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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,321 1,525 2,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.82% 10.67% 13.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 11.30% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 811 959 1,671
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 14,237 13,500 18,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.30% 94.49% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,877 7,867 11,859
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 18 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 18 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 -11 466 £59,000 -12.59% 76
Hampshire +4 405 £66,500 +2.31% 52
Berkshire -8 233 £60,000 -17.24% 37
Surrey -8 207 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Oxfordshire +2 119 £58,539 +1.81% 12
Buckinghamshire -20 114 £55,000 -10.20% 27
West Sussex +32 85 £65,000 +18.18% 13
East Sussex -4 79 £66,500 +13.68% 5
Kent -24 60 £65,000 +23.81% 6
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 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 38 (2.88%) IIS
4 30 (2.27%) CMS
5 29 (2.20%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.20%) GeoServer
6 24 (1.82%) Headless CMS
6 24 (1.82%) Kentico
7 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (1.59%) Umbraco
9 20 (1.51%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.83%) nginx
11 10 (0.76%) JBoss
11 10 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
12 7 (0.53%) Apache
13 6 (0.45%) Confluence
14 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
15 2 (0.15%) WordPress
16 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 25 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.21%) Simulink
5 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.076%) PTC Creo
6 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
1 767 (58.06%) Azure
2 428 (32.40%) Azure DevOps
3 400 (30.28%) AWS
4 165 (12.49%) Serverless
5 135 (10.22%) IBM Cloud
6 109 (8.25%) SaaS
7 92 (6.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 90 (6.81%) Azure Functions
9 79 (5.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 79 (5.98%) GCP
10 74 (5.60%) Azure API Management
11 71 (5.37%) Power Platform
12 66 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
13 59 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (4.09%) Power Automate
15 52 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
16 51 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
17 49 (3.71%) PaaS
18 42 (3.18%) GitHub
19 36 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.16%) Firewall
2 52 (3.94%) DNS
3 26 (1.97%) DHCP
4 20 (1.51%) Network Security
4 20 (1.51%) VPN
5 14 (1.06%) HTTP
6 10 (0.76%) 5G
7 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.61%) 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
1 198 (14.99%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (10.83%) Relational Database
3 128 (9.69%) NoSQL
4 113 (8.55%) SQL Server
5 111 (8.40%) MongoDB
6 74 (5.60%) DB2
7 50 (3.79%) BigQuery
8 49 (3.71%) Looker
9 39 (2.95%) Power BI
10 36 (2.73%) Hadoop
11 33 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (2.35%) GIS
13 29 (2.20%) QGIS
14 27 (2.04%) MySQL
15 24 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (1.59%) Big Data
17 19 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
19 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
20 7 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 227 (17.18%) Git
2 190 (14.38%) Jenkins
3 99 (7.49%) JIRA
4 60 (4.54%) GitLab
5 54 (4.09%) Visual Studio
6 38 (2.88%) Selenium
7 33 (2.50%) Subversion
8 31 (2.35%) NUnit
9 26 (1.97%) JUnit
9 26 (1.97%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.44%) Postman
10 19 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
12 13 (0.98%) Jasmine
12 13 (0.98%) MSBuild
12 13 (0.98%) Robot Framework
13 11 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.76%) Trac
General
1 305 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 178 (13.47%) Public Sector
3 135 (10.22%) Finance
4 114 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.54%) Aerospace
6 47 (3.56%) Legal
7 44 (3.33%) Law
7 44 (3.33%) Retail
8 39 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.82%) Billing
10 23 (1.74%) Marketing
11 18 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.29%) Electronics
12 17 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.98%) Games
13 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.83%) Banking
15 9 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 408 (30.89%) Developer
2 189 (14.31%) Senior
3 185 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 127 (9.61%) Full Stack Developer
5 109 (8.25%) Software Engineer
6 106 (8.02%) Lead
7 104 (7.87%) Azure Developer
8 94 (7.12%) .NET Developer
9 93 (7.04%) Senior Developer
10 73 (5.53%) Architect
11 67 (5.07%) Java Developer
12 60 (4.54%) Software Developer
13 51 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.56%) Consultant
15 46 (3.48%) C# Developer
15 46 (3.48%) Engineering Manager
16 45 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 43 (3.26%) Senior .NET Developer
18 41 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
