DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 756 1,243 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.42% 7.20% 11.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 8.80% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 352 794 898
10th Percentile £43,875 £42,500 £44,525
25th Percentile £53,813 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,313 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,620 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.49% -6.26% -

All Process and 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 9,162 14,128 11,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.97% 81.81% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,815 9,674 7,278
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 +7 310 £63,500 +10.43% 144
Berkshire +13 206 £70,000 +16.67% 77
Hampshire -9 158 £61,125 -5.96% 103
Isle of Wight -29 95 £73,000 - 2
Surrey -16 77 £72,500 +16.00% 43
Buckinghamshire +4 67 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Middlesex +17 39 £37,500 -38.86% 11
Oxfordshire -1 37 £50,000 -13.04% 35
Kent +6 28 £65,000 - 34
West Sussex -9 23 £60,000 -7.69% 27
East Sussex +4 20 £55,500 -22.11% 18
Sussex +20 6 £76,250 +27.08% 17
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (2.51%) Apache
2 15 (1.98%) Confluence
2 15 (1.98%) Oracle Application Server
3 13 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.46%) JBoss
5 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.93%) IIS
8 6 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.79%) Appian
9 5 (0.66%) nginx
10 4 (0.53%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.66%) Trello
2 3 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.26%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 324 (42.86%) Azure
2 199 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 175 (23.15%) AWS
4 64 (8.47%) GCP
5 49 (6.48%) Serverless
6 47 (6.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (5.42%) PaaS
7 41 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 40 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 39 (5.16%) SaaS
10 30 (3.97%) Vertex AI
11 27 (3.57%) SonarCloud
12 26 (3.44%) GitHub
13 25 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (3.31%) Pulumi
14 24 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 19 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.82%) VPN
2 36 (4.76%) Broadband
2 36 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.12%) DNS
4 15 (1.98%) Firewall
5 14 (1.85%) SSL
6 13 (1.72%) SSH
7 10 (1.32%) WAN
8 9 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.79%) LAN
10 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.66%) SMTP
11 4 (0.53%) Network Security
12 3 (0.40%) DHCP
13 2 (0.26%) FTP
13 2 (0.26%) HTTP
13 2 (0.26%) Internet
13 2 (0.26%) SAN
14 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.88%) Relational Database
3 48 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 41 (5.42%) Data Mining
5 32 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (3.70%) RDBMS
9 21 (2.78%) Power BI
10 15 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.98%) MySQL
10 15 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (1.85%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.32%) Big Data
13 10 (1.32%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 99 (13.10%) Git
2 48 (6.35%) Cucumber
3 41 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 41 (5.42%) JIRA
3 41 (5.42%) Visual Studio
4 40 (5.29%) Robot Framework
5 33 (4.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 28 (3.70%) MSBuild
7 27 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 25 (3.31%) Jaeger
9 20 (2.65%) Selenium
10 16 (2.12%) JUnit
11 14 (1.85%) GitLab
11 14 (1.85%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.46%) Maven
13 10 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.79%) Snyk
16 5 (0.66%) Appium
16 5 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 242 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 130 (17.20%) Law
3 121 (16.01%) Finance
4 109 (14.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (11.11%) Retail
7 43 (5.69%) Telecoms
8 36 (4.76%) Marketing
9 32 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.38%) Military
11 15 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.59%) Banking
13 11 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.93%) Legal
16 6 (0.79%) Automotive
17 5 (0.66%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.53%) Advertising
18 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 185 (24.47%) Architect
2 136 (17.99%) Lead
3 119 (15.74%) Senior
4 115 (15.21%) Software Architect
5 111 (14.68%) Developer
6 107 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 41 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (4.89%) Software Engineer
9 34 (4.50%) Test Automation Engineer
9 34 (4.50%) Test Engineer
10 33 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 31 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 29 (3.84%) Technical Architect
