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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 693 610 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.18% 7.02% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 7.97% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 526 278 649
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,125 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £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 11,871 7,655 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.58% 88.09% 80.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,455 4,121 7,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -7 264 £65,000 +2.36% 127
Hampshire -8 185 £65,000 +7.44% 54
Surrey +7 110 £65,000 -10.34% 32
Buckinghamshire +13 103 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Berkshire -15 103 £70,000 -9.68% 67
West Sussex +13 85 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Oxfordshire +3 58 £65,000 +30.00% 34
Kent -26 27 £31,250 -43.18% 19
East Sussex -19 8 £85,000 +47.19% 6
Isle of Wight +6 7 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Sussex -2 5 £60,000 - 2
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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 10 (1.44%) IIS
2 10 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.15%) 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 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.87%) Simulink
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.87%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 416 (60.03%) Azure
2 222 (32.03%) Azure DevOps
3 188 (27.13%) AWS
4 72 (10.39%) SaaS
5 57 (8.23%) GitHub
6 41 (5.92%) Serverless
7 40 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.34%) Power Platform
9 30 (4.33%) GCP
10 29 (4.18%) Azure AKS
10 29 (4.18%) PaaS
11 27 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 25 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.46%) Azure AI
14 23 (3.32%) Datadog
15 22 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (3.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.61%) Firewall
2 21 (3.03%) VPN
3 12 (1.73%) DNS
4 7 (1.01%) MQTT
5 6 (0.87%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
10 1 (0.14%) Broadband
10 1 (0.14%) IPv4
10 1 (0.14%) IPv6
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
10 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 50 (7.22%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.17%) Power BI
4 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.88%) MySQL
5 13 (1.88%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.15%) Metadata
8 8 (1.15%) Redis
9 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.43%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 100 (14.43%) Git
2 59 (8.51%) GitLab
3 46 (6.64%) JIRA
4 35 (5.05%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.16%) Selenium
7 10 (1.44%) JUnit
8 9 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.01%) NUnit
11 6 (0.87%) JMeter
11 6 (0.87%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.72%) Mockito
13 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
14 3 (0.43%) Snyk
15 2 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 190 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 132 (19.05%) Finance
3 90 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.17%) Retail
6 19 (2.74%) Games
6 19 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.31%) Advertising
9 14 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.02%) Marketing
10 12 (1.73%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.01%) Aviation
12 6 (0.87%) Electronics
12 6 (0.87%) Legal
12 6 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.72%) Automotive
13 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.58%) Law
15 3 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 146 (21.07%) Developer
2 145 (20.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 109 (15.73%) Senior
4 92 (13.28%) Lead
5 77 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 69 (9.96%) .NET Developer
7 50 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (5.92%) Architect
9 34 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.03%) Analyst
14 20 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.74%) Lead Developer
15 19 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.60%) Junior
16 18 (2.60%) Team Leader
17 17 (2.45%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (21.36%) .NET
2 85 (12.27%) ASP.NET
3 64 (9.24%) .NET Core
3 64 (9.24%) React
4 63 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
4 63 (9.09%) HTML
5 60 (8.66%) CSS
6 53 (7.65%) REST
6 53 (7.65%) RESTful
7 37 (5.34%) Blazor
8 33 (4.76%) ARM Templates
9 32 (4.62%) Entity Framework
10 28 (4.04%) YAML
11 25 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (3.32%) JSON
12 23 (3.32%) Node.js
13 21 (3.03%) ML.NET
13 21 (3.03%) Spring
14 20 (2.89%) OAuth
14 20 (2.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
11 11 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.44%) Robotics
12 10 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.30%) IoT
13 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.15%) Life Science
15 7 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 117 (16.88%) Linux
2 37 (5.34%) Windows
3 29 (4.18%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.73%) Debian
6 10 (1.44%) CentOS
6 10 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.58%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 285 (41.13%) Agile
3 160 (23.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 136 (19.62%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.45%) AI
8 105 (15.15%) Microservices
9 101 (14.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 94 (13.56%) Containerisation
12 83 (11.98%) Test Automation
13 82 (11.83%) Computer Science
14 76 (10.97%) Observability
14 76 (10.97%) Scrum
15 64 (9.24%) Analytics
16 63 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
16 63 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 61 (8.80%) SDLC
18 60 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (24.24%) Python
2 156 (22.51%) C#
3 140 (20.20%) SQL
4 97 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 66 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 65 (9.38%) Bash
7 57 (8.23%) Java
8 42 (6.06%) TypeScript
9 40 (5.77%) C++
10 31 (4.47%) Bicep
11 23 (3.32%) C
12 21 (3.03%) PHP
13 19 (2.74%) Go
14 11 (1.59%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.44%) Apex Code
16 9 (1.30%) Groovy
17 8 (1.15%) MATLAB
18 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.87%) Ruby
20 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 111 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.57%) Degree
3 70 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.87%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.97%) QA
2 16 (2.31%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) NIST
5 8 (1.15%) WCAG
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) ITGC
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (22.80%) Docker
2 18 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 9 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.01%) Firmware
5 6 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) iptables
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 173 (24.96%) Terraform
2 147 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 78 (11.26%) Ansible
4 45 (6.49%) Grafana
5 37 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.88%) Nagios
7 12 (1.73%) Kibana
8 11 (1.59%) Puppet
9 9 (1.30%) ZABBIX
10 8 (1.15%) Argo
11 6 (0.87%) Podman
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Istio
12 5 (0.72%) Packer
13 4 (0.58%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.43%) Scalr
15 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 160 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.47%) Red Hat
3 23 (3.32%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.60%) Oracle
5 16 (2.31%) Splunk
6 14 (2.02%) Databricks
6 14 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.88%) Google
8 12 (1.73%) Facebook
8 12 (1.73%) YouTube
9 11 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.59%) VMware
10 10 (1.44%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.30%) SAP
12 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Cisco
14 6 (0.87%) New Relic
14 6 (0.87%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.72%) Juniper