DevOps Job Trends in Surrey

DevOps
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 45 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -19 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 103 54 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.76% 4.87% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 5.39% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 80 49 127
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,601 1,001 2,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.95% 90.34% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 643 1,360
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,290 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Surrey

DevOps
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Surrey

DevOps
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Guildford -4 24 £65,000 -27.78% 2
Woking -5 17 £60,000 -29.41% 6
Reigate - 12 £85,000 - 1
Leatherhead -1 11 - - 1
Staines -2 10 £72,500 +7.41% 2
Weybridge +4 7 £50,000 -58.33%
Epsom 0 6 £65,000 -21.21% 1
Egham -1 4 £65,000 -21.21%
Horley +4 3 £55,000 -
Redhill +9 1 £44,750 -38.28%
Sunbury-on-Thames -2 1 £52,500 -36.36% 2
Oxted - 1 £30,000 -
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (4.85%) IIS
1 5 (4.85%) nginx
2 3 (2.91%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.51%) Azure
2 46 (44.66%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (22.33%) GitHub
4 22 (21.36%) AWS
5 12 (11.65%) Azure AKS
6 11 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.68%) SaaS
7 9 (8.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.77%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
9 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.85%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (4.85%) Cloudflare
11 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Firewall
2 8 (7.77%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (11.65%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.83%) Power BI
5 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.94%) MySQL
7 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.97%) MS Access
8 1 (0.97%) Redis
8 1 (0.97%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) GitLab
2 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (3.88%) JIRA
4 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.94%) MSI
4 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.97%) NUnit
5 1 (0.97%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Finance
3 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.77%) Retail
5 6 (5.83%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.85%) Advertising
7 4 (3.88%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Automotive
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Electronics
9 1 (0.97%) Front Office
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (28.16%) Developer
2 24 (23.30%) Senior
3 22 (21.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (17.48%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (16.50%) Administrator
5 17 (16.50%) DevOps Administrator
5 17 (16.50%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (14.56%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 14 (13.59%) .NET Developer
7 14 (13.59%) Lead
8 10 (9.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.71%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Project Manager
10 7 (6.80%) Web Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.88%) IT Manager
12 4 (3.88%) IT Project Manager
12 4 (3.88%) Lead .NET Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) .NET
2 15 (14.56%) .NET Core
2 15 (14.56%) React
3 14 (13.59%) ASP.NET
3 14 (13.59%) HTML
4 12 (11.65%) CSS
5 11 (10.68%) REST
6 9 (8.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (7.77%) Blazor
8 7 (6.80%) Bootstrap
8 7 (6.80%) React Native
8 7 (6.80%) RESTful
9 6 (5.83%) ARM Templates
10 5 (4.85%) Entity Framework
10 5 (4.85%) LINQ
10 5 (4.85%) Loki
11 4 (3.88%) Node.js
11 4 (3.88%) SOAP
11 4 (3.88%) Spring
11 4 (3.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (8.74%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.88%) iPhone
4 4 (3.88%) PKI
5 3 (2.91%) PMI
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.94%) Culture of Ownership
6 2 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) CMDB
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Robotics
7 1 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.48%) Linux
2 7 (6.80%) Windows
3 4 (3.88%) Android
4 1 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) Agile
2 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
3 24 (23.30%) AI
4 23 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (18.45%) Mentoring
6 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (13.59%) Microservices
8 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.62%) Software Engineering
9 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (11.65%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (10.68%) Change Management
10 11 (10.68%) Observability
11 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.74%) B2B
12 9 (8.74%) B2C
12 9 (8.74%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (8.74%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.24%) C#
2 24 (23.30%) SQL
3 19 (18.45%) Python
4 11 (10.68%) Bash
5 8 (7.77%) Go
5 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.77%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.80%) Bicep
7 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.88%) Java
9 3 (2.91%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.97%) C++
11 1 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.77%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.83%) Degree
4 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.91%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) ITGC
3 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (17.48%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.94%) Firmware
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (26.21%) Kubernetes
2 22 (21.36%) Terraform
3 16 (15.53%) Grafana
3 16 (15.53%) Prometheus
4 13 (12.62%) Ansible
5 8 (7.77%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.88%) Kibana
7 2 (1.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.77%) VMware
3 6 (5.83%) Google
4 5 (4.85%) Facebook
4 5 (4.85%) YouTube
5 4 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle
7 2 (1.94%) Databricks
7 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.97%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.97%) Okta
8 1 (0.97%) RedGate
8 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.97%) SAP
8 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.97%) Veeam