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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 587 587 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.98% 7.51% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 8.33% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 454 284 845
10th Percentile £40,825 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,688 £48,750
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 £87,500 £85,000 £85,600
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -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 10,531 7,047 15,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.36% 90.17% 81.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,470 3,420 10,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,988 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,438 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
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 June 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 June 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 -7 245 £60,000 -6.98% 50
Hampshire -13 148 £70,000 +15.70% 49
Buckinghamshire +19 109 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Berkshire -14 99 £65,000 -14.75% 27
Surrey +8 79 £65,000 -13.33% 16
West Sussex +13 62 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Oxfordshire -2 37 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Kent -11 29 £29,000 -63.75% 6
East Sussex -23 8 £82,500 +34.69%
Sussex -8 7 £65,000 -14.75% 1
Isle of Wight +1 5 £50,000 -31.51% 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 17 (2.90%) Confluence
2 8 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.85%) IIS
4 4 (0.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.02%) Simulink
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (57.07%) Azure
2 199 (33.90%) Azure DevOps
3 147 (25.04%) AWS
4 61 (10.39%) SaaS
5 55 (9.37%) GitHub
6 43 (7.33%) Power Platform
7 34 (5.79%) PaaS
8 33 (5.62%) Serverless
9 32 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (4.60%) IaaS
11 25 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (4.26%) Azure AKS
12 22 (3.75%) Entra ID
12 22 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (3.07%) GCP
14 17 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.90%) OpenShift
15 16 (2.73%) Azure AI
15 16 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (2.73%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.28%) Firewall
2 17 (2.90%) VPN
3 12 (2.04%) DNS
4 7 (1.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.68%) BGP
6 4 (0.68%) MQTT
6 4 (0.68%) SAN
6 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.51%) Internet
7 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Broadband
8 1 (0.17%) HTTP
8 1 (0.17%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.17%) Modbus
8 1 (0.17%) MPLS
8 1 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 30 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.92%) Power BI
5 13 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.87%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.36%) Metadata
8 6 (1.02%) Redis
9 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.68%) MySQL
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.51%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.34%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (12.61%) Git
2 55 (9.37%) GitLab
3 36 (6.13%) JIRA
4 25 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.56%) Selenium
7 10 (1.70%) JUnit
8 8 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.19%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.02%) JMeter
11 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.85%) Mockito
11 5 (0.85%) NUnit
12 4 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 135 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.57%) Finance
3 82 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.60%) Retail
5 18 (3.07%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.90%) Games
7 14 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.87%) Advertising
10 10 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.53%) Marketing
12 8 (1.36%) Billing
13 7 (1.19%) Law
14 6 (1.02%) Electronics
15 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.85%) Automotive
15 5 (0.85%) Aviation
15 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.68%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 137 (23.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 125 (21.29%) Developer
3 82 (13.97%) Senior
4 68 (11.58%) Lead
5 67 (11.41%) Software Engineer
6 55 (9.37%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (6.30%) Architect
9 36 (6.13%) .NET Developer
10 33 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (4.43%) Analyst
12 25 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 24 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) Administrator
14 19 (3.24%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (3.07%) DevOps Administrator
15 18 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (2.90%) DevOps Systems Engineer
17 16 (2.73%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (19.93%) .NET
2 57 (9.71%) ASP.NET
3 54 (9.20%) React
4 50 (8.52%) HTML
5 47 (8.01%) CSS
6 43 (7.33%) .NET Core
7 41 (6.98%) RESTful
8 40 (6.81%) REST
9 37 (6.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 26 (4.43%) YAML
11 22 (3.75%) ARM Templates
12 21 (3.58%) JSON
12 21 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (3.24%) Blazor
13 19 (3.24%) Entity Framework
13 19 (3.24%) Spring
14 18 (3.07%) OAuth
15 17 (2.90%) Node.js
16 16 (2.73%) Spring Boot
17 15 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.21%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.19%) FPGA
11 7 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.02%) Life Science
12 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (16.18%) Linux
2 32 (5.45%) Ubuntu
3 27 (4.60%) Windows
4 19 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.70%) CentOS
5 10 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.70%) VMS
6 9 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.85%) Unix
8 4 (0.68%) Android
8 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (47.87%) CI/CD
2 227 (38.67%) Agile
3 143 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 98 (16.70%) Software Engineering
7 90 (15.33%) AI
8 80 (13.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (13.29%) Containerisation
10 72 (12.27%) Scrum
11 71 (12.10%) Microservices
12 70 (11.93%) Computer Science
13 69 (11.75%) Test Automation
14 53 (9.03%) Observability
15 52 (8.86%) Kanban
16 51 (8.69%) Mentoring
17 48 (8.18%) Analytics
18 46 (7.84%) Machine Learning
18 46 (7.84%) SDLC
19 44 (7.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (25.55%) Python
2 118 (20.10%) C#
3 110 (18.74%) SQL
4 81 (13.80%) JavaScript
5 63 (10.73%) Bash
6 55 (9.37%) Java
7 51 (8.69%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.30%) C++
9 28 (4.77%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.75%) C
11 21 (3.58%) Bicep
12 17 (2.90%) Go
13 10 (1.70%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.53%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.36%) PHP
16 7 (1.19%) Groovy
17 6 (1.02%) Ruby
17 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.85%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.85%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 96 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 89 (15.16%) Degree
3 55 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.02%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) CCA
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.50%) QA
2 17 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.53%) WCAG
5 8 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.02%) NIST
7 4 (0.68%) ITGC
8 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.17%) GDPR
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (18.91%) Docker
2 18 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.19%) Firmware
4 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 142 (24.19%) Terraform
2 104 (17.72%) Kubernetes
3 74 (12.61%) Ansible
4 33 (5.62%) Grafana
5 28 (4.77%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.21%) Nagios
7 10 (1.70%) Kibana
8 8 (1.36%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.02%) Podman
10 5 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.85%) Packer
10 5 (0.85%) Puppet
11 4 (0.68%) SCCM
11 4 (0.68%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.51%) Argo
12 3 (0.51%) Scalr
12 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 1 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 134 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.96%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.77%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.24%) MuleSoft
5 17 (2.90%) Splunk
6 16 (2.73%) VMware
7 12 (2.04%) Oracle
8 11 (1.87%) Databricks
8 11 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.53%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.36%) Cisco
10 8 (1.36%) Facebook
10 8 (1.36%) IBM
10 8 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.36%) YouTube
11 7 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.85%) F5
12 5 (0.85%) Juniper
12 5 (0.85%) Veeam
13 4 (0.68%) NetApp