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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,330 1,527 2,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.79% 10.78% 13.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 11.40% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 817 959 1,680
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,250 £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 14,326 13,393 19,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.93% 94.54% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,917 7,792 11,857
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £85,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -11 472 £59,000 -12.59% 74
Hampshire +3 409 £65,000 - 50
Berkshire -10 238 £60,000 -17.24% 32
Surrey -6 211 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Oxfordshire -1 120 £59,000 +2.61% 14
Buckinghamshire -20 114 £55,000 -15.38% 28
West Sussex +29 86 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East Sussex -6 73 £70,000 +18.64% 10
Kent -24 60 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Middlesex -14 14 £42,500 -45.16%
Sussex - 6 £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 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.31%) OpenStack
3 38 (2.86%) IIS
4 29 (2.18%) ArcGIS
4 29 (2.18%) CMS
4 29 (2.18%) GeoServer
5 24 (1.80%) Headless CMS
5 24 (1.80%) Kentico
5 24 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.58%) Umbraco
7 20 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
8 11 (0.83%) JBoss
9 10 (0.75%) nginx
9 10 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.53%) Apache
11 6 (0.45%) Confluence
12 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.15%) WordPress
14 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.075%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.18%) 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
1 779 (58.57%) Azure
2 429 (32.26%) Azure DevOps
3 407 (30.60%) AWS
4 164 (12.33%) Serverless
5 134 (10.08%) IBM Cloud
6 109 (8.20%) SaaS
7 93 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 90 (6.77%) Azure Functions
9 79 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 79 (5.94%) GCP
10 74 (5.56%) Azure API Management
11 73 (5.49%) Power Platform
12 66 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
13 58 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (4.06%) Power Automate
15 53 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
16 51 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
17 49 (3.68%) PaaS
18 43 (3.23%) GitHub
19 37 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.21%) Firewall
2 54 (4.06%) DNS
3 27 (2.03%) DHCP
4 20 (1.50%) Network Security
4 20 (1.50%) VPN
5 15 (1.13%) 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
1 203 (15.26%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (10.68%) Relational Database
3 129 (9.70%) NoSQL
4 115 (8.65%) MongoDB
5 112 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 74 (5.56%) DB2
7 50 (3.76%) BigQuery
8 49 (3.68%) Looker
9 41 (3.08%) Power BI
10 40 (3.01%) Hadoop
11 35 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (2.41%) GIS
13 29 (2.18%) QGIS
14 26 (1.95%) MySQL
15 25 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (1.58%) Big Data
17 19 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
19 8 (0.60%) DynamoDB
19 8 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 227 (17.07%) Git
2 193 (14.51%) Jenkins
3 97 (7.29%) JIRA
4 58 (4.36%) GitLab
5 55 (4.14%) Visual Studio
6 38 (2.86%) Selenium
7 33 (2.48%) Subversion
8 31 (2.33%) NUnit
9 27 (2.03%) JUnit
10 26 (1.95%) TeamCity
11 19 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (1.20%) Postman
13 14 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
14 13 (0.98%) Jasmine
14 13 (0.98%) MSBuild
14 13 (0.98%) Robot Framework
15 11 (0.83%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.83%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.75%) MorphX
16 10 (0.75%) Trac
General
1 307 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 177 (13.31%) Public Sector
3 135 (10.15%) Finance
4 114 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.59%) Aerospace
6 46 (3.46%) Legal
7 44 (3.31%) Retail
8 43 (3.23%) Law
9 39 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.80%) Billing
11 23 (1.73%) Marketing
12 19 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.28%) Electronics
14 16 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.98%) Games
16 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.83%) Banking
18 9 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 408 (30.68%) Developer
2 191 (14.36%) Senior
3 188 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 128 (9.62%) Full Stack Developer
5 110 (8.27%) Software Engineer
6 106 (7.97%) Azure Developer
7 104 (7.82%) Lead
8 94 (7.07%) Senior Developer
9 93 (6.99%) .NET Developer
10 74 (5.56%) Architect
11 68 (5.11%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 52 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.53%) Consultant
15 46 (3.46%) C# Developer
15 46 (3.46%) Engineering Manager
16 45 (3.38%) Senior .NET Developer
17 44 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
18 41 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
19 37 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (29.02%) .NET
2 205 (15.41%) React
3 190 (14.29%) CSS
4 177 (13.31%) HTML
5 176 (13.23%) AngularJS
6 172 (12.93%) ASP.NET
6 172 (12.93%) Node.js
7 146 (10.98%) Web Services
8 143 (10.75%) REST
9 129 (9.70%) .NET Core
10 109 (8.20%) Vue
11 107 (8.05%) jQuery
12 90 (6.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 89 (6.69%) .NET Framework
14 84 (6.32%) RESTful
15 81 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 75 (5.64%) Ember.js
17 74 (5.56%) Backbone.js
18 72 (5.41%) XML
19 65 (4.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 146 (10.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.08%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.05%) Algorithms
4 102 (7.67%) Product Ownership
5 98 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.14%) Data Structures
7 72 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
8 61 (4.59%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
9 48 (3.61%) IoT
10 37 (2.78%) Cloud Native
11 36 (2.71%) Management Information System
12 30 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.73%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.65%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.65%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.35%) PMI
17 16 (1.20%) Public Cloud
18 15 (1.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 309 (23.23%) Linux
2 223 (16.77%) Windows
3 83 (6.24%) Android
3 83 (6.24%) Apple iOS
4 56 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 43 (3.23%) CentOS
6 42 (3.16%) Debian
7 40 (3.01%) Alpine Linux
8 20 (1.50%) Embedded Linux
9 19 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 18 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.90%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.75%) VMS
14 7 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.23%) Unix
17 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (46.02%) Agile
2 431 (32.41%) CI/CD
3 357 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
4 236 (17.74%) Software Engineering
5 192 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence
6 188 (14.14%) Test Automation
7 174 (13.08%) Full Stack Development
8 172 (12.93%) Web Development
9 171 (12.86%) Computer Science
10 170 (12.78%) Scrum
11 165 (12.41%) Microservices
12 155 (11.65%) MVC
13 148 (11.13%) User Experience
14 146 (10.98%) Design Patterns
15 127 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
16 124 (9.32%) Containerisation
16 124 (9.32%) Mentoring
16 124 (9.32%) Project Management
17 122 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 118 (8.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 370 (27.82%) Python
2 366 (27.52%) C#
3 333 (25.04%) JavaScript
4 274 (20.60%) SQL
5 264 (19.85%) Java
6 90 (6.77%) PowerShell
7 65 (4.89%) Bash
8 54 (4.06%) C++
9 49 (3.68%) C
10 38 (2.86%) Bicep
10 38 (2.86%) TypeScript
11 30 (2.26%) Go
12 23 (1.73%) PHP
13 17 (1.28%) Groovy
13 17 (1.28%) Perl
14 16 (1.20%) VB
15 15 (1.13%) VBScript
16 14 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.05%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 299 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 281 (21.13%) Degree
3 236 (17.74%) SC Cleared
4 138 (10.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 64 (4.81%) Master's Degree
7 63 (4.74%) AWS Certification
8 47 (3.53%) DV Cleared
9 46 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (3.08%) MCSA
10 41 (3.08%) MCSE
11 25 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 19 (1.43%) PMI Certification
15 18 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
16 13 (0.98%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (0.60%) MBA
19 7 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (9.55%) QA
2 36 (2.71%) GDPR
3 18 (1.35%) 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
1 283 (21.28%) Docker
2 72 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 55 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (1.73%) 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
1 311 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 205 (15.41%) Terraform
3 150 (11.28%) Ansible
4 41 (3.08%) Puppet
5 25 (1.88%) ZABBIX
6 20 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (1.50%) Grafana
7 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (1.28%) SCCM
8 16 (1.20%) SCOM
9 15 (1.13%) WSUS
10 11 (0.83%) Consul
11 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.75%) Rancher
11 10 (0.75%) SCDPM
12 9 (0.68%) MIIS
13 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.53%) Kibana
15 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 304 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 136 (10.23%) IBM
3 127 (9.55%) Red Hat
4 58 (4.36%) Google
5 50 (3.76%) VMware
6 34 (2.56%) WSO2
7 30 (2.26%) ESRI
7 30 (2.26%) Oracle
8 26 (1.95%) Sitecore
9 19 (1.43%) Optimizely
9 19 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.28%) Juniper
11 16 (1.20%) Veeam
11 16 (1.20%) Xilinx
12 15 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.05%) SAP
14 13 (0.98%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.83%) Nintex
16 10 (0.75%) McAfee
17 8 (0.60%) IFS