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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 629 597 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.10% 7.30% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 8.17% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 479 283 834
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,850
Median % change year-on-year - +5.09% -4.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £85,000 £85,700
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -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 11,020 7,309 14,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.91% 89.38% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7,842 3,724 10,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,857
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 2 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 2 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 -7 249 £60,000 -6.61% 104
Hampshire -14 162 £67,500 +11.57% 70
Buckinghamshire +13 108 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Berkshire -17 100 £65,000 -10.65% 56
Surrey +10 95 £65,000 -13.33% 35
West Sussex +13 75 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Oxfordshire -11 41 £62,500 +25.00% 26
Kent -15 27 £29,000 -63.75% 6
East Sussex -23 8 £85,000 +53.15% 2
Sussex -7 5 £60,000 -21.31% 3
Isle of Wight 0 4 £50,000 -31.51% 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 18 (2.86%) Confluence
2 8 (1.27%) IIS
3 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.64%) CMS
5 4 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.48%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Simulink
3 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.32%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 371 (58.98%) Azure
2 223 (35.45%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (24.64%) AWS
4 60 (9.54%) SaaS
5 58 (9.22%) GitHub
6 43 (6.84%) Power Platform
7 38 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (5.72%) Serverless
9 34 (5.41%) PaaS
10 28 (4.45%) Azure AKS
11 27 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.29%) IaaS
12 23 (3.66%) Azure AI
13 22 (3.50%) GCP
14 21 (3.34%) Entra ID
14 21 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (3.02%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 18 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.61%) Firewall
2 19 (3.02%) VPN
3 10 (1.59%) DNS
4 6 (0.95%) MQTT
5 5 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.79%) DHCP
5 5 (0.79%) Internet
6 4 (0.64%) BGP
6 4 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.48%) HTTP
8 2 (0.32%) SAN
9 1 (0.16%) Broadband
9 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.16%) Modbus
9 1 (0.16%) Network Security
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.31%) MongoDB
3 43 (6.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.66%) Power BI
6 17 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.27%) Metadata
10 6 (0.95%) MySQL
10 6 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.48%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (13.35%) Git
2 61 (9.70%) GitLab
3 39 (6.20%) JIRA
4 31 (4.93%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (2.07%) Selenium
7 10 (1.59%) JUnit
8 9 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.11%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.95%) JMeter
11 6 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.79%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.79%) Mockito
12 5 (0.79%) NUnit
13 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.48%) Snyk
15 2 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 147 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 118 (18.76%) Finance
3 83 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.29%) Retail
5 20 (3.18%) Games
6 17 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.38%) Advertising
8 14 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.75%) Marketing
10 10 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.11%) Electronics
12 6 (0.95%) Billing
12 6 (0.95%) Law
13 5 (0.79%) Automotive
13 5 (0.79%) Aviation
13 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.64%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 141 (22.42%) Developer
3 93 (14.79%) Senior
4 74 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 73 (11.61%) Lead
6 57 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
7 55 (8.74%) .NET Developer
8 39 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (5.88%) Architect
10 35 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
11 27 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (4.13%) Analyst
12 26 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.86%) Administrator
15 18 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
16 17 (2.70%) DevOps Administrator
16 17 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (21.30%) .NET
2 75 (11.92%) ASP.NET
3 60 (9.54%) React
4 59 (9.38%) HTML
5 58 (9.22%) .NET Core
6 56 (8.90%) CSS
7 54 (8.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 50 (7.95%) RESTful
9 44 (7.00%) REST
10 28 (4.45%) ARM Templates
10 28 (4.45%) Blazor
11 27 (4.29%) Entity Framework
12 26 (4.13%) YAML
13 23 (3.66%) JSON
13 23 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (3.18%) ML.NET
14 20 (3.18%) Spring
15 19 (3.02%) OAuth
16 18 (2.86%) Spring Boot
17 17 (2.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.91%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.91%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.11%) FPGA
12 7 (1.11%) Life Science
12 7 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 102 (16.22%) Linux
2 31 (4.93%) Ubuntu
3 29 (4.61%) Windows
4 16 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.59%) CentOS
6 10 (1.59%) VMS
7 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.79%) Debian
8 5 (0.79%) Unix
9 4 (0.64%) Android
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (48.17%) CI/CD
2 251 (39.90%) Agile
3 151 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 109 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (16.38%) AI
8 93 (14.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 87 (13.83%) Containerisation
10 81 (12.88%) Microservices
11 74 (11.76%) Scrum
12 73 (11.61%) Computer Science
13 72 (11.45%) Test Automation
14 60 (9.54%) Observability
15 59 (9.38%) Mentoring
16 57 (9.06%) Analytics
17 55 (8.74%) Machine Learning
18 54 (8.59%) Kanban
18 54 (8.59%) SDLC
19 47 (7.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.12%) Python
2 140 (22.26%) C#
3 129 (20.51%) SQL
4 92 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 66 (10.49%) Bash
6 60 (9.54%) PowerShell
7 57 (9.06%) Java
8 40 (6.36%) C++
9 31 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 29 (4.61%) Bicep
11 23 (3.66%) C
12 17 (2.70%) Go
13 10 (1.59%) PHP
14 9 (1.43%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.43%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.27%) Groovy
15 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.95%) Ruby
16 6 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.79%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 102 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 92 (14.63%) Degree
3 57 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.34%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.43%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.95%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.16%) CCA
13 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.11%) QA
2 15 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.43%) WCAG
6 8 (1.27%) NIST
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.64%) ITGC
9 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (20.35%) Docker
2 17 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.27%) Firmware
4 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 152 (24.17%) Terraform
2 120 (19.08%) Kubernetes
3 77 (12.24%) Ansible
4 36 (5.72%) Grafana
5 31 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.07%) Nagios
7 11 (1.75%) Kibana
8 8 (1.27%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.11%) Puppet
10 6 (0.95%) Podman
11 5 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.79%) Packer
12 4 (0.64%) Argo
12 4 (0.64%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.48%) Scalr
14 2 (0.32%) MIIS
14 2 (0.32%) SCCM
14 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
15 1 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 151 (24.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 25 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.70%) Splunk
5 16 (2.54%) MuleSoft
6 13 (2.07%) Oracle
6 13 (2.07%) VMware
7 12 (1.91%) Databricks
7 12 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.75%) Facebook
8 11 (1.75%) YouTube
9 9 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.27%) Cisco
10 8 (1.27%) IBM
10 8 (1.27%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.95%) Google
11 6 (0.95%) SAP
12 5 (0.79%) F5
12 5 (0.79%) Juniper