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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 699 612 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.24% 7.05% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 7.99% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 534 279 666
10th Percentile £42,688 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,810 £85,000
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 11,816 7,661 11,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.75% 88.27% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,429 4,086 7,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,047
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.09% -9.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -6 266 £65,000 +2.36% 87
Hampshire -8 188 £67,500 +11.57% 43
Surrey +10 111 £65,000 -10.34% 19
Buckinghamshire +15 105 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Berkshire -14 103 £70,000 -9.68% 48
West Sussex +12 86 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Oxfordshire -4 58 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Kent -23 27 £31,250 -45.65% 17
East Sussex -19 8 £85,000 +53.15% 4
Isle of Wight +4 6 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Sussex -5 5 £60,000 -22.58% 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 21 (3.00%) Confluence
2 10 (1.43%) IIS
2 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.72%) nginx
5 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 420 (60.09%) Azure
2 228 (32.62%) Azure DevOps
3 185 (26.47%) AWS
4 72 (10.30%) SaaS
5 57 (8.15%) GitHub
6 41 (5.87%) Serverless
7 40 (5.72%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.29%) Power Platform
9 32 (4.58%) PaaS
10 30 (4.29%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.29%) GCP
11 27 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 26 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.43%) Azure AI
14 23 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (3.29%) Datadog
14 23 (3.29%) IaaS
15 22 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.72%) Firewall
2 21 (3.00%) VPN
3 11 (1.57%) DNS
4 7 (1.00%) MQTT
5 6 (0.86%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) BGP
7 4 (0.57%) HTTP
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) NAS
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 1 (0.14%) Broadband
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
10 1 (0.14%) Modbus
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 50 (7.15%) MongoDB
3 32 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.29%) Power BI
5 21 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.86%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.72%) MySQL
8 11 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.14%) Metadata
11 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.00%) Redis
12 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.43%) Spatial Data
14 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 99 (14.16%) Git
2 61 (8.73%) GitLab
3 47 (6.72%) JIRA
4 36 (5.15%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.15%) Selenium
7 10 (1.43%) JUnit
7 10 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.86%) JMeter
10 6 (0.86%) NUnit
10 6 (0.86%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.72%) Mockito
12 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
13 3 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 188 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 135 (19.31%) Finance
3 88 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (3.15%) Retail
5 19 (2.72%) Games
5 19 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.58%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.29%) Advertising
8 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.86%) Marketing
9 10 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.86%) Aviation
10 6 (0.86%) Electronics
10 6 (0.86%) Legal
11 5 (0.72%) Automotive
11 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (21.17%) Developer
1 148 (21.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 107 (15.31%) Senior
3 91 (13.02%) Lead
4 75 (10.73%) Software Engineer
5 68 (9.73%) .NET Developer
6 55 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
7 41 (5.87%) Architect
8 37 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (3.29%) Analyst
13 20 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 19 (2.72%) Lead Developer
14 19 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.58%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.58%) Junior
15 18 (2.58%) Team Leader
16 17 (2.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (21.03%) .NET
2 84 (12.02%) ASP.NET
3 64 (9.16%) .NET Core
3 64 (9.16%) React
4 63 (9.01%) HTML
5 61 (8.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 60 (8.58%) CSS
7 53 (7.58%) REST
7 53 (7.58%) RESTful
8 37 (5.29%) Blazor
9 34 (4.86%) ARM Templates
10 31 (4.43%) Entity Framework
11 27 (3.86%) YAML
12 25 (3.58%) JSON
12 25 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (3.15%) Node.js
14 21 (3.00%) ML.NET
14 21 (3.00%) Spring
15 20 (2.86%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.58%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.29%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.29%) Robotics
13 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.14%) IoT
13 8 (1.14%) Life Science
13 8 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (16.74%) Linux
2 37 (5.29%) Windows
3 30 (4.29%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.72%) Debian
6 10 (1.43%) CentOS
6 10 (1.43%) VMS
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.57%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (47.93%) CI/CD
2 285 (40.77%) Agile
3 164 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 132 (18.88%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.31%) AI
8 105 (15.02%) Microservices
9 100 (14.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 95 (13.59%) Containerisation
11 91 (13.02%) Mentoring
12 82 (11.73%) Computer Science
13 80 (11.44%) Test Automation
14 79 (11.30%) Scrum
15 75 (10.73%) Observability
16 65 (9.30%) Analytics
17 63 (9.01%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (8.73%) Roadmaps
19 60 (8.58%) SDLC
20 59 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.89%) Python
2 154 (22.03%) C#
3 141 (20.17%) SQL
4 95 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 68 (9.73%) PowerShell
6 65 (9.30%) Bash
7 57 (8.15%) Java
8 40 (5.72%) C++
8 40 (5.72%) TypeScript
9 34 (4.86%) Bicep
10 23 (3.29%) C
11 21 (3.00%) PHP
12 17 (2.43%) Go
13 11 (1.57%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.29%) Groovy
16 8 (1.14%) MATLAB
17 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.86%) Ruby
18 6 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 110 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.59%) Degree
3 67 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.44%) QA
2 17 (2.43%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.29%) NIST
6 8 (1.14%) WCAG
7 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) ITGC
9 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 160 (22.89%) Docker
2 18 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.00%) Firmware
6 5 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.29%) KVM
7 2 (0.29%) Xen
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 177 (25.32%) Terraform
2 147 (21.03%) Kubernetes
3 80 (11.44%) Ansible
4 45 (6.44%) Grafana
5 38 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.86%) Nagios
7 12 (1.72%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Puppet
8 9 (1.29%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.14%) Argo
10 6 (0.86%) Podman
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.72%) Packer
12 4 (0.57%) Istio
12 4 (0.57%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.43%) Scalr
14 2 (0.29%) MIIS
14 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 161 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.58%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.43%) Oracle
5 16 (2.29%) Splunk
6 14 (2.00%) Databricks
6 14 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.86%) Google
8 12 (1.72%) Facebook
8 12 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.72%) YouTube
9 10 (1.43%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.43%) VMware
10 9 (1.29%) Cisco
10 9 (1.29%) SAP
11 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 8 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.86%) New Relic
13 5 (0.72%) Juniper