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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 569 585 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.95% 7.53% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.54% 8.35% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 438 293 837
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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 £86,625 £85,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 10,274 7,009 14,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.40% 90.21% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,234 3,367 10,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,969 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 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 10 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 -7 242 £60,000 -6.98% 81
Hampshire -16 141 £68,750 +13.64% 47
Buckinghamshire +19 106 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Berkshire -14 100 £62,500 -20.63% 43
Surrey +10 76 £62,500 -16.67% 20
West Sussex +16 61 £70,000 +14.29% 19
Oxfordshire 0 36 £67,500 +35.00% 21
Kent -20 27 £29,000 -63.75% 10
East Sussex -23 8 £82,500 +34.69%
Sussex -9 6 £62,500 -18.03% 2
Isle of Wight -1 4 £45,750 -37.33% 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 16 (2.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) CMS
4 4 (0.70%) IIS
4 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.05%) Simulink
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 321 (56.41%) Azure
2 187 (32.86%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (25.13%) AWS
4 59 (10.37%) SaaS
5 54 (9.49%) GitHub
6 43 (7.56%) Power Platform
7 33 (5.80%) PaaS
8 32 (5.62%) Serverless
9 29 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (4.57%) IaaS
11 24 (4.22%) Azure AKS
12 22 (3.87%) Entra ID
13 20 (3.51%) GCP
13 20 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (2.99%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.64%) Datadog
15 15 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.80%) Firewall
2 16 (2.81%) VPN
3 13 (2.28%) DNS
4 7 (1.23%) DHCP
5 5 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.70%) BGP
6 4 (0.70%) MQTT
6 4 (0.70%) SAN
6 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.18%) Modbus
8 1 (0.18%) MPLS
8 1 (0.18%) Network Security
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.75%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (3.87%) Power BI
5 21 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.05%) Metadata
9 5 (0.88%) Redis
10 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.53%) MySQL
11 3 (0.53%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.35%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (12.83%) Git
2 58 (10.19%) GitLab
3 35 (6.15%) JIRA
4 24 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (2.46%) Selenium
7 9 (1.58%) JUnit
8 8 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.23%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.88%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.88%) JMeter
10 5 (0.88%) Mockito
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.70%) NUnit
11 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.35%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 107 (18.80%) Finance
3 83 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.57%) Retail
5 18 (3.16%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.81%) Games
7 13 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.58%) Advertising
10 9 (1.58%) Billing
10 9 (1.58%) Law
10 9 (1.58%) Marketing
11 6 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.05%) Electronics
12 5 (0.88%) Automotive
12 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.70%) Aviation
13 4 (0.70%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (23.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 122 (21.44%) Developer
3 83 (14.59%) Senior
4 64 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 62 (10.90%) Lead
6 53 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
7 39 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (6.33%) Architect
9 34 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
10 31 (5.45%) .NET Developer
11 26 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (4.04%) Analyst
13 22 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.34%) Administrator
14 19 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.34%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (3.16%) DevOps Administrator
15 18 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (2.99%) DevOps Systems Engineer
17 16 (2.81%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (19.51%) .NET
2 52 (9.14%) React
3 49 (8.61%) ASP.NET
4 48 (8.44%) HTML
5 45 (7.91%) CSS
6 41 (7.21%) RESTful
7 39 (6.85%) REST
8 36 (6.33%) .NET Core
9 30 (5.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 24 (4.22%) YAML
11 21 (3.69%) JSON
11 21 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (3.34%) ARM Templates
12 19 (3.34%) Spring
13 18 (3.16%) OAuth
14 17 (2.99%) Entity Framework
14 17 (2.99%) Node.js
15 16 (2.81%) Blazor
16 15 (2.64%) React Native
16 15 (2.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.87%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.64%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.11%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.23%) FPGA
11 7 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.05%) Life Science
12 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (16.52%) Linux
2 32 (5.62%) Ubuntu
3 25 (4.39%) Windows
4 19 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.76%) CentOS
5 10 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.76%) VMS
6 9 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.88%) Unix
8 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.53%) Android
9 3 (0.53%) Debian
10 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 219 (38.49%) Agile
3 136 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (16.70%) Software Engineering
7 88 (15.47%) AI
8 79 (13.88%) Containerisation
9 75 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 68 (11.95%) Scrum
10 68 (11.95%) Test Automation
11 67 (11.78%) Computer Science
12 66 (11.60%) Microservices
13 50 (8.79%) Observability
14 48 (8.44%) Kanban
15 45 (7.91%) Data Modelling
15 45 (7.91%) Machine Learning
16 44 (7.73%) Mentoring
17 43 (7.56%) Analytics
18 42 (7.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 147 (25.83%) Python
2 111 (19.51%) C#
3 102 (17.93%) SQL
4 76 (13.36%) JavaScript
5 61 (10.72%) Bash
6 53 (9.31%) Java
7 46 (8.08%) PowerShell
8 36 (6.33%) C++
9 26 (4.57%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.69%) C
11 17 (2.99%) Bicep
11 17 (2.99%) Go
12 10 (1.76%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.58%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.41%) PHP
15 7 (1.23%) Groovy
16 6 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.88%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.88%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.11%) Degree
3 53 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.34%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.05%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.03%) QA
2 17 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.58%) WCAG
5 7 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.05%) NIST
7 4 (0.70%) ITGC
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (18.98%) Docker
2 17 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.23%) Firmware
4 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 138 (24.25%) Terraform
2 104 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 75 (13.18%) Ansible
4 31 (5.45%) Grafana
5 26 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.28%) Nagios
7 9 (1.58%) Kibana
8 8 (1.41%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.05%) Podman
10 5 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.88%) Packer
10 5 (0.88%) Puppet
11 4 (0.70%) Argo
11 4 (0.70%) SCCM
11 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.53%) Scalr
12 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.35%) MIIS
14 1 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 125 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.15%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.34%) MuleSoft
5 17 (2.99%) Splunk
6 16 (2.81%) VMware
7 12 (2.11%) Oracle
8 11 (1.93%) Databricks
8 11 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.58%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.41%) Cisco
10 8 (1.41%) IBM
10 8 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.05%) Facebook
12 6 (1.05%) YouTube
13 5 (0.88%) F5
13 5 (0.88%) Juniper
13 5 (0.88%) Veeam
14 4 (0.70%) NetApp