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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 474 575 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.33% 8.33% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 9.29% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 375 342 790
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.33% +7.69% -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 10,415 6,192 13,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.12% 89.70% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,661 3,357 9,858
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,268
England median annual salary £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -19 206 £55,000 -14.06% 74
Hampshire -23 103 £71,250 +18.75% 55
Buckinghamshire -5 99 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Berkshire -19 89 £50,000 -33.33% 36
Surrey -26 68 £62,500 -16.67% 21
West Sussex +4 49 £70,000 +12.00% 9
Kent -23 24 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Oxfordshire -21 18 £73,750 +40.48% 18
East Sussex -32 11 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Isle of Wight +4 7 £41,500 -29.66% 1
Sussex -9 5 £60,000 -20.00% 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 7 (1.48%) Confluence
1 7 (1.48%) IIS
2 6 (1.27%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.84%) CMS
5 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Camunda
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 259 (54.64%) Azure
2 160 (33.76%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (24.89%) AWS
4 54 (11.39%) GitHub
5 37 (7.81%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.59%) SaaS
7 25 (5.27%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (4.64%) PaaS
8 22 (4.64%) Serverless
9 20 (4.22%) GCP
10 19 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (4.01%) IaaS
10 19 (4.01%) OpenShift
11 17 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (3.38%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.16%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.95%) Amazon S3
14 14 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.75%) Firewall
2 14 (2.95%) VPN
3 13 (2.74%) DNS
4 5 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.05%) DHCP
5 4 (0.84%) BGP
5 4 (0.84%) SAN
6 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.21%) Modbus
7 1 (0.21%) MPLS
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.95%) Power BI
3 13 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.05%) Metadata
9 5 (1.05%) MySQL
10 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.42%) GIS
11 2 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 59 (12.45%) Git
2 51 (10.76%) GitLab
3 28 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.91%) JIRA
4 16 (3.38%) Selenium
5 11 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.48%) JUnit
8 6 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.05%) Snyk
10 4 (0.84%) MLflow
10 4 (0.84%) Mockito
10 4 (0.84%) NUnit
10 4 (0.84%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 93 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (16.67%) Finance
4 24 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.22%) Retail
6 16 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.16%) Law
8 14 (2.95%) Games
9 9 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.90%) Billing
10 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.27%) Legal
12 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.84%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.63%) Marketing
14 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.42%) Aviation
15 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 104 (21.94%) Developer
2 96 (20.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (15.61%) Senior
4 70 (14.77%) Lead
5 39 (8.23%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.54%) Architect
9 29 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
10 23 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (3.80%) Administrator
11 18 (3.80%) DevOps Administrator
11 18 (3.80%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (3.80%) Team Leader
12 17 (3.59%) Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (3.16%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 14 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.57%) .NET
2 47 (9.92%) REST
3 45 (9.49%) React
4 31 (6.54%) CSS
5 30 (6.33%) ASP.NET
5 30 (6.33%) HTML
6 28 (5.91%) Middleware
7 22 (4.64%) RESTful
8 21 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (4.43%) React Native
9 19 (4.01%) JSON
9 19 (4.01%) OAuth
9 19 (4.01%) SOAP
10 18 (3.80%) .NET Core
10 18 (3.80%) Bootstrap
11 16 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.16%) Spring
13 14 (2.95%) .NET Framework
13 14 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (2.95%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.43%) Low-Code
5 19 (4.01%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.74%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Life Science
11 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.77%) Linux
2 25 (5.27%) Windows
3 18 (3.80%) Ubuntu
4 15 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.11%) VMS
6 7 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.27%) CentOS
7 6 (1.27%) Unix
8 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.63%) Debian
11 2 (0.42%) Android
11 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (51.05%) CI/CD
2 192 (40.51%) Agile
3 138 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (24.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 99 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (13.71%) Containerisation
7 64 (13.50%) Scrum
8 58 (12.24%) AI
8 58 (12.24%) Software Engineering
9 53 (11.18%) Test Automation
10 51 (10.76%) Microservices
11 50 (10.55%) Computer Science
12 44 (9.28%) Observability
13 43 (9.07%) Data Modelling
14 40 (8.44%) Full-Stack Development
14 40 (8.44%) Mentoring
15 37 (7.81%) Kanban
16 36 (7.59%) Deployment Automation
17 35 (7.38%) Analytics
17 35 (7.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 118 (24.89%) Python
2 85 (17.93%) SQL
3 76 (16.03%) C#
4 46 (9.70%) JavaScript
5 43 (9.07%) Java
6 42 (8.86%) Bash
7 34 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.64%) C++
9 16 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.95%) Apex Code
11 13 (2.74%) Go
12 12 (2.53%) Bicep
13 10 (2.11%) C
14 7 (1.48%) Groovy
15 5 (1.05%) Perl
15 5 (1.05%) PHP
15 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.84%) Ruby
17 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.77%) Degree
3 46 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.27%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.95%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.27%) Chartered Engineer
9 6 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) ICAEW
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.21%) GIAC
12 1 (0.21%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.81%) QA
2 16 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.69%) NIST
5 7 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.05%) WCAG
8 4 (0.84%) ITGC
9 3 (0.63%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) GDPR
10 2 (0.42%) SLA
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (17.72%) Docker
2 10 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (22.78%) Terraform
2 90 (18.99%) Kubernetes
3 62 (13.08%) Ansible
4 26 (5.49%) Grafana
5 23 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.69%) Nagios
6 8 (1.69%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.05%) Packer
7 5 (1.05%) Puppet
8 4 (0.84%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.84%) SCCM
8 4 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.63%) Scalr
9 3 (0.63%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.42%) MIIS
10 2 (0.42%) Nessus
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) CASB
11 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 102 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.70%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.64%) MuleSoft
5 14 (2.95%) VMware
6 12 (2.53%) Databricks
7 10 (2.11%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.90%) Splunk
9 8 (1.69%) Cisco
9 8 (1.69%) IBM
9 8 (1.69%) Oracle
9 8 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.05%) Black Duck
10 5 (1.05%) Coverity
10 5 (1.05%) F5
10 5 (1.05%) Juniper
10 5 (1.05%) Veeam
11 4 (0.84%) 3PAR
11 4 (0.84%) SolarWinds