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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -29 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 416 587 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.48% 7.86% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 8.72% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 311 375 656
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +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 9,212 6,731 11,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 77.07% 90.16% 85.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,713 3,223 8,388
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,413
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -24 156 £50,000 -23.08% 101
Hampshire -27 91 £75,000 +11.11% 59
Buckinghamshire +11 71 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Berkshire -30 71 £50,000 -33.33% 45
Surrey -35 55 £62,500 -13.79% 49
West Sussex +3 39 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Kent -10 28 £80,000 +42.22% 17
Middlesex +7 19 - - 1
East Sussex -11 15 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Oxfordshire -16 14 £72,500 +11.54% 24
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 8
Sussex -9 2 £75,000 - 2
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 17 (4.09%) IIS
2 6 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.20%) Confluence
4 4 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.72%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 242 (58.17%) Azure
2 176 (42.31%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (23.56%) AWS
4 61 (14.66%) GitHub
5 43 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 30 (7.21%) PaaS
6 30 (7.21%) SaaS
7 25 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (5.77%) GCP
9 23 (5.53%) Entra ID
9 23 (5.53%) Serverless
10 17 (4.09%) IaaS
11 15 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (3.37%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.37%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.13%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.53%) DNS
1 23 (5.53%) Firewall
2 15 (3.61%) VPN
3 8 (1.92%) DHCP
3 8 (1.92%) SAN
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) LAN
4 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.48%) VoIP
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
4 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.24%) AMQP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.24%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.57%) Power BI
3 15 (3.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.16%) MySQL
6 8 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.72%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.48%) GIS
11 2 (0.48%) Metadata
11 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (13.70%) Git
2 34 (8.17%) GitLab
3 29 (6.97%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.49%) Selenium
5 20 (4.81%) Robot Framework
6 19 (4.57%) Snyk
7 17 (4.09%) JIRA
8 6 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.44%) MLflow
9 5 (1.20%) git-flow
9 5 (1.20%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.96%) JUnit
11 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.48%) Appium
12 2 (0.48%) Mockito
12 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.48%) TestRail
12 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 86 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.43%) Finance
4 20 (4.81%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.61%) Law
6 13 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.88%) Retail
8 11 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.40%) Billing
10 8 (1.92%) Games
11 7 (1.68%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.44%) Banking
13 4 (0.96%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Marketing
14 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (22.60%) Developer
2 66 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.14%) Lead
4 60 (14.42%) Senior
5 40 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (6.97%) Architect
8 27 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (5.29%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (4.81%) Analyst
11 16 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
12 14 (3.37%) IT Engineer
13 13 (3.13%) IT Support
13 13 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (3.13%) Support Engineer
14 12 (2.88%) Administrator
14 12 (2.88%) DevOps Administrator
14 12 (2.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.88%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (25.00%) .NET
2 50 (12.02%) React
3 34 (8.17%) REST
4 33 (7.93%) CSS
5 31 (7.45%) HTML
6 29 (6.97%) .NET Framework
7 28 (6.73%) ASP.NET
8 24 (5.77%) Middleware
9 19 (4.57%) React Native
10 18 (4.33%) WinForms
11 17 (4.09%) ARM Templates
12 16 (3.85%) Bootstrap
13 15 (3.61%) .NET Core
13 15 (3.61%) Entity Framework
13 15 (3.61%) Kafka
14 14 (3.37%) RESTful
15 13 (3.13%) AngularJS
15 13 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
15 13 (3.13%) SOAP
15 13 (3.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.77%) Low-Code
3 21 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.33%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.68%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.44%) Life Science
9 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.72%) Animation
11 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.48%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 54 (12.98%) Linux
2 48 (11.54%) Windows
3 15 (3.61%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.20%) VMS
7 4 (0.96%) Android
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
8 3 (0.72%) Unix
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (52.64%) CI/CD
2 180 (43.27%) Agile
3 123 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (24.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (14.66%) Computer Science
6 61 (14.66%) Software Engineering
7 55 (13.22%) Mentoring
7 55 (13.22%) Scrum
8 51 (12.26%) AI
9 50 (12.02%) Test Automation
10 46 (11.06%) Containerisation
11 41 (9.86%) Microservices
12 37 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (8.41%) SDLC
14 33 (7.93%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (7.93%) Observability
15 31 (7.45%) Waterfall
16 30 (7.21%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 91 (21.88%) Python
2 81 (19.47%) C#
3 76 (18.27%) SQL
4 48 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 35 (8.41%) Bash
6 34 (8.17%) Java
7 33 (7.93%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.61%) C++
10 13 (3.13%) Apex Code
10 13 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.88%) Go
12 10 (2.40%) Bicep
13 7 (1.68%) C
14 3 (0.72%) ABAP
14 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) R
15 2 (0.48%) Delphi
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (19.23%) Degree
2 71 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 44 (10.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 29 (6.97%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.81%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.72%) CISSP
11 3 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CCNP
12 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.69%) QA
2 14 (3.37%) NIST
3 9 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.92%) PMO
5 7 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.68%) NCSC
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) ITGC
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (14.90%) Docker
2 23 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (24.28%) Terraform
2 71 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 53 (12.74%) Ansible
4 20 (4.81%) Grafana
5 18 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.16%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.92%) SCCM
8 7 (1.68%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.20%) Nagios
10 3 (0.72%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.48%) Argo
11 2 (0.48%) Nessus
11 2 (0.48%) Puppet
11 2 (0.48%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.24%) CASB
12 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.24%) Kibana
12 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 104 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.29%) Salesforce
3 20 (4.81%) VMware
4 19 (4.57%) Red Hat
5 18 (4.33%) Black Duck
5 18 (4.33%) Coverity
6 17 (4.09%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.88%) Sage
7 12 (2.88%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.16%) Veeam
9 8 (1.92%) 3PAR
9 8 (1.92%) NetApp
9 8 (1.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.68%) Cisco
10 7 (1.68%) Splunk
11 6 (1.44%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.44%) Google
11 6 (1.44%) Oracle
12 5 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.20%) Zoho