DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 132 158
Rank change year-on-year -91 +26 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 195 334 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 2.43% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.70% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 159 212 312
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £59,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +13.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hampshire -57 61 £52,500 -25.00% 4
Thames Valley -92 51 £67,500 -10.00% 12
Surrey -4 39 £53,750 -10.42% 6
East Sussex +37 31 £76,250 +22.00%
Berkshire -40 27 £68,750 -14.06% 6
Oxfordshire -14 17 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Kent -16 7 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Buckinghamshire -49 7 £57,500 -17.86% 2
West Sussex +2 1 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Middlesex -13 1 £61,339 +2.23%
Sussex - 1 £60,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (63.59%) Azure
3 105 (53.85%) AWS
4 104 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 84 (43.08%) Kubernetes
6 78 (40.00%) Terraform
7 77 (39.49%) Python
8 65 (33.33%) Docker
9 64 (32.82%) Security Cleared
10 59 (30.26%) SC Cleared
11 54 (27.69%) Java
12 53 (27.18%) Containerisation
13 51 (26.15%) SQL
14 48 (24.62%) Jenkins
15 44 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
16 43 (22.05%) Node.js
16 43 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (21.03%) Hadoop
18 39 (20.00%) MongoDB
18 39 (20.00%) Agile
18 39 (20.00%) Kafka
19 38 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
20 37 (18.97%) Git
21 36 (18.46%) Linux
21 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
22 35 (17.95%) Ansible
23 29 (14.87%) SaaS
24 28 (14.36%) .NET
25 24 (12.31%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (2.05%) nginx
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 124 (63.59%) Azure
2 105 (53.85%) AWS
3 38 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.87%) SaaS
5 14 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (6.67%) IBM Cloud
6 13 (6.67%) PaaS
7 10 (5.13%) Datadog
7 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.13%) GCP
8 9 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.62%) GitHub
9 8 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.10%) Serverless
10 6 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.08%) IaaS
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.05%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) DNS
1 5 (2.56%) Network Security
2 4 (2.05%) LAN
2 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.05%) WAN
3 3 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (21.03%) Hadoop
3 39 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.18%) Big Data
5 10 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 37 (18.97%) Git
3 22 (11.28%) GitLab
4 13 (6.67%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.56%) MSBuild
7 4 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.54%) Selenium
8 3 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.03%) JUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.51%) Subversion
10 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.23%) Finance
3 17 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.10%) Retail
5 6 (3.08%) Marketing
6 4 (2.05%) Electronics
6 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.54%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.05%) Node.js
2 39 (20.00%) Kafka
3 28 (14.36%) .NET
4 9 (4.62%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.59%) JSON
6 5 (2.56%) XML
6 5 (2.56%) YAML
7 4 (2.05%) LDAP
8 3 (1.54%) RESTful
9 2 (1.03%) HTML
9 2 (1.03%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.51%) React
10 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Blockchain
1 13 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.64%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
3 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.05%) VMS
3 3 (1.54%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) CentOS
4 2 (1.03%) Debian
4 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.18%) Containerisation
4 44 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (20.00%) Agile
7 24 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (12.31%) Test Automation
8 22 (11.28%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (9.74%) Microservices
11 17 (8.72%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (7.69%) DevSecOps
13 14 (7.18%) Computer Science
13 14 (7.18%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (6.67%) Business Analysis
14 13 (6.67%) Project Management
14 13 (6.67%) Software Delivery
14 13 (6.67%) Software Engineering
14 13 (6.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.49%) Python
2 54 (27.69%) Java
3 51 (26.15%) SQL
4 24 (12.31%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.21%) Bash
6 15 (7.69%) Groovy
7 13 (6.67%) Bicep
8 5 (2.56%) Go
8 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.05%) C#
9 4 (2.05%) C++
10 3 (1.54%) Ruby
11 2 (1.03%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.51%) PHP
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (32.82%) Security Cleared
2 59 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.77%) Degree
4 19 (9.74%) AWS Certification
5 14 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 65 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 78 (40.00%) Terraform
3 35 (17.95%) Ansible
4 17 (8.72%) Puppet
5 10 (5.13%) Consul
6 9 (4.62%) Rancher
7 4 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.05%) Kibana
8 3 (1.54%) Grafana
8 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.03%) Podman
10 1 (0.51%) Packer
10 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) IBM
3 5 (2.56%) VMware
4 4 (2.05%) SAP
5 3 (1.54%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.54%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.03%) Splunk
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) New Relic
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.51%) Talend