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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 390 763 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.63% 8.67% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 9.75% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 277 415 584
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £44,107
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.40% -5.08%
75th Percentile £78,000 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £89,700
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 8,523 7,824 9,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.43% 88.95% 86.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,158 3,607 6,978
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -36 135 £60,000 -8.40% 149
Hampshire -33 81 £75,000 +11.11% 61
Buckinghamshire +9 65 £60,000 - 30
Surrey -23 58 £62,500 -10.71% 38
Berkshire -48 57 £50,000 -33.33% 97
Kent -8 35 £65,000 +13.04% 15
West Sussex 0 30 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Middlesex +4 20 - -
East Sussex -14 14 £78,750 +50.00% 21
Oxfordshire -13 13 £71,250 +5.56% 22
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 15
Sussex +4 6 £45,000 -36.40% 4
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 18 (4.62%) IIS
2 6 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.03%) Confluence
4 3 (0.77%) Appian
5 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 225 (57.69%) Azure
2 167 (42.82%) Azure DevOps
3 94 (24.10%) AWS
4 57 (14.62%) GitHub
5 39 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 28 (7.18%) SaaS
7 27 (6.92%) PaaS
8 25 (6.41%) GCP
9 24 (6.15%) Entra ID
10 21 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (5.38%) Serverless
11 19 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.85%) IaaS
13 14 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (3.33%) Amazon S3
14 13 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (3.08%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.18%) DNS
2 16 (4.10%) Firewall
3 14 (3.59%) VPN
4 13 (3.33%) DHCP
5 11 (2.82%) SAN
6 5 (1.28%) LAN
6 5 (1.28%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.28%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.28%) VoIP
6 5 (1.28%) WAN
6 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 1 (0.26%) AMQP
9 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.87%) Power BI
3 15 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.82%) MySQL
5 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.77%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.51%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.51%) Looker
9 2 (0.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (13.08%) Git
2 27 (6.92%) Jenkins
2 27 (6.92%) Selenium
3 20 (5.13%) GitLab
3 20 (5.13%) Robot Framework
4 19 (4.87%) Snyk
5 10 (2.56%) JIRA
6 6 (1.54%) MLflow
6 6 (1.54%) Storybook
7 5 (1.28%) git-flow
7 5 (1.28%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) Appium
10 2 (0.51%) JUnit
10 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.51%) TestRail
10 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.77%) Finance
3 61 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.38%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.59%) Law
7 10 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.56%) Marketing
8 8 (2.05%) Billing
8 8 (2.05%) Games
9 7 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.54%) Banking
10 6 (1.54%) Retail
11 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 84 (21.54%) Developer
2 63 (16.15%) Lead
3 55 (14.10%) Senior
4 49 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.18%) Architect
7 22 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.38%) Analyst
9 19 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (3.85%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.59%) IT Engineer
14 13 (3.33%) IT Support
14 13 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (3.08%) Manufacturing Engineer
15 12 (3.08%) Power Platform Developer
15 12 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.08%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.64%) .NET
2 51 (13.08%) React
3 29 (7.44%) REST
4 28 (7.18%) .NET Framework
4 28 (7.18%) CSS
5 27 (6.92%) HTML
6 24 (6.15%) ASP.NET
7 21 (5.38%) Middleware
8 19 (4.87%) WinForms
9 17 (4.36%) React Native
10 15 (3.85%) ARM Templates
10 15 (3.85%) Kafka
11 14 (3.59%) Bootstrap
12 13 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.33%) Entity Framework
13 12 (3.08%) .NET Core
13 12 (3.08%) RESTful
14 11 (2.82%) SOAP
15 10 (2.56%) Blazor
15 10 (2.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.87%) Low-Code
3 19 (4.87%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.85%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 11 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.54%) Life Science
8 6 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.28%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.28%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.77%) Animation
11 3 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.08%) Windows
2 42 (10.77%) Linux
3 14 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.79%) Android
6 7 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.79%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (51.03%) CI/CD
2 183 (46.92%) Agile
3 103 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (18.72%) Mentoring
6 70 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (17.69%) Software Engineering
8 60 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 48 (12.31%) AI
9 48 (12.31%) Scrum
10 47 (12.05%) Test Automation
11 39 (10.00%) Coaching
11 39 (10.00%) Microservices
12 35 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (8.97%) Waterfall
13 33 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (8.21%) SDLC
15 31 (7.95%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.69%) Machine Learning
17 29 (7.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.97%) C#
2 70 (17.95%) Python
2 70 (17.95%) SQL
3 41 (10.51%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.18%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.92%) Java
6 26 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 23 (5.90%) Bash
8 13 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.56%) C++
10 9 (2.31%) Bicep
11 8 (2.05%) Apex Code
11 8 (2.05%) Go
12 3 (0.77%) ABAP
12 3 (0.77%) C
13 2 (0.51%) Delphi
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) PHP
13 2 (0.51%) VB
13 2 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 80 (20.51%) Degree
2 60 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.13%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.87%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.56%) PMI Certification
11 9 (2.31%) PMP
12 8 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
13 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.79%) ISTQB
14 5 (1.28%) CCNP
14 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (1.03%) ISEB
15 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.77%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.74%) QA
2 16 (4.10%) NIST
3 12 (3.08%) PMO
4 8 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.79%) NCSC
6 4 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (13.08%) Docker
2 27 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (21.79%) Terraform
2 58 (14.87%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.03%) Ansible
4 14 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.33%) SCCM
6 12 (3.08%) Grafana
6 12 (3.08%) vCenter Server
7 10 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.03%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.77%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.51%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.51%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.26%) CASB
11 1 (0.26%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 107 (27.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.38%) VMware
3 18 (4.62%) Black Duck
3 18 (4.62%) Coverity
4 17 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 12 (3.08%) Sage
6 12 (3.08%) Veeam
6 12 (3.08%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.82%) 3PAR
7 11 (2.82%) NetApp
7 11 (2.82%) SolarWinds
8 10 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.05%) Google
10 7 (1.79%) Zoho
11 6 (1.54%) Cisco
11 6 (1.54%) Databricks
11 6 (1.54%) Oracle
12 4 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (1.03%) Telerik