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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 695 604 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.12% 6.91% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 7.85% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 528 272 634
10th Percentile £43,300 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -1.95% -1.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,700 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 12,109 7,696 11,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.74% 88.06% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,624 4,161 7,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £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 9 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 9 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 -7 265 £65,000 +2.36% 127
Hampshire -10 188 £66,250 +9.50% 57
Surrey +7 110 £65,000 -8.77% 32
Buckinghamshire +14 102 £60,000 -5.88% 22
Berkshire -17 102 £70,000 -5.08% 75
West Sussex +11 84 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Oxfordshire 0 61 £63,750 +27.50% 31
Kent -23 27 £33,500 -27.57% 20
Isle of Wight +3 7 £50,000 -31.51% 5
East Sussex -25 7 £85,000 +47.19% 7
Sussex -3 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 10 (1.44%) IIS
2 10 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.72%) nginx
5 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 419 (60.29%) Azure
2 222 (31.94%) Azure DevOps
3 187 (26.91%) AWS
4 72 (10.36%) SaaS
5 56 (8.06%) GitHub
6 41 (5.90%) Serverless
7 39 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.32%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.46%) GCP
10 29 (4.17%) Azure AKS
10 29 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 29 (4.17%) PaaS
11 24 (3.45%) Azure AI
11 24 (3.45%) Datadog
11 24 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
13 22 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (3.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.60%) Firewall
2 21 (3.02%) VPN
3 13 (1.87%) DNS
4 7 (1.01%) MQTT
5 6 (0.86%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
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%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 51 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.31%) Power BI
6 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.87%) MySQL
9 11 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.29%) Metadata
12 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.15%) Redis
13 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.01%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (14.82%) Git
2 59 (8.49%) GitLab
3 46 (6.62%) JIRA
4 35 (5.04%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.16%) Selenium
7 10 (1.44%) JUnit
8 9 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.01%) NUnit
11 6 (0.86%) JMeter
11 6 (0.86%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.72%) Mockito
13 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
14 3 (0.43%) Snyk
15 2 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 192 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.71%) Finance
3 87 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.88%) Retail
6 19 (2.73%) Games
6 19 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.30%) Advertising
9 14 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.01%) Marketing
10 12 (1.73%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.01%) Aviation
11 7 (1.01%) Legal
12 6 (0.86%) Electronics
12 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.72%) Automotive
13 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.58%) Law
15 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (21.29%) Developer
2 143 (20.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (16.12%) Senior
4 94 (13.53%) Lead
5 76 (10.94%) Software Engineer
6 71 (10.22%) .NET Developer
7 51 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (5.90%) Architect
9 32 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (2.88%) Analyst
13 20 (2.88%) Lead Developer
14 19 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.59%) Team Leader
16 17 (2.45%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.45%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.30%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (21.44%) .NET
2 87 (12.52%) ASP.NET
3 65 (9.35%) .NET Core
3 65 (9.35%) React
4 64 (9.21%) ASP.NET Core
5 63 (9.06%) HTML
6 60 (8.63%) CSS
7 54 (7.77%) REST
8 53 (7.63%) RESTful
9 38 (5.47%) Blazor
10 33 (4.75%) ARM Templates
11 32 (4.60%) Entity Framework
12 28 (4.03%) YAML
13 25 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (3.31%) JSON
14 23 (3.31%) Node.js
15 21 (3.02%) ML.NET
15 21 (3.02%) Spring
16 20 (2.88%) OAuth
16 20 (2.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.73%) Robotics
11 11 (1.58%) IoT
11 11 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.15%) Life Science
15 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.98%) Linux
2 39 (5.61%) Windows
3 28 (4.03%) Ubuntu
4 17 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.73%) Debian
6 10 (1.44%) CentOS
6 10 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.58%) Android
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (48.49%) CI/CD
2 284 (40.86%) Agile
3 159 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 135 (19.42%) Software Engineering
7 113 (16.26%) AI
8 106 (15.25%) Microservices
9 101 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (13.81%) Mentoring
11 94 (13.53%) Containerisation
12 83 (11.94%) Computer Science
13 82 (11.80%) Test Automation
14 78 (11.22%) Observability
15 76 (10.94%) Scrum
16 65 (9.35%) Analytics
16 65 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
17 63 (9.06%) Roadmaps
18 62 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 60 (8.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (24.03%) Python
2 158 (22.73%) C#
3 140 (20.14%) SQL
4 96 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 66 (9.50%) PowerShell
6 64 (9.21%) Bash
7 55 (7.91%) Java
8 43 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.61%) C++
10 31 (4.46%) Bicep
11 23 (3.31%) C
12 21 (3.02%) PHP
13 20 (2.88%) Go
14 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.29%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.29%) Groovy
16 8 (1.15%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.15%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.53%) Degree
3 71 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.58%) 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 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.94%) QA
2 16 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 15 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) NIST
5 8 (1.15%) WCAG
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) ITGC
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 160 (23.02%) Docker
2 18 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.44%) 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
1 173 (24.89%) Terraform
2 149 (21.44%) Kubernetes
3 78 (11.22%) Ansible
4 45 (6.47%) Grafana
5 37 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.87%) Nagios
7 12 (1.73%) Kibana
8 11 (1.58%) Puppet
9 9 (1.29%) ZABBIX
10 8 (1.15%) Argo
11 6 (0.86%) Podman
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Istio
12 5 (0.72%) Packer
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%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 160 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.32%) Red Hat
3 22 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.59%) Oracle
5 16 (2.30%) Splunk
6 14 (2.01%) Databricks
6 14 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.87%) Google
8 12 (1.73%) Facebook
8 12 (1.73%) YouTube
9 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.58%) VMware
10 10 (1.44%) AppDynamics
10 10 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.29%) SAP
12 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Cisco
14 6 (0.86%) New Relic
14 6 (0.86%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.72%) F5