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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 394 801 627
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.80% 8.49% 8.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 9.71% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 260 455 438
10th Percentile £37,125 £42,500 £46,010
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,298 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.43% - -0.71%

All Process and 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 8,460 8,247 6,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.64% 87.42% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,046 4,148 4,687
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -38 135 £65,000 - 64
Hampshire -30 85 £77,500 +14.81% 41
Berkshire -35 68 £66,250 -11.67% 30
Surrey -39 53 £67,500 -3.57% 20
Buckinghamshire -6 51 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Kent -3 40 £46,250 -27.45% 11
West Sussex -1 32 £60,000 - 9
Middlesex +6 23 £37,500 - 3
Oxfordshire -20 16 £68,750 +5.77% 13
East Sussex +4 15 £70,000 +29.03% 3
Isle of Wight -5 8 £43,750 - 2
Sussex +9 4 £45,000 -32.33%
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 19 (4.82%) IIS
2 9 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.52%) Apache
3 6 (1.52%) Appian
3 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) Camunda
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (62.18%) Azure
2 163 (41.37%) Azure DevOps
3 111 (28.17%) AWS
4 51 (12.94%) GitHub
5 37 (9.39%) GCP
6 36 (9.14%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.58%) Serverless
8 21 (5.33%) SaaS
9 19 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.82%) PaaS
10 18 (4.57%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.06%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (2.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.61%) DNS
2 16 (4.06%) DHCP
3 12 (3.05%) VPN
4 11 (2.79%) SAN
5 7 (1.78%) LAN
5 7 (1.78%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.78%) Unified Communications
5 7 (1.78%) VoIP
5 7 (1.78%) WAN
5 7 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.52%) Firewall
6 6 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.51%) HTTP
8 1 (0.25%) AMQP
8 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.25%) MPLS
8 1 (0.25%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.66%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.08%) Power BI
3 15 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (3.30%) MySQL
5 11 (2.79%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.28%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.27%) Airbyte
11 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.76%) Tableau
13 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.51%) GIS
13 2 (0.51%) Redis
13 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (17.26%) Git
2 31 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.60%) Selenium
4 23 (5.84%) Robot Framework
5 22 (5.58%) Snyk
6 18 (4.57%) GitLab
7 12 (3.05%) JIRA
8 8 (2.03%) Storybook
9 6 (1.52%) MLflow
10 5 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.27%) git-flow
10 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.51%) Appium
12 2 (0.51%) Gradle
12 2 (0.51%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.51%) Postman
12 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.51%) TestRail
General
1 125 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.54%) Finance
3 58 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.63%) Law
5 24 (6.09%) Marketing
6 20 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.05%) Retail
9 8 (2.03%) Games
9 8 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.78%) Legal
10 7 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.52%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.27%) Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Advertising
13 2 (0.51%) Billing
13 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 88 (22.34%) Developer
2 72 (18.27%) Lead
3 70 (17.77%) Senior
4 43 (10.91%) Software Engineer
5 41 (10.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (9.14%) Architect
7 33 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 23 (5.84%) Analyst
10 21 (5.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.57%) Support Engineer
12 14 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (3.55%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (3.55%) IT Engineer
12 14 (3.55%) Senior Web Developer
12 14 (3.55%) Software Architect
12 14 (3.55%) Web Developer
13 13 (3.30%) IT Support
13 13 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (3.30%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.40%) .NET
2 63 (15.99%) React
3 37 (9.39%) CSS
4 36 (9.14%) HTML
5 30 (7.61%) .NET Framework
6 29 (7.36%) RESTful
7 28 (7.11%) REST
8 23 (5.84%) Middleware
9 22 (5.58%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.33%) Node.js
11 19 (4.82%) Kafka
11 19 (4.82%) WinForms
12 16 (4.06%) .NET Core
12 16 (4.06%) ARM Templates
13 15 (3.81%) Next.js
14 13 (3.30%) Entity Framework
15 12 (3.05%) AngularJS
16 10 (2.54%) Bootstrap
16 10 (2.54%) SOAP
17 9 (2.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.88%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.81%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 14 (3.55%) Low-Code
5 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.28%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.52%) Life Science
9 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.76%) Animation
12 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.74%) Windows
2 38 (9.64%) Linux
3 15 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.78%) VMS
6 6 (1.52%) Android
6 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (54.06%) Agile
2 199 (50.51%) CI/CD
3 111 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (22.84%) Mentoring
5 78 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 77 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (18.78%) Software Engineering
8 63 (15.99%) Test Automation
9 58 (14.72%) Computer Science
10 57 (14.47%) Microservices
11 51 (12.94%) Scrum
12 46 (11.68%) AI
12 46 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (10.66%) Containerisation
13 42 (10.66%) Waterfall
14 38 (9.64%) Coaching
15 37 (9.39%) SDLC
16 35 (8.88%) Design Patterns
17 34 (8.63%) Machine Learning
17 34 (8.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.05%) C#
2 74 (18.78%) SQL
3 61 (15.48%) Python
4 48 (12.18%) JavaScript
5 33 (8.38%) PowerShell
6 32 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.08%) Java
8 17 (4.31%) Bash
9 13 (3.30%) Bicep
10 12 (3.05%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.78%) C++
12 6 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.52%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) ABAP
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (20.81%) Degree
2 58 (14.72%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.36%) SC Cleared
6 24 (6.09%) Master's Degree
7 23 (5.84%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (3.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 12 (3.05%) PMI Certification
11 11 (2.79%) AWS Certification
11 11 (2.79%) ISTQB
11 11 (2.79%) PMP
12 8 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.03%) ISEB
13 7 (1.78%) CCNP
13 7 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (14.47%) QA
2 17 (4.31%) NIST
3 13 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 12 (3.05%) PMO
5 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.78%) NCSC
6 7 (1.78%) Software Quality Assurance
7 6 (1.52%) GDPR
8 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.76%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (17.01%) Docker
2 30 (7.61%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) vCloud
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (20.05%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.78%) Terraform
3 37 (9.39%) Ansible
4 17 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.06%) SCCM
6 12 (3.05%) Grafana
6 12 (3.05%) vCenter Server
7 11 (2.79%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.27%) MaaS360
9 3 (0.76%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.51%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.25%) CASB
11 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.25%) Kibana
11 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.25%) Puppet
11 1 (0.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 118 (29.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.58%) VMware
3 21 (5.33%) Black Duck
4 20 (5.08%) Coverity
5 17 (4.31%) Google
6 12 (3.05%) Sage
6 12 (3.05%) Veeam
6 12 (3.05%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.79%) 3PAR
7 11 (2.79%) NetApp
7 11 (2.79%) SolarWinds
8 10 (2.54%) Oracle
8 10 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.28%) Databricks
10 8 (2.03%) Cisco
11 7 (1.78%) Rackspace
11 7 (1.78%) Zoho
12 6 (1.52%) Blue Prism
12 6 (1.52%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.52%) UiPath