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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 34 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 705 493 973
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.72% 5.50% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 6.23% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 523 252 537
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,750 £82,813 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +1.12% +1.00% -0.99%

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 13,643 7,911 10,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.06% 88.32% 81.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,730 4,213 5,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 1 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 1 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 +15 266 £67,500 +3.85% 226
Hampshire -8 186 £65,000 +4.00% 95
Surrey +13 132 £64,000 -8.57% 61
Berkshire +11 111 £82,500 +26.92% 119
Buckinghamshire +6 80 £65,000 -7.14% 56
Oxfordshire +7 75 £62,500 +4.17% 54
West Sussex +7 70 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Kent -39 24 £33,500 -10.67% 16
East Sussex -9 11 £97,500 +62.50% 22
Isle of Wight 0 6 £50,000 -31.51% 1
Middlesex -3 3 £38,500 +2.67% 2
Sussex -13 3 £65,000 +44.44%
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 (2.98%) Confluence
2 14 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) IIS
4 6 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) JBoss
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.85%) Simulink
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 417 (59.15%) Azure
2 228 (32.34%) Azure DevOps
3 199 (28.23%) AWS
4 70 (9.93%) SaaS
5 62 (8.79%) GitHub
6 50 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 43 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (5.82%) Serverless
9 39 (5.53%) GCP
10 38 (5.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 32 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (4.26%) Azure AKS
12 30 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
13 27 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (3.83%) PaaS
14 24 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (3.40%) Azure AI
15 23 (3.26%) Entra ID
16 21 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.40%) VPN
2 30 (4.26%) Firewall
3 14 (1.99%) DNS
4 9 (1.28%) Internet
5 7 (0.99%) MQTT
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) BGP
9 2 (0.28%) DHCP
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%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.48%) SQL Server
2 56 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (7.66%) MongoDB
4 36 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.11%) Power BI
5 23 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 21 (2.98%) MySQL
7 20 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.55%) Metadata
9 15 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.70%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.28%) Redis
11 9 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
13 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 120 (17.02%) Git
2 49 (6.95%) JIRA
3 44 (6.24%) GitLab
4 36 (5.11%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (1.70%) Selenium
7 8 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.99%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.85%) JUnit
9 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
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%) Postman
General
1 197 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.30%) Finance
3 64 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (2.98%) Retail
6 19 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.27%) Marketing
8 15 (2.13%) Advertising
8 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.70%) Games
11 8 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.85%) Aviation
12 6 (0.85%) Banking
12 6 (0.85%) Electronics
13 5 (0.71%) Legal
13 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Automotive
14 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (22.41%) Senior
2 150 (21.28%) Developer
3 149 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 85 (12.06%) Lead
5 77 (10.92%) .NET Developer
6 66 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 51 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (7.09%) Senior DevOps
9 39 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 37 (5.25%) Architect
11 27 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Project Manager
15 23 (3.26%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.12%) Analyst
16 22 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (2.84%) Senior Developer
18 19 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (23.55%) Terraform
2 141 (20.00%) .NET
3 87 (12.34%) ASP.NET
4 68 (9.65%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.08%) HTML
5 64 (9.08%) React
6 62 (8.79%) CSS
7 59 (8.37%) .NET Core
8 50 (7.09%) REST
9 49 (6.95%) RESTful
10 36 (5.11%) Blazor
11 30 (4.26%) ARM Templates
11 30 (4.26%) Entity Framework
12 28 (3.97%) Node.js
13 21 (2.98%) YAML
14 20 (2.84%) HTML5
14 20 (2.84%) ML.NET
14 20 (2.84%) Spring
14 20 (2.84%) Spring Boot
15 19 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.41%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.13%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
10 15 (2.13%) Robotics
11 12 (1.70%) IoT
12 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.99%) Life Science
14 7 (0.99%) Social Media
15 6 (0.85%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 133 (18.87%) Linux
2 53 (7.52%) Windows
3 24 (3.40%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.42%) Debian
7 6 (0.85%) VMS
8 5 (0.71%) CentOS
9 4 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.57%) Rocky
9 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (47.80%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.14%) Agile
3 143 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (18.87%) Software Engineering
7 126 (17.87%) AI
8 104 (14.75%) Mentoring
9 99 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 97 (13.76%) Microservices
11 89 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 86 (12.20%) Computer Science
13 83 (11.77%) Test Automation
14 82 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
14 82 (11.63%) Scrum
15 75 (10.64%) Containerisation
16 72 (10.21%) Analytics
16 72 (10.21%) Observability
17 61 (8.65%) Roadmaps
18 58 (8.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (23.55%) C#
2 165 (23.40%) Python
3 135 (19.15%) SQL
4 94 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 60 (8.51%) Bash
6 51 (7.23%) Java
7 50 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 48 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.11%) C++
10 31 (4.40%) Go
11 28 (3.97%) Bicep
12 27 (3.83%) PHP
13 20 (2.84%) C
14 13 (1.84%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.84%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.13%) Groovy
16 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.99%) Rust
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.71%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 123 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.18%) Degree
3 78 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.85%) ICAEW
9 6 (0.85%) PMP
10 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.77%) QA
2 21 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.42%) GDPR
5 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (1.13%) NIST
8 7 (0.99%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.14%) IASME
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 150 (21.28%) Docker
2 15 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.28%) Firmware
3 9 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) KVM
5 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.28%) iptables
6 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.28%) vSphere
6 2 (0.28%) Xen
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 160 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 84 (11.91%) Ansible
3 44 (6.24%) Grafana
4 37 (5.25%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.70%) Kibana
6 9 (1.28%) Proxmox
6 9 (1.28%) Puppet
7 8 (1.13%) Argo
7 8 (1.13%) Nagios
8 7 (0.99%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.85%) Packer
10 5 (0.71%) Istio
10 5 (0.71%) Podman
11 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.28%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.28%) Rancher
14 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 168 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.84%) Google
3 18 (2.55%) VMware
4 17 (2.41%) Oracle
5 15 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 14 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.84%) Databricks
8 12 (1.70%) Facebook
8 12 (1.70%) YouTube
9 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.56%) Splunk
10 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.28%) Informatica
11 9 (1.28%) SAP
11 9 (1.28%) Talend
12 8 (1.13%) IBM
13 7 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.99%) New Relic
13 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft