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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 624 1,314 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.54% 7.83% 10.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 9.28% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 348 809 959
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -5.38% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -

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 8,763 14,167 13,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.47% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,303 9,850 7,858
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 May 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 May 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 -4 277 £65,000 +10.17% 200
Berkshire +9 173 £80,000 +33.33% 130
Hampshire -11 129 £60,000 -10.45% 105
Surrey -10 78 £72,500 +20.83% 50
Buckinghamshire -8 66 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Middlesex +9 41 - - 4
Oxfordshire -19 38 £53,000 -9.46% 72
Isle of Wight - 37 £73,000 - 8
West Sussex -9 19 £62,500 -3.85% 19
East Sussex -13 18 £47,500 -28.57% 11
Kent -8 17 £65,000 - 27
Sussex +20 5 £75,000 +46.34% 18
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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.40%) Oracle Application Server
3 14 (2.24%) Confluence
3 14 (2.24%) JBoss
4 13 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
5 5 (0.80%) Apache
6 4 (0.64%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.64%) IBM Domino
6 4 (0.64%) nginx
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Trello
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.48%) Productboard
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 308 (49.36%) Azure
2 193 (30.93%) Azure DevOps
3 140 (22.44%) AWS
4 60 (9.62%) SaaS
5 52 (8.33%) GCP
5 52 (8.33%) Serverless
6 50 (8.01%) Azure Service Bus
7 46 (7.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 46 (7.37%) PaaS
8 43 (6.89%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.77%) GitHub
10 33 (5.29%) SonarCloud
11 25 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (4.01%) Pulumi
12 24 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (3.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 21 (3.37%) Entra ID
16 20 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (2.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.69%) VPN
2 38 (6.09%) TCP/IP
3 26 (4.17%) Broadband
4 21 (3.37%) Firewall
5 18 (2.88%) DNS
6 9 (1.44%) Network Security
7 5 (0.80%) IPsec
7 5 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.80%) WAN
8 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.64%) Internet
8 4 (0.64%) SSL
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.32%) Intranet
9 2 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) ADSL2
10 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.16%) MQTT
10 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.06%) SQL Server
2 53 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 44 (7.05%) NoSQL
4 36 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (4.33%) RDBMS
8 25 (4.01%) Power BI
9 24 (3.85%) Data Mining
10 19 (3.04%) MySQL
11 18 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 15 (2.40%) MongoDB
12 15 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.12%) Couchbase
14 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 5 (0.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (17.63%) Git
2 51 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 48 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 47 (7.53%) Visual Studio
5 40 (6.41%) JIRA
6 36 (5.77%) Octopus Deploy
7 34 (5.45%) MSBuild
7 34 (5.45%) Robot Framework
8 33 (5.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (4.01%) Jaeger
10 21 (3.37%) Selenium
11 19 (3.04%) JUnit
12 17 (2.72%) GitLab
12 17 (2.72%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.92%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.60%) Maven
15 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (0.96%) Postman
17 5 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 192 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.07%) Finance
3 96 (15.38%) Law
4 94 (15.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (10.58%) Retail
7 47 (7.53%) Telecoms
8 25 (4.01%) Marketing
9 22 (3.53%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.40%) Military
12 10 (1.60%) Banking
12 10 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.60%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.44%) Automotive
14 6 (0.96%) Legal
15 5 (0.80%) Games
15 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.48%) Advertising
16 3 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (17.63%) Senior
2 107 (17.15%) Lead
3 105 (16.83%) Developer
4 104 (16.67%) Architect
5 81 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.73%) Software Engineer
7 40 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (5.77%) Software Architect
8 36 (5.77%) Technical Architect
9 35 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (5.61%) Test Engineer
10 34 (5.45%) Test Automation Engineer
11 29 (4.65%) Team Leader
12 28 (4.49%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (3.53%) Salesforce Architect
16 21 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
17 20 (3.21%) Senior Developer
18 19 (3.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (18.43%) .NET
2 95 (15.22%) REST
3 74 (11.86%) React
4 71 (11.38%) HTML
5 70 (11.22%) CSS
6 58 (9.29%) ASP.NET
6 58 (9.29%) Middleware
7 46 (7.37%) XML
8 44 (7.05%) JSON
9 43 (6.89%) SOAP
10 36 (5.77%) Bootstrap
11 35 (5.61%) Spring Boot
12 33 (5.29%) AngularJS
12 33 (5.29%) gRPC
13 30 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
13 30 (4.81%) Spring
14 27 (4.33%) .NET Framework
14 27 (4.33%) Node.js
15 25 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
16 22 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 40 (6.41%) Algorithms
3 34 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
4 33 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 33 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.04%) e-Learning
5 19 (3.04%) FMCG
5 19 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.72%) PMI
8 15 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 13 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.92%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.80%) Life Science
13 5 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 111 (17.79%) Linux
2 64 (10.26%) Windows
3 26 (4.17%) Unix
4 9 (1.44%) Android
5 7 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.64%) VMS
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (57.05%) Agile
2 197 (31.57%) CI/CD
3 169 (27.08%) Mentoring
4 168 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (20.19%) Microservices
6 117 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 112 (17.95%) Coaching
7 112 (17.95%) Computer Science
7 112 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 100 (16.03%) Design Patterns
9 97 (15.54%) Product Management
10 92 (14.74%) Analytics
11 88 (14.10%) Containerisation
12 87 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 83 (13.30%) Software Engineering
14 81 (12.98%) Roadmaps
14 81 (12.98%) SDLC
15 79 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
16 73 (11.70%) Performance Optimisation
17 70 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 181 (29.01%) JavaScript
2 152 (24.36%) Python
3 143 (22.92%) SQL
4 125 (20.03%) C#
5 92 (14.74%) PowerShell
6 91 (14.58%) Java
7 68 (10.90%) Bash
8 36 (5.77%) Go
9 31 (4.97%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (2.40%) Bicep
12 14 (2.24%) PHP
13 10 (1.60%) X++
14 9 (1.44%) Scala
15 8 (1.28%) C
16 7 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.96%) C++
18 3 (0.48%) Perl
18 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (26.12%) Degree
2 85 (13.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (7.21%) Security Cleared
4 38 (6.09%) Master's Degree
5 36 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (5.77%) Chartered Engineer
6 35 (5.61%) SC Cleared
7 32 (5.13%) AWS Certification
8 20 (3.21%) Azure Certification
9 19 (3.04%) DBS Check
10 17 (2.72%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.12%) CISSP
13 7 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.32%) CEH
14 2 (0.32%) CISM
15 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.82%) QA
2 39 (6.25%) GDPR
3 36 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 35 (5.61%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.40%) SLA
7 14 (2.24%) NIST
8 13 (2.08%) NCSC
9 9 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) CDISC
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (22.60%) Docker
2 20 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 95 (15.22%) Terraform
3 76 (12.18%) Ansible
4 30 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.33%) Argo
6 25 (4.01%) Kustomize
7 8 (1.28%) Puppet
8 5 (0.80%) Grafana
9 4 (0.64%) Nessus
9 4 (0.64%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.32%) Kubespray
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.16%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.53%) Google
3 36 (5.77%) Databricks
4 23 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.37%) Oracle
5 21 (3.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 20 (3.21%) IBM
6 20 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.92%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.60%) Rackspace
10 9 (1.44%) VMware
11 8 (1.28%) Solace
12 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.64%) Informatica
13 4 (0.64%) Juniper
13 4 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.64%) Rockwell
13 4 (0.64%) SAP
13 4 (0.64%) Siemens