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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 421 574 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.53% 7.97% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 8.83% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 313 373 706
10th Percentile £38,850 £42,500 £43,644
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £85,000 £87,500
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 9,105 6,502 12,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 76.26% 90.33% 85.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 3,289 8,982
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -22 158 £50,000 -23.08% 88
Hampshire -26 91 £75,000 +11.11% 44
Berkshire -28 72 £50,000 -33.33% 40
Buckinghamshire +3 71 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Surrey -28 55 £62,500 -16.67% 39
West Sussex +5 39 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Kent -8 30 £80,000 +39.13% 10
Middlesex +3 19 - -
East Sussex -10 16 £82,500 +73.68% 2
Oxfordshire -19 15 £73,750 +20.41% 21
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 5
Sussex -12 2 £75,000 - 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 17 (4.04%) IIS
2 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.19%) Confluence
4 4 (0.95%) Apache
5 3 (0.71%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 246 (58.43%) Azure
2 176 (41.81%) Azure DevOps
3 100 (23.75%) AWS
4 60 (14.25%) GitHub
5 43 (10.21%) Power Platform
6 30 (7.13%) PaaS
6 30 (7.13%) SaaS
7 25 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (5.94%) GCP
8 24 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.46%) Serverless
10 21 (4.99%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.04%) IaaS
12 16 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.33%) Azure AKS
13 14 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.94%) Firewall
2 23 (5.46%) DNS
3 15 (3.56%) VPN
4 8 (1.90%) DHCP
4 8 (1.90%) SAN
5 3 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.48%) BGP
6 2 (0.48%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) AMQP
7 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.24%) Modbus
7 1 (0.24%) MPLS
7 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.51%) Power BI
3 15 (3.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.14%) MySQL
6 8 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.71%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.48%) GIS
12 2 (0.48%) Metadata
12 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (13.06%) Git
2 35 (8.31%) GitLab
3 28 (6.65%) Selenium
4 27 (6.41%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.75%) Robot Framework
6 19 (4.51%) Snyk
7 17 (4.04%) JIRA
8 6 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.43%) MLflow
9 5 (1.19%) git-flow
9 5 (1.19%) JUnit
9 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.71%) Mockito
12 2 (0.48%) Appium
12 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 119 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 91 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (20.43%) Finance
4 20 (4.75%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.56%) Law
6 14 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.09%) Retail
8 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.38%) Billing
10 8 (1.90%) Games
11 7 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.43%) Banking
13 4 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.71%) Advertising
14 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.71%) Legal
14 3 (0.71%) Marketing
14 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (22.57%) Developer
2 69 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (14.73%) Lead
4 60 (14.25%) Senior
5 39 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 32 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.65%) Architect
8 27 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (5.46%) Senior DevOps
10 22 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.99%) Analyst
12 16 (3.80%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.56%) IT Engineer
14 13 (3.09%) Administrator
14 13 (3.09%) DevOps Administrator
14 13 (3.09%) IT Support
14 13 (3.09%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (3.09%) Support Engineer
14 13 (3.09%) Systems Administrator
15 12 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.70%) .NET
2 51 (12.11%) React
3 34 (8.08%) CSS
3 34 (8.08%) REST
4 32 (7.60%) HTML
5 29 (6.89%) .NET Framework
6 28 (6.65%) ASP.NET
7 24 (5.70%) Middleware
8 20 (4.75%) React Native
9 17 (4.04%) Bootstrap
9 17 (4.04%) WinForms
10 15 (3.56%) .NET Core
10 15 (3.56%) ARM Templates
10 15 (3.56%) Entity Framework
10 15 (3.56%) Kafka
11 14 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (3.33%) RESTful
11 14 (3.33%) Visualforce
12 13 (3.09%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.70%) Low-Code
3 22 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.51%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.43%) Life Science
10 5 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.71%) Animation
11 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 3 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.48%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.30%) Linux
2 48 (11.40%) Windows
3 15 (3.56%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.95%) Android
6 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) CentOS
7 3 (0.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (52.26%) CI/CD
2 180 (42.76%) Agile
3 125 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (24.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (14.01%) Computer Science
6 59 (14.01%) Software Engineering
7 56 (13.30%) Mentoring
8 54 (12.83%) Scrum
9 53 (12.59%) Test Automation
10 52 (12.35%) AI
11 48 (11.40%) Containerisation
12 41 (9.74%) Microservices
13 38 (9.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (8.55%) SDLC
15 34 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (7.84%) Observability
17 30 (7.13%) DevSecOps
17 30 (7.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 95 (22.57%) Python
2 81 (19.24%) C#
3 77 (18.29%) SQL
4 49 (11.64%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.55%) Java
6 34 (8.08%) Bash
7 32 (7.60%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.99%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.56%) C++
10 14 (3.33%) Apex Code
11 13 (3.09%) Go
11 13 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.38%) Bicep
13 7 (1.66%) C
14 3 (0.71%) ABAP
14 3 (0.71%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) R
14 3 (0.71%) Ruby
15 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 79 (18.76%) Degree
2 71 (16.86%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.13%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.51%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.09%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.85%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.66%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.71%) CISSP
12 3 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.24%) CEH
14 1 (0.24%) CISM
14 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.84%) QA
2 13 (3.09%) NIST
3 9 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.90%) PMO
5 7 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.66%) NCSC
6 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.95%) ITGC
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (14.25%) Docker
2 21 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (23.75%) Terraform
2 72 (17.10%) Kubernetes
3 55 (13.06%) Ansible
4 21 (4.99%) Grafana
5 19 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.14%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.90%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.90%) SCCM
8 5 (1.19%) Nagios
9 3 (0.71%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.48%) Argo
10 2 (0.48%) Nessus
10 2 (0.48%) Puppet
10 2 (0.48%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.24%) CASB
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 102 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.70%) Salesforce
3 21 (4.99%) VMware
4 20 (4.75%) Red Hat
5 18 (4.28%) Black Duck
5 18 (4.28%) Coverity
6 17 (4.04%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.85%) Sage
7 12 (2.85%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.14%) Veeam
9 8 (1.90%) 3PAR
9 8 (1.90%) NetApp
9 8 (1.90%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.66%) Cisco
10 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.66%) Splunk
11 6 (1.43%) Google
12 5 (1.19%) Oracle
12 5 (1.19%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.19%) Zoho