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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 626 594 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.11% 7.34% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 8.18% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 480 284 836
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year - +5.52% -5.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,375 £85,000 £85,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 10,933 7,261 14,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.86% 89.71% 81.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,771 3,638 10,202
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 June 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 June 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 -8 251 £60,000 -6.61% 70
Hampshire -13 161 £67,500 +12.03% 48
Buckinghamshire +16 110 £60,000 - 16
Berkshire -16 101 £65,000 -10.65% 37
Surrey +14 91 £65,000 -13.33% 26
West Sussex +14 74 £70,000 +16.67% 21
Oxfordshire -9 40 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Kent -12 27 £29,000 -63.75% 9
East Sussex -24 8 £82,500 +48.65%
Isle of Wight -2 5 £50,000 -31.51% 1
Sussex -8 5 £60,000 -21.31% 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 18 (2.88%) Confluence
2 8 (1.28%) IIS
3 7 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.64%) CMS
4 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.96%) Simulink
3 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 370 (59.11%) Azure
2 226 (36.10%) Azure DevOps
3 152 (24.28%) AWS
4 60 (9.58%) SaaS
5 57 (9.11%) GitHub
6 43 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 37 (5.91%) Serverless
8 36 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (5.43%) PaaS
10 29 (4.63%) Azure AKS
11 27 (4.31%) IaaS
12 26 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.67%) Azure AI
14 22 (3.51%) Entra ID
15 21 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.19%) GCP
17 19 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.04%) OpenShift
18 18 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.79%) Firewall
2 18 (2.88%) VPN
3 10 (1.60%) DNS
4 5 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.80%) DHCP
4 5 (0.80%) Internet
4 5 (0.80%) MQTT
5 4 (0.64%) BGP
5 4 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.32%) HTTP
7 2 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) Broadband
8 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.16%) Modbus
8 1 (0.16%) Network Security
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 45 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 43 (6.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.67%) Power BI
6 16 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.28%) Metadata
10 6 (0.96%) Redis
11 5 (0.80%) MySQL
12 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.48%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (13.10%) Git
2 60 (9.58%) GitLab
3 39 (6.23%) JIRA
4 30 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.24%) Selenium
7 10 (1.60%) JUnit
8 9 (1.44%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.12%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.96%) JMeter
11 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.80%) Mockito
12 5 (0.80%) NUnit
12 5 (0.80%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.32%) MSI
14 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 143 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.53%) Finance
3 84 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.31%) Retail
5 20 (3.19%) Games
6 18 (2.88%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.72%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.40%) Advertising
8 15 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.76%) Marketing
10 10 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.12%) Billing
11 7 (1.12%) Electronics
11 7 (1.12%) Law
12 5 (0.80%) Automotive
12 5 (0.80%) Aviation
12 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.64%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (23.00%) Developer
2 142 (22.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (14.38%) Senior
4 74 (11.82%) Software Engineer
5 72 (11.50%) Lead
6 58 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
7 55 (8.79%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (5.91%) Architect
10 35 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
11 27 (4.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (4.15%) Analyst
12 26 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
15 18 (2.88%) Administrator
15 18 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
16 17 (2.72%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.72%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (22.04%) .NET
2 76 (12.14%) ASP.NET
3 61 (9.74%) React
4 60 (9.58%) HTML
5 58 (9.27%) .NET Core
6 57 (9.11%) CSS
7 54 (8.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 48 (7.67%) RESTful
9 44 (7.03%) REST
10 28 (4.47%) Blazor
11 27 (4.31%) ARM Templates
11 27 (4.31%) Entity Framework
12 26 (4.15%) YAML
13 22 (3.51%) JSON
13 22 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (3.19%) ML.NET
15 19 (3.04%) OAuth
15 19 (3.04%) Spring
16 17 (2.72%) jQuery
16 17 (2.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.72%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.08%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.12%) FPGA
12 7 (1.12%) Life Science
12 7 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 100 (15.97%) Linux
2 31 (4.95%) Ubuntu
3 29 (4.63%) Windows
4 16 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.60%) CentOS
5 10 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.60%) VMS
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.80%) Unix
8 4 (0.64%) Android
8 4 (0.64%) Debian
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 249 (39.78%) Agile
3 147 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 108 (17.25%) Software Engineering
6 101 (16.13%) AI
7 93 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 83 (13.26%) Containerisation
9 79 (12.62%) Microservices
10 75 (11.98%) Scrum
11 73 (11.66%) Computer Science
12 70 (11.18%) Test Automation
13 58 (9.27%) Mentoring
14 57 (9.11%) Observability
15 55 (8.79%) Analytics
15 55 (8.79%) Kanban
16 54 (8.63%) Machine Learning
17 53 (8.47%) SDLC
18 45 (7.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 157 (25.08%) Python
2 142 (22.68%) C#
3 130 (20.77%) SQL
4 94 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 65 (10.38%) Bash
6 59 (9.42%) PowerShell
7 58 (9.27%) Java
8 40 (6.39%) C++
9 31 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.47%) Bicep
11 23 (3.67%) C
12 17 (2.72%) Go
13 10 (1.60%) Apex Code
13 10 (1.60%) PHP
14 9 (1.44%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.28%) Groovy
16 7 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.96%) Ruby
17 6 (0.96%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.80%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 103 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 93 (14.86%) Degree
3 58 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.44%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.96%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.16%) CCA
13 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.15%) QA
2 15 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.44%) WCAG
6 7 (1.12%) NIST
7 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.64%) ITGC
9 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 122 (19.49%) Docker
2 17 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.12%) Firmware
4 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 148 (23.64%) Terraform
2 113 (18.05%) Kubernetes
3 74 (11.82%) Ansible
4 35 (5.59%) Grafana
5 30 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.08%) Nagios
7 11 (1.76%) Kibana
8 8 (1.28%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.96%) Podman
9 6 (0.96%) Puppet
10 5 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.80%) Packer
11 3 (0.48%) Argo
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.48%) Scalr
11 3 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.32%) MIIS
12 2 (0.32%) SCCM
12 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 151 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.43%) Red Hat
3 26 (4.15%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.72%) MuleSoft
4 17 (2.72%) Splunk
5 13 (2.08%) VMware
6 12 (1.92%) Databricks
6 12 (1.92%) Oracle
7 11 (1.76%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.76%) Facebook
7 11 (1.76%) YouTube
8 9 (1.44%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.28%) Cisco
9 8 (1.28%) IBM
9 8 (1.28%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.96%) SAP
11 5 (0.80%) F5
11 5 (0.80%) Google
11 5 (0.80%) Juniper