DevOps Job Trends in West Sussex

DevOps
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +24
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 32 33 44
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 7.51% 10.31% 10.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 11.66% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 27 16 32
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £37,175
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - -9.43% +15.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £78,750 -
South East median annual salary £66,250 £67,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.86% -4.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 312 283 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.24% 88.44% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 222 144 253
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,950 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,363 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,375 £77,050
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in West Sussex

DevOps
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in West Sussex over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in West Sussex

DevOps
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Worthing +6 11 £60,000 - 2
Burgess Hill +1 5 £61,250 -
Gatwick +3 4 £55,000 +46.67% 6
Chichester -5 3 £70,000 - 3
Crawley -5 3 £72,500 - 74
Horsham +3 1 £47,500 -
Haywards Heath - 1 £60,000 - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) IaaS
3 6 (18.75%) PaaS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) Google Ads
7 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.13%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) GIS
3 1 (3.13%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.13%) Appium
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) JMeter
3 1 (3.13%) mountebank
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Billing
3 3 (9.38%) Law
3 3 (9.38%) Legal
4 2 (6.25%) Advertising
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) CloudOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Case Management Developer
5 1 (3.13%) CMS Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Software Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) React
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Memcached
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Playwright
4 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.13%) Vert.x
4 1 (3.13%) Vue
4 1 (3.13%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Server Management
5 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
5 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.63%) FinOps
5 5 (15.63%) Microservices
5 5 (15.63%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Analytics
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.50%) UML
7 3 (9.38%) Case Management
7 3 (9.38%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (9.38%) Cost Management
7 3 (9.38%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.13%) LPIC
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (31.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Rackspace
3 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.13%) ESRI
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk