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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 491 560 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.35% 7.65% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 8.51% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 382 330 801
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
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 £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +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 10,670 6,579 13,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.71% 89.84% 84.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6,894 3,384 9,857
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 5 May 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 May 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 -11 216 £60,000 -6.25% 85
Hampshire -18 110 £70,000 +16.67% 64
Buckinghamshire +7 100 £57,500 -4.17% 16
Berkshire -23 93 £50,000 -33.33% 45
Surrey -17 68 £62,500 -16.67% 19
West Sussex +3 49 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Kent -20 26 £29,000 -49.57% 6
Oxfordshire -10 23 £75,000 +42.86% 26
East Sussex -33 10 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Isle of Wight -2 5 £41,500 -43.15% 1
Sussex -11 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 10 (2.04%) Confluence
2 6 (1.22%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.02%) CMS
3 5 (1.02%) IIS
4 4 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Simulink
3 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 271 (55.19%) Azure
2 160 (32.59%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (25.46%) AWS
4 52 (10.59%) GitHub
5 41 (8.35%) Power Platform
6 39 (7.94%) SaaS
7 26 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.48%) PaaS
10 20 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (4.07%) Serverless
11 19 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.87%) GCP
11 19 (3.87%) IaaS
11 19 (3.87%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.26%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.05%) Azure AKS
14 13 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.72%) Firewall
2 14 (2.85%) VPN
3 12 (2.44%) DNS
4 6 (1.22%) DHCP
5 5 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.81%) BGP
6 4 (0.81%) SAN
7 3 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.20%) Broadband
8 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.20%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Network Security
8 1 (0.20%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.37%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.46%) Power BI
3 14 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.63%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.22%) Metadata
8 5 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) MySQL
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.41%) GIS
11 2 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.41%) Spatial Data
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (12.63%) Git
2 53 (10.79%) GitLab
3 31 (6.31%) JIRA
4 27 (5.50%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (2.65%) Selenium
7 8 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.43%) JUnit
9 6 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.81%) Mockito
11 4 (0.81%) NUnit
11 4 (0.81%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.81%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.61%) MLflow
12 3 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 93 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (18.13%) Finance
4 22 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.07%) Retail
6 15 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.85%) Games
8 13 (2.65%) Law
9 9 (1.83%) Billing
10 8 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.02%) Legal
12 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.81%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.81%) Marketing
13 4 (0.81%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Aviation
15 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 111 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 105 (21.38%) Developer
3 74 (15.07%) Senior
4 71 (14.46%) Lead
5 46 (9.37%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.31%) Architect
8 29 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (3.67%) Administrator
10 18 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 18 (3.67%) DevOps Administrator
10 18 (3.67%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (3.67%) Team Leader
11 17 (3.46%) Analyst
12 16 (3.26%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.05%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 15 (3.05%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 15 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.11%) .NET
2 46 (9.37%) React
2 46 (9.37%) REST
3 32 (6.52%) CSS
4 31 (6.31%) HTML
5 27 (5.50%) ASP.NET
5 27 (5.50%) RESTful
6 25 (5.09%) Middleware
7 22 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (4.28%) OAuth
9 20 (4.07%) JSON
9 20 (4.07%) React Native
9 20 (4.07%) SOAP
10 19 (3.87%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.46%) Bootstrap
12 16 (3.26%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.05%) Spring
14 13 (2.65%) Spring Boot
14 13 (2.65%) Visualforce
14 13 (2.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.28%) Low-Code
5 18 (3.67%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.67%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.24%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.22%) Life Science
12 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.81%) FPGA
14 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 77 (15.68%) Linux
2 23 (4.68%) Ubuntu
3 21 (4.28%) Windows
4 16 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.04%) VMS
6 7 (1.43%) CentOS
6 7 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.22%) Unix
7 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.61%) Debian
10 2 (0.41%) Android
10 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (51.32%) CI/CD
2 192 (39.10%) Agile
3 136 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (23.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (14.26%) Containerisation
7 65 (13.24%) AI
8 61 (12.42%) Scrum
8 61 (12.42%) Software Engineering
9 56 (11.41%) Test Automation
10 52 (10.59%) Computer Science
11 50 (10.18%) Microservices
12 46 (9.37%) Data Modelling
13 45 (9.16%) Observability
14 43 (8.76%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (8.35%) Mentoring
16 39 (7.94%) Kanban
17 37 (7.54%) Deployment Automation
18 36 (7.33%) Analytics
19 35 (7.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 126 (25.66%) Python
2 78 (15.89%) SQL
3 76 (15.48%) C#
4 53 (10.79%) JavaScript
5 48 (9.78%) Bash
6 43 (8.76%) Java
7 36 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.30%) C++
9 17 (3.46%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.85%) Go
11 13 (2.65%) Apex Code
12 12 (2.44%) Bicep
12 12 (2.44%) C
13 7 (1.43%) Groovy
14 6 (1.22%) PHP
15 5 (1.02%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.02%) Perl
15 5 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.81%) Ruby
17 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.26%) Degree
3 49 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.22%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.61%) ICAEW
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CCA
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.13%) QA
2 16 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.63%) NIST
5 7 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.22%) WCAG
7 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 4 (0.81%) ITGC
9 3 (0.61%) NCSC
9 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) GDPR
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (19.14%) Docker
2 11 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.61%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (24.44%) Terraform
2 93 (18.94%) Kubernetes
3 65 (13.24%) Ansible
4 27 (5.50%) Grafana
5 24 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.83%) Nagios
7 8 (1.63%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.02%) Packer
8 5 (1.02%) Puppet
9 4 (0.81%) Kibana
9 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.81%) SCCM
9 4 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.61%) Scalr
10 3 (0.61%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.41%) MIIS
11 2 (0.41%) Nessus
11 2 (0.41%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 101 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.31%) Red Hat
3 24 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.28%) MuleSoft
5 15 (3.05%) VMware
6 12 (2.44%) Databricks
7 10 (2.04%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.04%) Splunk
8 8 (1.63%) Cisco
8 8 (1.63%) IBM
8 8 (1.63%) Oracle
8 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.02%) F5
9 5 (1.02%) Juniper
9 5 (1.02%) Veeam
10 4 (0.81%) 3PAR
10 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.81%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.81%) SolarWinds