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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -34 +2 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 380 769 777
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.59% 8.62% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 9.75% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 267 419 542
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £43,869
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £79,375 £81,250 £76,081
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 8,445 7,889 8,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.84% 88.40% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,084 3,707 6,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £28,865
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -40 130 £60,000 -8.05% 170
Hampshire -35 76 £75,000 +11.11% 74
Buckinghamshire +1 63 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Surrey -24 57 £61,250 -12.50% 49
Berkshire -47 53 £50,000 -33.33% 114
Kent -10 37 £65,000 +15.56% 36
West Sussex -1 29 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Middlesex +7 21 £37,500 - 1
East Sussex -10 14 £78,750 +57.50% 33
Oxfordshire -22 14 £70,000 +4.25% 26
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 28
Sussex +6 6 £45,000 -36.40% 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 18 (4.74%) IIS
2 6 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) Appian
5 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.53%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 225 (59.21%) Azure
2 162 (42.63%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (24.21%) AWS
4 55 (14.47%) GitHub
5 39 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.84%) PaaS
6 26 (6.84%) SaaS
7 25 (6.58%) GCP
8 22 (5.79%) Entra ID
9 21 (5.53%) Serverless
10 20 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.42%) IaaS
14 10 (2.63%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.89%) DNS
2 15 (3.95%) DHCP
3 14 (3.68%) VPN
4 13 (3.42%) Firewall
5 12 (3.16%) SAN
6 6 (1.58%) LAN
6 6 (1.58%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.58%) Unified Communications
6 6 (1.58%) VoIP
6 6 (1.58%) WAN
6 6 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.53%) HTTP
9 1 (0.26%) AMQP
9 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.00%) Power BI
3 15 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.89%) MySQL
5 8 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.58%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.79%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.53%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.53%) Looker
10 2 (0.53%) Metadata
10 2 (0.53%) Redis
10 2 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (12.89%) Git
2 26 (6.84%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.84%) Selenium
3 20 (5.26%) Robot Framework
4 19 (5.00%) Snyk
5 17 (4.47%) GitLab
6 10 (2.63%) JIRA
7 6 (1.58%) MLflow
7 6 (1.58%) Storybook
8 5 (1.32%) git-flow
8 5 (1.32%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.53%) Appium
11 2 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.53%) JUnit
11 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.53%) TestRail
12 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 115 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.05%) Finance
3 57 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.95%) Law
7 10 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.63%) Marketing
8 8 (2.11%) Games
9 7 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.58%) Banking
10 6 (1.58%) Billing
10 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.05%) Legal
11 4 (1.05%) Retail
12 3 (0.79%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.53%) Advertising
13 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (21.84%) Developer
2 60 (15.79%) Lead
3 50 (13.16%) Senior
4 46 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.37%) Architect
7 22 (5.79%) Analyst
8 20 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.21%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.68%) IT Engineer
12 14 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (3.42%) IT Support
13 13 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (3.16%) Manufacturing Engineer
14 12 (3.16%) Software Support Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) .NET Developer
15 11 (2.89%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (26.58%) .NET
2 51 (13.42%) React
3 30 (7.89%) .NET Framework
4 29 (7.63%) REST
5 26 (6.84%) CSS
6 25 (6.58%) HTML
7 24 (6.32%) ASP.NET
8 20 (5.26%) Middleware
9 19 (5.00%) WinForms
10 16 (4.21%) React Native
11 15 (3.95%) ARM Templates
11 15 (3.95%) Kafka
12 14 (3.68%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.42%) .NET Core
13 13 (3.42%) Bootstrap
13 13 (3.42%) Entity Framework
14 12 (3.16%) RESTful
15 11 (2.89%) Blazor
15 11 (2.89%) SOAP
16 10 (2.63%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.74%) Low-Code
3 18 (4.74%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 11 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.58%) Life Science
8 6 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Animation
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.79%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.95%) Windows
2 38 (10.00%) Linux
3 15 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.84%) Android
6 7 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.84%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (50.53%) CI/CD
2 183 (48.16%) Agile
3 102 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (19.74%) Mentoring
6 70 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (17.89%) Software Engineering
8 58 (15.26%) Computer Science
9 48 (12.63%) Scrum
10 47 (12.37%) Test Automation
11 45 (11.84%) AI
12 39 (10.26%) Coaching
12 39 (10.26%) Microservices
13 36 (9.47%) Waterfall
14 35 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (8.68%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (8.42%) SDLC
17 31 (8.16%) Containerisation
18 29 (7.63%) Machine Learning
18 29 (7.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.21%) C#
2 71 (18.68%) SQL
3 65 (17.11%) Python
4 40 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.37%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.84%) Java
7 21 (5.53%) Bash
8 13 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.63%) Bicep
10 8 (2.11%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.84%) C++
11 7 (1.84%) Go
12 2 (0.53%) ABAP
12 2 (0.53%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Delphi
12 2 (0.53%) Perl
12 2 (0.53%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) VB
12 2 (0.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 79 (20.79%) Degree
2 56 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (8.42%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.05%) SC Cleared
6 22 (5.79%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.47%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.42%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.89%) PMI Certification
10 10 (2.63%) PMP
11 8 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.11%) Chartered Engineer
11 8 (2.11%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.58%) CCNP
12 6 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.32%) ISEB
14 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.26%) QA
2 17 (4.47%) NIST
3 12 (3.16%) PMO
4 8 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.84%) NCSC
6 5 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
7 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.79%) GDPR
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (12.89%) Docker
2 29 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (21.32%) Terraform
2 57 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.79%) Ansible
4 16 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.95%) SCCM
6 13 (3.42%) vCenter Server
7 11 (2.89%) Grafana
8 9 (2.37%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.79%) MaaS360
9 3 (0.79%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.53%) Argo
10 2 (0.53%) Nessus
10 2 (0.53%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.26%) CASB
11 1 (0.26%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.53%) VMware
3 18 (4.74%) Black Duck
3 18 (4.74%) Coverity
4 17 (4.47%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.42%) Veeam
6 12 (3.16%) 3PAR
6 12 (3.16%) MuleSoft
6 12 (3.16%) NetApp
6 12 (3.16%) Sage
6 12 (3.16%) SolarWinds
6 12 (3.16%) Xamarin
7 9 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.11%) Google
9 7 (1.84%) Cisco
9 7 (1.84%) Databricks
9 7 (1.84%) Zoho
10 6 (1.58%) Oracle
11 4 (1.05%) Rackspace
11 4 (1.05%) Telerik