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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 448 559 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.48% 8.27% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 9.20% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 351 361 749
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,707
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 9,616 6,073 12,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 74.77% 89.86% 85.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 3,272 9,459
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,025 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -19 177 £52,500 -19.23% 99
Hampshire -24 104 £71,250 +9.62% 41
Buckinghamshire +8 84 £52,500 -12.50% 31
Berkshire -28 73 £50,000 -33.33% 43
Surrey -28 62 £62,500 -16.67% 20
West Sussex 0 42 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Kent -8 27 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Oxfordshire -10 20 £71,250 +33.18% 25
East Sussex -19 12 £82,500 +73.68% 1
Middlesex +3 10 - - 1
Isle of Wight - 8 £42,000 - 2
Sussex -13 4 £67,500 -10.00% 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 11 (2.46%) IIS
2 7 (1.56%) Confluence
3 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.89%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.67%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
5 2 (0.45%) CMS
5 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Camunda
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.67%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 257 (57.37%) Azure
2 169 (37.72%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (24.55%) AWS
4 57 (12.72%) GitHub
5 36 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 36 (8.04%) SaaS
6 30 (6.70%) PaaS
7 24 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (5.13%) GCP
9 20 (4.46%) IaaS
9 20 (4.46%) Serverless
10 19 (4.24%) OpenShift
11 17 (3.79%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 14 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.90%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.68%) Datadog
14 12 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.25%) Firewall
2 21 (4.69%) DNS
3 12 (2.68%) VPN
4 6 (1.34%) DHCP
5 5 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.12%) SAN
6 3 (0.67%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.22%) Broadband
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.22%) Modbus
8 1 (0.22%) MPLS
8 1 (0.22%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.13%) Power BI
3 12 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.79%) MySQL
6 8 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.34%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.45%) GIS
10 2 (0.45%) Metadata
10 2 (0.45%) Redis
11 1 (0.22%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 51 (11.38%) Git
2 39 (8.71%) GitLab
3 26 (5.80%) Selenium
4 22 (4.91%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.46%) JIRA
6 18 (4.02%) Robot Framework
7 16 (3.57%) Snyk
8 7 (1.56%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.34%) JUnit
9 6 (1.34%) MLflow
10 5 (1.12%) git-flow
11 4 (0.89%) Mockito
11 4 (0.89%) NUnit
11 4 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.89%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 124 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 99 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (18.53%) Finance
4 21 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (3.57%) Law
5 16 (3.57%) Retail
6 13 (2.90%) Games
6 13 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.01%) Billing
8 7 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.12%) Banking
9 5 (1.12%) Legal
9 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.89%) General Ledger
10 4 (0.89%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.67%) Marketing
11 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (22.77%) Developer
2 78 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (15.18%) Lead
4 63 (14.06%) Senior
5 36 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (6.47%) Architect
9 26 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 16 (3.57%) Analyst
11 16 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
12 15 (3.35%) Administrator
12 15 (3.35%) DevOps Administrator
12 15 (3.35%) Systems Administrator
13 14 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 12 (2.68%) .NET Developer
14 12 (2.68%) Senior Systems Administrator
14 12 (2.68%) Team Leader
15 11 (2.46%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (21.65%) .NET
2 47 (10.49%) React
3 38 (8.48%) REST
4 37 (8.26%) CSS
5 35 (7.81%) HTML
6 33 (7.37%) ASP.NET
7 25 (5.58%) .NET Framework
8 23 (5.13%) Middleware
9 21 (4.69%) React Native
10 18 (4.02%) Bootstrap
11 17 (3.79%) .NET Core
12 16 (3.57%) OAuth
12 16 (3.57%) RESTful
12 16 (3.57%) SOAP
13 15 (3.35%) Entity Framework
13 15 (3.35%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (3.35%) Visualforce
14 13 (2.90%) ARM Templates
14 13 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.91%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.24%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.01%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.56%) Life Science
10 6 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.67%) Animation
13 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.45%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.84%) Linux
2 39 (8.71%) Windows
3 17 (3.79%) Ubuntu
4 13 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.34%) Unix
5 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.12%) CentOS
6 5 (1.12%) VMS
6 5 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (50.67%) CI/CD
2 187 (41.74%) Agile
3 139 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (12.95%) Test Automation
7 57 (12.72%) Containerisation
7 57 (12.72%) Scrum
8 56 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 55 (12.28%) Software Engineering
10 54 (12.05%) AI
11 49 (10.94%) Mentoring
12 44 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (9.60%) Microservices
14 40 (8.93%) Observability
15 37 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (7.81%) Data Modelling
17 33 (7.37%) SDLC
18 31 (6.92%) ITIL
18 31 (6.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 105 (23.44%) Python
2 81 (18.08%) SQL
3 79 (17.63%) C#
4 49 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 41 (9.15%) Bash
6 36 (8.04%) PowerShell
7 34 (7.59%) Java
8 16 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.35%) Apex Code
9 15 (3.35%) C++
10 13 (2.90%) Bicep
10 13 (2.90%) Go
11 9 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.79%) C
13 4 (0.89%) Ruby
14 3 (0.67%) ABAP
14 3 (0.67%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.67%) PHP
14 3 (0.67%) R
15 2 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (16.96%) Degree
2 69 (15.40%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.02%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.56%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.34%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.45%) CISSP
15 1 (0.22%) CISM
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) LPIC
15 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.70%) QA
2 13 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.46%) NIST
4 7 (1.56%) NCSC
5 6 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.89%) ITGC
8 2 (0.45%) PMO
8 2 (0.45%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (14.51%) Docker
2 14 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (23.44%) Terraform
2 75 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 59 (13.17%) Ansible
4 28 (6.25%) Grafana
5 25 (5.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.56%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.34%) Nagios
7 6 (1.34%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.12%) SCCM
9 4 (0.89%) Puppet
10 3 (0.67%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.45%) Argo
11 2 (0.45%) MIIS
11 2 (0.45%) Nessus
11 2 (0.45%) Scalr
11 2 (0.45%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 99 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.03%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.58%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.46%) MuleSoft
5 16 (3.57%) Black Duck
5 16 (3.57%) Coverity
5 16 (3.57%) VMware
6 10 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.01%) Cisco
7 9 (2.01%) Databricks
8 8 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.79%) Sage
8 8 (1.79%) Splunk
8 8 (1.79%) Xamarin
9 6 (1.34%) Oracle
9 6 (1.34%) Veeam
10 5 (1.12%) 3PAR
10 5 (1.12%) Juniper
10 5 (1.12%) NetApp
10 5 (1.12%) SolarWinds