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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 599 590 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.04% 7.50% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 8.31% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 466 284 842
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £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 £86,875 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -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 10,607 7,103 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.48% 90.27% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,533 3,467 10,485
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,280 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -6 247 £60,000 -6.98% 54
Hampshire -13 153 £67,500 +12.03% 48
Buckinghamshire +17 110 £55,000 -2.22% 13
Berkshire -16 99 £65,000 -13.33% 28
Surrey +8 83 £65,000 -13.33% 21
West Sussex +14 65 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Oxfordshire -8 38 £65,000 +30.00% 14
Kent -15 27 £29,000 -63.75% 9
East Sussex -22 8 £82,500 +57.14%
Sussex -8 7 £65,000 -14.75% 3
Isle of Wight -2 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 (2.84%) Confluence
2 7 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.00%) IIS
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Simulink
3 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 344 (57.43%) Azure
2 207 (34.56%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (24.71%) AWS
4 59 (9.85%) SaaS
5 57 (9.52%) GitHub
6 43 (7.18%) Power Platform
7 34 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (5.68%) Serverless
8 33 (5.51%) PaaS
9 26 (4.34%) Azure AKS
9 26 (4.34%) IaaS
10 25 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (3.67%) Entra ID
12 21 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (3.17%) Azure AI
13 19 (3.17%) GCP
14 18 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (2.84%) OpenShift
16 16 (2.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.01%) Firewall
2 17 (2.84%) VPN
3 11 (1.84%) DNS
4 6 (1.00%) DHCP
5 5 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.83%) MQTT
6 4 (0.67%) BGP
6 4 (0.67%) Internet
6 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.50%) SAN
7 3 (0.50%) 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%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.35%) SQL Server
2 37 (6.18%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.84%) Power BI
5 13 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.34%) Metadata
8 6 (1.00%) Redis
9 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.67%) MySQL
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.50%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.33%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 77 (12.85%) Git
2 55 (9.18%) GitLab
3 36 (6.01%) JIRA
4 25 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.50%) Selenium
7 10 (1.67%) JUnit
8 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.17%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.00%) JMeter
11 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.83%) Mockito
11 5 (0.83%) NUnit
11 5 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.33%) MSI
13 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.20%) Finance
3 82 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.51%) Retail
5 18 (3.01%) Games
5 18 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.17%) Advertising
7 13 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.67%) Marketing
9 8 (1.34%) Billing
10 7 (1.17%) Electronics
10 7 (1.17%) Law
11 5 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.83%) Automotive
11 5 (0.83%) Aviation
11 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 139 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 132 (22.04%) Developer
3 85 (14.19%) Senior
4 70 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.52%) Lead
6 56 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
7 43 (7.18%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 36 (6.01%) Architect
10 34 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (4.34%) Analyst
12 25 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.17%) Administrator
13 19 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.17%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (3.01%) DevOps Administrator
14 18 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
15 17 (2.84%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (20.87%) .NET
2 64 (10.68%) ASP.NET
3 57 (9.52%) React
4 53 (8.85%) HTML
5 50 (8.35%) CSS
6 49 (8.18%) .NET Core
7 44 (7.35%) RESTful
8 43 (7.18%) ASP.NET Core
9 41 (6.84%) REST
10 26 (4.34%) YAML
11 23 (3.84%) ARM Templates
11 23 (3.84%) Blazor
12 22 (3.67%) Entity Framework
13 21 (3.51%) JSON
13 21 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (3.17%) Spring
15 18 (3.01%) OAuth
16 17 (2.84%) Node.js
17 16 (2.67%) ML.NET
17 16 (2.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.67%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 15 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.17%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.00%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (1.17%) FPGA
13 7 (1.17%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.00%) Life Science
14 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (16.03%) Linux
2 31 (5.18%) Ubuntu
3 27 (4.51%) Windows
4 17 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.67%) CentOS
5 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.67%) VMS
6 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.83%) Unix
8 4 (0.67%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Debian
9 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (48.25%) CI/CD
2 235 (39.23%) Agile
3 144 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (17.03%) Software Engineering
7 93 (15.53%) AI
8 85 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 79 (13.19%) Containerisation
10 74 (12.35%) Microservices
11 73 (12.19%) Scrum
12 71 (11.85%) Computer Science
13 69 (11.52%) Test Automation
14 54 (9.02%) Observability
15 53 (8.85%) Kanban
15 53 (8.85%) Mentoring
16 50 (8.35%) Analytics
16 50 (8.35%) Machine Learning
17 48 (8.01%) SDLC
18 44 (7.35%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 154 (25.71%) Python
2 128 (21.37%) C#
3 117 (19.53%) SQL
4 86 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 62 (10.35%) Bash
6 56 (9.35%) Java
7 53 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.34%) C++
9 28 (4.67%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.84%) Bicep
11 22 (3.67%) C
12 17 (2.84%) Go
13 10 (1.67%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.50%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.34%) PHP
16 7 (1.17%) Groovy
17 6 (1.00%) Ruby
17 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.83%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 91 (15.19%) Degree
3 57 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.17%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.00%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.33%) 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 47 (7.85%) QA
2 17 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.50%) WCAG
5 8 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.00%) NIST
7 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.67%) ITGC
9 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (19.20%) Docker
2 17 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.17%) Firmware
4 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 144 (24.04%) Terraform
2 107 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 74 (12.35%) Ansible
4 34 (5.68%) Grafana
5 29 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.17%) Nagios
7 10 (1.67%) Kibana
8 8 (1.34%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.00%) Podman
10 5 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.83%) Packer
10 5 (0.83%) Puppet
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.50%) Argo
12 3 (0.50%) Scalr
12 3 (0.50%) SCCM
12 3 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
14 1 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 139 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.68%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.17%) MuleSoft
5 17 (2.84%) Splunk
6 14 (2.34%) VMware
7 12 (2.00%) Databricks
7 12 (2.00%) Oracle
8 11 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.50%) Facebook
9 9 (1.50%) YouTube
10 8 (1.34%) Cisco
10 8 (1.34%) IBM
10 8 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.83%) F5
12 5 (0.83%) Juniper
13 4 (0.67%) SAP
13 4 (0.67%) Sitecore