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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 396 738 892
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.56% 8.70% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 9.74% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 295 405 635
10th Percentile £39,850 £42,500 £44,965
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £78,375 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 8,785 7,574 10,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 78.98% 89.27% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,356 3,422 7,767
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,670 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +15.34% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -27 142 £60,000 -7.69% 73
Hampshire -32 86 £75,000 +11.11% 46
Buckinghamshire +5 66 £60,000 - 20
Berkshire -43 63 £50,000 -33.33% 33
Surrey -29 54 £62,500 -10.71% 37
West Sussex +1 34 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Kent -15 30 £72,500 +26.09% 6
Middlesex +7 19 - - 1
East Sussex -10 15 £82,500 +57.14% 6
Oxfordshire -20 13 £73,750 +3.51% 20
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 3
Sussex 0 5 £45,000 -40.00% 2
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 18 (4.55%) IIS
2 6 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.01%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.25%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.25%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 234 (59.09%) Azure
2 177 (44.70%) Azure DevOps
3 96 (24.24%) AWS
4 58 (14.65%) GitHub
5 41 (10.35%) Power Platform
6 29 (7.32%) PaaS
6 29 (7.32%) SaaS
7 24 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 24 (6.06%) GCP
8 23 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.56%) Serverless
10 19 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.29%) IaaS
12 14 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.28%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.31%) DNS
2 20 (5.05%) Firewall
3 16 (4.04%) VPN
4 10 (2.53%) DHCP
4 10 (2.53%) SAN
5 4 (1.01%) LAN
5 4 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.01%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.01%) VoIP
5 4 (1.01%) WAN
5 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.51%) BGP
6 2 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.25%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.25%) MPLS
7 1 (0.25%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.80%) Power BI
3 15 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.53%) MySQL
5 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.76%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.51%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.51%) GIS
10 2 (0.51%) Metadata
10 2 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (12.12%) Git
2 27 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 27 (6.82%) Selenium
3 22 (5.56%) GitLab
4 20 (5.05%) Robot Framework
5 19 (4.80%) Snyk
6 12 (3.03%) JIRA
7 6 (1.52%) MLflow
7 6 (1.52%) Storybook
8 5 (1.26%) git-flow
8 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.51%) Appium
11 2 (0.51%) JUnit
11 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.51%) TestRail
11 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.21%) Finance
3 67 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.54%) Law
6 12 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.53%) Billing
7 10 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.02%) Retail
9 7 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.52%) Banking
10 6 (1.52%) Games
11 5 (1.26%) Marketing
12 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (22.98%) Developer
2 62 (15.66%) Lead
3 60 (15.15%) Senior
4 56 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.82%) Architect
6 27 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
9 20 (5.05%) Analyst
9 20 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.54%) IT Engineer
10 14 (3.54%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.28%) IT Support
11 13 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (3.28%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.03%) Software Support Engineer
13 10 (2.53%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.26%) .NET
2 52 (13.13%) React
3 31 (7.83%) REST
4 30 (7.58%) CSS
5 29 (7.32%) HTML
6 28 (7.07%) .NET Framework
7 26 (6.57%) ASP.NET
8 22 (5.56%) Middleware
9 19 (4.80%) WinForms
10 18 (4.55%) React Native
11 15 (3.79%) ARM Templates
11 15 (3.79%) Bootstrap
11 15 (3.79%) Kafka
12 13 (3.28%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.28%) Entity Framework
13 12 (3.03%) .NET Core
13 12 (3.03%) RESTful
14 11 (2.78%) SOAP
15 10 (2.53%) Next.js
15 10 (2.53%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.56%) Low-Code
2 22 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.05%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.52%) Life Science
6 6 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.76%) Animation
9 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.12%) Windows
2 47 (11.87%) Linux
3 13 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.77%) Android
6 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 177 (44.70%) Agile
3 109 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 59 (14.90%) Computer Science
8 57 (14.39%) Mentoring
9 51 (12.88%) Scrum
10 49 (12.37%) AI
11 48 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 39 (9.85%) Microservices
13 35 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (8.84%) Waterfall
14 34 (8.59%) SDLC
15 33 (8.33%) Containerisation
16 29 (7.32%) Coaching
16 29 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (7.32%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.70%) C#
1 78 (19.70%) Python
2 71 (17.93%) SQL
3 43 (10.86%) JavaScript
4 29 (7.32%) Java
5 27 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.57%) Bash
6 26 (6.57%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.78%) C++
9 10 (2.53%) Apex Code
9 10 (2.53%) Bicep
9 10 (2.53%) Go
10 3 (0.76%) ABAP
10 3 (0.76%) C
11 2 (0.51%) Delphi
11 2 (0.51%) Perl
11 2 (0.51%) PHP
11 2 (0.51%) VB
11 2 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 80 (20.20%) Degree
2 64 (16.16%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 28 (7.07%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.55%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.02%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.77%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (1.77%) PMP
11 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.52%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.01%) CCNP
12 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.09%) QA
2 16 (4.04%) NIST
3 11 (2.78%) PMO
4 9 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 7 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.77%) NCSC
7 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.51%) GDPR
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) ITGC
9 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (12.88%) Docker
2 23 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (23.23%) Terraform
2 60 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 48 (12.12%) Ansible
4 15 (3.79%) Grafana
5 13 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.78%) vCenter Server
7 10 (2.53%) SCCM
8 6 (1.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.76%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.51%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 2 (0.51%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.25%) CASB
11 1 (0.25%) Kibana
11 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 106 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.30%) VMware
3 18 (4.55%) Black Duck
3 18 (4.55%) Coverity
4 17 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 12 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.03%) Sage
6 12 (3.03%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.78%) Veeam
8 10 (2.53%) 3PAR
8 10 (2.53%) NetApp
8 10 (2.53%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.77%) Cisco
9 7 (1.77%) Databricks
10 6 (1.52%) Google
10 6 (1.52%) Oracle
11 5 (1.26%) Zoho
12 4 (1.01%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (1.01%) Telerik