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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 34 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 700 491 976
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.70% 5.47% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 6.20% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 521 252 540
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% - -

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 13,663 7,925 10,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.14% 88.32% 81.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,752 4,226 5,491
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,750 £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% -2.44%

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 2 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 2 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 +16 260 £67,500 +3.85% 245
Hampshire -11 185 £65,000 +4.00% 106
Surrey +17 132 £64,000 -8.57% 74
Berkshire +4 104 £85,000 +30.77% 131
Buckinghamshire +7 80 £65,000 -7.14% 60
Oxfordshire +6 76 £62,500 +4.17% 58
West Sussex +6 72 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Kent -35 24 £33,500 -10.67% 16
East Sussex -8 11 £97,500 +62.50% 25
Isle of Wight 0 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
Middlesex -2 3 £38,500 +2.67% 2
Sussex -12 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 21 (3.00%) Confluence
2 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.57%) IIS
4 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) 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 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 415 (59.29%) Azure
2 228 (32.57%) Azure DevOps
3 192 (27.43%) AWS
4 70 (10.00%) SaaS
5 62 (8.86%) GitHub
6 50 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 43 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (5.71%) GCP
9 38 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 33 (4.71%) Serverless
11 30 (4.29%) Azure AKS
11 30 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (4.14%) PaaS
13 27 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (3.43%) Azure AI
15 23 (3.29%) Entra ID
16 21 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.71%) VPN
2 31 (4.43%) Firewall
3 14 (2.00%) DNS
4 9 (1.29%) Internet
5 7 (1.00%) MQTT
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) 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%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.57%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.71%) MongoDB
4 36 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.14%) Power BI
5 21 (3.00%) MySQL
6 20 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.57%) Metadata
8 15 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.71%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.29%) Redis
10 9 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (16.00%) Git
2 44 (6.29%) JIRA
3 39 (5.57%) GitLab
4 28 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (1.71%) Selenium
7 7 (1.00%) JMeter
8 6 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.86%) JUnit
8 6 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.43%) Mocha
9 3 (0.43%) NUnit
9 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.43%) Snyk
9 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.43%) Storybook
9 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.71%) Finance
3 63 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.00%) Retail
6 16 (2.29%) Marketing
6 16 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.14%) Advertising
7 15 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.71%) Games
10 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.86%) Aviation
11 6 (0.86%) Banking
11 6 (0.86%) Electronics
12 5 (0.71%) Legal
12 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 158 (22.57%) Senior
2 145 (20.71%) Developer
3 144 (20.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 86 (12.29%) Lead
5 77 (11.00%) .NET Developer
6 66 (9.43%) Software Engineer
7 53 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (7.00%) Senior DevOps
9 38 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 37 (5.29%) Architect
11 29 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.43%) Project Manager
16 23 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (3.29%) Lead Developer
17 22 (3.14%) Analyst
18 20 (2.86%) Senior Developer
19 19 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (22.86%) Terraform
2 141 (20.14%) .NET
3 87 (12.43%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.14%) HTML
6 62 (8.86%) CSS
7 61 (8.71%) React
8 59 (8.43%) .NET Core
9 47 (6.71%) RESTful
10 42 (6.00%) REST
11 36 (5.14%) Blazor
12 32 (4.57%) ARM Templates
13 30 (4.29%) Entity Framework
14 28 (4.00%) Node.js
15 20 (2.86%) HTML5
15 20 (2.86%) ML.NET
16 19 (2.71%) Vue
17 18 (2.57%) jQuery
17 18 (2.57%) Kafka
18 17 (2.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.43%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
9 15 (2.14%) Robotics
10 12 (1.71%) IoT
11 9 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.00%) Life Science
13 7 (1.00%) Social Media
14 6 (0.86%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 128 (18.29%) Linux
2 53 (7.57%) Windows
3 24 (3.43%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.43%) Debian
7 6 (0.86%) VMS
8 5 (0.71%) CentOS
9 4 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.57%) Rocky
9 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (47.43%) CI/CD
2 276 (39.43%) Agile
3 143 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 136 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (19.00%) Software Engineering
7 125 (17.86%) AI
8 104 (14.86%) Mentoring
9 99 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 89 (12.71%) Microservices
12 88 (12.57%) Computer Science
13 83 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (11.43%) Scrum
15 78 (11.14%) Test Automation
16 75 (10.71%) Containerisation
17 73 (10.43%) Analytics
18 70 (10.00%) Observability
19 61 (8.71%) Roadmaps
20 58 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (23.71%) C#
2 162 (23.14%) Python
3 132 (18.86%) SQL
4 94 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.57%) Bash
6 52 (7.43%) PowerShell
7 48 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.14%) Java
9 36 (5.14%) C++
10 32 (4.57%) Go
11 30 (4.29%) Bicep
12 27 (3.86%) PHP
13 20 (2.86%) C
14 13 (1.86%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.71%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 7 (1.00%) Rust
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 116 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 109 (15.57%) Degree
3 72 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.29%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
10 6 (0.86%) PMP
11 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.57%) 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%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.14%) QA
2 20 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.57%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) GDPR
5 10 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.43%) NIST
6 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.00%) 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
1 149 (21.29%) Docker
2 15 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.29%) Firmware
3 9 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) KVM
5 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.29%) iptables
6 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) vSphere
6 2 (0.29%) Xen
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 155 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 76 (10.86%) Ansible
3 44 (6.29%) Grafana
4 37 (5.29%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.29%) Kibana
5 9 (1.29%) Proxmox
5 9 (1.29%) Puppet
6 8 (1.14%) Argo
6 8 (1.14%) Nagios
7 7 (1.00%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.71%) Istio
8 5 (0.71%) Podman
9 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.57%) 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%) Scalr
Vendors
1 170 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.00%) Google
3 18 (2.57%) VMware
4 15 (2.14%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.00%) Oracle
5 14 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.71%) Databricks
6 12 (1.71%) Facebook
6 12 (1.71%) YouTube
7 11 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.57%) Splunk
8 9 (1.29%) Informatica
8 9 (1.29%) SAP
8 9 (1.29%) Talend
9 7 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.00%) New Relic
9 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.71%) Pega
12 4 (0.57%) HP