14 27 (3.57%) Analyst
14 27 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.31%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.17%) Java Developer
17 23 (3.04%) Salesforce Architect
18 22 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (18.25%) Middleware
2 118 (15.61%) .NET
3 83 (10.98%) REST
4 70 (9.26%) React
5 64 (8.47%) CSS
5 64 (8.47%) HTML
6 48 (6.35%) ASP.NET
6 48 (6.35%) RESTful
7 39 (5.16%) JSON
7 39 (5.16%) SOAP
8 37 (4.89%) XML
9 36 (4.76%) Kafka
10 34 (4.50%) Spring Boot
11 32 (4.23%) .NET Framework
11 32 (4.23%) AngularJS
11 32 (4.23%) Node.js
12 30 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (3.84%) Bootstrap
14 28 (3.70%) Spring
15 27 (3.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 51 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 49 (6.48%) Algorithms
4 35 (4.63%) e-Learning
4 35 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
6 32 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.51%) FMCG
9 17 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.25%) PKI
9 17 (2.25%) PMI
9 17 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.46%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 104 (13.76%) Linux
2 70 (9.26%) Windows
3 27 (3.57%) Unix
4 11 (1.46%) CentOS
4 11 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.06%) Android
5 8 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.93%) VMS
7 4 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (64.68%) Agile
2 281 (37.17%) Mentoring
3 210 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 196 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 194 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (25.53%) Computer Science
7 189 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 154 (20.37%) SDLC
9 141 (18.65%) Test Automation
10 125 (16.53%) Waterfall
11 123 (16.27%) Microservices
12 122 (16.14%) Configuration Management
13 121 (16.01%) Coaching
14 117 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence
14 117 (15.48%) Open Source
15 115 (15.21%) UML
16 112 (14.81%) Roadmaps
17 108 (14.29%) Product Management
18 101 (13.36%) Containerisation
19 98 (12.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.16%) JavaScript
2 147 (19.44%) Python
3 135 (17.86%) SQL
4 124 (16.40%) C#
5 87 (11.51%) PowerShell
6 78 (10.32%) Java
7 69 (9.13%) Bash
8 32 (4.23%) Go
9 23 (3.04%) Apex Code
10 22 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.25%) PHP
12 16 (2.12%) Bicep
13 10 (1.32%) X++
14 6 (0.79%) Scala
15 5 (0.66%) C
15 5 (0.66%) Perl
16 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.40%) C++
17 3 (0.40%) Groovy
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 246 (32.54%) Degree
2 168 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (15.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 115 (15.21%) Chartered Engineer
4 57 (7.54%) Security Cleared
5 56 (7.41%) Master's Degree
6 38 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 35 (4.63%) SC Cleared
8 23 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.91%) DV Cleared
10 20 (2.65%) DBS Check
11 18 (2.38%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.19%) ISTQB
14 8 (1.06%) ISEB
15 6 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
16 5 (0.66%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.66%) CISSP
17 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (15.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 91 (12.04%) QA
3 41 (5.42%) GDPR
4 29 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.84%) NIST
5 28 (3.70%) Data Quality
6 16 (2.12%) NCSC
7 10 (1.32%) SLA
8 9 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) CDISC
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.13%) PMO
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (18.78%) Docker
2 28 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) Postfix
7 1 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 134 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 110 (14.55%) Terraform
3 76 (10.05%) Ansible
4 37 (4.89%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.31%) Argo
5 25 (3.31%) Kustomize
6 12 (1.59%) Grafana
7 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.40%) Nessus
9 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) SCCM
10 2 (0.26%) Kubespray
10 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) MaaS360
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 162 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.66%) Google
3 36 (4.76%) IBM
4 35 (4.63%) Red Hat
5 30 (3.97%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.57%) Databricks
7 24 (3.17%) Oracle
7 24 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 15 (1.98%) VMware
10 12 (1.59%) Rackspace
11 11 (1.46%) Thales
12 8 (1.06%) Solace
13 7 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.93%) Rockwell
13 7 (0.93%) Siemens
13 7 (0.93%) UiPath
14 6 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
14 6 (0.79%) Black Duck
14 6 (0.79%) ServiceNow