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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 647 600 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.17% 7.17% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 8.06% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 498 284 823
10th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,438 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,875 £85,000 £85,800
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -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 11,172 7,441 14,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.97% 88.94% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,948 3,866 9,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,813 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,625 £80,000
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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -7 253 £62,500 -2.72% 103
Hampshire -11 168 £67,500 +11.57% 59
Buckinghamshire +14 107 £60,000 - 28
Berkshire -20 101 £65,000 -10.65% 57
Surrey +13 98 £65,000 -11.86% 36
West Sussex +15 78 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Oxfordshire -10 45 £62,500 +25.00% 19
Kent -15 27 £29,000 -63.75% 16
East Sussex -23 9 £85,000 +53.15% 12
Isle of Wight -1 5 £50,000 -31.51% 1
Sussex -7 5 £60,000 -21.31% 4
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 9 (1.39%) IIS
3 7 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.62%) CMS
5 4 (0.62%) nginx
5 4 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.93%) Simulink
3 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 385 (59.51%) Azure
2 231 (35.70%) Azure DevOps
3 159 (24.57%) AWS
4 61 (9.43%) SaaS
5 60 (9.27%) GitHub
6 43 (6.65%) Power Platform
7 40 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.72%) Serverless
9 33 (5.10%) PaaS
10 27 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (4.17%) Azure AKS
11 26 (4.02%) IaaS
12 25 (3.86%) Azure AI
13 23 (3.55%) GCP
13 23 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 20 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.09%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.94%) OpenShift
17 18 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.48%) Firewall
2 21 (3.25%) VPN
3 11 (1.70%) DNS
4 6 (0.93%) Internet
4 6 (0.93%) MQTT
5 5 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.62%) BGP
6 4 (0.62%) DHCP
6 4 (0.62%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.46%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.15%) Modbus
8 1 (0.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.15%) SAN
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.13%) SQL Server
2 50 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 48 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.55%) Power BI
6 17 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.24%) Metadata
10 6 (0.93%) MySQL
10 6 (0.93%) Redis
11 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.46%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (13.14%) Git
2 63 (9.74%) GitLab
3 41 (6.34%) JIRA
4 34 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (2.01%) Selenium
7 10 (1.55%) JUnit
7 10 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.08%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.93%) JMeter
11 5 (0.77%) Mockito
11 5 (0.77%) NUnit
12 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.46%) Snyk
14 2 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 155 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.17%) Finance
3 86 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.17%) Retail
5 21 (3.25%) Games
6 18 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.63%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.47%) Advertising
9 15 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.85%) Marketing
11 10 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.08%) Electronics
13 6 (0.93%) Law
14 5 (0.77%) Automotive
14 5 (0.77%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.62%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 149 (23.03%) Developer
2 145 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 95 (14.68%) Senior
4 75 (11.59%) Software Engineer
5 74 (11.44%) Lead
6 61 (9.43%) .NET Developer
7 56 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (5.72%) Architect
8 37 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (3.71%) Analyst
13 20 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.09%) Systems Engineer
14 18 (2.78%) Administrator
14 18 (2.78%) Systems Administrator
15 17 (2.63%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.63%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (21.95%) .NET
2 81 (12.52%) ASP.NET
3 63 (9.74%) .NET Core
3 63 (9.74%) HTML
4 62 (9.58%) React
5 60 (9.27%) CSS
6 59 (9.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 52 (8.04%) RESTful
8 45 (6.96%) REST
9 31 (4.79%) ARM Templates
9 31 (4.79%) Blazor
10 30 (4.64%) Entity Framework
11 26 (4.02%) YAML
12 23 (3.55%) JSON
12 23 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (3.40%) ML.NET
14 20 (3.09%) Spring
15 19 (2.94%) OAuth
15 19 (2.94%) Spring Boot
16 17 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (3.40%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 13 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.85%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.85%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
13 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.24%) Life Science
14 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.08%) FPGA
14 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (16.38%) Linux
2 32 (4.95%) Windows
3 31 (4.79%) Ubuntu
4 16 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.55%) CentOS
6 10 (1.55%) VMS
7 7 (1.08%) Debian
8 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.77%) Unix
10 4 (0.62%) Android
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (48.38%) CI/CD
2 260 (40.19%) Agile
3 152 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (17.77%) Software Engineering
6 114 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (16.38%) AI
8 99 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (13.91%) Containerisation
10 84 (12.98%) Microservices
11 75 (11.59%) Computer Science
11 75 (11.59%) Scrum
12 71 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 65 (10.05%) Observability
14 63 (9.74%) Mentoring
15 62 (9.58%) Analytics
16 58 (8.96%) Machine Learning
17 55 (8.50%) Kanban
17 55 (8.50%) SDLC
18 49 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 164 (25.35%) Python
2 148 (22.87%) C#
3 137 (21.17%) SQL
4 95 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 69 (10.66%) Bash
6 64 (9.89%) PowerShell
7 58 (8.96%) Java
8 40 (6.18%) C++
9 32 (4.95%) Bicep
9 32 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.55%) C
11 17 (2.63%) Go
12 13 (2.01%) PHP
13 10 (1.55%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.39%) Groovy
14 9 (1.39%) MATLAB
14 9 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.93%) Ruby
15 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.77%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 103 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 94 (14.53%) Degree
3 57 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.71%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.93%) ICAEW
11 5 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) CCA
13 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.19%) QA
2 14 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.16%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.39%) NIST
4 9 (1.39%) WCAG
5 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) ITGC
7 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 134 (20.71%) Docker
2 17 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.24%) Firmware
4 6 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 156 (24.11%) Terraform
2 126 (19.47%) Kubernetes
3 79 (12.21%) Ansible
4 39 (6.03%) Grafana
5 34 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.01%) Nagios
7 11 (1.70%) Kibana
8 8 (1.24%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.24%) Puppet
9 6 (0.93%) Podman
10 5 (0.77%) Argo
10 5 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.77%) Packer
10 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.46%) Scalr
12 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.31%) MIIS
13 1 (0.15%) Nessus
13 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 158 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.71%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.63%) Splunk
5 14 (2.16%) MuleSoft
6 13 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.01%) Oracle
7 12 (1.85%) Databricks
7 12 (1.85%) Facebook
7 12 (1.85%) VMware
7 12 (1.85%) YouTube
8 9 (1.39%) AppDynamics
8 9 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.24%) Cisco
9 8 (1.24%) Google
9 8 (1.24%) IBM
9 8 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.08%) SAP
11 5 (0.77%) F5
11 5 (0.77%) Juniper