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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 561 565 1,248
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.87% 7.44% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 8.21% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 430 290 822
10th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,313 £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 £85,125 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 10,462 6,881 14,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.09% 90.67% 83.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,164 3,180 9,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,750
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 27 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 27 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 -2 247 £60,000 -7.34% 79
Hampshire -23 130 £70,000 +15.46% 48
Buckinghamshire +14 106 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Berkshire -15 105 £62,500 -21.88% 46
Surrey -2 78 £62,500 -13.79% 10
West Sussex +10 54 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Oxfordshire -6 36 £67,500 +35.00% 20
Kent -17 27 £29,000 -63.75% 9
East Sussex -22 11 £83,750 +67.50% 2
Sussex -10 6 £62,500 -18.03%
Isle of Wight -3 4 £41,500 -43.15% 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 11 (1.96%) Confluence
2 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.89%) CMS
3 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.71%) IIS
4 4 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.07%) Simulink
3 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 321 (57.22%) Azure
2 191 (34.05%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (25.49%) AWS
4 56 (9.98%) GitHub
5 51 (9.09%) SaaS
6 49 (8.73%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.35%) PaaS
8 28 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (4.81%) Serverless
10 23 (4.10%) IaaS
11 22 (3.92%) Azure AKS
11 22 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (3.74%) GCP
13 19 (3.39%) Entra ID
13 19 (3.39%) OpenShift
14 17 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (2.85%) Datadog
15 16 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.06%) Firewall
2 15 (2.67%) DNS
2 15 (2.67%) VPN
3 7 (1.25%) DHCP
4 5 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (0.71%) BGP
5 4 (0.71%) MQTT
5 4 (0.71%) SAN
5 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.18%) Modbus
8 1 (0.18%) MPLS
8 1 (0.18%) Network Security
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.10%) Power BI
3 21 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.07%) Metadata
9 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.53%) MySQL
10 3 (0.53%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.36%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.36%) Redis
11 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (13.19%) Git
2 57 (10.16%) GitLab
3 33 (5.88%) JIRA
4 27 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.67%) Selenium
7 11 (1.96%) JUnit
8 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.25%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.07%) Mockito
12 5 (0.89%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.89%) JMeter
13 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.71%) NUnit
13 4 (0.71%) Snyk
13 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.53%) MLflow
14 3 (0.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 130 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.72%) Finance
3 92 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.46%) Retail
5 20 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.85%) Games
7 13 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.78%) Law
10 9 (1.60%) Billing
10 9 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.25%) Advertising
12 7 (1.25%) Marketing
13 6 (1.07%) Electronics
14 5 (0.89%) Automotive
14 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.71%) Aviation
15 4 (0.71%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (22.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 123 (21.93%) Developer
3 83 (14.80%) Senior
4 71 (12.66%) Lead
5 58 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 55 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
7 39 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (6.06%) Architect
9 31 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 22 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) Analyst
13 18 (3.21%) Administrator
13 18 (3.21%) DevOps Administrator
13 18 (3.21%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (3.21%) Team Leader
14 17 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) DevOps Systems Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.89%) .NET
2 51 (9.09%) React
3 46 (8.20%) HTML
4 43 (7.66%) CSS
5 41 (7.31%) ASP.NET
6 39 (6.95%) REST
6 39 (6.95%) RESTful
7 30 (5.35%) .NET Core
8 24 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (4.28%) YAML
9 21 (3.74%) JSON
9 21 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (3.57%) Spring
11 18 (3.21%) OAuth
12 17 (3.03%) Middleware
12 17 (3.03%) React Native
12 17 (3.03%) Spring Boot
13 16 (2.85%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.67%) Bootstrap
14 15 (2.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.74%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.57%) Low-Code
6 17 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.14%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.25%) FPGA
12 7 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.25%) Life Science
12 7 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.89%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 92 (16.40%) Linux
2 29 (5.17%) Ubuntu
3 27 (4.81%) Windows
4 19 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.96%) VMS
6 9 (1.60%) CentOS
6 9 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.07%) Unix
9 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
10 3 (0.53%) Debian
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (49.55%) CI/CD
2 221 (39.39%) Agile
3 143 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
4 135 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 89 (15.86%) AI
7 88 (15.69%) Software Engineering
8 80 (14.26%) Containerisation
9 69 (12.30%) Scrum
9 69 (12.30%) Test Automation
10 67 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 65 (11.59%) Computer Science
12 62 (11.05%) Microservices
13 50 (8.91%) Observability
14 48 (8.56%) Mentoring
15 47 (8.38%) Data Modelling
16 46 (8.20%) Kanban
17 45 (8.02%) Machine Learning
18 40 (7.13%) Analytics
18 40 (7.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 150 (26.74%) Python
2 105 (18.72%) C#
3 95 (16.93%) SQL
4 74 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 58 (10.34%) Bash
6 51 (9.09%) Java
7 45 (8.02%) PowerShell
8 34 (6.06%) C++
9 22 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.21%) C
11 16 (2.85%) Go
12 15 (2.67%) Bicep
13 10 (1.78%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.60%) MATLAB
15 7 (1.25%) Groovy
15 7 (1.25%) PHP
16 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.89%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.89%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.80%) Degree
3 56 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.07%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.18%) CCA
13 1 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.60%) QA
2 18 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.60%) WCAG
5 7 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.07%) NIST
7 4 (0.71%) ITGC
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) GDPR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 107 (19.07%) Docker
2 14 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.25%) Firmware
4 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 139 (24.78%) Terraform
2 106 (18.89%) Kubernetes
3 78 (13.90%) Ansible
4 32 (5.70%) Grafana
5 27 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.14%) Nagios
7 9 (1.60%) Kibana
8 8 (1.43%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.89%) Packer
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
9 5 (0.89%) Puppet
10 4 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.71%) SCCM
10 4 (0.71%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.53%) Argo
11 3 (0.53%) Scalr
11 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.36%) MIIS
13 1 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 122 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.24%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.39%) MuleSoft
5 16 (2.85%) Splunk
5 16 (2.85%) VMware
6 12 (2.14%) Databricks
6 12 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.96%) Oracle
8 10 (1.78%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.43%) Cisco
9 8 (1.43%) IBM
9 8 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.89%) F5
11 5 (0.89%) Juniper
11 5 (0.89%) Veeam
12 4 (0.71%) NetApp
12 4 (0.71%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.71%) SolarWinds