DevOps Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Development Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Southampton is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 65 62
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 10 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 2.96% 1.52% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 1.56% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,500 £90,000 £71,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -12.88% -8.97%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 333 833 731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.52% 97.09% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 267 706 583
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,438 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -0.95%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Southampton

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Southampton

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Southampton over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Southampton

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Southampton region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Docker
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Release Management
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) Coaching
6 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) e-Learning
6 3 (30.00%) Selenium
6 3 (30.00%) IBM
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) GitHub
7 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Release Management
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
6 1 (10.00%) Logistics
6 1 (10.00%) Server Management
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Aruba
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Ruckus Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Spotify
2 1 (10.00%) VMware