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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 691 607 991
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.07% 6.93% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 7.87% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 525 272 637
10th Percentile £43,225 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -1.95% -1.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,700 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +3.70% -3.57%

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 12,150 7,709 11,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.61% 88.06% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,654 4,170 7,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,638
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -9 265 £65,000 +2.36% 164
Hampshire -12 187 £66,250 +9.50% 70
Surrey +3 109 £65,000 -8.77% 53
Buckinghamshire +12 102 £60,000 -5.88% 41
Berkshire -15 102 £70,000 -5.08% 84
West Sussex +9 83 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Oxfordshire -1 61 £63,750 +27.50% 40
Kent -29 27 £33,500 -27.57% 21
Isle of Wight +4 7 £50,000 -31.51% 5
East Sussex -26 6 £85,000 +47.19% 14
Sussex -3 5 £60,000 +33.33% 1
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 21 (3.04%) Confluence
2 10 (1.45%) IIS
2 10 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.72%) nginx
5 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.87%) Simulink
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.87%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 417 (60.35%) Azure
2 220 (31.84%) Azure DevOps
3 187 (27.06%) AWS
4 71 (10.27%) SaaS
5 55 (7.96%) GitHub
6 41 (5.93%) Serverless
7 38 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (5.21%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.49%) GCP
10 29 (4.20%) Azure AKS
10 29 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 29 (4.20%) PaaS
11 24 (3.47%) Azure AI
11 24 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.33%) Datadog
13 22 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
13 22 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (3.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.62%) Firewall
2 21 (3.04%) VPN
3 13 (1.88%) DNS
4 7 (1.01%) MQTT
5 6 (0.87%) Internet
6 5 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) IPv4
9 2 (0.29%) IPv6
9 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 51 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.18%) Power BI
5 22 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.03%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.88%) MySQL
8 11 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.30%) Metadata
11 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.16%) Redis
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (14.76%) Git
2 57 (8.25%) GitLab
3 46 (6.66%) JIRA
4 34 (4.92%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (2.17%) Selenium
7 10 (1.45%) JUnit
8 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.01%) NUnit
10 6 (0.87%) JMeter
10 6 (0.87%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.72%) Mockito
12 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.43%) PHPUnit
13 3 (0.43%) Snyk
14 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 192 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.67%) Finance
3 85 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.89%) Retail
6 19 (2.75%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.60%) Games
8 17 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.32%) Advertising
10 14 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.88%) Marketing
12 12 (1.74%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.01%) Aviation
13 7 (1.01%) Legal
14 6 (0.87%) Electronics
14 6 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.72%) Automotive
15 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Law
17 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (21.42%) Developer
2 142 (20.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (16.21%) Senior
4 92 (13.31%) Lead
5 75 (10.85%) Software Engineer
6 71 (10.27%) .NET Developer
7 50 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (5.79%) Architect
9 32 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (2.89%) Analyst
13 20 (2.89%) Lead Developer
14 19 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.60%) Team Leader
16 17 (2.46%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.46%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.32%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (21.42%) .NET
2 87 (12.59%) ASP.NET
3 65 (9.41%) React
4 64 (9.26%) .NET Core
4 64 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 63 (9.12%) HTML
6 60 (8.68%) CSS
7 53 (7.67%) REST
7 53 (7.67%) RESTful
8 38 (5.50%) Blazor
9 33 (4.78%) ARM Templates
10 32 (4.63%) Entity Framework
11 28 (4.05%) YAML
12 24 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.33%) JSON
13 23 (3.33%) Node.js
14 21 (3.04%) ML.NET
14 21 (3.04%) Spring
15 20 (2.89%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.89%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (1.74%) Robotics
11 11 (1.59%) IoT
11 11 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.16%) Life Science
15 7 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.08%) Linux
2 39 (5.64%) Windows
3 28 (4.05%) Ubuntu
4 17 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.74%) Debian
6 10 (1.45%) CentOS
6 10 (1.45%) VMS
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.58%) Android
9 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.96%) Agile
3 158 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (19.39%) Software Engineering
7 113 (16.35%) AI
8 106 (15.34%) Microservices
9 100 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 92 (13.31%) Containerisation
12 83 (12.01%) Computer Science
13 82 (11.87%) Test Automation
14 77 (11.14%) Observability
15 75 (10.85%) Scrum
16 65 (9.41%) Analytics
16 65 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (8.97%) Roadmaps
17 62 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 60 (8.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (24.17%) Python
2 158 (22.87%) C#
3 139 (20.12%) SQL
4 96 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 65 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 63 (9.12%) Bash
7 55 (7.96%) Java
8 43 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.64%) C++
10 31 (4.49%) Bicep
11 23 (3.33%) C
12 21 (3.04%) PHP
13 20 (2.89%) Go
14 12 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.30%) Groovy
16 8 (1.16%) Apex Code
16 8 (1.16%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.16%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.72%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 113 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.62%) Degree
3 71 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.87%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.00%) QA
2 16 (2.32%) PCI DSS
3 15 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.16%) NIST
5 8 (1.16%) WCAG
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) GDPR
8 2 (0.29%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (22.87%) Docker
2 17 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.01%) Firmware
5 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.72%) 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
1 172 (24.89%) Terraform
2 147 (21.27%) Kubernetes
3 78 (11.29%) Ansible
4 44 (6.37%) Grafana
5 36 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.88%) Nagios
7 12 (1.74%) Kibana
8 11 (1.59%) Puppet
9 9 (1.30%) ZABBIX
10 8 (1.16%) Argo
11 6 (0.87%) Podman
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Istio
12 5 (0.72%) Packer
13 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Scalr
14 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 160 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.20%) Red Hat
3 21 (3.04%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.60%) Oracle
5 15 (2.17%) Splunk
6 14 (2.03%) Databricks
7 13 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.88%) Google
8 12 (1.74%) Facebook
8 12 (1.74%) YouTube
9 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.59%) VMware
10 10 (1.45%) AppDynamics
10 10 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.30%) SAP
12 8 (1.16%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Cisco
14 6 (0.87%) New Relic
14 6 (0.87%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.72%) Juniper