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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 696 593 982
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.06% 6.68% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 7.59% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 531 265 638
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,420 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +3.70% -3.57%

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 12,261 7,810 11,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.53% 88.02% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,749 4,182 7,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -6 267 £66,250 +2.71% 122
Hampshire -7 189 £65,000 +7.44% 62
Surrey +6 111 £65,000 -7.14% 43
Buckinghamshire +14 103 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Berkshire -15 102 £75,000 +1.69% 73
West Sussex +15 81 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Oxfordshire -2 62 £62,500 +25.00% 29
Kent -30 28 £33,500 -10.67% 17
Isle of Wight +6 7 £50,000 -31.51% 5
East Sussex -28 6 £85,000 +21.43% 7
Sussex -1 5 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Home Counties - 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 21 (3.02%) Confluence
2 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.44%) IIS
4 8 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 428 (61.49%) Azure
2 225 (32.33%) Azure DevOps
3 190 (27.30%) AWS
4 73 (10.49%) SaaS
5 59 (8.48%) GitHub
6 40 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (5.75%) Serverless
7 38 (5.46%) Power Platform
8 34 (4.89%) GCP
9 32 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (4.31%) Azure AKS
11 29 (4.17%) PaaS
12 26 (3.74%) Azure AI
12 26 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.45%) Datadog
14 24 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (3.16%) Entra ID
17 21 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.45%) Firewall
2 22 (3.16%) VPN
3 13 (1.87%) DNS
4 7 (1.01%) MQTT
5 6 (0.86%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) BGP
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (12.79%) SQL Server
2 54 (7.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (7.47%) MongoDB
4 35 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (3.45%) Power BI
6 23 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.87%) MySQL
9 12 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.44%) Metadata
11 8 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.15%) Redis
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.57%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 106 (15.23%) Git
2 55 (7.90%) GitLab
3 46 (6.61%) JIRA
4 34 (4.89%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.16%) Selenium
7 10 (1.44%) JUnit
8 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.01%) NUnit
10 6 (0.86%) JMeter
10 6 (0.86%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.72%) Mockito
12 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
13 3 (0.43%) Snyk
14 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 197 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.53%) Finance
3 80 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.16%) Retail
6 19 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.59%) Games
8 17 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.30%) Advertising
10 13 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.87%) Marketing
11 12 (1.72%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.01%) Aviation
12 7 (1.01%) Legal
13 6 (0.86%) Electronics
13 6 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Automotive
14 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.57%) Law
16 3 (0.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (21.84%) Developer
2 138 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 119 (17.10%) Senior
4 94 (13.51%) Lead
5 74 (10.63%) .NET Developer
5 74 (10.63%) Software Engineer
6 52 (7.47%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (5.75%) Architect
8 30 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.16%) Lead Developer
12 21 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (2.87%) Analyst
14 19 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.59%) Senior Developer
15 18 (2.59%) Team Leader
16 17 (2.44%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (21.70%) .NET
2 89 (12.79%) ASP.NET
3 66 (9.48%) .NET Core
3 66 (9.48%) React
4 65 (9.34%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.20%) HTML
6 60 (8.62%) CSS
7 54 (7.76%) REST
8 52 (7.47%) RESTful
9 40 (5.75%) Blazor
10 33 (4.74%) ARM Templates
11 32 (4.60%) Entity Framework
12 27 (3.88%) YAML
13 25 (3.59%) Node.js
14 24 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (3.16%) JSON
16 21 (3.02%) ML.NET
16 21 (3.02%) Spring
16 21 (3.02%) Spring Boot
17 19 (2.73%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.06%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.48%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.73%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (1.72%) Robotics
12 11 (1.58%) IoT
12 11 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.29%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.15%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 119 (17.10%) Linux
2 41 (5.89%) Windows
3 27 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.72%) Debian
6 10 (1.44%) VMS
7 9 (1.29%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Unix
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.66%) Agile
3 156 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 145 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (19.25%) Software Engineering
7 116 (16.67%) AI
8 106 (15.23%) Microservices
9 103 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 100 (14.37%) Mentoring
11 92 (13.22%) Containerisation
12 84 (12.07%) Computer Science
13 81 (11.64%) Test Automation
14 79 (11.35%) Observability
15 74 (10.63%) Scrum
16 69 (9.91%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 67 (9.63%) Analytics
18 63 (9.05%) Roadmaps
19 59 (8.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (23.85%) Python
2 162 (23.28%) C#
3 142 (20.40%) SQL
4 92 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 65 (9.34%) PowerShell
6 63 (9.05%) Bash
7 54 (7.76%) Java
8 44 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.60%) C++
10 31 (4.45%) Bicep
11 23 (3.30%) C
12 20 (2.87%) Go
12 20 (2.87%) PHP
13 13 (1.87%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.29%) Groovy
15 8 (1.15%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.15%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.01%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 113 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.66%) Degree
3 73 (10.49%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.21%) QA
2 16 (2.30%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.15%) NIST
4 8 (1.15%) WCAG
5 3 (0.43%) GDPR
5 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.29%) ITGC
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (22.70%) Docker
2 17 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.01%) Firmware
5 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) iptables
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (25.00%) Terraform
2 150 (21.55%) Kubernetes
3 78 (11.21%) Ansible
4 45 (6.47%) Grafana
5 37 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.72%) Kibana
6 12 (1.72%) Nagios
7 11 (1.58%) Puppet
8 9 (1.29%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.15%) Argo
10 6 (0.86%) Packer
11 5 (0.72%) Istio
11 5 (0.72%) Podman
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Scalr
14 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 162 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.02%) Red Hat
3 19 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.59%) Oracle
5 14 (2.01%) Databricks
5 14 (2.01%) Google
5 14 (2.01%) Splunk
6 13 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.72%) Facebook
7 12 (1.72%) YouTube
8 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.58%) VMware
9 10 (1.44%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.29%) SAP
11 8 (1.15%) IBM
12 6 (0.86%) Cisco
12 6 (0.86%) New Relic
12 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto