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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 512 581 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.56% 7.52% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 8.32% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 400 330 810
10th Percentile £41,000 £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 £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +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 10,363 6,985 13,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.14% 90.40% 84.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,003 3,431 9,846
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,328 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 11 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 11 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 -6 224 £60,000 -7.34% 94
Hampshire -19 114 £70,000 +16.67% 58
Buckinghamshire +6 100 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Berkshire -16 96 £50,000 -35.48% 47
Surrey -4 70 £62,500 -15.25% 20
West Sussex +7 52 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Oxfordshire -8 28 £70,000 +30.84% 30
Kent -18 27 £29,000 -51.67% 6
East Sussex -23 12 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Isle of Wight -2 5 £41,500 -43.15% 1
Sussex -11 5 £60,000 -20.00%
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 (1.95%) Confluence
2 6 (1.17%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.98%) CMS
3 5 (0.98%) IIS
4 4 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.39%) 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 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Simulink
3 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 288 (56.25%) Azure
2 173 (33.79%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (25.39%) AWS
4 56 (10.94%) GitHub
5 45 (8.79%) Power Platform
6 41 (8.01%) SaaS
7 28 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (4.49%) PaaS
10 21 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.91%) Serverless
12 19 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (3.71%) GCP
12 19 (3.71%) IaaS
12 19 (3.71%) OpenShift
13 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
13 16 (3.13%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.64%) Firewall
2 13 (2.54%) DNS
2 13 (2.54%) VPN
3 7 (1.37%) DHCP
4 5 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (0.78%) BGP
5 4 (0.78%) SAN
6 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.39%) Internet
7 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
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%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.96%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.91%) Power BI
3 18 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.17%) Metadata
10 5 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.78%) MySQL
12 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.59%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.39%) GIS
14 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
14 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (12.30%) Git
2 55 (10.74%) GitLab
3 30 (5.86%) JIRA
4 26 (5.08%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.73%) Selenium
5 14 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.37%) JUnit
8 6 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.98%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.78%) Mockito
10 4 (0.78%) NUnit
10 4 (0.78%) Snyk
10 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.59%) MLflow
11 3 (0.59%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 91 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (17.77%) Finance
3 22 (4.30%) Retail
4 20 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.13%) Games
6 14 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.34%) Law
8 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.76%) Billing
10 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.98%) Legal
12 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing
13 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (23.24%) Developer
2 115 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (15.04%) Senior
4 73 (14.26%) Lead
5 49 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 37 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (6.05%) Architect
9 29 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.71%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.71%) Analyst
13 18 (3.52%) Administrator
13 18 (3.52%) DevOps Administrator
13 18 (3.52%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (3.52%) Team Leader
14 16 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
15 15 (2.93%) DevOps Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (19.14%) .NET
2 50 (9.77%) React
3 43 (8.40%) REST
4 41 (8.01%) CSS
5 40 (7.81%) HTML
6 38 (7.42%) ASP.NET
7 33 (6.45%) RESTful
8 28 (5.47%) .NET Core
9 23 (4.49%) Middleware
10 22 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
11 21 (4.10%) JSON
11 21 (4.10%) OAuth
12 20 (3.91%) React Native
13 19 (3.71%) SOAP
14 17 (3.32%) Bootstrap
15 15 (2.93%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.93%) Spring
15 15 (2.93%) YAML
16 13 (2.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.10%) Low-Code
5 19 (3.71%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.52%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.34%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.95%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.37%) Life Science
11 7 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.98%) FPGA
14 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.82%) Linux
2 24 (4.69%) Ubuntu
3 23 (4.49%) Windows
4 17 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.15%) VMS
6 7 (1.37%) CentOS
6 7 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.17%) Unix
7 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.59%) Debian
10 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (50.20%) CI/CD
2 203 (39.65%) Agile
3 135 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (23.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (14.84%) AI
7 73 (14.26%) Containerisation
8 66 (12.89%) Software Engineering
9 62 (12.11%) Scrum
10 59 (11.52%) Test Automation
11 56 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 54 (10.55%) Computer Science
13 50 (9.77%) Microservices
14 46 (8.98%) Data Modelling
15 45 (8.79%) Mentoring
16 44 (8.59%) Observability
17 41 (8.01%) Kanban
18 39 (7.62%) Deployment Automation
19 37 (7.23%) Machine Learning
20 36 (7.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 130 (25.39%) Python
2 91 (17.77%) C#
3 85 (16.60%) SQL
4 61 (11.91%) JavaScript
5 49 (9.57%) Bash
6 42 (8.20%) Java
7 37 (7.23%) PowerShell
8 28 (5.47%) C++
9 18 (3.52%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.54%) C
11 12 (2.34%) Apex Code
11 12 (2.34%) Bicep
11 12 (2.34%) Go
12 7 (1.37%) Groovy
13 6 (1.17%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.98%) Perl
14 5 (0.98%) PHP
14 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Ruby
16 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 72 (14.06%) Degree
3 51 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.78%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CCA
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.03%) QA
2 16 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.37%) NIST
4 7 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.17%) WCAG
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (0.78%) ITGC
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.59%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 95 (18.55%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) Firmware
4 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 123 (24.02%) Terraform
2 94 (18.36%) Kubernetes
3 70 (13.67%) Ansible
4 27 (5.27%) Grafana
5 24 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.95%) Nagios
7 8 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.98%) Packer
8 5 (0.98%) Puppet
9 4 (0.78%) Kibana
9 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.59%) Scalr
10 3 (0.59%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.39%) MIIS
11 2 (0.39%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) Argo
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 112 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 25 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.91%) MuleSoft
5 16 (3.13%) VMware
6 11 (2.15%) Databricks
7 10 (1.95%) AppDynamics
7 10 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.95%) Splunk
8 8 (1.56%) Cisco
8 8 (1.56%) IBM
8 8 (1.56%) Oracle
8 8 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.98%) F5
9 5 (0.98%) Juniper
9 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.98%) Veeam
10 4 (0.78%) 3PAR
10 4 (0.78%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.78%) SolarWinds