DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 667 1,345 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.89% 7.63% 10.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 9.15% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 335 827 957
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -5.38% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £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 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +2 278 £63,500 +7.63% 191
Berkshire +6 180 £78,750 +31.25% 118
Hampshire -6 150 £60,500 -9.70% 120
Surrey -11 79 £72,500 +20.83% 42
Buckinghamshire -7 64 £56,250 +2.27% 30
Isle of Wight - 59 £73,000 - 2
Middlesex +9 40 - - 3
Oxfordshire -20 34 £50,000 -15.25% 70
East Sussex -12 20 £52,500 -25.00% 16
Kent -4 19 £80,000 +23.08% 28
West Sussex -11 15 £62,500 -3.85% 33
Sussex +17 4 £76,250 +27.08% 30
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.25%) Apache
2 15 (2.25%) JBoss
2 15 (2.25%) Oracle Application Server
3 14 (2.10%) Confluence
3 14 (2.10%) Red Hat Fuse
4 12 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.60%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.60%) IBM Domino
5 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.60%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.45%) Appian
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Trello
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.45%) Productboard
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 309 (46.33%) Azure
2 195 (29.24%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (23.39%) AWS
4 60 (9.00%) Serverless
5 55 (8.25%) GCP
6 53 (7.95%) SaaS
7 46 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 44 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 44 (6.60%) PaaS
9 41 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 32 (4.80%) GitHub
11 30 (4.50%) SonarCloud
12 25 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (3.75%) Pulumi
13 23 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (3.15%) Entra ID
15 21 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (3.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 18 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.05%) VPN
2 38 (5.70%) TCP/IP
3 36 (5.40%) Broadband
4 19 (2.85%) DNS
4 19 (2.85%) Firewall
5 15 (2.25%) SSL
6 11 (1.65%) SSH
7 7 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (0.90%) WAN
9 5 (0.75%) Network Security
10 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.60%) IPsec
10 4 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.45%) Internet
11 3 (0.45%) SMTP
12 2 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.30%) LAN
12 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.15%) ADSL2
13 1 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.40%) Relational Database
3 52 (7.80%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (4.05%) Power BI
7 27 (4.05%) RDBMS
8 25 (3.75%) Data Mining
9 18 (2.70%) MySQL
10 16 (2.40%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 15 (2.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.50%) Big Data
12 10 (1.50%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.05%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 100 (14.99%) Git
2 48 (7.20%) Cucumber
3 46 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 45 (6.75%) Visual Studio
5 40 (6.00%) JIRA
6 37 (5.55%) Robot Framework
7 31 (4.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 30 (4.50%) MSBuild
8 30 (4.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (3.75%) Jaeger
10 22 (3.30%) Selenium
11 20 (3.00%) JUnit
12 16 (2.40%) SonarQube
13 15 (2.25%) GitLab
14 10 (1.50%) Maven
15 9 (1.35%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 8 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (1.05%) Postman
18 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 219 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.99%) Finance
3 108 (16.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (14.99%) Law
5 74 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (9.60%) Retail
7 46 (6.90%) Telecoms
8 34 (5.10%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.45%) Marketing
10 15 (2.25%) Military
10 15 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.95%) Banking
12 12 (1.80%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.50%) Automotive
13 10 (1.50%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Legal
16 4 (0.60%) Games
17 3 (0.45%) Advertising
17 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (19.04%) Architect
2 110 (16.49%) Developer
3 107 (16.04%) Lead
4 102 (15.29%) Senior
5 99 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (8.70%) Software Architect
7 45 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (5.55%) Azure Engineer
9 35 (5.25%) Software Engineer
10 34 (5.10%) Test Automation Engineer
10 34 (5.10%) Test Engineer
11 32 (4.80%) Technical Architect
12 30 (4.50%) Java Developer
