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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 704 585 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.04% 6.52% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 7.42% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 541 264 633
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,700 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +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 12,422 7,887 11,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.36% 87.86% 80.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,907 4,241 7,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -3 265 £67,500 +3.85% 75
Hampshire -6 193 £65,000 +7.44% 32
Surrey +14 121 £65,000 -8.77% 24
Berkshire -13 101 £75,000 -3.23% 40
Buckinghamshire +19 100 £61,250 -5.77% 16
West Sussex +15 77 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Oxfordshire +3 64 £62,500 +25.00% 20
Kent -27 27 £31,250 -16.67% 5
Isle of Wight +3 7 £50,000 -31.51% 3
East Sussex -27 6 £85,000 +17.24% 4
Sussex -5 5 £60,000 +33.33%
Middlesex 0 1 £38,500 +2.67% 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 20 (2.84%) Confluence
2 12 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) IIS
4 8 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) 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 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.85%) Simulink
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
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 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 429 (60.94%) Azure
2 226 (32.10%) Azure DevOps
3 193 (27.41%) AWS
4 74 (10.51%) SaaS
5 57 (8.10%) GitHub
6 40 (5.68%) Serverless
7 39 (5.54%) Power Platform
8 37 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (4.83%) GCP
10 33 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 29 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 28 (3.98%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (3.98%) PaaS
13 26 (3.69%) Azure AI
13 26 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (3.27%) Entra ID
15 23 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (2.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.55%) Firewall
2 23 (3.27%) VPN
3 14 (1.99%) DNS
4 7 (0.99%) MQTT
5 6 (0.85%) Internet
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
6 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) BGP
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
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%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.07%) SQL Server
2 55 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (7.53%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.55%) Power BI
6 22 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.99%) MySQL
9 13 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.56%) Metadata
11 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.28%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.14%) Redis
14 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.71%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 106 (15.06%) Git
2 48 (6.82%) GitLab
3 43 (6.11%) JIRA
4 33 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.13%) Selenium
7 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.14%) JUnit
7 8 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.85%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) NUnit
9 6 (0.85%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.57%) Mockito
11 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.43%) Snyk
13 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 202 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.61%) Finance
3 74 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.13%) Retail
6 19 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.56%) Games
8 17 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.13%) Advertising
10 13 (1.85%) Marketing
11 12 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.99%) Aviation
12 7 (0.99%) Legal
13 6 (0.85%) Electronics
13 6 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.71%) Automotive
14 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (22.02%) Developer
2 139 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 125 (17.76%) Senior
4 94 (13.35%) Lead
5 77 (10.94%) .NET Developer
6 73 (10.37%) Software Engineer
7 52 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (5.68%) Architect
9 32 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 24 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.27%) Lead Developer
14 20 (2.84%) Analyst
14 20 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (2.84%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (24.15%) Terraform
2 153 (21.73%) .NET
3 92 (13.07%) ASP.NET
4 67 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 67 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (9.23%) HTML
5 65 (9.23%) React
6 61 (8.66%) CSS
7 55 (7.81%) REST
8 52 (7.39%) RESTful
9 41 (5.82%) Blazor
10 33 (4.69%) Entity Framework
11 31 (4.40%) ARM Templates
12 26 (3.69%) YAML
13 24 (3.41%) Node.js
14 22 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (2.98%) JSON
15 21 (2.98%) ML.NET
15 21 (2.98%) Spring
15 21 (2.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.70%) IoT
10 12 (1.70%) Robotics
11 11 (1.56%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.14%) Life Science
14 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.76%) Linux
2 42 (5.97%) Windows
3 25 (3.55%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.43%) Rocky
10 3 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (47.30%) CI/CD
2 287 (40.77%) Agile
3 153 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
4 149 (21.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 143 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 135 (19.18%) Software Engineering
7 118 (16.76%) AI
8 106 (15.06%) Microservices
9 102 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 100 (14.20%) Mentoring
11 85 (12.07%) Containerisation
12 84 (11.93%) Computer Science
13 82 (11.65%) Test Automation
14 76 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (10.51%) Observability
15 74 (10.51%) Scrum
16 70 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
17 68 (9.66%) Analytics
18 63 (8.95%) Roadmaps
19 59 (8.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.72%) C#
2 163 (23.15%) Python
3 142 (20.17%) SQL
4 90 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 61 (8.66%) PowerShell
6 60 (8.52%) Bash
7 52 (7.39%) Java
8 43 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 38 (5.40%) C++
10 31 (4.40%) Bicep
11 22 (3.13%) C
12 20 (2.84%) Go
12 20 (2.84%) PHP
13 13 (1.85%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.28%) Groovy
15 8 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.85%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 113 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.35%) Degree
3 75 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.14%) 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 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) 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%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.65%) QA
2 17 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.14%) NIST
5 8 (1.14%) WCAG
6 4 (0.57%) GDPR
7 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.43%) 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%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 152 (21.59%) Docker
2 17 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.99%) Firmware
5 7 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) 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
1 149 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 78 (11.08%) Ansible
3 43 (6.11%) Grafana
4 35 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.70%) Kibana
6 11 (1.56%) Puppet
7 10 (1.42%) Nagios
8 9 (1.28%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.14%) Argo
10 6 (0.85%) Packer
11 5 (0.71%) Istio
11 5 (0.71%) Podman
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.57%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.43%) Scalr
14 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 167 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.41%) Red Hat
3 18 (2.56%) Oracle
4 17 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.13%) Google
6 13 (1.85%) Databricks
7 12 (1.70%) Facebook
7 12 (1.70%) Splunk
7 12 (1.70%) VMware
7 12 (1.70%) YouTube
8 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.28%) SAP
11 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 8 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.85%) New Relic
14 5 (0.71%) Cisco
15 4 (0.57%) Palo Alto