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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 503 576 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.47% 7.50% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 8.29% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 390 324 802
10th Percentile £40,975 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.33% +7.69% -7.14%

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 10,499 6,944 13,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.51% 90.42% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,941 3,404 9,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -5 220 £57,500 -11.20% 90
Hampshire -18 113 £70,000 +16.67% 56
Buckinghamshire +8 100 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Berkshire -20 93 £50,000 -35.48% 45
Surrey -10 69 £62,500 -15.25% 17
West Sussex +6 51 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Oxfordshire -8 27 £72,500 +38.10% 27
Kent -18 27 £29,000 -49.57% 6
East Sussex -25 11 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Isle of Wight -2 5 £41,500 -43.15% 1
Sussex -11 5 £60,000 -20.00%
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 9 (1.79%) Confluence
2 6 (1.19%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.99%) CMS
3 5 (0.99%) IIS
4 4 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.80%) Simulink
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 282 (56.06%) Azure
2 169 (33.60%) Azure DevOps
3 127 (25.25%) AWS
4 54 (10.74%) GitHub
5 44 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 39 (7.75%) SaaS
7 27 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (4.37%) PaaS
10 20 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.98%) Serverless
11 19 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.78%) GCP
11 19 (3.78%) IaaS
11 19 (3.78%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.18%) Azure AKS
12 16 (3.18%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.76%) Firewall
2 14 (2.78%) VPN
3 13 (2.58%) DNS
4 7 (1.39%) DHCP
5 5 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.80%) BGP
6 4 (0.80%) SAN
7 3 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.20%) Broadband
8 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Network Security
8 1 (0.20%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.54%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.98%) Power BI
3 14 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.19%) Metadata
7 5 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) MySQL
9 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.40%) GIS
10 2 (0.40%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (12.33%) Git
2 55 (10.93%) GitLab
3 31 (6.16%) JIRA
4 27 (5.37%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.78%) Selenium
5 14 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.39%) JUnit
8 6 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.99%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.80%) Mockito
10 4 (0.80%) NUnit
10 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.60%) MLflow
11 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.69%) Finance
4 21 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.17%) Retail
5 15 (2.98%) Games
5 15 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.58%) Law
7 9 (1.79%) Billing
7 9 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Legal
10 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.80%) Advertising
11 4 (0.80%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.80%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.60%) Marketing
12 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (22.66%) Developer
2 111 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (14.91%) Senior
4 71 (14.12%) Lead
5 47 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (7.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (7.36%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.16%) Architect
8 28 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (3.78%) Analyst
11 18 (3.58%) Administrator
11 18 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.58%) DevOps Administrator
11 18 (3.58%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (3.58%) Team Leader
12 16 (3.18%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (2.98%) .NET Developer
13 15 (2.98%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.98%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (18.29%) .NET
2 47 (9.34%) React
3 44 (8.75%) REST
4 39 (7.75%) CSS
5 38 (7.55%) HTML
6 33 (6.56%) ASP.NET
7 30 (5.96%) RESTful
8 25 (4.97%) .NET Core
9 24 (4.77%) Middleware
10 22 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.17%) OAuth
12 20 (3.98%) JSON
12 20 (3.98%) React Native
12 20 (3.98%) SOAP
13 17 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (3.38%) Bootstrap
14 15 (2.98%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.98%) Spring
15 13 (2.58%) Visualforce
15 13 (2.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.17%) Low-Code
5 19 (3.78%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.58%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.39%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.99%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.39%) Life Science
11 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.99%) FPGA
14 4 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.71%) Linux
2 23 (4.57%) Ubuntu
2 23 (4.57%) Windows
3 17 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.19%) VMS
5 7 (1.39%) CentOS
5 7 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.19%) Unix
6 6 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.60%) Debian
9 2 (0.40%) Android
9 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (50.89%) CI/CD
2 201 (39.96%) Agile
3 138 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (14.51%) Containerisation
7 71 (14.12%) AI
8 63 (12.52%) Software Engineering
9 62 (12.33%) Scrum
10 59 (11.73%) Test Automation
11 53 (10.54%) Computer Science
12 50 (9.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 49 (9.74%) Microservices
14 48 (9.54%) Data Modelling
15 45 (8.95%) Observability
16 42 (8.35%) Mentoring
17 41 (8.15%) Kanban
18 38 (7.55%) Deployment Automation
19 36 (7.16%) Analytics
19 36 (7.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 131 (26.04%) Python
2 84 (16.70%) C#
2 84 (16.70%) SQL
3 57 (11.33%) JavaScript
4 49 (9.74%) Bash
5 42 (8.35%) Java
6 37 (7.36%) PowerShell
7 27 (5.37%) C++
8 16 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.58%) Apex Code
9 13 (2.58%) C
9 13 (2.58%) Go
10 12 (2.39%) Bicep
11 7 (1.39%) Groovy
12 6 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.99%) Perl
13 5 (0.99%) PHP
13 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Ruby
15 3 (0.60%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 89 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.12%) Degree
3 51 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.60%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.16%) QA
2 16 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.59%) NIST
4 8 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.19%) WCAG
6 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (0.80%) ITGC
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.40%) GDPR
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (19.09%) Docker
2 12 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.80%) Firmware
4 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (24.25%) Terraform
2 95 (18.89%) Kubernetes
3 68 (13.52%) Ansible
4 28 (5.57%) Grafana
5 25 (4.97%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.99%) Nagios
7 8 (1.59%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.99%) Packer
8 5 (0.99%) Puppet
9 4 (0.80%) Kibana
9 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.80%) SCCM
9 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.60%) Scalr
10 3 (0.60%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.40%) MIIS
11 2 (0.40%) Nessus
11 2 (0.40%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 108 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.16%) Red Hat
3 24 (4.77%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 16 (3.18%) VMware
6 12 (2.39%) Databricks
7 10 (1.99%) AppDynamics
7 10 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.99%) Splunk
8 8 (1.59%) Cisco
8 8 (1.59%) IBM
8 8 (1.59%) Oracle
8 8 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.99%) F5
9 5 (0.99%) Juniper
9 5 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.99%) Veeam
10 4 (0.80%) 3PAR
10 4 (0.80%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds