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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 700 495 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.71% 5.55% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 6.31% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 520 250 557
10th Percentile £44,875 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £68,825
% change year-on-year +2.84% +1.71% -1.68%

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 13,591 7,845 10,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.94% 87.90% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,685 4,244 5,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,150 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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 26 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 26 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 +7 265 £67,500 +3.85% 214
Hampshire -10 184 £67,500 +8.00% 101
Surrey +11 128 £63,250 -9.64% 73
Berkshire +7 112 £82,500 +24.53% 120
Buckinghamshire +7 79 £65,000 -7.14% 46
Oxfordshire +12 74 £62,500 +6.38% 51
West Sussex +7 72 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Kent -42 25 £31,250 -16.67% 11
East Sussex -14 11 £97,500 +62.50% 20
Isle of Wight +3 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
Sussex -13 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Middlesex -3 2 £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 (2.86%) Confluence
2 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.57%) IIS
4 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) JBoss
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.86%) Simulink
4 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 415 (59.29%) Azure
2 225 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 197 (28.14%) AWS
4 72 (10.29%) SaaS
5 59 (8.43%) GitHub
6 50 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 41 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (5.57%) GCP
8 39 (5.57%) Serverless
9 38 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (4.29%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 28 (4.00%) PaaS
12 27 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (3.43%) Azure AI
14 23 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 22 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.14%) VPN
2 28 (4.00%) Firewall
3 14 (2.00%) DNS
4 9 (1.29%) Internet
5 7 (1.00%) MQTT
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) DHCP
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.71%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.71%) MongoDB
4 36 (5.14%) Power BI
5 35 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.00%) MySQL
8 20 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.57%) Metadata
10 15 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.14%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.71%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.29%) Redis
12 9 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (16.86%) Git
2 48 (6.86%) JIRA
3 44 (6.29%) GitLab
4 35 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.86%) Selenium
7 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.00%) JMeter
9 6 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.86%) JUnit
9 6 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.43%) Mocha
10 3 (0.43%) NUnit
10 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Snyk
10 3 (0.43%) Storybook
10 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 197 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.43%) Finance
3 61 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.14%) Retail
6 18 (2.57%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.29%) Marketing
8 15 (2.14%) Advertising
8 15 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.86%) Games
11 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.00%) Aviation
13 6 (0.86%) Electronics
14 5 (0.71%) Banking
14 5 (0.71%) Legal
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Automotive
15 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (22.00%) Senior
2 150 (21.43%) Developer
3 149 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 87 (12.43%) Lead
5 76 (10.86%) .NET Developer
6 65 (9.29%) Software Engineer
7 49 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.86%) Senior DevOps
9 38 (5.43%) Architect
9 38 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 27 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 23 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.29%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.00%) Analyst
16 20 (2.86%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (23.71%) Terraform
2 143 (20.43%) .NET
3 87 (12.43%) ASP.NET
4 67 (9.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (9.29%) HTML
6 64 (9.14%) React
7 63 (9.00%) CSS
8 60 (8.57%) .NET Core
9 50 (7.14%) REST
10 49 (7.00%) RESTful
11 37 (5.29%) Blazor
12 31 (4.43%) Entity Framework
13 30 (4.29%) ARM Templates
14 27 (3.86%) Node.js
15 21 (3.00%) HTML5
15 21 (3.00%) YAML
16 20 (2.86%) ML.NET
16 20 (2.86%) Vue
17 19 (2.71%) jQuery
17 19 (2.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.14%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
8 15 (2.14%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.00%) Robotics
10 12 (1.71%) IoT
11 9 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.00%) Life Science
13 7 (1.00%) Social Media
14 6 (0.86%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 133 (19.00%) Linux
2 52 (7.43%) Windows
3 26 (3.71%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.43%) Debian
7 6 (0.86%) VMS
8 5 (0.71%) CentOS
9 4 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.43%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (47.71%) CI/CD
2 282 (40.29%) Agile
3 141 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (18.71%) Software Engineering
7 124 (17.71%) AI
8 102 (14.57%) Mentoring
9 100 (14.29%) Microservices
10 99 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 87 (12.43%) Computer Science
11 87 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 83 (11.86%) Test Automation
13 82 (11.71%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (11.43%) Scrum
15 74 (10.57%) Containerisation
16 71 (10.14%) Analytics
17 69 (9.86%) Observability
18 61 (8.71%) Roadmaps
19 58 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (24.00%) C#
2 163 (23.29%) Python
3 135 (19.29%) SQL
4 95 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.57%) Bash
6 50 (7.14%) Java
6 50 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 48 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 36 (5.14%) C++
9 31 (4.43%) Go
10 28 (4.00%) Bicep
11 27 (3.86%) PHP
12 20 (2.86%) C
13 13 (1.86%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.71%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.14%) Groovy
16 7 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 7 (1.00%) Rust
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 121 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.29%) Degree
3 78 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.29%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
10 6 (0.86%) PMP
11 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.29%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.86%) QA
2 21 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) GDPR
5 10 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (1.14%) NIST
7 8 (1.14%) WCAG
8 2 (0.29%) GRC
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.29%) MISRA
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) IASME
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (21.57%) Docker
2 15 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.29%) Firmware
5 7 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
7 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.29%) iptables
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 158 (22.57%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.71%) Ansible
3 41 (5.86%) Grafana
4 35 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.71%) Kibana
6 9 (1.29%) Puppet
7 8 (1.14%) Argo
7 8 (1.14%) Nagios
7 8 (1.14%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.00%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.86%) Packer
10 5 (0.71%) Istio
10 5 (0.71%) Podman
11 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.29%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.29%) Rancher
14 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 167 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.86%) Google
3 17 (2.43%) Oracle
3 17 (2.43%) Red Hat
4 16 (2.29%) VMware
5 14 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.71%) Databricks
6 12 (1.71%) Facebook
6 12 (1.71%) YouTube
7 11 (1.57%) Splunk
8 10 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.29%) Informatica
9 9 (1.29%) SAP
9 9 (1.29%) Talend
10 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 7 (1.00%) New Relic
11 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.86%) MuleSoft