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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -32 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 382 768 734
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.64% 8.53% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 9.66% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 267 421 497
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £44,977
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 8,407 7,951 8,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.06% 88.32% 87.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,028 3,762 5,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,775 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,828 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -37 128 £60,000 -7.69% 136
Hampshire -38 77 £75,000 +11.11% 55
Buckinghamshire +6 60 £60,000 +4.35% 21
Surrey -26 57 £62,500 -10.71% 41
Berkshire -51 53 £50,000 -33.33% 94
Kent -6 37 £60,000 +6.67% 27
West Sussex +1 32 £70,000 +16.67% 26
Middlesex +7 21 £37,500 - 1
Oxfordshire -17 15 £70,000 +4.81% 21
East Sussex -8 14 £78,750 +57.50% 21
Isle of Wight - 8 £41,500 - 17
Sussex +8 6 £45,000 -32.33% 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 (4.45%) IIS
2 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (0.79%) Appian
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.52%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 229 (59.95%) Azure
2 165 (43.19%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (24.35%) AWS
4 54 (14.14%) GitHub
5 38 (9.95%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.81%) GCP
6 26 (6.81%) SaaS
7 24 (6.28%) PaaS
8 22 (5.76%) Entra ID
9 21 (5.50%) Serverless
10 19 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (3.40%) Amazon S3
15 12 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.14%) IaaS
16 10 (2.62%) Azure AKS
17 9 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (2.09%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.12%) DNS
2 16 (4.19%) DHCP
3 13 (3.40%) Firewall
3 13 (3.40%) VPN
4 12 (3.14%) SAN
5 6 (1.57%) LAN
5 6 (1.57%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.57%) Unified Communications
5 6 (1.57%) VoIP
5 6 (1.57%) WAN
5 6 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.52%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) AMQP
8 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.26%) MPLS
8 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.97%) Power BI
3 15 (3.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.88%) MySQL
5 8 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.57%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.79%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.52%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.52%) Looker
10 2 (0.52%) Metadata
10 2 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (12.83%) Git
2 27 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.54%) Selenium
4 20 (5.24%) Robot Framework
5 19 (4.97%) GitLab
5 19 (4.97%) Snyk
6 9 (2.36%) JIRA
7 6 (1.57%) MLflow
7 6 (1.57%) Storybook
8 5 (1.31%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.31%) git-flow
8 5 (1.31%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.52%) Appium
10 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 116 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.68%) Finance
3 56 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.24%) Manufacturing
5 17 (4.45%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.66%) Law
7 10 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.62%) Marketing
8 9 (2.36%) Games
9 7 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.57%) Billing
10 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.31%) Banking
11 5 (1.31%) Legal
12 4 (1.05%) Retail
13 3 (0.79%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 80 (20.94%) Developer
2 60 (15.71%) Lead
3 51 (13.35%) Senior
4 46 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.26%) Software Engineer
6 29 (7.59%) Architect
7 22 (5.76%) Analyst
8 19 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (4.45%) Support Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (3.66%) IT Engineer
12 13 (3.40%) IT Support
12 13 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.14%) Manufacturing Engineer
13 12 (3.14%) Software Support Engineer
14 11 (2.88%) .NET Developer
14 11 (2.88%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (25.92%) .NET
2 50 (13.09%) React
3 30 (7.85%) .NET Framework
4 27 (7.07%) REST
5 25 (6.54%) CSS
6 24 (6.28%) HTML
7 23 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 20 (5.24%) Middleware
9 19 (4.97%) WinForms
10 15 (3.93%) Kafka
10 15 (3.93%) React Native
11 14 (3.66%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.66%) ARM Templates
12 13 (3.40%) .NET Core
12 13 (3.40%) Entity Framework
13 12 (3.14%) Bootstrap
13 12 (3.14%) RESTful
14 11 (2.88%) Blazor
15 10 (2.62%) Next.js
15 10 (2.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.45%) Low-Code
3 17 (4.45%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 11 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.57%) Life Science
8 6 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.57%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.79%) Animation
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.79%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.52%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.87%) Windows
2 38 (9.95%) Linux
3 15 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (2.09%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.83%) Android
6 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (50.26%) CI/CD
2 182 (47.64%) Agile
3 100 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (20.42%) Mentoring
6 71 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (17.80%) Software Engineering
8 58 (15.18%) Computer Science
9 47 (12.30%) Scrum
9 47 (12.30%) Test Automation
10 45 (11.78%) AI
11 39 (10.21%) Coaching
11 39 (10.21%) Microservices
12 37 (9.69%) Waterfall
13 35 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (8.38%) SDLC
16 30 (7.85%) Containerisation
17 28 (7.33%) DevSecOps
17 28 (7.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.37%) C#
2 70 (18.32%) SQL
3 63 (16.49%) Python
4 39 (10.21%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.33%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 25 (6.54%) Java
8 21 (5.50%) Bash
9 13 (3.40%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.88%) Bicep
11 7 (1.83%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.83%) C++
11 7 (1.83%) Go
12 2 (0.52%) ABAP
12 2 (0.52%) C
12 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.52%) Perl
12 2 (0.52%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) VB
13 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (20.16%) Degree
2 56 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (8.38%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.28%) Azure Certification
6 23 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 17 (4.45%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (2.88%) PMI Certification
11 10 (2.62%) PMP
12 9 (2.36%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.09%) ISTQB
14 6 (1.57%) CCNP
14 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (1.31%) ISEB
15 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.47%) QA
2 16 (4.19%) NIST
3 12 (3.14%) PMO
4 9 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.83%) NCSC
7 5 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.79%) GDPR
8 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (12.57%) Docker
2 30 (7.85%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (21.47%) Terraform
2 58 (15.18%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.73%) Ansible
4 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.19%) SCCM
6 13 (3.40%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.14%) Grafana
8 10 (2.62%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.05%) MaaS360
10 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.79%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.52%) Argo
11 2 (0.52%) Nessus
11 2 (0.52%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.26%) CASB
12 1 (0.26%) Kibana
12 1 (0.26%) Nagios
12 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.50%) VMware
3 18 (4.71%) Black Duck
3 18 (4.71%) Coverity
4 16 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.40%) Veeam
6 12 (3.14%) 3PAR
6 12 (3.14%) NetApp
6 12 (3.14%) Sage
6 12 (3.14%) SolarWinds
6 12 (3.14%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.88%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.36%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.09%) Google
10 7 (1.83%) Cisco
10 7 (1.83%) Databricks
10 7 (1.83%) Zoho
11 6 (1.57%) Oracle
12 5 (1.31%) Rackspace
13 4 (1.05%) McAfee