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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 478 578 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.30% 8.15% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 9.07% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 378 339 798
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £86,000
England median annual salary £70,966 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +7.69% -7.14%

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 10,550 6,373 13,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.82% 89.90% 84.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,781 3,355 9,833
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -15 210 £60,000 -6.25% 67
Hampshire -29 104 £71,250 +18.75% 60
Buckinghamshire +6 100 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Berkshire -19 90 £50,000 -33.33% 32
Surrey -28 68 £62,500 -16.67% 17
West Sussex +3 49 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Kent -27 25 £42,000 -26.96% 11
Oxfordshire -20 20 £75,000 +42.86% 22
East Sussex -30 11 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Isle of Wight -1 5 £41,500 -29.66% 1
Sussex -10 5 £60,000 -20.00% 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 7 (1.46%) Confluence
2 6 (1.26%) IIS
2 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.05%) CMS
3 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Camunda
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.42%) Simulink
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 263 (55.02%) Azure
2 158 (33.05%) Azure DevOps
3 119 (24.90%) AWS
4 51 (10.67%) GitHub
5 39 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.53%) SaaS
7 26 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.60%) PaaS
10 21 (4.39%) Serverless
11 19 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.97%) GCP
11 19 (3.97%) IaaS
11 19 (3.97%) OpenShift
12 17 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (3.35%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.14%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.69%) Firewall
2 14 (2.93%) VPN
3 12 (2.51%) DNS
4 5 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.05%) DHCP
5 4 (0.84%) BGP
5 4 (0.84%) SAN
6 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.21%) Modbus
7 1 (0.21%) MPLS
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.35%) Power BI
3 13 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.05%) Metadata
8 4 (0.84%) MySQL
9 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.42%) GIS
10 2 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (12.55%) Git
2 52 (10.88%) GitLab
3 28 (5.86%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.86%) JIRA
4 14 (2.93%) Selenium
5 13 (2.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.46%) JUnit
8 6 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.05%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.84%) MLflow
10 4 (0.84%) Mockito
10 4 (0.84%) NUnit
10 4 (0.84%) Snyk
10 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.84%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 113 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 93 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (17.78%) Finance
4 24 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.18%) Retail
6 16 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.14%) Law
8 14 (2.93%) Games
9 9 (1.88%) Billing
10 8 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.26%) Legal
12 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.84%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.63%) Marketing
14 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.42%) Aviation
15 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 103 (21.55%) Developer
1 103 (21.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (15.27%) Senior
3 69 (14.44%) Lead
4 43 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.49%) Architect
8 29 (6.07%) Senior DevOps
9 23 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (3.77%) Administrator
10 18 (3.77%) DevOps Administrator
10 18 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (3.77%) Team Leader
11 17 (3.56%) Analyst
12 16 (3.35%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
14 14 (2.93%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.57%) .NET
2 47 (9.83%) REST
3 43 (9.00%) React
4 32 (6.69%) CSS
5 31 (6.49%) HTML
6 26 (5.44%) ASP.NET
6 26 (5.44%) Middleware
7 23 (4.81%) RESTful
8 21 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (4.39%) React Native
9 20 (4.18%) OAuth
9 20 (4.18%) SOAP
10 19 (3.97%) JSON
11 18 (3.77%) .NET Core
11 18 (3.77%) Bootstrap
12 16 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.14%) Spring
14 14 (2.93%) Lightning Web Components
14 14 (2.93%) Visualforce
15 13 (2.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.39%) Low-Code
5 19 (3.97%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.35%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.05%) Life Science
13 4 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.63%) FPGA
14 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.06%) Linux
2 21 (4.39%) Windows
3 19 (3.97%) Ubuntu
4 15 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.09%) VMS
6 6 (1.26%) CentOS
6 6 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.26%) Unix
7 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.63%) Debian
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (51.05%) CI/CD
2 189 (39.54%) Agile
3 136 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (13.81%) Containerisation
7 62 (12.97%) Scrum
8 61 (12.76%) AI
9 58 (12.13%) Software Engineering
10 52 (10.88%) Test Automation
11 50 (10.46%) Microservices
12 48 (10.04%) Computer Science
13 45 (9.41%) Data Modelling
14 44 (9.21%) Observability
15 40 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (7.95%) Kanban
16 38 (7.95%) Mentoring
17 36 (7.53%) Deployment Automation
18 35 (7.32%) Analytics
18 35 (7.32%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 122 (25.52%) Python
2 81 (16.95%) SQL
3 75 (15.69%) C#
4 48 (10.04%) JavaScript
5 43 (9.00%) Bash
5 43 (9.00%) Java
6 33 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 24 (5.02%) C++
8 14 (2.93%) Apex Code
8 14 (2.93%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.72%) Go
10 12 (2.51%) Bicep
11 10 (2.09%) C
12 7 (1.46%) Groovy
13 5 (1.05%) Perl
13 5 (1.05%) PHP
13 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.84%) Ruby
15 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 68 (14.23%) Degree
3 49 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.93%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.26%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.84%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.63%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CCA
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.11%) QA
2 16 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.67%) NIST
5 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.26%) WCAG
7 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 4 (0.84%) ITGC
9 3 (0.63%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) GDPR
10 2 (0.42%) SLA
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (18.41%) Docker
2 10 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (23.64%) Terraform
2 91 (19.04%) Kubernetes
3 61 (12.76%) Ansible
4 26 (5.44%) Grafana
5 23 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.67%) Nagios
6 8 (1.67%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.05%) Packer
7 5 (1.05%) Puppet
8 4 (0.84%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.84%) SCCM
8 4 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.63%) Scalr
9 3 (0.63%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.42%) MIIS
10 2 (0.42%) Nessus
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) CASB
11 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 101 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.86%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.02%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.60%) MuleSoft
5 14 (2.93%) VMware
6 12 (2.51%) Databricks
7 10 (2.09%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.88%) Splunk
9 8 (1.67%) Cisco
9 8 (1.67%) IBM
9 8 (1.67%) Oracle
9 8 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.05%) F5
10 5 (1.05%) Juniper
10 5 (1.05%) Veeam
11 4 (0.84%) 3PAR
11 4 (0.84%) Coverity
11 4 (0.84%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.84%) SolarWinds