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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 705 462 919
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.68% 5.18% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 5.86% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 507 252 526
10th Percentile £45,449 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 13,884 7,883 9,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.55% 88.35% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,872 4,271 5,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +28 260 £70,000 +7.69% 72
Hampshire -17 180 £67,500 +8.00% 23
Surrey +13 133 £64,000 -8.57% 19
Berkshire +9 106 £85,000 +25.93% 42
Oxfordshire +18 79 £62,500 -1.96% 17
Buckinghamshire +14 75 £65,000 - 19
West Sussex +5 70 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Kent -34 26 £38,000 +1.33% 9
East Sussex -6 15 £85,000 +45.92% 4
Isle of Wight +2 6 £50,000 -31.51%
Middlesex -8 5 £38,500 +2.67% 1
Sussex -13 2 £67,500 +50.00% 2
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 25 (3.55%) Confluence
2 14 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.42%) IIS
4 6 (0.85%) nginx
5 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) CMS
7 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.85%) Simulink
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 420 (59.57%) Azure
2 236 (33.48%) Azure DevOps
3 199 (28.23%) AWS
4 72 (10.21%) SaaS
5 64 (9.08%) GitHub
6 50 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 43 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (5.96%) GCP
9 39 (5.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 32 (4.54%) Azure AKS
10 32 (4.54%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
11 31 (4.40%) Serverless
12 29 (4.11%) PaaS
13 25 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (3.40%) Azure AI
15 22 (3.12%) Entra ID
16 21 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (2.98%) Datadog
17 20 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.54%) VPN
2 29 (4.11%) Firewall
3 15 (2.13%) DNS
4 9 (1.28%) Internet
5 7 (0.99%) MQTT
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
6 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) BGP
9 2 (0.28%) IPv4
9 2 (0.28%) IPv6
9 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 57 (8.09%) MongoDB
3 56 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (4.96%) Power BI
6 23 (3.26%) MySQL
7 21 (2.98%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.70%) Metadata
10 15 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.13%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.84%) Redis
12 12 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.70%) Star Schema
13 9 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.85%) Spatial Data
15 4 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 109 (15.46%) Git
2 49 (6.95%) JIRA
3 35 (4.96%) GitLab
4 26 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.56%) Selenium
6 10 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.99%) JMeter
8 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.85%) JUnit
9 5 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.43%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.43%) Mocha
10 3 (0.43%) NUnit
10 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Snyk
10 3 (0.43%) Storybook
10 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 196 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.72%) Finance
3 61 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.55%) Retail
6 16 (2.27%) Marketing
7 15 (2.13%) Advertising
7 15 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.84%) Aerospace
8 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.56%) Games
11 7 (0.99%) Banking
12 6 (0.85%) Electronics
13 5 (0.71%) Aviation
13 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Automotive
14 4 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 163 (23.12%) Senior
2 150 (21.28%) Developer
3 144 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 80 (11.35%) .NET Developer
4 80 (11.35%) Lead
5 71 (10.07%) Software Engineer
6 53 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
7 48 (6.81%) Senior DevOps
8 40 (5.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 34 (4.82%) Architect
10 28 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 25 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.55%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (3.26%) Lead Developer
15 21 (2.98%) Analyst
16 20 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (22.27%) Terraform
2 148 (20.99%) .NET
3 93 (13.19%) ASP.NET
4 71 (10.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.08%) HTML
6 63 (8.94%) React
7 62 (8.79%) CSS
8 58 (8.23%) .NET Core
9 50 (7.09%) RESTful
10 41 (5.82%) REST
11 36 (5.11%) Blazor
11 36 (5.11%) Node.js
12 33 (4.68%) ARM Templates
13 30 (4.26%) Entity Framework
14 22 (3.12%) Vue
15 20 (2.84%) ML.NET
16 19 (2.70%) HTML5
17 17 (2.41%) jQuery
17 17 (2.41%) Kafka
18 16 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 67 (9.50%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.41%) Robotics
9 16 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.27%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.70%) IoT
12 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.99%) Life Science
14 7 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 125 (17.73%) Linux
2 55 (7.80%) Windows
3 23 (3.26%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.28%) Debian
7 4 (0.57%) Android
7 4 (0.57%) CentOS
7 4 (0.57%) Rocky
7 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (47.23%) CI/CD
2 275 (39.01%) Agile
3 152 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (19.57%) Software Engineering
5 134 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (18.87%) AI
7 131 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (15.60%) Mentoring
9 106 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 94 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 91 (12.91%) Microservices
12 88 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
13 86 (12.20%) Computer Science
14 82 (11.63%) Test Automation
15 78 (11.06%) Scrum
16 76 (10.78%) Analytics
17 75 (10.64%) Containerisation
18 73 (10.35%) Observability
19 58 (8.23%) SDLC
19 58 (8.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.11%) C#
2 156 (22.13%) Python
3 135 (19.15%) SQL
4 98 (13.90%) JavaScript
5 58 (8.23%) Bash
6 55 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.38%) PowerShell
8 41 (5.82%) Java
9 32 (4.54%) C++
10 31 (4.40%) Bicep
10 31 (4.40%) Go
11 26 (3.69%) PHP
12 20 (2.84%) C
13 17 (2.41%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.99%) Rust
16 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 115 (16.31%) Degree
2 113 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.84%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.42%) PMP
11 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.71%) ICAEW
12 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.92%) QA
2 18 (2.55%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.56%) NIST
5 10 (1.42%) GDPR
6 9 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.71%) WCAG
8 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.28%) GRC
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.28%) MISRA
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) IASME
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 140 (19.86%) Docker
2 18 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (2.41%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.28%) Firmware
4 9 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.43%) KVM
7 2 (0.28%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) vSphere
7 2 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 158 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 71 (10.07%) Ansible
3 45 (6.38%) Grafana
4 38 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.13%) Argo
5 8 (1.13%) Kibana
5 8 (1.13%) Proxmox
5 8 (1.13%) Puppet
6 7 (0.99%) Nagios
7 6 (0.85%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.71%) Istio
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.71%) Podman
9 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
12 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 168 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.26%) Google
3 17 (2.41%) VMware
4 14 (1.99%) Red Hat
4 14 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.70%) Databricks
5 12 (1.70%) Facebook
5 12 (1.70%) Oracle
5 12 (1.70%) YouTube
6 10 (1.42%) New Relic
6 10 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.42%) Splunk
7 9 (1.28%) Informatica
7 9 (1.28%) Pega
7 9 (1.28%) Talend
8 8 (1.13%) SAP
9 7 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.57%) HP
10 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft