DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 148 147
Rank change year-on-year -70 -1 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 186 334 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 2.33% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.58% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 149 206 323
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £59,125 £62,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

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 15,876 12,953 19,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 90.33% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,350 8,186 12,492
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +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 20 May 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 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
Hampshire -42 58 £52,500 -22.22% 4
Thames Valley -81 49 £60,000 -20.00% 13
East Sussex +45 35 £80,000 +28.00%
Surrey -4 35 £53,750 -33.85% 3
Berkshire -38 27 £60,000 -25.00% 9
Oxfordshire -12 15 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Buckinghamshire -47 7 £57,500 -19.30% 3
Kent -22 5 £90,000 - 1
Middlesex -10 1 £61,339 +2.23%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (60.22%) Azure
3 101 (54.30%) CI/CD
4 97 (52.15%) AWS
5 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
6 78 (41.94%) Terraform
7 70 (37.63%) Python
8 62 (33.33%) Docker
9 59 (31.72%) Security Cleared
10 54 (29.03%) SC Cleared
11 53 (28.49%) Containerisation
12 49 (26.34%) Jenkins
13 46 (24.73%) Java
14 43 (23.12%) SQL
14 43 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (20.97%) Agile
16 38 (20.43%) PostgreSQL
16 38 (20.43%) Linux
16 38 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (19.35%) Hadoop
17 36 (19.35%) Node.js
18 35 (18.82%) Git
18 35 (18.82%) Social Skills
18 35 (18.82%) Ansible
19 34 (18.28%) Kafka
19 34 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
19 34 (18.28%) MongoDB
20 30 (16.13%) .NET
21 28 (15.05%) SaaS
22 25 (13.44%) Test Automation

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 (2.15%) nginx
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 112 (60.22%) Azure
2 97 (52.15%) AWS
3 34 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.05%) SaaS
5 16 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (6.99%) IBM Cloud
6 13 (6.99%) PaaS
7 12 (6.45%) Datadog
8 9 (4.84%) GitHub
9 8 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.30%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.30%) GCP
9 8 (4.30%) Serverless
10 7 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.23%) IaaS
12 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.15%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) DNS
1 4 (2.15%) LAN
1 4 (2.15%) Network Security
1 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.15%) WAN
2 3 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.43%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (19.35%) Hadoop
3 34 (18.28%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.99%) Big Data
5 8 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 49 (26.34%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.82%) Git
3 24 (12.90%) GitLab
4 14 (7.53%) JIRA
5 9 (4.84%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.69%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.61%) Selenium
7 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.08%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
9 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 35 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.14%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.60%) Finance
4 8 (4.30%) Retail
5 4 (2.15%) Electronics
5 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.15%) Marketing
5 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.61%) Automotive
7 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.35%) Node.js
2 34 (18.28%) Kafka
3 30 (16.13%) .NET
4 8 (4.30%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.76%) JSON
6 5 (2.69%) XML
6 5 (2.69%) YAML
7 4 (2.15%) LDAP
8 2 (1.08%) HTML
8 2 (1.08%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.08%) RESTful
9 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Blockchain
1 13 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (6.99%) Low-Code
2 12 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.69%) Client/Server
3 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.43%) Linux
2 4 (2.15%) VMS
3 3 (1.61%) Windows
4 2 (1.08%) CentOS
4 2 (1.08%) Debian
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (54.30%) CI/CD
3 53 (28.49%) Containerisation
4 43 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (20.97%) Agile
6 38 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (13.44%) Test Automation
8 23 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (12.37%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (11.29%) Microservices
11 18 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (7.53%) DevSecOps
13 13 (6.99%) Business Analysis
13 13 (6.99%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.99%) Decision-Making
13 13 (6.99%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (6.99%) Software Delivery
13 13 (6.99%) Software Testing
13 13 (6.99%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.63%) Python
2 46 (24.73%) Java
3 43 (23.12%) SQL
4 22 (11.83%) PowerShell
5 15 (8.06%) Bash
5 15 (8.06%) Groovy
6 13 (6.99%) Bicep
7 5 (2.69%) Go
8 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.61%) C#
9 3 (1.61%) C++
9 3 (1.61%) Ruby
10 2 (1.08%) C
11 1 (0.54%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.29%) Degree
4 19 (10.22%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.30%) QA
2 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
2 78 (41.94%) Terraform
3 35 (18.82%) Ansible
4 18 (9.68%) Puppet
5 12 (6.45%) Consul
6 11 (5.91%) Rancher
7 4 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.15%) Kibana
8 3 (1.61%) Grafana
8 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.08%) Podman
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.53%) IBM
3 5 (2.69%) VMware
4 4 (2.15%) SAP
5 3 (1.61%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.61%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.08%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Google
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle
7 1 (0.54%) Talend