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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 33 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 701 495 983
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.72% 5.57% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 6.34% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 525 249 560
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +3.57% +1.82% -1.79%

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 13,519 7,811 10,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.81% 87.88% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,635 4,221 5,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £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 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 25 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 25 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 +12 266 £67,500 +3.85% 204
Hampshire -10 184 £66,250 +6.00% 100
Surrey +4 128 £62,500 -12.28% 67
Berkshire +5 109 £82,500 +24.53% 115
Buckinghamshire +8 82 £64,250 -8.21% 43
Oxfordshire +10 75 £62,500 +6.38% 46
West Sussex +3 74 £70,000 +16.67% 38
Kent -41 25 £31,250 -16.67% 10
East Sussex -14 10 £97,500 +67.38% 16
Isle of Wight +1 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
Sussex -12 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
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 (2.85%) Confluence
2 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.57%) IIS
4 7 (1.00%) 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%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
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
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 418 (59.63%) Azure
2 224 (31.95%) Azure DevOps
3 199 (28.39%) AWS
4 72 (10.27%) SaaS
5 59 (8.42%) GitHub
6 50 (7.13%) Power Platform
7 41 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (5.56%) GCP
8 39 (5.56%) Serverless
9 38 (5.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (4.28%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
11 27 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (3.85%) PaaS
12 24 (3.42%) Azure AI
13 23 (3.28%) Entra ID
14 22 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.14%) VPN
2 28 (3.99%) Firewall
3 14 (2.00%) DNS
4 9 (1.28%) 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%) 5G
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.69%) SQL Server
2 56 (7.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.70%) MongoDB
4 36 (5.14%) Power BI
5 35 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.00%) MySQL
8 20 (2.85%) 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 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.28%) Redis
12 9 (1.28%) 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 (16.83%) Git
2 46 (6.56%) JIRA
3 44 (6.28%) GitLab
4 35 (4.99%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.85%) 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
1 196 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 128 (18.26%) Finance
3 60 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.14%) Retail
6 18 (2.57%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.28%) Marketing
8 15 (2.14%) Advertising
8 15 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.00%) Games
9 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (0.86%) Electronics
12 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.71%) Banking
13 5 (0.71%) Legal
13 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Automotive
14 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (21.68%) Senior
2 151 (21.54%) Developer
3 148 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (12.84%) Lead
5 76 (10.84%) .NET Developer
6 67 (9.56%) Software Engineer
7 50 (7.13%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
9 40 (5.71%) Architect
10 36 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.28%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.28%) Project Manager
15 22 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (3.00%) Analyst
17 20 (2.85%) Senior Developer
18 19 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (23.82%) Terraform
2 143 (20.40%) .NET
3 87 (12.41%) ASP.NET
4 67 (9.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (9.27%) HTML
6 64 (9.13%) React
7 63 (8.99%) CSS
8 60 (8.56%) .NET Core
9 51 (7.28%) REST
10 49 (6.99%) RESTful
11 37 (5.28%) Blazor
12 31 (4.42%) Entity Framework
13 30 (4.28%) ARM Templates
14 27 (3.85%) Node.js
15 21 (3.00%) HTML5
15 21 (3.00%) YAML
16 20 (2.85%) ML.NET
16 20 (2.85%) Vue
17 19 (2.71%) jQuery
17 19 (2.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
9 15 (2.14%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.00%) Robotics
11 12 (1.71%) IoT
12 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.00%) Life Science
14 7 (1.00%) Social Media
15 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (19.12%) Linux
2 52 (7.42%) Windows
3 26 (3.71%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.57%) Debian
6 8 (1.14%) VMS
7 6 (0.86%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (48.22%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.37%) Agile
3 140 (19.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 133 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (18.97%) Software Engineering
6 125 (17.83%) AI
7 103 (14.69%) Mentoring
8 101 (14.41%) Microservices
9 99 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 87 (12.41%) Computer Science
11 86 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 83 (11.84%) Test Automation
13 81 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (11.13%) Scrum
15 73 (10.41%) Containerisation
16 70 (9.99%) Analytics
17 69 (9.84%) Observability
18 61 (8.70%) Roadmaps
19 59 (8.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.97%) C#
2 161 (22.97%) Python
3 133 (18.97%) SQL
4 95 (13.55%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.56%) Bash
6 50 (7.13%) Java
6 50 (7.13%) PowerShell
7 48 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 37 (5.28%) C++
9 31 (4.42%) Go
10 28 (3.99%) Bicep
11 27 (3.85%) PHP
12 21 (3.00%) C
13 13 (1.85%) 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
1 122 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.98%) Degree
3 79 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
11 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.57%) PMP
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 (11.84%) QA
2 20 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) GDPR
5 10 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.28%) 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%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (21.54%) Docker
2 15 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.28%) Firmware
5 7 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.43%) KVM
9 2 (0.29%) iptables
9 2 (0.29%) Xen
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 157 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.70%) Ansible
3 42 (5.99%) Grafana
4 35 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.71%) Kibana
6 10 (1.43%) Puppet
7 8 (1.14%) Argo
7 8 (1.14%) Nagios
7 8 (1.14%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.14%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.86%) Packer
9 5 (0.71%) Istio
9 5 (0.71%) Podman
10 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.29%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.29%) Rancher
13 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 167 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.85%) Google
3 17 (2.43%) Oracle
3 17 (2.43%) Red Hat
4 16 (2.28%) VMware
5 15 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.71%) Facebook
6 12 (1.71%) YouTube
7 11 (1.57%) Databricks
7 11 (1.57%) Splunk
8 10 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.43%) SAP
8 10 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.28%) Informatica
9 9 (1.28%) Talend
10 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 7 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.00%) New Relic
11 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace