DevOps Jobs in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,307 1,522 2,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.80% 10.57% 13.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 11.18% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 806 962 1,681
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,162 13,617 18,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.47% 94.52% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,859 7,928 11,960
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Thames Valley -9 467 £59,000 -15.11% 77
Hampshire +5 399 £67,000 +3.08% 71
Berkshire -11 232 £60,000 -15.79% 45
Surrey -10 199 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Oxfordshire 0 119 £58,539 +1.81% 14
Buckinghamshire -18 116 £55,000 -15.38% 18
West Sussex +32 85 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East Sussex -4 78 £66,500 +13.68% 5
Kent -22 61 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Middlesex -14 14 £42,500 -45.16%
Sussex - 4 £51,250 - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 56 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.37%) OpenStack
3 38 (2.91%) IIS
4 30 (2.30%) CMS
5 29 (2.22%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.22%) GeoServer
6 24 (1.84%) Headless CMS
6 24 (1.84%) Kentico
7 23 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (1.61%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.84%) nginx
11 10 (0.77%) JBoss
11 10 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
12 8 (0.61%) Apache
13 6 (0.46%) Confluence
14 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
15 2 (0.15%) WordPress
16 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 22 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.07%) Simulink
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.077%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.077%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.31%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.077%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 759 (58.07%) Azure
2 427 (32.67%) Azure DevOps
3 397 (30.37%) AWS
4 164 (12.55%) Serverless
5 135 (10.33%) IBM Cloud
6 107 (8.19%) SaaS
7 91 (6.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 89 (6.81%) Azure Functions
9 79 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 78 (5.97%) GCP
11 74 (5.66%) Azure API Management
12 71 (5.43%) Power Platform
13 66 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
14 59 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (4.13%) Power Automate
16 52 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
17 51 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
18 49 (3.75%) PaaS
19 42 (3.21%) GitHub
20 36 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.06%) Firewall
2 52 (3.98%) DNS
3 26 (1.99%) DHCP
4 20 (1.53%) VPN
5 18 (1.38%) Network Security
6 13 (0.99%) HTTP
7 10 (0.77%) 5G
8 9 (0.69%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.54%) SSL
10 7 (0.54%) WAN
11 6 (0.46%) LAN
12 5 (0.38%) NAS
12 5 (0.38%) SAN
13 4 (0.31%) MQTT
13 4 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.23%) BGP
15 2 (0.15%) Internet
15 2 (0.15%) Intranet
15 2 (0.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 127 (9.72%) NoSQL
4 109 (8.34%) MongoDB
4 109 (8.34%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.66%) DB2
6 50 (3.83%) BigQuery
7 49 (3.75%) Looker
8 39 (2.98%) Power BI
9 34 (2.60%) Hadoop
10 33 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (2.37%) GIS
12 29 (2.22%) QGIS
13 27 (2.07%) MySQL
14 23 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (1.61%) Big Data
16 19 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
19 5 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 223 (17.06%) Git
2 187 (14.31%) Jenkins
3 98 (7.50%) JIRA
4 60 (4.59%) GitLab
5 49 (3.75%) Visual Studio
6 38 (2.91%) Selenium
7 33 (2.52%) Subversion
8 29 (2.22%) NUnit
9 26 (1.99%) JUnit
9 26 (1.99%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.45%) Postman
10 19 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.99%) MSBuild
12 12 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.84%) Jasmine
13 11 (0.84%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.77%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.77%) Trac
General
1 299 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 177 (13.54%) Public Sector
3 135 (10.33%) Finance
4 114 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (4.06%) Aerospace
6 47 (3.60%) Legal
7 46 (3.52%) Retail
8 43 (3.29%) Law
9 39 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.91%) Marketing
11 24 (1.84%) Billing
12 18 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.30%) Electronics
13 17 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.99%) Games
14 13 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.84%) Banking
16 9 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 404 (30.91%) Developer
2 184 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 183 (14.00%) Senior
4 126 (9.64%) Full Stack Developer
5 108 (8.26%) Lead
6 105 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 101 (7.73%) Azure Developer
8 91 (6.96%) .NET Developer
8 91 (6.96%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.43%) Architect
10 69 (5.28%) Java Developer
11 55 (4.21%) Software Developer
12 51 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 46 (3.52%) Engineering Manager
14 45 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (3.37%) Consultant
16 43 (3.29%) C# Developer
17 40 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
