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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 697 515 996
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.80% 5.74% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 6.51% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 532 251 573
10th Percentile £43,875 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +2.94% -2.86%

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 13,160 7,905 10,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.65% 88.09% 80.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 4,223 5,876
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 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 16 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 +5 267 £67,500 +1.89% 233
Hampshire -8 187 £66,250 +6.85% 101
Surrey +6 124 £63,250 -11.23% 84
Berkshire +1 101 £82,500 +10.00% 121
Buckinghamshire +14 90 £63,500 -10.88% 52
Oxfordshire +9 76 £62,500 +16.28% 61
West Sussex +10 73 £70,000 +16.67% 47
Kent -36 25 £31,250 -16.67% 13
Isle of Wight 0 6 £50,000 -31.51% 2
East Sussex -17 6 £85,000 +30.77% 22
Sussex -9 4 £62,500 +38.89% 1
Middlesex -2 1 £38,500 +2.67% 5
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 19 (2.73%) Confluence
2 14 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.58%) IIS
4 7 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) 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 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Simulink
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 416 (59.68%) Azure
2 223 (31.99%) Azure DevOps
3 190 (27.26%) AWS
4 74 (10.62%) SaaS
5 57 (8.18%) GitHub
6 48 (6.89%) Power Platform
7 39 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (5.60%) Serverless
8 37 (5.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 34 (4.88%) GCP
10 30 (4.30%) Azure AKS
10 30 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
11 28 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.02%) PaaS
12 27 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (3.44%) Azure AI
13 24 (3.44%) Entra ID
14 23 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.02%) VPN
2 27 (3.87%) Firewall
3 14 (2.01%) DNS
4 7 (1.00%) MQTT
5 6 (0.86%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) 5G
10 1 (0.14%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.77%) SQL Server
2 58 (8.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.75%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.88%) Power BI
5 32 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.73%) MySQL
8 18 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.44%) Metadata
10 16 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.15%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.58%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.43%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
15 9 (1.29%) Redis
15 9 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
17 3 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
17 3 (0.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 114 (16.36%) Git
2 43 (6.17%) GitLab
2 43 (6.17%) JIRA
3 34 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
5 14 (2.01%) Selenium
6 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.00%) JMeter
7 7 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.86%) JUnit
9 5 (0.72%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.57%) NUnit
11 3 (0.43%) Mocha
11 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.43%) Snyk
11 3 (0.43%) Storybook
11 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 127 (18.22%) Finance
3 60 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (3.16%) Retail
6 19 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.30%) Games
7 16 (2.30%) Marketing
8 15 (2.15%) Advertising
8 15 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (0.86%) Electronics
12 6 (0.86%) Legal
13 5 (0.72%) Automotive
13 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (21.81%) Developer
2 148 (21.23%) Senior
3 146 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (12.91%) Lead
5 77 (11.05%) .NET Developer
6 67 (9.61%) Software Engineer
7 53 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
9 38 (5.45%) Architect
10 33 (4.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.30%) Lead Developer
15 21 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Project Manager
17 19 (2.73%) Analyst
17 19 (2.73%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (24.25%) Terraform
2 145 (20.80%) .NET
3 89 (12.77%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 66 (9.47%) HTML
6 64 (9.18%) CSS
7 63 (9.04%) React
8 61 (8.75%) .NET Core
9 51 (7.32%) REST
10 50 (7.17%) RESTful
11 37 (5.31%) Blazor
12 32 (4.59%) Entity Framework
13 30 (4.30%) ARM Templates
14 26 (3.73%) Node.js
15 22 (3.16%) YAML
16 21 (3.01%) HTML5
17 20 (2.87%) ML.NET
17 20 (2.87%) Vue
18 19 (2.73%) jQuery
18 19 (2.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 67 (9.61%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.44%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.15%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
12 12 (1.72%) IoT
12 12 (1.72%) Robotics
13 9 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.15%) Life Science
14 8 (1.15%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.00%) Social Media
15 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (17.93%) Linux
2 47 (6.74%) Windows
3 26 (3.73%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.58%) Debian
6 8 (1.15%) VMS
7 6 (0.86%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 285 (40.89%) Agile
3 140 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 136 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (19.08%) Software Engineering
7 118 (16.93%) AI
8 102 (14.63%) Microservices
9 99 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (13.77%) Mentoring
11 86 (12.34%) Computer Science
12 85 (12.20%) Test Automation
13 80 (11.48%) Scrum
14 79 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
16 71 (10.19%) Analytics
16 71 (10.19%) Observability
17 70 (10.04%) Containerisation
18 62 (8.90%) Roadmaps
19 57 (8.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.39%) C#
2 160 (22.96%) Python
3 134 (19.23%) SQL
4 94 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 59 (8.46%) Bash
6 52 (7.46%) PowerShell
7 50 (7.17%) Java
8 47 (6.74%) TypeScript
9 35 (5.02%) C++
10 29 (4.16%) Bicep
11 28 (4.02%) Go
12 26 (3.73%) PHP
13 19 (2.73%) C
14 13 (1.87%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.29%) Groovy
15 9 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.00%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 118 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.49%) Degree
3 80 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.86%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (12.63%) QA
2 21 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) GDPR
6 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.15%) NIST
7 8 (1.15%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
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
1 150 (21.52%) Docker
2 16 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) iptables
8 2 (0.29%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.62%) Ansible
3 43 (6.17%) Grafana
4 36 (5.16%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.72%) Kibana
6 10 (1.43%) Puppet
7 8 (1.15%) Argo
7 8 (1.15%) Nagios
7 8 (1.15%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.15%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.86%) Packer
9 5 (0.72%) Istio
9 5 (0.72%) Podman
10 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.29%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.29%) Rancher
12 2 (0.29%) Scalr
Vendors
1 165 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.44%) Oracle
2 17 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 16 (2.30%) Google
3 16 (2.30%) VMware
4 15 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.72%) Facebook
5 12 (1.72%) YouTube
6 11 (1.58%) Databricks
6 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.58%) Splunk
7 10 (1.43%) AppDynamics
7 10 (1.43%) SAP
8 9 (1.29%) Informatica
8 9 (1.29%) Talend
9 8 (1.15%) IBM
10 7 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.00%) New Relic
10 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace