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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 384 752 859
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.54% 8.61% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 9.67% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 278 412 614
10th Percentile £38,375 £42,500 £44,107
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,850
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.14% -4.85%
75th Percentile £77,875 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 8,615 7,779 9,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.33% 89.02% 86.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 3,583 7,197
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,053 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,670 £52,293
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +10.28% -4.92%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -36 135 £60,000 -7.69% 106
Hampshire -29 82 £75,000 +11.11% 60
Buckinghamshire +4 65 £60,000 - 27
Berkshire -46 58 £50,000 -33.33% 61
Surrey -30 53 £62,500 -10.71% 34
Kent -9 34 £65,000 +13.04% 10
West Sussex +1 30 £70,000 +16.67% 27
Middlesex +5 19 - -
East Sussex -12 14 £78,750 +50.00% 16
Oxfordshire -14 12 £72,500 +1.75% 18
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 9
Sussex +2 6 £45,000 -36.40% 5
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 (4.69%) IIS
2 6 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.04%) Apache
3 4 (1.04%) Confluence
4 3 (0.78%) Appian
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 224 (58.33%) Azure
2 167 (43.49%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (23.96%) AWS
4 56 (14.58%) GitHub
5 39 (10.16%) Power Platform
6 27 (7.03%) SaaS
7 26 (6.77%) PaaS
8 23 (5.99%) Entra ID
8 23 (5.99%) GCP
9 22 (5.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (5.47%) Serverless
11 18 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.65%) IaaS
12 14 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (3.39%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.86%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.03%) DNS
2 17 (4.43%) Firewall
3 14 (3.65%) VPN
4 12 (3.13%) DHCP
5 10 (2.60%) SAN
6 4 (1.04%) LAN
6 4 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
6 4 (1.04%) VoIP
6 4 (1.04%) WAN
6 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
9 1 (0.26%) AMQP
9 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.69%) Power BI
3 15 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.86%) MySQL
5 8 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.78%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.52%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.52%) GIS
10 2 (0.52%) Metadata
10 2 (0.52%) Redis
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (12.76%) Git
2 27 (7.03%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.03%) Selenium
3 20 (5.21%) GitLab
3 20 (5.21%) Robot Framework
4 19 (4.95%) Snyk
5 11 (2.86%) JIRA
6 6 (1.56%) MLflow
6 6 (1.56%) Storybook
7 5 (1.30%) git-flow
7 5 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.52%) Appium
10 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
10 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.57%) Finance
3 61 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.43%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.65%) Law
7 10 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.08%) Billing
8 8 (2.08%) Games
9 7 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.82%) Marketing
10 6 (1.56%) Banking
11 5 (1.30%) Retail
12 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.78%) Legal
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (22.66%) Developer
2 62 (16.15%) Lead
3 56 (14.58%) Senior
4 49 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (10.68%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.29%) Architect
7 22 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (4.69%) Analyst
9 18 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (3.91%) Support Engineer
11 14 (3.65%) IT Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) IT Support
12 13 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Power Platform Developer
13 12 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Software Support Engineer
14 10 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (26.30%) .NET
2 51 (13.28%) React
3 30 (7.81%) REST
4 29 (7.55%) CSS
5 28 (7.29%) .NET Framework
5 28 (7.29%) HTML
6 25 (6.51%) ASP.NET
7 21 (5.47%) Middleware
8 19 (4.95%) WinForms
9 17 (4.43%) React Native
10 15 (3.91%) ARM Templates
10 15 (3.91%) Kafka
11 14 (3.65%) Bootstrap
12 13 (3.39%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.39%) Entity Framework
13 12 (3.13%) .NET Core
13 12 (3.13%) RESTful
14 11 (2.86%) SOAP
15 10 (2.60%) Blazor
15 10 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.47%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.95%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.86%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.56%) Life Science
8 6 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.04%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.78%) Animation
11 3 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.78%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.76%) Windows
2 43 (11.20%) Linux
3 13 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.82%) Android
6 7 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 179 (46.61%) Agile
3 103 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (17.45%) Mentoring
7 65 (16.93%) Software Engineering
8 59 (15.36%) Computer Science
9 48 (12.50%) AI
9 48 (12.50%) Scrum
10 47 (12.24%) Test Automation
11 38 (9.90%) Microservices
12 36 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (9.38%) Waterfall
13 34 (8.85%) Coaching
14 33 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (8.59%) SDLC
15 31 (8.07%) Containerisation
16 29 (7.55%) Machine Learning
17 28 (7.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.79%) C#
2 71 (18.49%) Python
3 66 (17.19%) SQL
4 43 (11.20%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.29%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.03%) Java
7 26 (6.77%) PowerShell
8 24 (6.25%) Bash
9 13 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.60%) C++
11 9 (2.34%) Bicep
11 9 (2.34%) Go
12 8 (2.08%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.78%) ABAP
13 3 (0.78%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Delphi
14 2 (0.52%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) VB
14 2 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 79 (20.57%) Degree
2 60 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (8.59%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.69%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.39%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.34%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (2.08%) PMP
11 7 (1.82%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.04%) CCNP
13 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.78%) CISSP
14 3 (0.78%) ISEB
14 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.64%) QA
2 15 (3.91%) NIST
3 12 (3.13%) PMO
4 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.82%) NCSC
6 4 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.52%) GDPR
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (13.02%) Docker
2 25 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (22.40%) Terraform
2 59 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 44 (11.46%) Ansible
4 13 (3.39%) Grafana
4 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.13%) SCCM
6 11 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.30%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.52%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.52%) Nessus
9 2 (0.52%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.26%) CASB
10 1 (0.26%) Kibana
10 1 (0.26%) Nagios
10 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.47%) VMware
3 18 (4.69%) Black Duck
3 18 (4.69%) Coverity
4 15 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.39%) MuleSoft
6 12 (3.13%) Sage
6 12 (3.13%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.86%) Veeam
8 10 (2.60%) 3PAR
8 10 (2.60%) NetApp
8 10 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.60%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.56%) Databricks
9 6 (1.56%) Google
9 6 (1.56%) Oracle
10 5 (1.30%) Cisco
10 5 (1.30%) Zoho
11 4 (1.04%) Rackspace
11 4 (1.04%) Telerik