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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 650 615 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.13% 7.17% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 8.10% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 502 286 779
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,438 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +5.93% -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 11,300 7,588 13,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.76% 88.45% 81.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,069 3,989 9,297
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,850 £28,250
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 £81,250 £80,000
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 17 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 17 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 -7 252 £65,000 +2.36% 62
Hampshire -11 173 £67,500 +11.57% 40
Buckinghamshire +12 105 £60,000 - 13
Berkshire -19 98 £65,000 -7.14% 31
Surrey +13 97 £65,000 -10.34% 20
West Sussex +14 81 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Oxfordshire -1 49 £65,000 +30.00% 18
Kent -15 26 £29,000 -55.38% 8
East Sussex -24 8 £85,000 +47.19%
Isle of Wight +1 5 £50,000 -31.51% 4
Sussex -7 5 £60,000 -21.31% 5
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 18 (2.77%) Confluence
2 10 (1.54%) IIS
3 7 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.77%) nginx
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
6 4 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.31%) Apache
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Simulink
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.77%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 384 (59.08%) Azure
2 224 (34.46%) Azure DevOps
3 160 (24.62%) AWS
4 62 (9.54%) SaaS
5 57 (8.77%) GitHub
6 39 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 38 (5.85%) Serverless
8 32 (4.92%) PaaS
9 28 (4.31%) Azure AKS
10 25 (3.85%) GCP
10 25 (3.85%) IaaS
11 24 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (3.69%) Azure AI
11 24 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 21 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.08%) OpenShift
15 19 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.31%) Firewall
2 20 (3.08%) VPN
3 10 (1.54%) DNS
4 7 (1.08%) MQTT
5 6 (0.92%) Internet
6 5 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.62%) BGP
7 4 (0.62%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.46%) DHCP
8 3 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Modbus
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.23%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 48 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.54%) Power BI
6 18 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.08%) Metadata
9 7 (1.08%) MySQL
10 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.92%) Redis
11 5 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.46%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 90 (13.85%) Git
2 62 (9.54%) GitLab
3 43 (6.62%) JIRA
4 35 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (2.00%) Selenium
7 10 (1.54%) JUnit
7 10 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.08%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.92%) JMeter
11 5 (0.77%) Mockito
11 5 (0.77%) NUnit
12 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.46%) Snyk
14 2 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 163 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.92%) Finance
3 79 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.85%) Retail
5 20 (3.08%) Games
6 18 (2.77%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.62%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.46%) Advertising
9 15 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.00%) Marketing
11 10 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.08%) Electronics
13 5 (0.77%) Automotive
13 5 (0.77%) Aviation
13 5 (0.77%) Law
13 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.62%) Billing
14 4 (0.62%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (22.00%) Developer
2 142 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 97 (14.92%) Senior
4 78 (12.00%) Lead
5 75 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 61 (9.38%) .NET Developer
7 55 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (5.54%) Architect
9 34 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.54%) Analyst
14 20 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (2.77%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
17 17 (2.62%) Administrator
17 17 (2.62%) Junior
17 17 (2.62%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (21.38%) .NET
2 81 (12.46%) ASP.NET
3 61 (9.38%) .NET Core
3 61 (9.38%) HTML
4 60 (9.23%) React
5 59 (9.08%) ASP.NET Core
6 58 (8.92%) CSS
7 51 (7.85%) RESTful
8 46 (7.08%) REST
9 33 (5.08%) ARM Templates
10 30 (4.62%) Blazor
10 30 (4.62%) Entity Framework
11 26 (4.00%) YAML
12 24 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.54%) JSON
14 21 (3.23%) ML.NET
15 20 (3.08%) Node.js
15 20 (3.08%) Spring
16 19 (2.92%) OAuth
16 19 (2.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.54%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.23%) Life Science
12 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.08%) FPGA
12 7 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 105 (16.15%) Linux
2 32 (4.92%) Windows
3 29 (4.46%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.54%) CentOS
6 10 (1.54%) VMS
7 9 (1.38%) Debian
8 5 (0.77%) Unix
8 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.62%) Android
10 2 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 266 (40.92%) Agile
3 154 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 120 (18.46%) Software Engineering
7 105 (16.15%) AI
8 96 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 89 (13.69%) Containerisation
10 88 (13.54%) Microservices
11 79 (12.15%) Computer Science
12 77 (11.85%) Scrum
13 71 (10.92%) Test Automation
14 69 (10.62%) Mentoring
15 66 (10.15%) Observability
16 63 (9.69%) Analytics
17 59 (9.08%) Machine Learning
18 57 (8.77%) Kanban
19 56 (8.62%) SDLC
20 54 (8.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 167 (25.69%) Python
2 146 (22.46%) C#
3 135 (20.77%) SQL
4 91 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 66 (10.15%) Bash
6 64 (9.85%) PowerShell
7 58 (8.92%) Java
8 42 (6.46%) C++
9 32 (4.92%) Bicep
9 32 (4.92%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.54%) C
11 15 (2.31%) Go
11 15 (2.31%) PHP
12 11 (1.69%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.38%) Groovy
13 9 (1.38%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.92%) Ruby
16 6 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.38%) Degree
3 58 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.92%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.15%) CCA
13 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.15%) MBA
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.62%) QA
2 15 (2.31%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.38%) NIST
5 9 (1.38%) WCAG
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.62%) ITGC
8 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) GDPR
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 139 (21.38%) Docker
2 17 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.23%) Firmware
4 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.31%) Xen
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 158 (24.31%) Terraform
2 130 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 78 (12.00%) Ansible
4 40 (6.15%) Grafana
5 35 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.85%) Kibana
6 12 (1.85%) Nagios
7 9 (1.38%) Puppet
8 7 (1.08%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.92%) Argo
9 6 (0.92%) Podman
9 6 (0.92%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.77%) Packer
11 3 (0.46%) Scalr
12 2 (0.31%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.31%) Istio
12 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.69%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.46%) Splunk
5 15 (2.31%) Oracle
6 14 (2.15%) Databricks
6 14 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.85%) Facebook
8 12 (1.85%) YouTube
9 11 (1.69%) Google
10 10 (1.54%) AppDynamics
10 10 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.38%) SAP
11 9 (1.38%) VMware
12 8 (1.23%) Cisco
12 8 (1.23%) IBM
12 8 (1.23%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.77%) Juniper
13 5 (0.77%) New Relic