DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,315 1,578 2,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.90% 10.46% 14.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 11.07% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 799 973 1,695
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - +12.07%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,300 £93,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 -9 497 £59,000 -15.71% 72
Hampshire +4 377 £65,000 +4.00% 65
Berkshire -13 237 £60,000 -14.29% 37
Surrey -9 191 £61,250 -5.77% 33
Buckinghamshire -12 141 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Oxfordshire -2 119 £59,000 +2.61% 15
West Sussex +33 88 £65,000 +18.18% 8
East Sussex 0 88 £66,500 +15.65% 7
Kent -23 59 £65,000 +23.81% 10
Middlesex -14 13 £42,500 -45.16% 1
Sussex - 4 £51,250 -
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 55 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.42%) OpenStack
3 38 (2.89%) IIS
4 36 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (2.28%) CMS
6 29 (2.21%) ArcGIS
6 29 (2.21%) GeoServer
7 24 (1.83%) Headless CMS
7 24 (1.83%) Kentico
8 21 (1.60%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
10 13 (0.99%) nginx
11 11 (0.84%) Confluence
11 11 (0.84%) JBoss
11 11 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
12 8 (0.61%) Apache
13 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.15%) WordPress
15 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.76%) Simulink
6 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.076%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.076%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 757 (57.57%) Azure
2 427 (32.47%) Azure DevOps
3 387 (29.43%) AWS
4 161 (12.24%) Serverless
5 130 (9.89%) IBM Cloud
6 104 (7.91%) SaaS
7 85 (6.46%) Azure Functions
8 84 (6.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 79 (6.01%) GCP
10 76 (5.78%) Power Platform
11 73 (5.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 68 (5.17%) Azure API Management
13 66 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (3.95%) PaaS
16 51 (3.88%) Power Automate
17 49 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
18 44 (3.35%) GitHub
19 38 (2.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.11%) DNS
2 50 (3.80%) Firewall
3 26 (1.98%) DHCP
4 18 (1.37%) VPN
5 16 (1.22%) Network Security
6 11 (0.84%) HTTP
7 10 (0.76%) 5G
8 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.53%) SSL
11 6 (0.46%) LAN
11 6 (0.46%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) NAS
12 5 (0.38%) SAN
13 4 (0.30%) MQTT
13 4 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.23%) BGP
15 2 (0.15%) Internet
15 2 (0.15%) Intranet
15 2 (0.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (10.27%) Relational Database
3 120 (9.13%) NoSQL
4 111 (8.44%) SQL Server
5 105 (7.98%) MongoDB
6 68 (5.17%) DB2
7 49 (3.73%) BigQuery
7 49 (3.73%) Looker
8 43 (3.27%) Power BI
9 36 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (2.28%) GIS
11 29 (2.21%) MySQL
11 29 (2.21%) QGIS
12 21 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 20 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.22%) Big Data
16 11 (0.84%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 220 (16.73%) Git
2 192 (14.60%) Jenkins
3 107 (8.14%) JIRA
4 64 (4.87%) GitLab
5 45 (3.42%) Visual Studio
6 38 (2.89%) Selenium
7 33 (2.51%) Subversion
8 28 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 27 (2.05%) NUnit
10 25 (1.90%) JUnit
11 19 (1.44%) Postman
11 19 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.99%) MSBuild
13 11 (0.84%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.76%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.76%) MorphX
14 10 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.76%) Trac
14 10 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 283 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 174 (13.23%) Public Sector
3 141 (10.72%) Finance
4 121 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (4.11%) Legal
6 51 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.65%) Aerospace
8 46 (3.50%) Retail
9 43 (3.27%) Law
10 25 (1.90%) Marketing
11 24 (1.83%) Billing
12 21 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.37%) Electronics
13 18 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.99%) Games
16 12 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.84%) Banking
17 11 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 396 (30.11%) Developer
2 194 (14.75%) Senior
3 176 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 120 (9.13%) Full Stack Developer
5 109 (8.29%) Lead
6 103 (7.83%) Software Engineer
7 93 (7.07%) .NET Developer
7 93 (7.07%) Azure Developer
8 92 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 74 (5.63%) Architect
10 68 (5.17%) Java Developer
11 55 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (3.65%) Software Developer
13 47 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 46 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
15 42 (3.19%) Consultant
16 41 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (3.04%) C# Developer
18 39 (2.97%) Analyst
18 39 (2.97%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (28.75%) .NET
2 201 (15.29%) React
3 189 (14.37%) CSS
4 172 (13.08%) HTML
5 171 (13.00%) AngularJS
6 162 (12.32%) ASP.NET
7 146 (11.10%) Node.js
8 142 (10.80%) Web Services
9 141 (10.72%) REST
10 128 (9.73%) .NET Core
11 103 (7.83%) jQuery
11 103 (7.83%) Vue
12 85 (6.46%) .NET Framework
13 84 (6.39%) RESTful
13 84 (6.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 75 (5.70%) ASP.NET Core
15 70 (5.32%) XML
16 69 (5.25%) Ember.js
17 68 (5.17%) Backbone.js
18 66 (5.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 141 (10.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 128 (9.73%) Blockchain
3 101 (7.68%) Algorithms
3 101 (7.68%) Product Ownership
4 99 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
5 89 (6.77%) Data Structures
6 71 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (4.26%) Data Centre
8 54 (4.11%) IoT
9 48 (3.65%) Management Information System
10 46 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (3.04%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.90%) Low-Code
14 24 (1.83%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.83%) Private Cloud
15 21 (1.60%) Public Cloud
16 18 (1.37%) PMI
17 15 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
18 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 299 (22.74%) Linux
2 215 (16.35%) Windows
3 82 (6.24%) Android
3 82 (6.24%) Apple iOS
4 50 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 43 (3.27%) CentOS
6 41 (3.12%) Debian
7 40 (3.04%) Alpine Linux
8 19 (1.44%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.91%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.76%) VMS
14 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.23%) Unix
16 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (46.69%) Agile
2 426 (32.40%) CI/CD
3 350 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (16.81%) Software Engineering
5 183 (13.92%) Test Automation
6 181 (13.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 180 (13.69%) Microservices
8 176 (13.38%) Scrum
9 168 (12.78%) Web Development
10 165 (12.55%) Full Stack Development
11 158 (12.02%) Computer Science
12 151 (11.48%) MVC
13 143 (10.87%) Design Patterns
14 142 (10.80%) User Experience
15 125 (9.51%) Project Management
16 124 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
16 124 (9.43%) Mentoring
17 121 (9.20%) Containerisation
17 121 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 118 (8.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 362 (27.53%) C#
2 360 (27.38%) Python
3 333 (25.32%) JavaScript
4 280 (21.29%) SQL
5 234 (17.79%) Java
6 101 (7.68%) PowerShell
7 81 (6.16%) Bash
8 48 (3.65%) C++
9 40 (3.04%) C
10 39 (2.97%) TypeScript
11 36 (2.74%) Bicep
12 29 (2.21%) Go
13 24 (1.83%) PHP
14 21 (1.60%) Perl
15 17 (1.29%) Groovy
15 17 (1.29%) VB.NET
16 16 (1.22%) VBScript
17 15 (1.14%) VB
18 13 (0.99%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 276 (20.99%) Degree
2 269 (20.46%) Security Cleared
3 212 (16.12%) SC Cleared
4 127 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.40%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.64%) Master's Degree
7 60 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (3.12%) MCSA
9 41 (3.12%) MCSE
10 34 (2.59%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.52%) CTC Cleared
12 20 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 15 (1.14%) CCNA
13 15 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (9.28%) QA
2 43 (3.27%) GDPR
3 28 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 10 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.53%) ISO 13485
7 4 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.076%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.076%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.076%) NCSC
8 1 (0.076%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.076%) PMO
8 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 292 (22.21%) Docker
2 83 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 54 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
4 39 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 28 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.76%) Firmware
7 10 (0.76%) NFS
7 10 (0.76%) pfSense
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) QEMU
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.15%) Xen
11 1 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.076%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 304 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 213 (16.20%) Terraform
3 148 (11.25%) Ansible
4 36 (2.74%) Puppet
5 25 (1.90%) ZABBIX
6 19 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (1.37%) Grafana
8 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.22%) Rancher
8 16 (1.22%) SCCM
9 15 (1.14%) SCOM
10 14 (1.06%) WSUS
11 12 (0.91%) Consul
12 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.76%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.68%) Kibana
14 8 (0.61%) MIIS
15 7 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.46%) Prometheus
17 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 310 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 132 (10.04%) IBM
3 121 (9.20%) Red Hat
4 60 (4.56%) Google
5 58 (4.41%) VMware
6 35 (2.66%) WSO2
7 30 (2.28%) ESRI
7 30 (2.28%) Oracle
8 26 (1.98%) Sitecore
9 20 (1.52%) Cisco
10 19 (1.44%) Optimizely
11 17 (1.29%) Juniper
12 16 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.22%) Veeam
13 15 (1.14%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.06%) SAP
15 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.76%) Databricks
16 10 (0.76%) McAfee
16 10 (0.76%) Xilinx