19 38 (2.88%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (29.30%) .NET
2 206 (15.59%) React
3 189 (14.31%) CSS
4 177 (13.40%) HTML
5 175 (13.25%) AngularJS
6 171 (12.94%) ASP.NET
7 168 (12.72%) Node.js
8 146 (11.05%) REST
8 146 (11.05%) Web Services
9 132 (9.99%) .NET Core
10 109 (8.25%) Vue
11 107 (8.10%) jQuery
12 90 (6.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 89 (6.74%) .NET Framework
14 85 (6.43%) RESTful
15 81 (6.13%) ASP.NET Core
16 75 (5.68%) Ember.js
17 74 (5.60%) Backbone.js
18 72 (5.45%) XML
19 65 (4.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 134 (10.14%) Blockchain
3 107 (8.10%) Algorithms
4 100 (7.57%) Product Ownership
5 97 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (7.19%) Data Structures
7 71 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
8 60 (4.54%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (3.56%) IoT
11 37 (2.80%) Cloud Native
12 35 (2.65%) Management Information System
13 30 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.82%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.74%) Low-Code
16 22 (1.67%) Private Cloud
17 19 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
18 18 (1.36%) PMI
19 17 (1.29%) Public Cloud
20 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 309 (23.39%) Linux
2 221 (16.73%) Windows
3 84 (6.36%) Android
3 84 (6.36%) Apple iOS
4 54 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 43 (3.26%) CentOS
6 42 (3.18%) Debian
7 40 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
8 20 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
9 19 (1.44%) Ubuntu
10 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.91%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.76%) VMS
14 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.23%) Unix
17 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (46.18%) Agile
2 428 (32.40%) CI/CD
3 357 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
4 236 (17.87%) Software Engineering
5 192 (14.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 186 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 173 (13.10%) Full Stack Development
8 172 (13.02%) Web Development
9 169 (12.79%) Computer Science
9 169 (12.79%) Scrum
10 168 (12.72%) Microservices
11 155 (11.73%) MVC
12 151 (11.43%) Design Patterns
13 149 (11.28%) User Experience
14 130 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
15 125 (9.46%) Containerisation
16 124 (9.39%) Project Management
17 123 (9.31%) Mentoring
18 121 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 118 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 366 (27.71%) C#
2 365 (27.63%) Python
3 332 (25.13%) JavaScript
4 273 (20.67%) SQL
5 261 (19.76%) Java
6 87 (6.59%) PowerShell
7 65 (4.92%) Bash
8 54 (4.09%) C++
9 48 (3.63%) C
10 38 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 37 (2.80%) Bicep
12 30 (2.27%) Go
13 23 (1.74%) PHP
14 17 (1.29%) Perl
14 17 (1.29%) VB.NET
15 16 (1.21%) Groovy
16 15 (1.14%) VB
17 14 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.06%) VBScript
18 9 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 290 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 277 (20.97%) Degree
3 229 (17.34%) SC Cleared
4 136 (10.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.77%) Master's Degree
7 62 (4.69%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (3.41%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.10%) MCSA
10 41 (3.10%) MCSE
11 24 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 19 (1.44%) PMI Certification
13 18 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
14 13 (0.98%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.61%) MBA
17 7 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (9.54%) QA
2 37 (2.80%) GDPR
3 18 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.83%) 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
1 281 (21.27%) Docker
2 70 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 53 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.74%) 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
Systems Management
1 309 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 205 (15.52%) Terraform
3 150 (11.36%) Ansible
4 41 (3.10%) Puppet
5 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
6 19 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.44%) Grafana
7 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.21%) SCCM
8 15 (1.14%) SCOM
9 14 (1.06%) WSUS
10 12 (0.91%) Consul
10 12 (0.91%) Rancher
11 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.76%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.61%) MIIS
12 8 (0.61%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 7 (0.53%) Kibana
14 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 303 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 137 (10.37%) IBM
3 126 (9.54%) Red Hat
4 59 (4.47%) Google
5 50 (3.79%) VMware
6 34 (2.57%) WSO2
7 30 (2.27%) ESRI
7 30 (2.27%) Oracle
8 26 (1.97%) Sitecore
9 19 (1.44%) Optimizely
10 18 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.29%) Juniper
12 16 (1.21%) Veeam
12 16 (1.21%) Xilinx
13 15 (1.14%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.06%) SAP
15 13 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.83%) Nintex
17 10 (0.76%) McAfee
18 8 (0.61%) IFS