DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Sussex

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Sussex

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Sussex is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Sussex 4.26% - 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £60,000
75th Percentile £68,125 - -
90th Percentile £69,250 - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sussex. 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 Sussex with a recognized job title 92 39 218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.87% 90.70% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 76 32 188
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £73,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sussex.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Sussex

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Sussex

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Sussex.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Sussex

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Sussex region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) YAML

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
1 2 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft