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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 693 490 974
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.66% 5.45% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 6.17% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 511 251 543
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £51,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 13,707 7,946 10,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.31% 88.31% 81.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9,778 4,227 5,329
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +14 255 £67,500 +3.85% 241
Hampshire -12 183 £65,000 +4.00% 121
Surrey +13 131 £64,000 -8.57% 61
Berkshire +4 102 £85,000 +30.77% 126
Buckinghamshire +2 77 £65,000 - 61
Oxfordshire +9 76 £62,500 +4.17% 58
West Sussex +9 71 £70,000 +16.67% 42
Kent -40 24 £33,500 -10.67% 14
East Sussex -5 12 £85,000 +41.67% 26
Isle of Wight +1 6 £50,000 -31.51% 1
Middlesex -6 3 £38,500 +2.67%
Sussex -11 3 £65,000 +44.44% 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 23 (3.32%) Confluence
2 14 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.44%) IIS
4 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) JBoss
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.87%) Simulink
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 412 (59.45%) Azure
2 227 (32.76%) Azure DevOps
3 189 (27.27%) AWS
4 70 (10.10%) SaaS
5 62 (8.95%) GitHub
6 49 (7.07%) Power Platform
7 42 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (5.77%) GCP
9 38 (5.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 31 (4.47%) Azure AKS
11 30 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 30 (4.33%) Serverless
12 29 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (4.18%) PaaS
13 24 (3.46%) Azure AI
14 23 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 21 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (2.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.62%) VPN
2 29 (4.18%) Firewall
3 14 (2.02%) DNS
4 9 (1.30%) Internet
5 7 (1.01%) MQTT
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
7 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) DHCP
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (14.14%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 56 (8.08%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (5.05%) Power BI
5 21 (3.03%) MySQL
6 20 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.60%) Metadata
8 15 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.73%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.30%) Redis
10 9 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.72%) Spatial Data
13 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 111 (16.02%) Git
2 46 (6.64%) JIRA
3 38 (5.48%) GitLab
4 26 (3.75%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (1.73%) Selenium
7 7 (1.01%) JMeter
8 6 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.87%) JUnit
9 5 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.43%) Mocha
10 3 (0.43%) NUnit
10 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Snyk
10 3 (0.43%) Storybook
10 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.29%) ESLint
11 2 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 196 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.90%) Finance
3 62 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (2.74%) Retail
6 16 (2.31%) Marketing
7 15 (2.16%) Advertising
7 15 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.02%) Public Sector
9 12 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.59%) Games
11 10 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.87%) Aviation
12 6 (0.87%) Banking
12 6 (0.87%) Electronics
13 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.58%) Automotive
14 4 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 158 (22.80%) Senior
2 146 (21.07%) Developer
3 139 (20.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 84 (12.12%) Lead
5 78 (11.26%) .NET Developer
6 68 (9.81%) Software Engineer
7 52 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (6.64%) Senior DevOps
9 37 (5.34%) Architect
9 37 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 27 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.61%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.32%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (3.03%) Analyst
17 20 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 20 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (22.37%) Terraform
2 144 (20.78%) .NET
3 90 (12.99%) ASP.NET
4 69 (9.96%) ASP.NET Core
5 63 (9.09%) HTML
6 61 (8.80%) CSS
7 60 (8.66%) React
8 59 (8.51%) .NET Core
9 49 (7.07%) RESTful
10 41 (5.92%) REST
11 36 (5.19%) Blazor
12 32 (4.62%) ARM Templates
13 30 (4.33%) Entity Framework
13 30 (4.33%) Node.js
14 20 (2.89%) ML.NET
15 19 (2.74%) HTML5
15 19 (2.74%) Vue
16 18 (2.60%) Kafka
17 17 (2.45%) jQuery
18 16 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.74%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.31%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
10 15 (2.16%) Robotics
11 14 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.73%) IoT
13 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.15%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.01%) Life Science
15 7 (1.01%) Social Media
16 6 (0.87%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 127 (18.33%) Linux
2 54 (7.79%) Windows
3 23 (3.32%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.44%) Debian
6 5 (0.72%) CentOS
6 5 (0.72%) VMS
7 4 (0.58%) Android
7 4 (0.58%) Rocky
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (47.47%) CI/CD
2 274 (39.54%) Agile
3 143 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 134 (19.34%) Software Engineering
5 133 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (17.89%) AI
8 106 (15.30%) Mentoring
9 100 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 88 (12.70%) Computer Science
11 88 (12.70%) Microservices
12 85 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
13 79 (11.40%) Scrum
13 79 (11.40%) Test Automation
14 75 (10.82%) Containerisation
15 72 (10.39%) Analytics
16 70 (10.10%) Observability
17 59 (8.51%) Roadmaps
18 58 (8.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 169 (24.39%) C#
2 158 (22.80%) Python
3 131 (18.90%) SQL
4 95 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.23%) Bash
6 51 (7.36%) PowerShell
7 50 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.06%) Java
9 36 (5.19%) C++
10 31 (4.47%) Go
11 30 (4.33%) Bicep
12 26 (3.75%) PHP
13 20 (2.89%) C
14 15 (2.16%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.01%) MATLAB
16 7 (1.01%) Rust
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.58%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 112 (16.16%) Degree
2 111 (16.02%) Security Cleared
3 67 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 36 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.15%) PMP
10 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.87%) ICAEW
11 5 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.26%) QA
2 20 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.44%) GDPR
5 10 (1.44%) NIST
6 9 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.01%) WCAG
8 2 (0.29%) GRC
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.29%) MISRA
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) IASME
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 145 (20.92%) Docker
2 17 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.30%) Firmware
4 9 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.43%) KVM
6 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.29%) iptables
7 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.29%) Xen
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 71 (10.25%) Ansible
3 44 (6.35%) Grafana
4 37 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.30%) Puppet
6 8 (1.15%) Argo
6 8 (1.15%) Kibana
6 8 (1.15%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.01%) Nagios
7 7 (1.01%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.72%) Istio
8 5 (0.72%) Podman
9 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.29%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
12 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 167 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.03%) Google
3 17 (2.45%) VMware
4 14 (2.02%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.88%) Oracle
6 12 (1.73%) Databricks
6 12 (1.73%) Facebook
6 12 (1.73%) YouTube
7 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.44%) Splunk
9 9 (1.30%) Informatica
9 9 (1.30%) SAP
9 9 (1.30%) Talend
10 8 (1.15%) New Relic
11 7 (1.01%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.01%) Pega
12 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.58%) HP