0.85%) Electronics
14 5 (0.71%) Automotive
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (21.92%) Developer
2 141 (19.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 139 (19.66%) Senior
4 94 (13.30%) Lead
5 79 (11.17%) .NET Developer
6 70 (9.90%) Software Engineer
7 54 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (5.52%) Architect
9 36 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.25%) Lead Developer
13 23 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (2.83%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.69%) Analyst
15 19 (2.69%) Senior Developer
15 19 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (24.05%) Terraform
2 150 (21.22%) .NET
3 92 (13.01%) ASP.NET
4 69 (9.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 66 (9.34%) HTML
6 64 (9.05%) .NET Core
7 63 (8.91%) React
8 62 (8.77%) CSS
9 55 (7.78%) REST
10 52 (7.36%) RESTful
11 39 (5.52%) Blazor
12 33 (4.67%) Entity Framework
13 31 (4.38%) ARM Templates
14 25 (3.54%) YAML
15 23 (3.25%) Node.js
16 21 (2.97%) ML.NET
16 21 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (2.83%) JSON
17 20 (2.83%) Spring
17 20 (2.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.69%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.70%) IoT
10 12 (1.70%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.70%) Robotics
11 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.27%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.13%) Life Science
13 7 (0.99%) Social Media
13 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (16.83%) Linux
2 45 (6.36%) Windows
3 24 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.70%) Debian
6 10 (1.41%) VMS
7 7 (0.99%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Rocky
10 2 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (47.38%) CI/CD
2 293 (41.44%) Agile
3 150 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (18.95%) Software Engineering
7 117 (16.55%) AI
8 104 (14.71%) Microservices
9 100 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 99 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 85 (12.02%) Computer Science
12 84 (11.88%) Test Automation
13 80 (11.32%) Containerisation
14 79 (11.17%) Scrum
15 78 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 75 (10.61%) Observability
17 73 (10.33%) Platform Engineering
18 71 (10.04%) Analytics
19 64 (9.05%) Roadmaps
20 59 (8.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 171 (24.19%) C#
2 162 (22.91%) Python
3 140 (19.80%) SQL
4 92 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 59 (8.35%) Bash
6 58 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 51 (7.21%) Java
8 43 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 35 (4.95%) C++
10 31 (4.38%) Bicep
11 24 (3.39%) Go
12 22 (3.11%) PHP
13 19 (2.69%) C
14 13 (1.84%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.27%) Groovy
16 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.85%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
19 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 116 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.43%) Degree
3 78 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.13%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.85%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.16%) QA
2 21 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.13%) GDPR
5 8 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.13%) NIST
5 8 (1.13%) WCAG
6 7 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 153 (21.64%) Docker
2 16 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.99%) Firmware
5 7 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.42%) 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
1 152 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 79 (11.17%) Ansible
3 44 (6.22%) Grafana
4 36 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.70%) Kibana
6 11 (1.56%) Puppet
7 9 (1.27%) Nagios
7 9 (1.27%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.13%) Argo
9 6 (0.85%) Packer
10 5 (0.71%) Istio
10 5 (0.71%) Podman
10 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.42%) Scalr
13 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 169 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.11%) Red Hat
3 18 (2.55%) Oracle
3 18 (2.55%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.12%) Google
5 13 (1.84%) Databricks
5 13 (1.84%) VMware
6 12 (1.70%) Facebook
6 12 (1.70%) YouTube
7 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.56%) Splunk
8 10 (1.41%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.27%) SAP
10 8 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.13%) IBM
10 8 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.99%) Informatica
11 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.99%) Talend
12 6 (0.85%) New Relic