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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,316 1,535 2,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.83% 10.55% 13.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 11.15% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 811 967 1,674
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
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 £78,500
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 14,207 13,763 18,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 94.56% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,914 7,992 11,897
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
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 £86,225 £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 9 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 9 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 -8 473 £59,000 -12.59% 69
Hampshire +6 400 £67,500 +5.88% 64
Berkshire -12 236 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Surrey -11 197 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Oxfordshire -2 119 £58,539 +1.81% 14
Buckinghamshire -16 118 £55,000 -15.38% 13
West Sussex +31 86 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East Sussex 0 81 £66,500 +15.65% 7
Kent -25 60 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Middlesex -13 14 £42,500 -45.16% 2
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 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.42%) OpenStack
3 37 (2.81%) IIS
4 30 (2.28%) CMS
5 29 (2.20%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.20%) GeoServer
6 24 (1.82%) Headless CMS
6 24 (1.82%) Kentico
7 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (1.60%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
10 12 (0.91%) nginx
11 11 (0.84%) JBoss
11 11 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
12 8 (0.61%) Apache
12 8 (0.61%) Confluence
13 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.15%) WordPress
15 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 21 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.06%) Simulink
6 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.076%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.076%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 764 (58.05%) Azure
2 432 (32.83%) Azure DevOps
3 401 (30.47%) AWS
4 165 (12.54%) Serverless
5 135 (10.26%) IBM Cloud
6 107 (8.13%) SaaS
7 91 (6.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 89 (6.76%) Azure Functions
9 79 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 79 (6.00%) GCP
10 74 (5.62%) Azure API Management
11 72 (5.47%) Power Platform
12 66 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
13 60 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (4.10%) Power Automate
15 52 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
16 50 (3.80%) PaaS
17 43 (3.27%) GitHub
18 36 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.03%) Firewall
2 50 (3.80%) DNS
3 26 (1.98%) DHCP
4 19 (1.44%) VPN
5 18 (1.37%) Network Security
6 13 (0.99%) HTTP
7 10 (0.76%) 5G
8 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.53%) SSL
11 6 (0.46%) LAN
11 6 (0.46%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) NAS
12 5 (0.38%) SAN
13 4 (0.30%) MQTT
13 4 (0.30%) 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
1 195 (14.82%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (11.02%) Relational Database
3 127 (9.65%) NoSQL
4 109 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 107 (8.13%) MongoDB
6 74 (5.62%) DB2
7 50 (3.80%) BigQuery
8 49 (3.72%) Looker
9 40 (3.04%) Power BI
10 34 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (2.43%) Hadoop
12 31 (2.36%) GIS
13 29 (2.20%) QGIS
14 27 (2.05%) MySQL
15 22 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (1.60%) Big Data
17 19 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
19 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
20 6 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 227 (17.25%) Git
2 192 (14.59%) Jenkins
3 100 (7.60%) JIRA
4 63 (4.79%) GitLab
5 49 (3.72%) Visual Studio
6 39 (2.96%) Selenium
7 33 (2.51%) Subversion
8 29 (2.20%) NUnit
9 27 (2.05%) JUnit
9 27 (2.05%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.44%) Postman
10 19 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.99%) MSBuild
12 12 (0.91%) Robot Framework
12 12 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.84%) Jasmine
14 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.76%) Trac
General
1 299 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 178 (13.53%) Public Sector
3 134 (10.18%) Finance
4 115 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (4.03%) Aerospace
6 48 (3.65%) Legal
7 46 (3.50%) Retail
8 43 (3.27%) Law
9 39 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.90%) Marketing
11 24 (1.82%) Billing
12 18 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.29%) Electronics
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 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 406 (30.85%) Developer
2 187 (14.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 184 (13.98%) Senior
4 126 (9.57%) Full Stack Developer
5 110 (8.36%) Lead
6 106 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 100 (7.60%) Azure Developer
8 92 (6.99%) Senior Developer
9 91 (6.91%) .NET Developer
10 73 (5.55%) Architect
11 70 (5.32%) Java Developer
12 55 (4.18%) Software Developer
13 49 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
16 44 (3.34%) Consultant
17 43 (3.27%) C# Developer
18 40 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
19 39 (2.96%) C# .NET Developer
19 39 (2.96%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (28.95%) .NET
2 208 (15.81%) React
3 190 (14.44%) CSS
4 177 (13.45%) AngularJS
4 177 (13.45%) HTML
5 169 (12.84%) ASP.NET
6 165 (12.54%) Node.js
7 149 (11.32%) Web Services
8 147 (11.17%) REST
9 129 (9.80%) .NET Core
10 109 (8.28%) Vue
11 107 (8.13%) jQuery
12 90 (6.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 86 (6.53%) .NET Framework
13 86 (6.53%) RESTful
14 80 (6.08%) ASP.NET Core
15 75 (5.70%) Ember.js
16 74 (5.62%) Backbone.js
17 70 (5.32%) XML
18 67 (5.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.18%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.13%) Algorithms
4 102 (7.75%) Product Ownership
5 99 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.22%) Data Structures
7 71 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (4.48%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.65%) IoT
10 47 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (2.81%) Cloud Native
12 36 (2.74%) Management Information System
13 30 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.82%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.75%) Low-Code
15 23 (1.75%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.52%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.37%) PMI
18 17 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
19 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 313 (23.78%) Linux
2 218 (16.57%) Windows
3 85 (6.46%) Android
3 85 (6.46%) Apple iOS
4 50 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 45 (3.42%) CentOS
6 42 (3.19%) Debian
7 40 (3.04%) Alpine Linux
8 19 (1.44%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.91%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.76%) VMS
14 7 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.23%) Unix
16 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (46.05%) Agile
2 429 (32.60%) CI/CD
3 351 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 233 (17.71%) Software Engineering
5 189 (14.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 184 (13.98%) Test Automation
7 174 (13.22%) Web Development
8 173 (13.15%) Microservices
8 173 (13.15%) Scrum
9 169 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
10 166 (12.61%) Computer Science
11 156 (11.85%) MVC
12 149 (11.32%) Design Patterns
12 149 (11.32%) User Experience
13 133 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
14 125 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 124 (9.42%) Containerisation
15 124 (9.42%) Project Management
16 122 (9.27%) Mentoring
17 117 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 364 (27.66%) C#
2 360 (27.36%) Python
3 335 (25.46%) JavaScript
4 270 (20.52%) SQL
5 257 (19.53%) Java
6 87 (6.61%) PowerShell
7 64 (4.86%) Bash
8 52 (3.95%) C++
9 45 (3.42%) C
10 37 (2.81%) Bicep
10 37 (2.81%) TypeScript
11 30 (2.28%) Go
12 24 (1.82%) PHP
13 17 (1.29%) Groovy
13 17 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.22%) Perl
15 15 (1.14%) VB
15 15 (1.14%) VBScript
16 14 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 286 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 271 (20.59%) Degree
3 223 (16.95%) SC Cleared
4 133 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.40%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.79%) Master's Degree
7 61 (4.64%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (3.12%) MCSA
9 41 (3.12%) MCSE
10 39 (2.96%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.52%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (1.44%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 8 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (9.27%) QA
2 39 (2.96%) GDPR
3 19 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.53%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.076%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.076%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.076%) NCSC
8 1 (0.076%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.076%) PMO
8 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 287 (21.81%) Docker
2 68 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.89%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.76%) Firmware
7 10 (0.76%) NFS
7 10 (0.76%) pfSense
8 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.076%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 313 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 209 (15.88%) Terraform
3 152 (11.55%) Ansible
4 40 (3.04%) Puppet
5 25 (1.90%) ZABBIX
6 20 (1.52%) Grafana
7 19 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.22%) SCCM
9 15 (1.14%) Rancher
9 15 (1.14%) SCOM
10 14 (1.06%) WSUS
11 12 (0.91%) Consul
12 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.76%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.68%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.61%) Kibana
14 8 (0.61%) MIIS
15 7 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 304 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 137 (10.41%) IBM
3 126 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 59 (4.48%) Google
5 52 (3.95%) VMware
6 35 (2.66%) WSO2
7 31 (2.36%) Oracle
8 30 (2.28%) ESRI
9 26 (1.98%) Sitecore
10 19 (1.44%) Optimizely
11 17 (1.29%) Juniper
11 17 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.22%) Veeam
13 15 (1.14%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.06%) SAP
14 14 (1.06%) Xilinx
15 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.84%) Nintex
17 10 (0.76%) McAfee
18 8 (0.61%) IFS