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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 458 554 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.49% 8.26% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 9.20% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 357 351 757
10th Percentile £41,150 £42,500 £43,122
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 9,755 6,019 12,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 74.28% 89.80% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,269 3,241 9,511
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,000 £70,600 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -19 186 £57,500 -11.54% 99
Hampshire -25 102 £70,000 +12.00% 41
Buckinghamshire +7 84 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Berkshire -26 83 £50,000 -33.33% 43
Surrey -27 63 £62,500 -16.67% 20
West Sussex -2 45 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Kent -13 27 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Oxfordshire -14 19 £70,000 +30.84% 25
East Sussex -23 12 £82,500 +73.68% 1
Middlesex +5 10 - - 1
Isle of Wight - 8 £42,000 - 2
Sussex -13 4 £67,500 -10.00% 2
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 (1.97%) IIS
2 7 (1.53%) Confluence
3 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.66%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Camunda
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 257 (56.11%) Azure
2 165 (36.03%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (25.55%) AWS
4 56 (12.23%) GitHub
5 36 (7.86%) Power Platform
6 34 (7.42%) SaaS
7 30 (6.55%) PaaS
8 29 (6.33%) Serverless
9 24 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (5.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (4.59%) GCP
12 20 (4.37%) IaaS
13 19 (4.15%) OpenShift
14 18 (3.93%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.71%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.84%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.33%) Firewall
2 20 (4.37%) DNS
3 13 (2.84%) VPN
4 6 (1.31%) DHCP
5 5 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.09%) SAN
6 3 (0.66%) BGP
7 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.22%) Broadband
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.22%) Modbus
8 1 (0.22%) MPLS
8 1 (0.22%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.06%) Power BI
3 12 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.53%) MySQL
8 5 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.44%) GIS
10 2 (0.44%) Metadata
11 1 (0.22%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (13.10%) Git
2 45 (9.83%) GitLab
3 32 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.68%) JIRA
5 25 (5.46%) Selenium
6 16 (3.49%) Robot Framework
7 14 (3.06%) Snyk
8 8 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.53%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.31%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.31%) JUnit
10 6 (1.31%) MLflow
11 4 (0.87%) git-flow
11 4 (0.87%) Mockito
11 4 (0.87%) NUnit
11 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.87%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (18.12%) Finance
4 25 (5.46%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.71%) Retail
6 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.49%) Law
7 13 (2.84%) Games
7 13 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.97%) Billing
9 8 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.09%) Legal
10 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.87%) Banking
11 4 (0.87%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.87%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.66%) Marketing
12 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 105 (22.93%) Developer
2 86 (18.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (14.85%) Lead
4 66 (14.41%) Senior
5 37 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (6.11%) Architect
9 27 (5.90%) Senior DevOps
10 24 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (3.71%) Administrator
11 17 (3.71%) DevOps Administrator
11 17 (3.71%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (3.49%) Analyst
12 16 (3.49%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.06%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 13 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.84%) Team Leader
16 11 (2.40%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.52%) .NET
2 50 (10.92%) React
3 46 (10.04%) REST
4 36 (7.86%) CSS
5 35 (7.64%) HTML
6 32 (6.99%) ASP.NET
7 23 (5.02%) .NET Framework
7 23 (5.02%) Middleware
8 21 (4.59%) React Native
9 20 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (4.15%) RESTful
11 18 (3.93%) Bootstrap
12 17 (3.71%) .NET Core
12 17 (3.71%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.71%) JSON
13 16 (3.49%) OAuth
13 16 (3.49%) SOAP
14 15 (3.28%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (3.28%) Visualforce
14 15 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.80%) Low-Code
4 21 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.15%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.18%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.53%) Life Science
10 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.66%) Animation
11 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 3 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.44%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.85%) Linux
2 36 (7.86%) Windows
3 17 (3.71%) Ubuntu
4 13 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.31%) Unix
5 6 (1.31%) VMS
5 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.09%) CentOS
6 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.44%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) Debian
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (50.87%) CI/CD
2 195 (42.58%) Agile
3 138 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (13.76%) Test Automation
7 61 (13.32%) Scrum
8 60 (13.10%) Containerisation
9 55 (12.01%) AI
10 53 (11.57%) Computer Science
11 52 (11.35%) Microservices
12 51 (11.14%) Software Engineering
13 49 (10.70%) Mentoring
14 42 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
14 42 (9.17%) Observability
15 37 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (7.64%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (7.64%) Data Modelling
16 35 (7.64%) Deployment Automation
17 32 (6.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 112 (24.45%) Python
2 83 (18.12%) SQL
3 76 (16.59%) C#
4 49 (10.70%) JavaScript
5 42 (9.17%) Bash
5 42 (9.17%) Java
6 36 (7.86%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.28%) Apex Code
7 15 (3.28%) C++
7 15 (3.28%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.06%) Go
9 13 (2.84%) Bicep
10 8 (1.75%) C
11 7 (1.53%) Groovy
11 7 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.09%) Perl
12 5 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.87%) Ruby
14 3 (0.66%) ABAP
14 3 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.16%) Degree
3 38 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (7.42%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.53%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.31%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.44%) CISSP
14 1 (0.22%) CISM
14 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.42%) QA
2 14 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.40%) NIST
4 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.53%) NCSC
5 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.87%) ITGC
8 2 (0.44%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (15.72%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (24.45%) Terraform
2 86 (18.78%) Kubernetes
3 68 (14.85%) Ansible
4 28 (6.11%) Grafana
5 25 (5.46%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.75%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.31%) Nagios
7 6 (1.31%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.09%) Kibana
8 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.09%) SCCM
9 4 (0.87%) Packer
9 4 (0.87%) Puppet
10 3 (0.66%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.44%) Argo
11 2 (0.44%) MIIS
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) Scalr
11 2 (0.44%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.90%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.46%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.37%) MuleSoft
5 17 (3.71%) VMware
6 14 (3.06%) Black Duck
6 14 (3.06%) Coverity
7 10 (2.18%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.18%) Databricks
7 10 (2.18%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.18%) Oracle
8 9 (1.97%) Cisco
8 9 (1.97%) Splunk
9 8 (1.75%) IBM
9 8 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.31%) Sage
10 6 (1.31%) Veeam
10 6 (1.31%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.09%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.09%) SolarWinds