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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 655 617 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.14% 7.19% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 8.12% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 507 287 774
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £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 £83,125 £74,688
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 11,351 7,596 13,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.74% 88.47% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,102 3,997 9,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £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 18 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 18 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 -9 252 £65,000 +2.36% 64
Hampshire -13 175 £67,500 +11.57% 39
Buckinghamshire +13 104 £60,000 - 14
Surrey +11 100 £65,000 -10.34% 21
Berkshire -16 99 £65,000 -7.14% 31
West Sussex +12 81 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Oxfordshire +1 49 £65,000 +30.00% 19
Kent -15 26 £29,000 -53.60% 9
East Sussex -23 8 £85,000 +47.19% 1
Isle of Wight +2 5 £50,000 -31.51% 4
Sussex -6 5 £60,000 -22.58% 3
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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 10 (1.53%) IIS
3 7 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.76%) nginx
6 4 (0.61%) CMS
6 4 (0.61%) 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 (1.83%) 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 (0.76%) 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
1 387 (59.08%) Azure
2 224 (34.20%) Azure DevOps
3 163 (24.89%) AWS
4 62 (9.47%) SaaS
5 57 (8.70%) GitHub
6 39 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 38 (5.80%) Serverless
8 32 (4.89%) PaaS
9 28 (4.27%) Azure AKS
10 26 (3.97%) GCP
11 25 (3.82%) IaaS
12 24 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.66%) Azure AI
12 24 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 21 (3.21%) Entra ID
15 20 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (3.05%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.43%) Firewall
2 20 (3.05%) VPN
3 11 (1.68%) DNS
4 7 (1.07%) MQTT
5 6 (0.92%) Internet
6 5 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.61%) BGP
7 4 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.46%) DHCP
8 3 (0.46%) HTTP
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Modbus
10 1 (0.15%) Network Security
10 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 48 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.51%) Power BI
6 18 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.07%) Metadata
9 7 (1.07%) MySQL
10 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.92%) Redis
11 5 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.61%) 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 (13.74%) Git
2 62 (9.47%) GitLab
3 43 (6.56%) JIRA
4 35 (5.34%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.98%) Selenium
7 10 (1.53%) JUnit
7 10 (1.53%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.07%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.92%) JMeter
11 5 (0.76%) Mockito
11 5 (0.76%) NUnit
12 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.46%) Snyk
14 2 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 165 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.78%) Finance
3 82 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.82%) Retail
5 20 (3.05%) Games
6 18 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.44%) Advertising
9 13 (1.98%) Marketing
10 11 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.07%) Electronics
12 5 (0.76%) Automotive
12 5 (0.76%) Aviation
12 5 (0.76%) Law
12 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Billing
13 4 (0.61%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (21.83%) Developer
1 143 (21.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (14.96%) Senior
3 79 (12.06%) Lead
4 75 (11.45%) Software Engineer
5 61 (9.31%) .NET Developer
6 55 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
7 36 (5.50%) Architect
8 34 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (3.51%) Analyst
13 20 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.75%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (2.60%) Administrator
16 17 (2.60%) Junior
16 17 (2.60%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (21.22%) .NET
2 81 (12.37%) ASP.NET
3 61 (9.31%) .NET Core
3 61 (9.31%) HTML
4 60 (9.16%) React
5 59 (9.01%) ASP.NET Core
6 58 (8.85%) CSS
7 51 (7.79%) RESTful
8 46 (7.02%) REST
9 33 (5.04%) ARM Templates
10 30 (4.58%) Blazor
10 30 (4.58%) Entity Framework
11 26 (3.97%) YAML
12 24 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.51%) JSON
14 21 (3.21%) ML.NET
15 20 (3.05%) Node.js
15 20 (3.05%) Spring
16 19 (2.90%) OAuth
16 19 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.22%) Life Science
12 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.07%) FPGA
12 7 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 105 (16.03%) Linux
2 32 (4.89%) Windows
3 29 (4.43%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.53%) CentOS
6 10 (1.53%) VMS
7 9 (1.37%) Debian
8 5 (0.76%) Unix
8 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.61%) Android
10 2 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (48.55%) CI/CD
2 270 (41.22%) Agile
3 155 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 121 (18.47%) Software Engineering
7 105 (16.03%) AI
8 96 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
9 89 (13.59%) Containerisation
10 88 (13.44%) Microservices
11 79 (12.06%) Computer Science
12 77 (11.76%) Scrum
13 71 (10.84%) Mentoring
13 71 (10.84%) Test Automation
14 67 (10.23%) Observability
15 63 (9.62%) Analytics
16 59 (9.01%) Machine Learning
17 57 (8.70%) Kanban
18 56 (8.55%) SDLC
19 55 (8.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 167 (25.50%) Python
2 146 (22.29%) C#
3 135 (20.61%) SQL
4 91 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 66 (10.08%) Bash
6 64 (9.77%) PowerShell
7 58 (8.85%) Java
8 42 (6.41%) C++
9 32 (4.89%) Bicep
9 32 (4.89%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.51%) C
11 16 (2.44%) PHP
12 15 (2.29%) Go
13 11 (1.68%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.37%) Groovy
14 9 (1.37%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.22%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.92%) Ruby
17 6 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.27%) Degree
3 61 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.22%) 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 59 (9.01%) QA
2 16 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.37%) NIST
5 9 (1.37%) WCAG
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.61%) ITGC
8 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) GDPR
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 140 (21.37%) Docker
2 17 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.22%) Firmware
4 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.31%) Xen
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 160 (24.43%) Terraform
2 132 (20.15%) Kubernetes
3 78 (11.91%) Ansible
4 41 (6.26%) Grafana
5 36 (5.50%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.83%) Kibana
6 12 (1.83%) Nagios
7 9 (1.37%) Puppet
8 7 (1.07%) Argo
8 7 (1.07%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.92%) Podman
9 6 (0.92%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.76%) Packer
11 3 (0.46%) Istio
11 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.46%) Scalr
12 2 (0.31%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.04%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.44%) Splunk
5 15 (2.29%) Oracle
6 14 (2.14%) Databricks
6 14 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.98%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.83%) Facebook
8 12 (1.83%) Google
8 12 (1.83%) YouTube
9 10 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.37%) Cisco
10 9 (1.37%) SAP
10 9 (1.37%) VMware
11 8 (1.22%) IBM
11 8 (1.22%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.76%) Juniper
12 5 (0.76%) New Relic