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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 417 594 984
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.48% 7.97% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 8.84% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 312 375 661
10th Percentile £39,400 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £77,313 £81,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 9,219 6,718 11,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 76.95% 90.13% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,744 3,229 8,460
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,802
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -23 158 £50,000 -23.08% 96
Hampshire -26 89 £75,000 +11.11% 53
Buckinghamshire +5 72 £55,000 -8.33% 35
Berkshire -31 72 £50,000 -33.33% 42
Surrey -34 56 £62,500 -13.79% 40
West Sussex +3 39 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Kent -11 28 £80,000 +42.22% 12
Middlesex +7 19 - -
East Sussex -11 15 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Oxfordshire -19 14 £72,500 +11.54% 21
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 6
Sussex -9 2 £75,000 - 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 17 (4.08%) IIS
2 6 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.20%) Confluence
4 4 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.72%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 243 (58.27%) Azure
2 176 (42.21%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (23.50%) AWS
4 62 (14.87%) GitHub
5 43 (10.31%) Power Platform
6 30 (7.19%) PaaS
6 30 (7.19%) SaaS
7 26 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (5.76%) GCP
10 23 (5.52%) Entra ID
10 23 (5.52%) Serverless
11 17 (4.08%) IaaS
12 15 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (3.36%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.36%) Azure AKS
13 14 (3.36%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.00%) Firewall
2 23 (5.52%) DNS
3 16 (3.84%) VPN
4 8 (1.92%) DHCP
4 8 (1.92%) SAN
5 3 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.48%) BGP
6 2 (0.48%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) LAN
6 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.48%) VoIP
6 2 (0.48%) WAN
6 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.24%) Broadband
7 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.56%) Power BI
3 15 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.16%) MySQL
6 8 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.72%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.48%) GIS
11 2 (0.48%) Metadata
11 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (13.67%) Git
2 35 (8.39%) GitLab
3 29 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.47%) Selenium
5 20 (4.80%) Robot Framework
6 19 (4.56%) Snyk
7 17 (4.08%) JIRA
8 6 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.44%) MLflow
9 5 (1.20%) git-flow
9 5 (1.20%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.96%) JUnit
11 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.48%) Appium
12 2 (0.48%) Mockito
12 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.48%) TestRail
12 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 88 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.38%) Finance
4 20 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.60%) Law
6 13 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.12%) Retail
7 11 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.40%) Billing
9 8 (1.92%) Games
10 7 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.44%) Banking
12 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Marketing
14 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (22.78%) Developer
2 66 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.11%) Lead
4 59 (14.15%) Senior
5 39 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.71%) Architect
8 27 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
10 22 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (4.80%) Analyst
12 16 (3.84%) Power Platform Developer
13 14 (3.36%) IT Engineer
14 13 (3.12%) Administrator
14 13 (3.12%) DevOps Administrator
14 13 (3.12%) IT Support
14 13 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (3.12%) Support Engineer
14 13 (3.12%) Systems Administrator
15 12 (2.88%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.94%) .NET
2 51 (12.23%) React
3 35 (8.39%) REST
4 34 (8.15%) CSS
5 32 (7.67%) HTML
6 29 (6.95%) .NET Framework
7 28 (6.71%) ASP.NET
8 24 (5.76%) Middleware
9 20 (4.80%) React Native
10 18 (4.32%) WinForms
11 17 (4.08%) ARM Templates
11 17 (4.08%) Bootstrap
12 15 (3.60%) .NET Core
12 15 (3.60%) Entity Framework
12 15 (3.60%) Kafka
13 13 (3.12%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.12%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (3.12%) RESTful
13 13 (3.12%) SOAP
13 13 (3.12%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.76%) Low-Code
3 21 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.56%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.92%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.44%) Life Science
10 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.72%) Animation
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.48%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.43%) Linux
2 48 (11.51%) Windows
3 15 (3.60%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.20%) VMS
7 4 (0.96%) Android
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.96%) Unix
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (52.76%) CI/CD
2 178 (42.69%) Agile
3 123 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (14.63%) Computer Science
7 60 (14.39%) Software Engineering
8 55 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 53 (12.71%) Scrum
10 52 (12.47%) AI
11 50 (11.99%) Test Automation
12 47 (11.27%) Containerisation
13 40 (9.59%) Microservices
14 37 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (8.39%) SDLC
16 34 (8.15%) Observability
17 33 (7.91%) Continuous Integration
18 31 (7.43%) Waterfall
19 30 (7.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 93 (22.30%) Python
2 80 (19.18%) C#
3 77 (18.47%) SQL
4 49 (11.75%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.63%) Bash
6 34 (8.15%) Java
7 33 (7.91%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.04%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.60%) C++
10 13 (3.12%) Apex Code
10 13 (3.12%) Go
10 13 (3.12%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.40%) Bicep
12 7 (1.68%) C
13 3 (0.72%) ABAP
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
13 3 (0.72%) R
14 2 (0.48%) Delphi
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (19.18%) Degree
2 70 (16.79%) Security Cleared
3 44 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 29 (6.95%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.80%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.36%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.12%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.72%) CISSP
12 3 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CCNP
13 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.67%) QA
2 14 (3.36%) NIST
3 9 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.92%) PMO
5 7 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.68%) NCSC
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) ITGC
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (14.63%) Docker
2 23 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (24.22%) Terraform
2 72 (17.27%) Kubernetes
3 54 (12.95%) Ansible
4 21 (5.04%) Grafana
5 19 (4.56%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.16%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.92%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.92%) SCCM
8 5 (1.20%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.48%) Argo
10 2 (0.48%) Nessus
10 2 (0.48%) Puppet
10 2 (0.48%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.24%) CASB
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 104 (24.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.28%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.04%) VMware
4 20 (4.80%) Red Hat
5 18 (4.32%) Black Duck
5 18 (4.32%) Coverity
6 17 (4.08%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.88%) Sage
7 12 (2.88%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.16%) Veeam
9 8 (1.92%) 3PAR
9 8 (1.92%) Cisco
9 8 (1.92%) NetApp
9 8 (1.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.68%) Splunk
11 6 (1.44%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.44%) Google
12 5 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.20%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.20%) Zoho