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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 667 612 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.16% 7.12% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 8.06% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 510 283 712
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £83,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,560 £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 11,508 7,593 12,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.71% 88.34% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,200 4,038 8,441
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
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 24 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 24 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 -8 256 £65,000 +2.36% 99
Hampshire -11 180 £67,500 +11.57% 51
Buckinghamshire +15 105 £60,000 - 23
Surrey +8 103 £65,000 -10.34% 30
Berkshire -19 98 £67,500 -6.90% 50
West Sussex +10 81 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Oxfordshire -1 53 £65,000 +30.00% 26
Kent -18 26 £29,000 -51.67% 13
East Sussex -21 8 £85,000 +53.15% 2
Isle of Wight +2 6 £50,000 -31.51% 6
Sussex -5 5 £60,000 -22.58% 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 18 (2.70%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) IIS
3 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) 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 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.90%) Simulink
3 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.30%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.90%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 398 (59.67%) Azure
2 223 (33.43%) Azure DevOps
3 168 (25.19%) AWS
4 65 (9.75%) SaaS
5 58 (8.70%) GitHub
6 40 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (5.70%) Serverless
8 36 (5.40%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.65%) PaaS
10 28 (4.20%) GCP
11 27 (4.05%) Azure AKS
12 26 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 24 (3.60%) Azure AI
13 24 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.45%) IaaS
15 21 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (3.15%) Datadog
16 20 (3.00%) Entra ID
16 20 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.90%) Firewall
2 20 (3.00%) VPN
3 11 (1.65%) DNS
4 7 (1.05%) MQTT
5 6 (0.90%) Internet
6 5 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.45%) DHCP
8 3 (0.45%) HTTP
8 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Modbus
10 1 (0.15%) NAS
10 1 (0.15%) SAN
10 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 49 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.45%) Power BI
6 19 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.50%) MySQL
10 8 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.20%) Metadata
11 6 (0.90%) Redis
12 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.45%) Spatial Data
14 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.30%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 95 (14.24%) Git
2 61 (9.15%) GitLab
3 44 (6.60%) JIRA
4 36 (5.40%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.10%) Selenium
7 10 (1.50%) JUnit
7 10 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.05%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.90%) JMeter
11 5 (0.75%) Mockito
11 5 (0.75%) NUnit
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.45%) Snyk
14 2 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 172 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 127 (19.04%) Finance
3 82 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.45%) Retail
5 20 (3.00%) Games
6 18 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.40%) Advertising
9 13 (1.95%) Marketing
10 12 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.90%) Electronics
13 5 (0.75%) Automotive
13 5 (0.75%) Aviation
13 5 (0.75%) Legal
13 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.60%) Law
15 3 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 146 (21.89%) Developer
2 142 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 101 (15.14%) Senior
4 87 (13.04%) Lead
5 74 (11.09%) Software Engineer
6 65 (9.75%) .NET Developer
7 54 (8.10%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (5.70%) Architect
9 33 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.45%) Analyst
14 20 (3.00%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Junior
15 18 (2.70%) Lead Developer
15 18 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.70%) Team Leader
16 16 (2.40%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (21.14%) .NET
2 83 (12.44%) ASP.NET
3 63 (9.45%) .NET Core
3 63 (9.45%) HTML
4 62 (9.30%) React
5 60 (9.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 60 (9.00%) CSS
6 52 (7.80%) RESTful
7 48 (7.20%) REST
8 34 (5.10%) Blazor
9 33 (4.95%) ARM Templates
10 30 (4.50%) Entity Framework
11 26 (3.90%) YAML
12 24 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.45%) JSON
14 21 (3.15%) ML.NET
14 21 (3.15%) Spring
15 20 (3.00%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.85%) Node.js
17 18 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.15%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
11 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.35%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.20%) Life Science
13 8 (1.20%) Robotics
14 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.90%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 108 (16.19%) Linux
2 33 (4.95%) Windows
3 28 (4.20%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.50%) CentOS
5 10 (1.50%) Debian
5 10 (1.50%) VMS
6 5 (0.75%) Unix
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.60%) Android
8 2 (0.30%) Rocky
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (47.98%) CI/CD
2 273 (40.93%) Agile
3 157 (23.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 121 (18.14%) Software Engineering
7 107 (16.04%) AI
8 99 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 97 (14.54%) Microservices
10 92 (13.79%) Containerisation
11 79 (11.84%) Computer Science
12 78 (11.69%) Mentoring
12 78 (11.69%) Scrum
13 75 (11.24%) Test Automation
14 70 (10.49%) Observability
15 63 (9.45%) Analytics
16 57 (8.55%) Machine Learning
16 57 (8.55%) SDLC
17 56 (8.40%) Kanban
17 56 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (24.44%) Python
2 149 (22.34%) C#
3 135 (20.24%) SQL
4 92 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 64 (9.60%) Bash
5 64 (9.60%) PowerShell
6 57 (8.55%) Java
7 41 (6.15%) C++
8 36 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 33 (4.95%) Bicep
10 23 (3.45%) C
11 18 (2.70%) PHP
12 16 (2.40%) Go
13 11 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.35%) Groovy
15 8 (1.20%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.90%) Ruby
17 6 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.69%) Degree
3 62 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.90%) ICAEW
10 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.15%) CBAP
12 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.15%) MBA
12 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.45%) QA
2 16 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.35%) NIST
4 9 (1.35%) WCAG
5 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) ITGC
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 150 (22.49%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.05%) Firmware
5 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.30%) Xen
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 165 (24.74%) Terraform
2 139 (20.84%) Kubernetes
3 77 (11.54%) Ansible
4 43 (6.45%) Grafana
5 37 (5.55%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.80%) Kibana
6 12 (1.80%) Nagios
7 10 (1.50%) Puppet
8 8 (1.20%) Argo
8 8 (1.20%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.90%) Podman
10 5 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.75%) Packer
10 5 (0.75%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.45%) Istio
11 3 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.45%) Scalr
12 2 (0.30%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.80%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.40%) Splunk
5 15 (2.25%) Oracle
6 14 (2.10%) Databricks
6 14 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.80%) Facebook
7 12 (1.80%) Google
7 12 (1.80%) YouTube
8 11 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.35%) Cisco
10 9 (1.35%) SAP
10 9 (1.35%) VMware
11 8 (1.20%) IBM
11 8 (1.20%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.75%) Juniper
12 5 (0.75%) New Relic