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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 712 572 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.04% 6.31% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 7.20% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 546 264 624
10th Percentile £43,563 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £78,438 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,500 £70,298 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.71% +4.15% -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 12,567 7,942 10,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.25% 87.57% 80.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,041 4,286 6,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,938 £31,000
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 £67,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -1 267 £67,500 +3.85% 145
Hampshire -10 194 £65,000 +7.44% 75
Surrey +18 124 £64,500 -11.03% 51
Berkshire -13 102 £82,500 +3.13% 72
Buckinghamshire +15 96 £61,250 -12.50% 31
West Sussex +14 76 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Oxfordshire +2 69 £62,500 +25.00% 43
Kent -28 28 £31,250 -16.67% 9
Isle of Wight +3 7 £50,000 -31.51% 3
East Sussex -23 6 £85,000 +17.24% 12
Sussex -4 5 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Middlesex -4 1 £38,500 +2.67% 4
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 20 (2.81%) Confluence
2 13 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.54%) IIS
4 8 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.70%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Simulink
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 435 (61.10%) Azure
2 230 (32.30%) Azure DevOps
3 197 (27.67%) AWS
4 74 (10.39%) SaaS
5 58 (8.15%) GitHub
6 41 (5.76%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.62%) Serverless
8 38 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (5.06%) GCP
10 35 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 29 (4.07%) Azure AKS
11 29 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (3.93%) PaaS
13 26 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (3.51%) Azure AI
15 24 (3.37%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.79%) Firewall
2 25 (3.51%) VPN
3 14 (1.97%) DNS
4 7 (0.98%) MQTT
5 6 (0.84%) Internet
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.56%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) NAS
8 3 (0.42%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) IPv4
9 2 (0.28%) IPv6
9 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.20%) SQL Server
2 57 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 55 (7.72%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.79%) Power BI
6 22 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.39%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.25%) MySQL
9 13 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.83%) Metadata
10 12 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.12%) Redis
13 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.98%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 110 (15.45%) Git
2 47 (6.60%) GitLab
3 44 (6.18%) JIRA
4 34 (4.78%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.11%) Selenium
7 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.12%) JUnit
7 8 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.84%) JMeter
9 6 (0.84%) NUnit
9 6 (0.84%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.56%) Mockito
11 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.42%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 202 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.40%) Finance
3 75 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.09%) Retail
6 19 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.39%) Games
7 17 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.11%) Advertising
8 15 (2.11%) Marketing
9 13 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.98%) Aviation
11 7 (0.98%) Legal
12 6 (0.84%) Electronics
12 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.70%) Automotive
13 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (21.77%) Developer
2 140 (19.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (19.38%) Senior
4 95 (13.34%) Lead
5 79 (11.10%) .NET Developer
6 71 (9.97%) Software Engineer
7 53 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (5.62%) Architect
9 37 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.23%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (2.81%) Analyst
15 20 (2.81%) Project Manager
16 19 (2.67%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (24.02%) Terraform
2 152 (21.35%) .NET
3 92 (12.92%) ASP.NET
4 69 (9.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 67 (9.41%) HTML
6 65 (9.13%) .NET Core
7 64 (8.99%) React
8 63 (8.85%) CSS
9 57 (8.01%) REST
10 53 (7.44%) RESTful
11 39 (5.48%) Blazor
12 33 (4.63%) Entity Framework
13 31 (4.35%) ARM Templates
14 26 (3.65%) YAML
15 23 (3.23%) Node.js
16 21 (2.95%) JSON
16 21 (2.95%) ML.NET
16 21 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
16 21 (2.95%) Spring
16 21 (2.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (1.69%) IoT
9 12 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.69%) Robotics
10 10 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) Life Science
12 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (16.99%) Linux
2 43 (6.04%) Windows
3 24 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.69%) Debian
6 10 (1.40%) VMS
7 7 (0.98%) CentOS
8 4 (0.56%) Android
8 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Rocky
9 3 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (47.61%) CI/CD
2 293 (41.15%) Agile
3 150 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
4 148 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 147 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (19.10%) Software Engineering
7 119 (16.71%) AI
8 108 (15.17%) Microservices
9 101 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 100 (14.04%) Mentoring
11 86 (12.08%) Test Automation
12 84 (11.80%) Computer Science
12 84 (11.80%) Containerisation
13 78 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 77 (10.81%) Scrum
15 76 (10.67%) Observability
16 72 (10.11%) Analytics
16 72 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
17 65 (9.13%) Roadmaps
18 59 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 170 (23.88%) C#
2 164 (23.03%) Python
3 141 (19.80%) SQL
4 93 (13.06%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.43%) Bash
6 59 (8.29%) PowerShell
7 52 (7.30%) Java
8 43 (6.04%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.06%) C++
10 31 (4.35%) Bicep
11 24 (3.37%) Go
12 22 (3.09%) PHP
13 20 (2.81%) C
14 13 (1.83%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.26%) Groovy
16 8 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.98%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.84%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.70%) Embedded C
19 5 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 117 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.19%) Degree
3 79 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.84%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.08%) QA
2 19 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.12%) NIST
5 8 (1.12%) WCAG
6 6 (0.84%) GDPR
7 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 154 (21.63%) Docker
2 16 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.98%) Firmware
5 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.42%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) iptables
8 2 (0.28%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (21.49%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.24%) Ansible
3 44 (6.18%) Grafana
4 36 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.69%) Kibana
6 11 (1.54%) Puppet
7 9 (1.26%) Nagios
7 9 (1.26%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.12%) Argo
9 6 (0.84%) Packer
9 6 (0.84%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.70%) Istio
10 5 (0.70%) Podman
11 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.42%) Scalr
13 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
13 2 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 167 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 19 (2.67%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.53%) Oracle
5 15 (2.11%) Google
6 14 (1.97%) VMware
7 13 (1.83%) Databricks
8 12 (1.69%) Facebook
8 12 (1.69%) YouTube
9 11 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.54%) Splunk
10 10 (1.40%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.26%) SAP
12 8 (1.12%) IBM
12 8 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.84%) New Relic
15 5 (0.70%) Cisco
15 5 (0.70%) Talend