DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 878 838 2,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.14% 10.01% 10.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 10.69% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 498 545 1,262
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £86,505
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Process and 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 10,177 7,840 17,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.77% 93.65% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,960 5,177 10,416
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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
Hampshire +16 328 £65,000 -7.14% 47
Thames Valley -15 286 £65,500 +0.77% 111
Surrey +2 169 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Berkshire -10 161 £75,000 +20.00% 51
Buckinghamshire -23 66 £51,000 -27.14% 37
Oxfordshire -16 59 £65,250 +0.38% 25
Kent -18 40 £70,000 +16.67% 6
West Sussex -4 30 £60,000 +9.09% 8
East Sussex -27 29 £92,500 +32.14% 11
Middlesex - 5 - -
Sussex - 4 £60,000 -
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 84 (9.57%) Oracle Application Server
2 22 (2.51%) nginx
3 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.94%) Confluence
5 17 (1.94%) IIS
6 10 (1.14%) CMS
6 10 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (1.14%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.68%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
8 5 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.57%) JBoss
8 5 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (4.56%) Simulink
2 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 84 (9.57%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (55.69%) Azure
2 298 (33.94%) Azure DevOps
3 180 (20.50%) AWS
4 75 (8.54%) Azure Service Bus
5 68 (7.74%) SaaS
6 64 (7.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 53 (6.04%) GitHub
8 49 (5.58%) Serverless
9 40 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (3.99%) Power Platform
12 34 (3.87%) Entra ID
12 34 (3.87%) SonarCloud
13 32 (3.64%) Azure API Management
13 32 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (3.64%) GCP
14 30 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (3.42%) IaaS
15 27 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (2.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.76%) DNS
2 28 (3.19%) Firewall
3 20 (2.28%) Network Security
4 18 (2.05%) DHCP
5 15 (1.71%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (1.37%) HTTP
6 12 (1.37%) Internet
7 7 (0.80%) VPN
8 6 (0.68%) VLAN
9 5 (0.57%) Broadband
9 5 (0.57%) Modbus
9 5 (0.57%) SNMP
9 5 (0.57%) SSL
10 4 (0.46%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.46%) WAN
11 3 (0.34%) BGP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.34%) OSPF
11 3 (0.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.58%) Relational Database
2 99 (11.28%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 91 (10.36%) SQL Server
5 85 (9.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 78 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (6.15%) MongoDB
9 47 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (4.33%) Hadoop
11 32 (3.64%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.39%) Big Data
13 20 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (2.16%) MySQL
14 19 (2.16%) Power BI
15 12 (1.37%) GIS
16 9 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 180 (20.50%) Git
2 74 (8.43%) Visual Studio
3 67 (7.63%) JIRA
4 52 (5.92%) Jenkins
5 51 (5.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 44 (5.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 41 (4.67%) MSBuild
8 33 (3.76%) GitLab
8 33 (3.76%) Selenium
9 20 (2.28%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 16 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.71%) Postman
12 12 (1.37%) JUnit
13 11 (1.25%) Cucumber
14 9 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
16 5 (0.57%) Jasmine
16 5 (0.57%) NUnit
16 5 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 292 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 193 (21.98%) Finance
3 137 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (11.28%) Organisational Skills
6 88 (10.02%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (9.68%) Military
8 37 (4.21%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.42%) Marketing
10 29 (3.30%) Law
11 25 (2.85%) Retail
12 21 (2.39%) Automotive
12 21 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.71%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.03%) Advertising
15 8 (0.91%) Electronics
16 7 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.68%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 219 (24.94%) Developer
2 215 (24.49%) Senior
3 196 (22.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (10.25%) Software Engineer
5 84 (9.57%) Architect
6 82 (9.34%) Senior DevOps
7 77 (8.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 68 (7.74%) Software Developer
9 67 (7.63%) Lead
9 67 (7.63%) Senior Developer
10 52 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (5.58%) .NET Developer
12 47 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.56%) Embedded Developer
