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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 593 588 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.01% 7.50% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 8.31% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 459 282 842
10th Percentile £40,950 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,063 £48,750
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 £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -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 10,558 7,072 15,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.42% 90.17% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,490 3,437 10,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £27,755
25th Percentile £39,304 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -9 244 £60,000 -6.61% 60
Hampshire -11 151 £67,500 +11.57% 50
Buckinghamshire +20 109 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Berkshire -16 98 £65,000 -13.33% 31
Surrey +10 80 £65,000 -13.33% 25
West Sussex +14 65 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Oxfordshire -7 37 £65,000 +30.00% 14
Kent -13 29 £29,000 -63.75% 9
East Sussex -21 8 £82,500 +34.69%
Sussex -7 7 £65,000 -14.75% 3
Isle of Wight -2 5 £50,000 -31.51% 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 17 (2.87%) Confluence
2 8 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.01%) IIS
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.01%) Simulink
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 338 (57.00%) Azure
2 202 (34.06%) Azure DevOps
3 146 (24.62%) AWS
4 60 (10.12%) SaaS
5 56 (9.44%) GitHub
6 43 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 34 (5.73%) PaaS
8 33 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (5.56%) Serverless
9 27 (4.55%) IaaS
10 25 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (4.22%) Azure AKS
11 22 (3.71%) Entra ID
11 22 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.04%) GCP
13 17 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.87%) Azure AI
13 17 (2.87%) OpenShift
14 16 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.23%) Firewall
2 17 (2.87%) VPN
3 12 (2.02%) DNS
4 7 (1.18%) DHCP
5 5 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.67%) BGP
6 4 (0.67%) Internet
6 4 (0.67%) MQTT
6 4 (0.67%) SAN
6 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Broadband
8 1 (0.17%) HTTP
8 1 (0.17%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.17%) Modbus
8 1 (0.17%) MPLS
8 1 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.12%) SQL Server
2 34 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 31 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.88%) Power BI
5 13 (2.19%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.19%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.35%) Metadata
8 6 (1.01%) Redis
9 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.67%) MySQL
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.51%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.34%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.34%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (12.65%) Git
2 55 (9.27%) GitLab
3 36 (6.07%) JIRA
4 25 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.53%) Selenium
7 10 (1.69%) JUnit
8 8 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.18%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.01%) JMeter
11 5 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.84%) Mockito
11 5 (0.84%) NUnit
12 4 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 135 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 110 (18.55%) Finance
3 82 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.55%) Retail
5 18 (3.04%) Games
5 18 (3.04%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.02%) Advertising
7 12 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.52%) Marketing
10 8 (1.35%) Billing
11 7 (1.18%) Electronics
11 7 (1.18%) Law
12 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.84%) Automotive
12 5 (0.84%) Aviation
12 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.67%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 138 (23.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (21.59%) Developer
3 84 (14.17%) Senior
4 68 (11.47%) Lead
4 68 (11.47%) Software Engineer
5 55 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.58%) .NET Developer
8 37 (6.24%) Architect
9 34 (5.73%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (4.38%) Analyst
11 25 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.20%) Administrator
13 19 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.20%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (3.04%) DevOps Administrator
15 17 (2.87%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
16 16 (2.70%) DevOps Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (20.24%) .NET
2 60 (10.12%) ASP.NET
3 55 (9.27%) React
4 52 (8.77%) HTML
5 49 (8.26%) CSS
6 45 (7.59%) .NET Core
7 42 (7.08%) RESTful
8 40 (6.75%) ASP.NET Core
8 40 (6.75%) REST
9 26 (4.38%) YAML
10 22 (3.71%) ARM Templates
11 21 (3.54%) Entity Framework
11 21 (3.54%) JSON
11 21 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (3.37%) Blazor
13 19 (3.20%) Spring
14 18 (3.04%) OAuth
15 17 (2.87%) Node.js
16 16 (2.70%) Spring Boot
17 15 (2.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.71%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.19%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.18%) FPGA
12 7 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.01%) Life Science
13 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (16.02%) Linux
2 31 (5.23%) Ubuntu
3 28 (4.72%) Windows
4 19 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.69%) CentOS
5 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.69%) VMS
6 9 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.84%) Unix
8 4 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (48.06%) CI/CD
2 230 (38.79%) Agile
3 144 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 99 (16.69%) Software Engineering
7 91 (15.35%) AI
8 82 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (13.15%) Containerisation
10 72 (12.14%) Scrum
11 71 (11.97%) Computer Science
11 71 (11.97%) Microservices
12 69 (11.64%) Test Automation
13 53 (8.94%) Observability
14 52 (8.77%) Kanban
14 52 (8.77%) Mentoring
15 50 (8.43%) Analytics
16 48 (8.09%) SDLC
17 47 (7.93%) Machine Learning
18 44 (7.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 152 (25.63%) Python
2 122 (20.57%) C#
3 112 (18.89%) SQL
4 83 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 62 (10.46%) Bash
6 55 (9.27%) Java
7 52 (8.77%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.41%) C++
9 28 (4.72%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.71%) Bicep
10 22 (3.71%) C
11 17 (2.87%) Go
12 10 (1.69%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.52%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.35%) PHP
15 7 (1.18%) Groovy
16 6 (1.01%) Ruby
16 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.84%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.84%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 97 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.18%) Degree
3 56 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.71%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.01%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) CCA
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.59%) QA
2 17 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.52%) WCAG
5 8 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.01%) NIST
7 4 (0.67%) ITGC
8 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.17%) GDPR
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (18.89%) Docker
2 18 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.18%) Firmware
4 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 143 (24.11%) Terraform
2 105 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 73 (12.31%) Ansible
4 33 (5.56%) Grafana
5 28 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.19%) Nagios
7 10 (1.69%) Kibana
8 8 (1.35%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.01%) Podman
10 5 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.84%) Packer
10 5 (0.84%) Puppet
11 4 (0.67%) SCCM
11 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.51%) Argo
12 3 (0.51%) Scalr
12 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 1 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 137 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.73%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.72%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.20%) MuleSoft
5 17 (2.87%) Splunk
6 16 (2.70%) VMware
7 12 (2.02%) Databricks
7 12 (2.02%) Oracle
8 11 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.52%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.35%) Cisco
10 8 (1.35%) Facebook
10 8 (1.35%) IBM
10 8 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.35%) YouTube
11 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.84%) F5
12 5 (0.84%) Juniper
12 5 (0.84%) Veeam
13 4 (0.67%) NetApp