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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 706 546 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.86% 6.01% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 6.84% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 541 256 590
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,966 £72,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +5.88% -2.86%

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 13,092 7,977 10,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.55% 87.85% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,410 4,234 6,059
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 11 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 11 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 -2 268 £67,500 +3.85% 111
Hampshire -10 190 £65,000 +7.44% 58
Surrey +11 125 £63,250 -12.76% 48
Berkshire -8 101 £82,500 +4.76% 65
Buckinghamshire +17 94 £63,500 -10.88% 20
West Sussex +12 75 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Oxfordshire +9 73 £62,500 +25.00% 28
Kent -32 26 £31,250 -16.67% 4
Isle of Wight +2 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
East Sussex -17 6 £85,000 +21.43% 9
Sussex -7 5 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Middlesex -2 1 £38,500 +2.67% 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 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
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
1 425 (60.20%) Azure
2 228 (32.29%) Azure DevOps
3 193 (27.34%) AWS
4 75 (10.62%) SaaS
5 57 (8.07%) GitHub
6 44 (6.23%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.67%) Serverless
8 38 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 33 (4.67%) GCP
11 30 (4.25%) Azure AKS
11 30 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (4.11%) PaaS
13 27 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.54%) Entra ID
16 24 (3.40%) Azure AI
17 22 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (2.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.82%) Firewall
2 26 (3.68%) 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 96 (13.60%) SQL Server
2 58 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.65%) MongoDB
4 33 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (4.25%) Power BI
6 22 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.27%) MySQL
7 16 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.12%) Metadata
9 14 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.84%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.56%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.27%) Redis
12 9 (1.27%) Star Schema
13 7 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 111 (15.72%) Git
2 45 (6.37%) GitLab
3 44 (6.23%) JIRA
4 34 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.27%) 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
9 6 (0.85%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) JUnit
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%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.28%) Postman
13 2 (0.28%) Storybook
General
1 196 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.41%) Finance
3 67 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (3.26%) Retail
6 19 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.27%) Games
7 16 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.27%) Marketing
8 15 (2.12%) Advertising
9 13 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (0.99%) Aviation
10 7 (0.99%) Legal
11 6 (0.85%) Electronics
12 5 (0.71%) Automotive
12 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 154 (21.81%) Developer
2 142 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (20.11%) Senior
3 93 (13.17%) Lead
4 79 (11.19%) .NET Developer
5 69 (9.77%) Software Engineer
6 52 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
7 39 (5.52%) Architect
8 38 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
9 29 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 29 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 27 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 23 (3.26%) Lead Developer
12 23 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (2.83%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.69%) Analyst
14 19 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (2.69%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (24.08%) Terraform
2 149 (21.10%) .NET
3 92 (13.03%) ASP.NET
4 69 (9.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (9.21%) HTML
6 64 (9.07%) React
7 63 (8.92%) .NET Core
8 62 (8.78%) CSS
9 56 (7.93%) REST
10 51 (7.22%) RESTful
11 39 (5.52%) Blazor
12 33 (4.67%) Entity Framework
13 31 (4.39%) ARM Templates
14 25 (3.54%) YAML
15 24 (3.40%) Node.js
16 21 (2.97%) ML.NET
17 20 (2.83%) JSON
18 19 (2.69%) HTML5
18 19 (2.69%) jQuery
18 19 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.07%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.69%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
9 13 (1.84%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.70%) IoT
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
1 123 (17.42%) Linux
2 45 (6.37%) Windows
3 26 (3.68%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.70%) Debian
7 10 (1.42%) VMS
8 7 (0.99%) CentOS
9 4 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.42%) Rocky
11 2 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (47.17%) CI/CD
2 288 (40.79%) Agile
3 145 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
4 144 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 143 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (18.98%) Software Engineering
7 119 (16.86%) AI
8 103 (14.59%) Microservices
9 98 (13.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (13.60%) Mentoring
11 85 (12.04%) Computer Science
12 83 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 78 (11.05%) Scrum
13 78 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 74 (10.48%) Containerisation
14 74 (10.48%) Observability
14 74 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
15 71 (10.06%) Analytics
16 63 (8.92%) Roadmaps
17 58 (8.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 171 (24.22%) C#
2 160 (22.66%) Python
3 137 (19.41%) SQL
4 93 (13.17%) JavaScript
5 58 (8.22%) Bash
6 55 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 49 (6.94%) Java
8 45 (6.37%) TypeScript
9 35 (4.96%) C++
10 31 (4.39%) Bicep
11 26 (3.68%) Go
12 23 (3.26%) PHP
13 19 (2.69%) C
14 13 (1.84%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.27%) Groovy
15 9 (1.27%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.31%) Degree
3 79 (11.19%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.56%) 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 (12.18%) QA
2 21 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.13%) GDPR
6 8 (1.13%) NIST
6 8 (1.13%) WCAG
7 7 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (21.39%) Docker
2 16 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.98%) 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
1 151 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.33%) Ansible
3 44 (6.23%) Grafana
4 36 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.70%) Kibana
6 11 (1.56%) Puppet
7 9 (1.27%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.13%) Argo
8 8 (1.13%) Nagios
9 6 (0.85%) Packer
9 6 (0.85%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.71%) Istio
10 5 (0.71%) Podman
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
1 166 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.83%) Red Hat
3 18 (2.55%) Oracle
4 16 (2.27%) Google
4 16 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.98%) VMware
6 13 (1.84%) Databricks
7 12 (1.70%) Facebook
7 12 (1.70%) YouTube
8 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.56%) Splunk
9 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.27%) SAP
11 8 (1.13%) IBM
11 8 (1.13%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.99%) Informatica
12 7 (0.99%) New Relic
12 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.99%) Talend
13 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace