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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 432 569 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.56% 7.94% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 8.80% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 325 364 704
10th Percentile £38,950 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £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 £75,000 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £85,000 £87,500
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 9,258 6,464 12,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 76.28% 90.20% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 3,259 8,994
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 12 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 12 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 -23 160 £50,000 -21.88% 85
Hampshire -21 97 £72,500 +7.41% 45
Buckinghamshire +9 72 £50,000 -16.67% 30
Berkshire -28 72 £50,000 -33.33% 38
Surrey -32 57 £62,500 -16.67% 35
West Sussex +6 40 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Kent -5 30 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Middlesex +5 19 - -
Oxfordshire -14 16 £72,500 +31.82% 19
East Sussex -12 15 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Isle of Wight - 9 £42,000 - 4
Sussex -14 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 16 (3.70%) IIS
2 6 (1.39%) Confluence
3 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.46%) Appian
5 2 (0.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.23%) Camunda
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 258 (59.72%) Azure
2 180 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 102 (23.61%) AWS
4 63 (14.58%) GitHub
5 42 (9.72%) Power Platform
6 31 (7.18%) SaaS
7 30 (6.94%) PaaS
8 26 (6.02%) GCP
8 26 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (4.86%) Entra ID
10 21 (4.86%) Serverless
11 17 (3.94%) IaaS
11 17 (3.94%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.24%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.78%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.02%) Firewall
2 22 (5.09%) DNS
3 15 (3.47%) VPN
4 7 (1.62%) DHCP
4 7 (1.62%) SAN
5 4 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.46%) BGP
6 2 (0.46%) HTTP
6 2 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.23%) Modbus
7 1 (0.23%) MPLS
7 1 (0.23%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.40%) Power BI
3 15 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.08%) MySQL
5 9 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.39%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.46%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.46%) GIS
11 2 (0.46%) Metadata
11 2 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (13.19%) Git
2 38 (8.80%) GitLab
3 28 (6.48%) Selenium
4 27 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.40%) Robot Framework
6 18 (4.17%) Snyk
7 17 (3.94%) JIRA
8 6 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.39%) JUnit
8 6 (1.39%) MLflow
8 6 (1.39%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.16%) git-flow
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.93%) Mockito
11 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.69%) NUnit
11 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.46%) Appium
12 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 120 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (20.83%) Finance
4 20 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.24%) Law
6 14 (3.24%) Retail
7 11 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.31%) Billing
9 8 (1.85%) Games
10 7 (1.62%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.39%) Banking
12 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.93%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.93%) Marketing
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.69%) Legal
14 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (23.61%) Developer
2 69 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (14.58%) Lead
4 61 (14.12%) Senior
5 37 (8.56%) Software Engineer
6 32 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 27 (6.25%) Architect
7 27 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (4.86%) Analyst
11 16 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
12 15 (3.47%) IT Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Administrator
13 13 (3.01%) DevOps Administrator
13 13 (3.01%) IT Support
13 13 (3.01%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Support Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Systems Administrator
14 12 (2.78%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (24.77%) .NET
2 52 (12.04%) React
3 37 (8.56%) CSS
3 37 (8.56%) REST
4 35 (8.10%) HTML
5 32 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 30 (6.94%) .NET Framework
7 24 (5.56%) Middleware
8 21 (4.86%) React Native
9 18 (4.17%) .NET Core
9 18 (4.17%) Bootstrap
10 17 (3.94%) Entity Framework
10 17 (3.94%) RESTful
11 16 (3.70%) ARM Templates
11 16 (3.70%) WinForms
12 14 (3.24%) Kafka
12 14 (3.24%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (3.24%) SOAP
12 14 (3.24%) Visualforce
13 13 (3.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.32%) Low-Code
4 20 (4.63%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.39%) Life Science
8 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.69%) Animation
10 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.46%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.43%) Linux
2 47 (10.88%) Windows
3 16 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 15 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.93%) Android
8 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.69%) CentOS
9 3 (0.69%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 185 (42.82%) Agile
3 129 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (13.66%) Mentoring
7 58 (13.43%) Computer Science
7 58 (13.43%) Software Engineering
8 54 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 54 (12.50%) Scrum
8 54 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 53 (12.27%) AI
10 42 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (9.49%) Microservices
12 37 (8.56%) Observability
13 36 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (8.10%) SDLC
15 33 (7.64%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (7.64%) Unit Testing
16 30 (6.94%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.92%) Python
2 85 (19.68%) C#
3 82 (18.98%) SQL
4 51 (11.81%) JavaScript
5 37 (8.56%) Bash
6 36 (8.33%) Java
7 34 (7.87%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.63%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.24%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.24%) C++
10 13 (3.01%) Go
10 13 (3.01%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.55%) Bicep
12 7 (1.62%) C
13 3 (0.69%) ABAP
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) R
13 3 (0.69%) Ruby
14 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (18.06%) Degree
2 69 (15.97%) Security Cleared
3 42 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.48%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.40%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.62%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.69%) CISSP
12 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.23%) CEH
14 1 (0.23%) CISM
14 1 (0.23%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.64%) QA
2 13 (3.01%) NIST
3 10 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.85%) PMO
5 7 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.62%) NCSC
6 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.93%) ITGC
8 2 (0.46%) GDPR
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (14.81%) Docker
2 20 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (23.61%) Terraform
2 76 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 55 (12.73%) Ansible
4 23 (5.32%) Grafana
5 21 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.85%) Proxmox
6 8 (1.85%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.62%) SCCM
8 6 (1.39%) Nagios
9 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.46%) Argo
10 2 (0.46%) Nessus
10 2 (0.46%) Puppet
10 2 (0.46%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.23%) CASB
11 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.23%) Kibana
11 1 (0.23%) MIIS
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 106 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.79%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.32%) Red Hat
4 19 (4.40%) VMware
5 18 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 17 (3.94%) Black Duck
6 17 (3.94%) Coverity
7 12 (2.78%) Sage
7 12 (2.78%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.85%) Cisco
9 8 (1.85%) Splunk
9 8 (1.85%) Veeam
10 7 (1.62%) 3PAR
10 7 (1.62%) NetApp
10 7 (1.62%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.39%) Databricks
11 6 (1.39%) Google
11 6 (1.39%) Oracle
11 6 (1.39%) Palo Alto