13 40 (4.56%) Embedded Software Developer
14 35 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.87%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.64%) C# Developer
17 30 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
17 30 (3.42%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (24.60%) .NET
2 104 (11.85%) ASP.NET
3 76 (8.66%) CSS
4 75 (8.54%) REST
5 69 (7.86%) HTML
6 64 (7.29%) Node.js
7 61 (6.95%) AngularJS
8 51 (5.81%) .NET Framework
9 49 (5.58%) React
10 48 (5.47%) XML
11 47 (5.35%) JSON
12 44 (5.01%) Kafka
13 41 (4.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 39 (4.44%) YAML
15 33 (3.76%) gRPC
16 32 (3.64%) .NET Core
16 32 (3.64%) Entity Framework
16 32 (3.64%) RESTful
17 30 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
18 29 (3.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.28%) Self-Motivation
2 62 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.85%) Algorithms
4 25 (2.85%) IoT
5 20 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.16%) FPGA
6 19 (2.16%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.16%) VHDL
7 18 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.48%) Blockchain
9 13 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.25%) e-Learning
10 11 (1.25%) PKI
11 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.91%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 182 (20.73%) Linux
2 87 (9.91%) Windows
3 60 (6.83%) Embedded Linux
4 29 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.16%) Android
6 16 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.25%) CentOS
7 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.91%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (46.92%) Agile
2 279 (31.78%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (30.75%) Software Engineering
4 269 (30.64%) CI/CD
5 180 (20.50%) Mentoring
6 173 (19.70%) Design Patterns
7 138 (15.72%) ITIL
8 117 (13.33%) Analytics
9 115 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
9 115 (13.10%) Service Management
10 112 (12.76%) Customer Experience
11 102 (11.62%) Code Quality
12 101 (11.50%) Data Modelling
12 101 (11.50%) ERP
12 101 (11.50%) User Stories
13 95 (10.82%) Integration Testing
14 93 (10.59%) Software Delivery
15 92 (10.48%) Microservices
16 90 (10.25%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (10.14%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 243 (27.68%) C#
2 238 (27.11%) SQL
3 221 (25.17%) Python
4 183 (20.84%) Java
5 125 (14.24%) JavaScript
6 97 (11.05%) PowerShell
7 89 (10.14%) C++
8 75 (8.54%) C
9 50 (5.69%) Bash
10 41 (4.67%) Bicep
11 33 (3.76%) TypeScript
12 18 (2.05%) Perl
13 17 (1.94%) PHP
14 16 (1.82%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.71%) MATLAB
16 14 (1.59%) VBScript
17 12 (1.37%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.37%) Shell Script
18 10 (1.14%) Groovy
18 10 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 185 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 161 (18.34%) Degree
3 110 (12.53%) SC Cleared
4 88 (10.02%) DV Cleared
5 84 (9.57%) DBS Check
6 60 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (5.01%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.91%) CEH
11 8 (0.91%) CISSP
12 7 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.68%) ISEB
14 5 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.46%) CBAP
15 4 (0.46%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.46%) IIBA
15 4 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.58%) QA
2 44 (5.01%) GDPR
3 10 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.14%) Solvency II
4 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.57%) NIST
5 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
6 4 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.46%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 31000
7 3 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 143 (16.29%) Docker
2 49 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 45 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.51%) Firmware
5 14 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 168 (19.13%) Kubernetes
2 104 (11.85%) Terraform
3 54 (6.15%) Ansible
4 36 (4.10%) Grafana
5 33 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.16%) Puppet
7 10 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.14%) SCCM
7 10 (1.14%) SCOM
7 10 (1.14%) WSUS
8 9 (1.03%) Rancher
9 7 (0.80%) Nagios
10 5 (0.57%) Cacti
10 5 (0.57%) Packer
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.34%) Podman
11 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.23%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 173 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 93 (10.59%) Oracle
3 42 (4.78%) Databricks
4 40 (4.56%) Xilinx
5 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.05%) IBM
5 18 (2.05%) Xamarin
6 16 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.82%) VMware
7 14 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.25%) Google
9 11 (1.25%) Veracode
10 10 (1.14%) SAP
10 10 (1.14%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.91%) New Relic
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.68%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.57%) Splunk
14 5 (0.57%) WSO2