DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 165 150
Rank change year-on-year -62 -15 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 164 313 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.99% 2.05% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 2.25% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 129 192 334
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,000 £56,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.03% +20.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,533 13,886 18,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 90.74% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 8,676 12,662
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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 -73 57 £60,000 -25.00% 15
Hampshire -56 41 £59,175 -8.96% 10
East Sussex +53 36 £80,000 +28.00%
Berkshire -11 34 £60,000 -27.27% 7
Surrey +1 24 £77,500 -3.13% 9
Oxfordshire -14 15 £70,000 -12.50% 5
Buckinghamshire -36 8 £57,500 -14.81% 3
Kent -14 3 £110,000 -
Middlesex -13 1 £61,339 +2.23%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (63.41%) CI/CD
3 89 (54.27%) Kubernetes
4 86 (52.44%) Azure
5 84 (51.22%) Terraform
6 81 (49.39%) AWS
7 63 (38.41%) Docker
8 52 (31.71%) Jenkins
9 50 (30.49%) Python
9 50 (30.49%) Containerisation
10 47 (28.66%) Linux
11 43 (26.22%) Agile
12 41 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 41 (25.00%) Ansible
13 38 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (21.34%) SC Cleared
16 33 (20.12%) Git
17 32 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
17 32 (19.51%) Social Skills
18 30 (18.29%) .NET
19 29 (17.68%) Test Automation
19 29 (17.68%) GitLab
20 26 (15.85%) Deployment Automation
20 26 (15.85%) SaaS
21 24 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
21 24 (14.63%) Microservices
22 23 (14.02%) PowerShell
22 23 (14.02%) Java
22 23 (14.02%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (4.27%) nginx
2 2 (1.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.44%) Azure
2 81 (49.39%) AWS
3 32 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (15.85%) SaaS
5 16 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (7.32%) Datadog
7 11 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (6.71%) PaaS
8 9 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.88%) GCP
9 8 (4.88%) Serverless
10 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.27%) GitHub
10 7 (4.27%) IBM Cloud
11 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.05%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.05%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.05%) IaaS
12 4 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) DNS
2 4 (2.44%) LAN
2 4 (2.44%) Network Security
2 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.44%) WAN
3 3 (1.83%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.32%) Hadoop
3 11 (6.71%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.27%) Big Data
5 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 52 (31.71%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.12%) Git
3 29 (17.68%) GitLab
4 20 (12.20%) JIRA
5 9 (5.49%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.05%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.44%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.83%) Selenium
9 3 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.61%) JUnit
10 1 (0.61%) Maven
10 1 (0.61%) Subversion
10 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 32 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.15%) Finance
4 8 (4.88%) Retail
5 4 (2.44%) Electronics
5 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.44%) Marketing
5 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.83%) Automotive
7 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.29%) .NET
2 13 (7.93%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (6.71%) Kafka
3 11 (6.71%) Node.js
4 9 (5.49%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.27%) JSON
6 5 (3.05%) LDAP
6 5 (3.05%) YAML
7 3 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.83%) REST
7 3 (1.83%) XML
8 2 (1.22%) HTML
9 1 (0.61%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.54%) Low-Code
2 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.27%) Blockchain
4 7 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.05%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.61%) IoT
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (28.66%) Linux
2 5 (3.05%) Windows
3 4 (2.44%) VMS
4 2 (1.22%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Debian
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (63.41%) CI/CD
3 50 (30.49%) Containerisation
4 43 (26.22%) Agile
5 38 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.68%) Test Automation
8 26 (15.85%) Deployment Automation
9 24 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (14.63%) Microservices
10 21 (12.80%) Continuous Delivery
11 18 (10.98%) Software Delivery
12 16 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (9.15%) Decision-Making
13 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (7.93%) Configuration Management
15 12 (7.32%) E-Commerce
15 12 (7.32%) Server Management
15 12 (7.32%) Software Engineering
15 12 (7.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.49%) Python
2 23 (14.02%) Java
2 23 (14.02%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.98%) Bash
4 16 (9.76%) Groovy
5 14 (8.54%) SQL
6 12 (7.32%) Bicep
7 6 (3.66%) Go
8 5 (3.05%) Perl
9 3 (1.83%) C#
9 3 (1.83%) C++
9 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.83%) Ruby
9 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.22%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.98%) Degree
4 16 (9.76%) AWS Certification
5 12 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 63 (38.41%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) Firmware
3 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (54.27%) Kubernetes
2 84 (51.22%) Terraform
3 41 (25.00%) Ansible
4 17 (10.37%) Puppet
5 16 (9.76%) Rancher
6 12 (7.32%) Consul
7 7 (4.27%) Kibana
8 4 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.83%) Grafana
9 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.22%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.22%) Packer
11 1 (0.61%) Podman
11 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.10%) VMware
3 9 (5.49%) IBM
4 4 (2.44%) SAP
5 3 (1.83%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.83%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.83%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.83%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.22%) Splunk
7 1 (0.61%) Google