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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 469 578 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.30% 8.42% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 9.37% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 372 345 784
10th Percentile £41,375 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -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 10,382 6,169 13,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.09% 89.87% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,635 3,335 9,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,662 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,268
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -19 203 £55,000 -14.06% 83
Hampshire -25 102 £72,500 +20.83% 54
Buckinghamshire -5 97 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Berkshire -20 88 £50,000 -33.33% 41
Surrey -26 67 £62,500 -16.67% 18
West Sussex +3 49 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Kent -21 24 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Oxfordshire -20 18 £73,750 +40.48% 20
East Sussex -26 11 £82,500 +73.68% 5
Isle of Wight +2 7 £41,500 -29.66% 1
Sussex -10 5 £60,000 -20.00% 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 7 (1.49%) Confluence
2 6 (1.28%) IIS
2 6 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Camunda
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 256 (54.58%) Azure
2 160 (34.12%) Azure DevOps
3 115 (24.52%) AWS
4 53 (11.30%) GitHub
5 37 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.68%) SaaS
7 25 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.69%) PaaS
9 22 (4.69%) Serverless
10 19 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (4.05%) GCP
10 19 (4.05%) IaaS
10 19 (4.05%) OpenShift
11 17 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (3.41%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 14 (2.99%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.40%) Firewall
2 13 (2.77%) DNS
2 13 (2.77%) VPN
3 5 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.07%) DHCP
4 4 (0.85%) SAN
5 3 (0.64%) BGP
5 3 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.21%) Broadband
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.21%) Modbus
6 1 (0.21%) MPLS
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.59%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.99%) Power BI
3 13 (2.77%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.07%) Metadata
9 5 (1.07%) MySQL
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.43%) GIS
11 2 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.21%) Big Data
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 59 (12.58%) Git
2 49 (10.45%) GitLab
3 28 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.97%) JIRA
4 17 (3.62%) Selenium
5 11 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.49%) JUnit
7 7 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.28%) Snyk
8 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.85%) MLflow
9 4 (0.85%) Mockito
9 4 (0.85%) NUnit
9 4 (0.85%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.04%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (16.42%) Finance
4 23 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.26%) Retail
6 15 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.20%) Law
7 14 (2.99%) Games
8 9 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.92%) Billing
9 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.28%) Legal
11 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.85%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.85%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.64%) Marketing
13 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Aviation
14 2 (0.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (22.17%) Developer
2 93 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (15.35%) Senior
4 71 (15.14%) Lead
5 36 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (7.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (7.68%) Software Engineer
6 32 (6.82%) Architect
7 28 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
8 23 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (3.84%) Administrator
9 18 (3.84%) DevOps Administrator
9 18 (3.84%) Systems Administrator
9 18 (3.84%) Team Leader
10 17 (3.62%) Analyst
11 16 (3.41%) Power Platform Developer
12 15 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 15 (3.20%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 13 (2.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.76%) .NET
2 46 (9.81%) REST
3 45 (9.59%) React
4 31 (6.61%) CSS
5 30 (6.40%) ASP.NET
5 30 (6.40%) HTML
6 27 (5.76%) Middleware
7 22 (4.69%) RESTful
8 21 (4.48%) React Native
9 20 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (3.84%) .NET Core
10 18 (3.84%) Bootstrap
10 18 (3.84%) JSON
10 18 (3.84%) OAuth
10 18 (3.84%) SOAP
11 16 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.20%) Spring
13 14 (2.99%) .NET Framework
13 14 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (2.99%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.48%) Low-Code
5 19 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.77%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.07%) Life Science
11 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.71%) Linux
2 25 (5.33%) Windows
3 18 (3.84%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.13%) VMS
6 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.28%) CentOS
7 6 (1.28%) Unix
8 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.64%) Debian
11 2 (0.43%) Android
11 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (50.53%) CI/CD
2 191 (40.72%) Agile
3 135 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (13.86%) Scrum
7 63 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 60 (12.79%) AI
9 57 (12.15%) Software Engineering
10 54 (11.51%) Test Automation
11 51 (10.87%) Computer Science
12 50 (10.66%) Microservices
13 42 (8.96%) Data Modelling
13 42 (8.96%) Observability
14 41 (8.74%) Mentoring
15 40 (8.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (7.89%) Kanban
17 36 (7.68%) Deployment Automation
18 35 (7.46%) Analytics
18 35 (7.46%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 117 (24.95%) Python
2 84 (17.91%) SQL
3 76 (16.20%) C#
4 46 (9.81%) JavaScript
5 42 (8.96%) Bash
5 42 (8.96%) Java
6 34 (7.25%) PowerShell
7 22 (4.69%) C++
8 16 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.99%) Apex Code
10 13 (2.77%) Go
11 12 (2.56%) Bicep
12 10 (2.13%) C
13 7 (1.49%) Groovy
14 5 (1.07%) Perl
14 5 (1.07%) PHP
14 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.85%) Ruby
16 3 (0.64%) DataWeave
16 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.14%) Degree
3 44 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 25 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
9 6 (1.28%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.43%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CCA
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.89%) QA
2 16 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.71%) NIST
5 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 6 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.07%) WCAG
7 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.85%) ITGC
8 3 (0.64%) NCSC
9 2 (0.43%) GDPR
9 2 (0.43%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (17.27%) Docker
2 10 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (22.39%) Terraform
2 85 (18.12%) Kubernetes
3 62 (13.22%) Ansible
4 26 (5.54%) Grafana
5 23 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.71%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.49%) Nagios
8 5 (1.07%) Puppet
9 4 (0.85%) Kibana
9 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.85%) Packer
9 4 (0.85%) SCCM
9 4 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.64%) Scalr
10 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.43%) MIIS
12 1 (0.21%) Argo
12 1 (0.21%) CASB
12 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 99 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.76%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.69%) MuleSoft
5 14 (2.99%) VMware
6 12 (2.56%) Databricks
7 10 (2.13%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.13%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.71%) Cisco
8 8 (1.71%) IBM
8 8 (1.71%) Oracle
8 8 (1.71%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.71%) Splunk
9 6 (1.28%) Black Duck
9 6 (1.28%) Coverity
10 5 (1.07%) F5
10 5 (1.07%) Juniper
10 5 (1.07%) Veeam
11 4 (0.85%) SAP
11 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow