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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,325 1,537 2,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.85% 10.72% 13.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.31% 11.34% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 813 968 1,690
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 £80,000 £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 14,226 13,553 19,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.26% 94.52% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,862 7,908 11,946
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 £86,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -9 468 £59,000 -13.55% 79
Hampshire +5 406 £65,750 +1.15% 53
Berkshire -9 234 £60,000 -17.24% 36
Surrey -9 209 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Oxfordshire 0 120 £59,000 +2.61% 13
Buckinghamshire -19 114 £55,000 -10.20% 30
West Sussex +31 85 £65,000 +18.18% 12
East Sussex -3 79 £66,500 +12.71% 10
Kent -25 60 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Middlesex -14 14 £42,500 -45.16%
Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 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 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.40%) OpenStack
3 38 (2.87%) IIS
4 30 (2.26%) CMS
5 29 (2.19%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.19%) GeoServer
6 24 (1.81%) Headless CMS
6 24 (1.81%) Kentico
7 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (1.58%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.51%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.83%) JBoss
10 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.75%) nginx
12 7 (0.53%) Apache
13 6 (0.45%) Confluence
14 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
15 2 (0.15%) WordPress
16 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 25 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.21%) Simulink
5 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.075%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.75%) 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 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 770 (58.11%) Azure
2 428 (32.30%) Azure DevOps
3 402 (30.34%) AWS
4 166 (12.53%) Serverless
5 134 (10.11%) IBM Cloud
6 109 (8.23%) SaaS
7 92 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 90 (6.79%) Azure Functions
9 79 (5.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 78 (5.89%) GCP
11 74 (5.58%) Azure API Management
12 72 (5.43%) Power Platform
13 66 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
14 60 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (4.08%) Power Automate
16 52 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
17 49 (3.70%) PaaS
18 42 (3.17%) GitHub
19 36 (2.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.15%) Firewall
2 53 (4.00%) DNS
3 26 (1.96%) DHCP
4 20 (1.51%) Network Security
4 20 (1.51%) VPN
5 14 (1.06%) HTTP
6 10 (0.75%) 5G
7 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.53%) SSL
9 7 (0.53%) WAN
10 6 (0.45%) LAN
11 5 (0.38%) NAS
11 5 (0.38%) SAN
12 4 (0.30%) MQTT
12 4 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.23%) BGP
14 2 (0.15%) Internet
14 2 (0.15%) Intranet
14 2 (0.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 128 (9.66%) NoSQL
4 113 (8.53%) MongoDB
4 113 (8.53%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.58%) DB2
6 50 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 49 (3.70%) Looker
8 40 (3.02%) Power BI
9 38 (2.87%) Hadoop
10 34 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (2.42%) GIS
12 29 (2.19%) QGIS
13 26 (1.96%) MySQL
14 24 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (1.58%) Big Data
16 19 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.60%) DynamoDB
19 7 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 228 (17.21%) Git
2 191 (14.42%) Jenkins
3 99 (7.47%) JIRA
4 59 (4.45%) GitLab
5 54 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 38 (2.87%) Selenium
7 33 (2.49%) Subversion
8 31 (2.34%) NUnit
9 27 (2.04%) JUnit
10 26 (1.96%) TeamCity
11 19 (1.43%) Postman
11 19 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.98%) Jasmine
13 13 (0.98%) MSBuild
13 13 (0.98%) Robot Framework
14 11 (0.83%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.75%) Trac
General
1 305 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 178 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 136 (10.26%) Finance
4 115 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.53%) Aerospace
6 47 (3.55%) Legal
7 44 (3.32%) Law
7 44 (3.32%) Retail
8 39 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.81%) Billing
10 23 (1.74%) Marketing
11 18 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.28%) Electronics
12 17 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.98%) Games
14 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.83%) Banking
16 9 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 409 (30.87%) Developer
2 190 (14.34%) Senior
3 186 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 128 (9.66%) Full Stack Developer
5 109 (8.23%) Software Engineer
6 106 (8.00%) Lead
7 104 (7.85%) Azure Developer
8 94 (7.09%) .NET Developer
9 93 (7.02%) Senior Developer
10 74 (5.58%) Architect
11 68 (5.13%) Java Developer
12 60 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 51 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.55%) Consultant
15 46 (3.47%) C# Developer
15 46 (3.47%) Engineering Manager
16 44 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
17 43 (3.25%) Senior .NET Developer
18 41 (3.09%) C# .NET Developer
19 38 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (29.21%) .NET
2 206 (15.55%) React
3 189 (14.26%) CSS
4 177 (13.36%) HTML
5 176 (13.28%) AngularJS
6 171 (12.91%) ASP.NET
6 171 (12.91%) Node.js
7 147 (11.09%) REST
7 147 (11.09%) Web Services
8 132 (9.96%) .NET Core
9 109 (8.23%) Vue
10 107 (8.08%) jQuery
11 90 (6.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 89 (6.72%) .NET Framework
13 85 (6.42%) RESTful
14 81 (6.11%) ASP.NET Core
15 75 (5.66%) Ember.js
16 74 (5.58%) Backbone.js
17 72 (5.43%) XML
18 66 (4.98%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.11%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.08%) Algorithms
4 100 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 98 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.17%) Data Structures
7 71 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
8 60 (4.53%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
9 48 (3.62%) IoT
10 37 (2.79%) Cloud Native
11 36 (2.72%) Management Information System
12 30 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.81%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.74%) Low-Code
15 22 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 19 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
17 18 (1.36%) PMI
18 16 (1.21%) Public Cloud
19 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 307 (23.17%) Linux
2 222 (16.75%) Windows
3 84 (6.34%) Android
3 84 (6.34%) Apple iOS
4 54 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 43 (3.25%) CentOS
6 42 (3.17%) Debian
7 40 (3.02%) Alpine Linux
8 20 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
9 19 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.91%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.75%) VMS
14 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.23%) Unix
17 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (46.11%) Agile
2 426 (32.15%) CI/CD
3 358 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
4 236 (17.81%) Software Engineering
5 192 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence
6 185 (13.96%) Test Automation
7 174 (13.13%) Full Stack Development
8 172 (12.98%) Web Development
9 170 (12.83%) Computer Science
9 170 (12.83%) Scrum
10 169 (12.75%) Microservices
11 155 (11.70%) MVC
12 150 (11.32%) Design Patterns
12 150 (11.32%) User Experience
13 129 (9.74%) Continuous Integration
14 125 (9.43%) Containerisation
15 124 (9.36%) Project Management
16 123 (9.28%) Mentoring
17 121 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
18 118 (8.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 368 (27.77%) Python
2 366 (27.62%) C#
3 333 (25.13%) JavaScript
4 274 (20.68%) SQL
5 264 (19.92%) Java
6 87 (6.57%) PowerShell
7 66 (4.98%) Bash
8 54 (4.08%) C++
9 48 (3.62%) C
10 38 (2.87%) TypeScript
11 37 (2.79%) Bicep
12 30 (2.26%) Go
13 23 (1.74%) PHP
14 18 (1.36%) Perl
15 17 (1.28%) VB.NET
16 16 (1.21%) Groovy
17 15 (1.13%) VB
18 14 (1.06%) Kotlin
18 14 (1.06%) VBScript
19 9 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 292 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 278 (20.98%) Degree
3 230 (17.36%) SC Cleared
4 137 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 64 (4.83%) Master's Degree
7 62 (4.68%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (3.40%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.09%) MCSA
10 41 (3.09%) MCSE
11 24 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 19 (1.43%) PMI Certification
13 18 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
14 13 (0.98%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.60%) MBA
17 7 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (9.51%) QA
2 37 (2.79%) GDPR
3 19 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.53%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.075%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.075%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.075%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.075%) NCSC
8 1 (0.075%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.075%) PMO
8 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 281 (21.21%) Docker
2 71 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 54 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.87%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.75%) Firmware
7 10 (0.75%) NFS
7 10 (0.75%) 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 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.075%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 309 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 203 (15.32%) Terraform
3 150 (11.32%) Ansible
4 41 (3.09%) Puppet
5 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
6 19 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.43%) Grafana
7 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.21%) SCCM
8 15 (1.13%) SCOM
9 14 (1.06%) WSUS
10 12 (0.91%) Consul
11 11 (0.83%) Rancher
12 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.75%) SCDPM
13 8 (0.60%) MIIS
13 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.45%) Kibana
16 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 303 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 136 (10.26%) IBM
3 126 (9.51%) Red Hat
4 59 (4.45%) Google
5 50 (3.77%) VMware
6 35 (2.64%) WSO2
7 30 (2.26%) ESRI
7 30 (2.26%) Oracle
8 26 (1.96%) Sitecore
9 19 (1.43%) Optimizely
10 18 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.28%) Juniper
12 16 (1.21%) Veeam
12 16 (1.21%) Xilinx
13 15 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.06%) SAP
15 13 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.83%) Nintex
17 10 (0.75%) McAfee
18 8 (0.60%) IFS