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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 423 597 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.52% 7.90% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 8.75% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 316 376 684
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,438 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +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 9,232 6,819 11,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 76.86% 90.28% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,758 3,326 8,704
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -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 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 7 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 -23 158 £50,000 -23.08% 94
Hampshire -26 92 £75,000 +11.11% 53
Buckinghamshire +4 72 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Berkshire -33 72 £50,000 -33.33% 43
Surrey -31 57 £62,500 -16.67% 40
West Sussex +4 39 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Kent -7 29 £80,000 +39.13% 13
Middlesex +7 19 - -
East Sussex -10 16 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Oxfordshire -19 14 £72,500 +11.54% 20
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 6
Sussex -10 2 £75,000 - 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 17 (4.02%) IIS
2 6 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.18%) Confluence
4 4 (0.95%) Apache
5 3 (0.71%) Appian
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 248 (58.63%) Azure
2 178 (42.08%) Azure DevOps
3 100 (23.64%) AWS
4 62 (14.66%) GitHub
5 43 (10.17%) Power Platform
6 30 (7.09%) PaaS
6 30 (7.09%) SaaS
7 26 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (5.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 25 (5.91%) GCP
9 23 (5.44%) Entra ID
9 23 (5.44%) Serverless
10 17 (4.02%) IaaS
11 16 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.31%) Azure AKS
12 14 (3.31%) OpenShift
13 12 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.91%) Firewall
2 23 (5.44%) DNS
3 16 (3.78%) VPN
4 8 (1.89%) DHCP
4 8 (1.89%) SAN
5 3 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) LAN
6 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.47%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.47%) VoIP
6 2 (0.47%) WAN
6 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.24%) Modbus
7 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.49%) Power BI
3 15 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.13%) MySQL
6 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.65%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.71%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.47%) GIS
12 2 (0.47%) Metadata
12 2 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (13.48%) Git
2 35 (8.27%) GitLab
3 29 (6.86%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.62%) Selenium
5 20 (4.73%) Robot Framework
6 19 (4.49%) Snyk
7 17 (4.02%) JIRA
8 6 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.42%) MLflow
9 5 (1.18%) git-flow
9 5 (1.18%) JUnit
9 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.71%) Mockito
12 2 (0.47%) NUnit
12 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 118 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (20.33%) Finance
4 20 (4.73%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.55%) Law
6 14 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.07%) Retail
8 11 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.36%) Billing
10 8 (1.89%) Games
11 7 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.42%) Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.95%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.71%) Advertising
15 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.71%) Legal
15 3 (0.71%) Marketing
15 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (22.46%) Developer
2 67 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (15.13%) Lead
4 60 (14.18%) Senior
5 39 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.62%) Architect
8 27 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (5.44%) Senior DevOps
10 22 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.96%) Analyst
12 16 (3.78%) Power Platform Developer
13 15 (3.55%) IT Engineer
14 13 (3.07%) Administrator
14 13 (3.07%) DevOps Administrator
14 13 (3.07%) IT Support
14 13 (3.07%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (3.07%) Support Engineer
14 13 (3.07%) Systems Administrator
15 12 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.59%) .NET
2 51 (12.06%) React
3 35 (8.27%) REST
4 34 (8.04%) CSS
5 32 (7.57%) HTML
6 29 (6.86%) .NET Framework
7 28 (6.62%) ASP.NET
8 24 (5.67%) Middleware
9 20 (4.73%) React Native
10 18 (4.26%) WinForms
11 17 (4.02%) ARM Templates
11 17 (4.02%) Bootstrap
12 15 (3.55%) .NET Core
12 15 (3.55%) Entity Framework
12 15 (3.55%) Kafka
13 14 (3.31%) RESTful
14 13 (3.07%) AngularJS
14 13 (3.07%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (3.07%) SOAP
14 13 (3.07%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.67%) Low-Code
3 22 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.36%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.42%) Life Science
9 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.71%) Animation
11 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.24%) Linux
2 48 (11.35%) Windows
3 15 (3.55%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.18%) VMS
7 4 (0.95%) Android
7 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Unix
8 3 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (52.72%) CI/CD
2 180 (42.55%) Agile
3 124 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (14.42%) Computer Science
7 60 (14.18%) Software Engineering
8 56 (13.24%) Mentoring
9 53 (12.53%) AI
9 53 (12.53%) Scrum
10 52 (12.29%) Test Automation
11 49 (11.58%) Containerisation
12 42 (9.93%) Microservices
13 38 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (8.27%) Observability
15 35 (8.27%) SDLC
16 33 (7.80%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (7.33%) Waterfall
18 30 (7.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 94 (22.22%) Python
2 81 (19.15%) C#
3 77 (18.20%) SQL
4 49 (11.58%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.51%) Bash
6 35 (8.27%) Java
7 34 (8.04%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.96%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.55%) C++
10 13 (3.07%) Apex Code
10 13 (3.07%) Go
10 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.36%) Bicep
12 7 (1.65%) C
13 3 (0.71%) ABAP
13 3 (0.71%) PHP
13 3 (0.71%) R
14 2 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 2 (0.47%) VB6
Qualifications
1 80 (18.91%) Degree
2 71 (16.78%) Security Cleared
3 44 (10.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.51%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.09%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.73%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.71%) CISSP
12 3 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.47%) CCNP
13 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.57%) QA
2 14 (3.31%) NIST
3 9 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.89%) PMO
5 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.65%) NCSC
6 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.95%) ITGC
8 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (14.89%) Docker
2 23 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (24.11%) Terraform
2 74 (17.49%) Kubernetes
3 55 (13.00%) Ansible
4 21 (4.96%) Grafana
5 19 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.13%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.89%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.89%) SCCM
8 5 (1.18%) Nagios
9 3 (0.71%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.47%) Argo
10 2 (0.47%) Nessus
10 2 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.47%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.24%) CASB
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 105 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.44%) Salesforce
3 21 (4.96%) VMware
4 20 (4.73%) Red Hat
5 18 (4.26%) Black Duck
5 18 (4.26%) Coverity
6 17 (4.02%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.84%) Sage
7 12 (2.84%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.13%) Veeam
9 8 (1.89%) 3PAR
9 8 (1.89%) Cisco
9 8 (1.89%) NetApp
9 8 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.65%) Splunk
11 6 (1.42%) Google
12 5 (1.18%) Oracle
12 5 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.18%) Zoho