13 26 (3.90%) Team Leader
14 25 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.45%) Salesforce Architect
17 22 (3.30%) Senior Developer
18 21 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
19 18 (2.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (16.49%) .NET
2 92 (13.79%) REST
3 80 (11.99%) Middleware
4 65 (9.75%) React
5 62 (9.30%) CSS
5 62 (9.30%) HTML
6 54 (8.10%) ASP.NET
7 43 (6.45%) JSON
7 43 (6.45%) XML
8 42 (6.30%) SOAP
9 37 (5.55%) Spring Boot
10 36 (5.40%) AngularJS
11 33 (4.95%) Bootstrap
11 33 (4.95%) Kafka
11 33 (4.95%) RESTful
12 31 (4.65%) Spring
13 30 (4.50%) .NET Framework
13 30 (4.50%) gRPC
13 30 (4.50%) Web Services
14 29 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 40 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 38 (5.70%) Algorithms
4 34 (5.10%) Linux Command Line
5 33 (4.95%) e-Learning
5 33 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.85%) FMCG
8 17 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.55%) PKI
8 17 (2.55%) PMI
9 16 (2.40%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.65%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.65%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.05%) Life Science
13 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 104 (15.59%) Linux
2 58 (8.70%) Windows
3 27 (4.05%) Unix
4 9 (1.35%) CentOS
4 9 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.20%) Android
6 7 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.60%) VMS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (59.82%) Agile
2 208 (31.18%) Mentoring
3 197 (29.54%) CI/CD
4 166 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (20.99%) Computer Science
5 140 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 127 (19.04%) Test Automation
7 122 (18.29%) Coaching
7 122 (18.29%) Microservices
8 119 (17.84%) Design Patterns
9 103 (15.44%) SDLC
10 99 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 98 (14.69%) Analytics
12 97 (14.54%) Product Management
13 91 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 91 (13.64%) Roadmaps
14 88 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 78 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (10.94%) Software Engineering
17 70 (10.49%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 169 (25.34%) JavaScript
2 160 (23.99%) Python
3 148 (22.19%) SQL
4 122 (18.29%) C#
5 91 (13.64%) Java
6 90 (13.49%) PowerShell
7 66 (9.90%) Bash
8 34 (5.10%) Go
9 24 (3.60%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.45%) Apex Code
11 20 (3.00%) PHP
12 15 (2.25%) Bicep
13 10 (1.50%) Scala
13 10 (1.50%) X++
14 7 (1.05%) C
14 7 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.75%) C++
16 3 (0.45%) Perl
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (28.79%) Degree
2 114 (17.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 58 (8.70%) Chartered Engineer
4 54 (8.10%) Security Cleared
5 47 (7.05%) Master's Degree
6 36 (5.40%) AWS Certification
7 35 (5.25%) SC Cleared
8 27 (4.05%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.85%) DBS Check
9 19 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.55%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.05%) CISSP
12 7 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.30%) CEH
13 2 (0.30%) CISM
14 1 (0.15%) ISEB
14 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.84%) QA
2 58 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 42 (6.30%) GDPR
4 35 (5.25%) Data Quality
5 29 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (4.05%) NIST
7 16 (2.40%) SLA
8 15 (2.25%) NCSC
9 9 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.15%) CDISC
13 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.15%) PMO
13 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (20.09%) Docker
2 27 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) Postfix
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 103 (15.44%) Terraform
3 83 (12.44%) Ansible
4 30 (4.50%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.75%) Argo
5 25 (3.75%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.75%) Grafana
7 4 (0.60%) Nessus
7 4 (0.60%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.45%) Puppet
9 2 (0.30%) Kubespray
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.15%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) WMI
Vendors
1 139 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.10%) Google
3 35 (5.25%) Databricks
4 34 (5.10%) IBM
4 34 (5.10%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.15%) Oracle
6 21 (3.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 15 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.65%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.65%) Thales
8 11 (1.65%) VMware
9 9 (1.35%) Rackspace
10 8 (1.20%) Solace
11 6 (0.90%) Rockwell
11 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.90%) Siemens
12 4 (0.60%) Informatica
12 4 (0.60%) Juniper
12 4 (0.60%) SAP