18 39 (2.98%) C# .NET Developer
18 39 (2.98%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (29.07%) .NET
2 207 (15.84%) React
3 190 (14.54%) CSS
4 176 (13.47%) HTML
5 175 (13.39%) AngularJS
6 169 (12.93%) ASP.NET
7 166 (12.70%) Node.js
8 148 (11.32%) Web Services
9 146 (11.17%) REST
10 129 (9.87%) .NET Core
11 109 (8.34%) Vue
12 107 (8.19%) jQuery
13 90 (6.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 86 (6.58%) .NET Framework
15 83 (6.35%) RESTful
16 80 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
17 75 (5.74%) Ember.js
18 74 (5.66%) Backbone.js
19 70 (5.36%) XML
20 65 (4.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.25%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.19%) Algorithms
4 102 (7.80%) Product Ownership
5 97 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.27%) Data Structures
7 71 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (4.51%) Data Centre
9 47 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
9 47 (3.60%) IoT
10 37 (2.83%) Cloud Native
11 35 (2.68%) Management Information System
12 30 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.84%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.76%) Low-Code
15 22 (1.68%) Private Cloud
16 19 (1.45%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.38%) PMI
18 17 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
19 14 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 308 (23.57%) Linux
2 218 (16.68%) Windows
3 84 (6.43%) Android
3 84 (6.43%) Apple iOS
4 51 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 44 (3.37%) CentOS
6 42 (3.21%) Debian
7 40 (3.06%) Alpine Linux
8 19 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.38%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.92%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.77%) VMS
14 6 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.23%) Unix
16 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (45.75%) Agile
2 423 (32.36%) CI/CD
3 350 (26.78%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (17.60%) Software Engineering
5 189 (14.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 183 (14.00%) Test Automation
7 174 (13.31%) Web Development
8 169 (12.93%) Full Stack Development
8 169 (12.93%) Scrum
9 168 (12.85%) Microservices
10 166 (12.70%) Computer Science
11 156 (11.94%) MVC
12 149 (11.40%) User Experience
13 148 (11.32%) Design Patterns
14 129 (9.87%) Continuous Integration
15 124 (9.49%) Project Management
16 123 (9.41%) Containerisation
17 121 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
17 121 (9.26%) Mentoring
18 117 (8.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 362 (27.70%) C#
2 357 (27.31%) Python
3 333 (25.48%) JavaScript
4 270 (20.66%) SQL
5 258 (19.74%) Java
6 85 (6.50%) PowerShell
7 63 (4.82%) Bash
8 51 (3.90%) C++
9 45 (3.44%) C
10 37 (2.83%) Bicep
10 37 (2.83%) TypeScript
11 30 (2.30%) Go
12 24 (1.84%) PHP
13 17 (1.30%) Groovy
13 17 (1.30%) Perl
13 17 (1.30%) VB.NET
14 15 (1.15%) VB
15 14 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.07%) VBScript
16 9 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 285 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 271 (20.73%) Degree
3 223 (17.06%) SC Cleared
4 133 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.43%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.82%) Master's Degree
7 61 (4.67%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (3.14%) MCSA
9 41 (3.14%) MCSE
10 40 (3.06%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (1.45%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.61%) MBA
17 7 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (9.41%) QA
2 38 (2.91%) GDPR
3 19 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.54%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.077%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.077%) NCSC
8 1 (0.077%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.077%) PMO
8 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 282 (21.58%) Docker
2 70 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 53 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.91%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.77%) Firmware
7 10 (0.77%) NFS
7 10 (0.77%) pfSense
8 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) QEMU
10 2 (0.15%) Xen
11 1 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.077%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 307 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.84%) Terraform
3 150 (11.48%) Ansible
4 40 (3.06%) Puppet
5 25 (1.91%) ZABBIX
6 19 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.45%) Grafana
7 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.22%) SCCM
8 15 (1.15%) SCOM
9 14 (1.07%) WSUS
10 13 (0.99%) Rancher
11 12 (0.92%) Consul
12 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.77%) SCDPM
13 8 (0.61%) MIIS
13 8 (0.61%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.54%) Kibana
15 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 302 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 137 (10.48%) IBM
3 126 (9.64%) Red Hat
4 58 (4.44%) Google
5 50 (3.83%) VMware
6 34 (2.60%) WSO2
7 31 (2.37%) Oracle
8 30 (2.30%) ESRI
9 26 (1.99%) Sitecore
10 19 (1.45%) Optimizely
11 17 (1.30%) Juniper
12 16 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.22%) Veeam
13 15 (1.15%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.07%) SAP
14 14 (1.07%) Xilinx
15 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.84%) Nintex
17 10 (0.77%) McAfee
18 8 (0.61%) IFS