DevOps Jobs in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 868 864 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.69% 13.07% 15.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.74% 13.83% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 587 544 871
10th Percentile £36,365 £40,988 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +11.65%
75th Percentile £76,875 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,125 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,079 6,247 8,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.87% 94.48% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 3,513 4,997
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,505 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South West.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Bristol -5 369 £70,000 +7.69% 60
Gloucestershire +3 281 £55,000 -15.38% 39
Wiltshire -6 103 £61,250 -9.26% 8
Devon 0 46 £36,984 -3.38% 21
Dorset -49 25 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Somerset -14 24 £55,000 - 12
Cornwall - 1 £55,000 - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 68 (7.83%) Confluence
2 28 (3.23%) Apache
3 27 (3.11%) ArcGIS
3 27 (3.11%) GeoServer
4 25 (2.88%) CMS
5 24 (2.76%) Umbraco
6 23 (2.65%) nginx
7 20 (2.30%) IIS
8 18 (2.07%) Headless CMS
9 17 (1.96%) Apache Spark
9 17 (1.96%) Kentico
9 17 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
10 16 (1.84%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.92%) SharePoint
12 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.35%) JBoss
15 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
15 2 (0.23%) WordPress
16 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 26 (3.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 492 (56.68%) Azure
2 387 (44.59%) AWS
3 239 (27.53%) Azure DevOps
4 102 (11.75%) GCP
5 79 (9.10%) OpenShift
6 70 (8.06%) SaaS
7 64 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (6.22%) Power Platform
9 34 (3.92%) Serverless
10 33 (3.80%) GitHub
11 32 (3.69%) PowerApps
12 28 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 28 (3.23%) PaaS
13 24 (2.76%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (2.19%) IaaS
15 17 (1.96%) Kontent
16 16 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.84%) MinIO
17 15 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.53%) TCP/IP
2 47 (5.41%) DNS
3 43 (4.95%) HTTP
4 40 (4.61%) DHCP
5 14 (1.61%) Firewall
6 10 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (0.58%) AMQP
7 5 (0.58%) LAN
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
7 5 (0.58%) WAN
8 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 4 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.35%) RS-485
10 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.23%) IP Telephony
10 2 (0.23%) IPv4
10 2 (0.23%) OSPF
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
11 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (6.11%) BigQuery
3 53 (6.11%) Looker
4 37 (4.26%) Big Data
5 33 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (3.69%) Power BI
7 31 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.46%) GIS
9 27 (3.11%) QGIS
10 25 (2.88%) MySQL
10 25 (2.88%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.53%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.84%) Hadoop
12 16 (1.84%) Presto
13 14 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.15%) Tableau
15 8 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 170 (19.59%) Git
2 126 (14.52%) JIRA
3 86 (9.91%) Visual Studio
4 66 (7.60%) Bitbucket
4 66 (7.60%) Jenkins
5 59 (6.80%) Sourcetree
6 20 (2.30%) GitLab
7 16 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 16 (1.84%) Selenium
8 13 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.81%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.81%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.69%) JMeter
10 6 (0.69%) Maven
10 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.46%) Moq
General
1 174 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 86 (9.91%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (9.22%) Aerospace
4 79 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (7.72%) Games
6 55 (6.34%) Finance
7 33 (3.80%) Billing
8 30 (3.46%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.53%) Fire and Rescue
10 20 (2.30%) Tech for Good
11 19 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.96%) Legal
13 16 (1.84%) Retail
14 14 (1.61%) Banking
14 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.50%) Publishing
16 10 (1.15%) Law
17 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 278 (32.03%) Developer
2 255 (29.38%) Senior
3 160 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (12.79%) Senior Developer
5 95 (10.94%) Architect
6 90 (10.37%) Software Engineer
7 84 (9.68%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.80%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.80%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.80%) Unity 3D Developer
9 58 (6.68%) Software Developer
10 53 (6.11%) Senior .NET Developer
11 52 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (5.18%) Data Engineer
13 44 (5.07%) C# Developer
14 43 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 42 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
16 41 (4.72%) Lead
17 39 (4.49%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (25.35%) .NET
2 146 (16.82%) React
3 114 (13.13%) CSS
4 109 (12.56%) .NET Core
5 94 (10.83%) HTML
6 90 (10.37%) .NET Framework
7 89 (10.25%) ASP.NET
8 78 (8.99%) AngularJS
9 61 (7.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 54 (6.22%) Entity Framework
11 47 (5.41%) RESTful
12 36 (4.15%) Spring
13 35 (4.03%) Vue
14 34 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
15 33 (3.80%) LESS
16 29 (3.34%) YAML
17 27 (3.11%) Leaflet
17 27 (3.11%) OpenLayers
17 27 (3.11%) PostGIS
18 25 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.80%) Virtual Reality
3 42 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.15%) Public Cloud
6 29 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 19 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
10 18 (2.07%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
16 5 (0.58%) e-Learning
16 5 (0.58%) Low-Code
17 4 (0.46%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 203 (23.39%) Linux
2 79 (9.10%) Windows
3 52 (5.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.38%) Unix
6 10 (1.15%) Debian
7 8 (0.92%) CentOS
8 7 (0.81%) Android
8 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.81%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.81%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.46%) AIX
10 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.35%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.12%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (49.77%) Agile
2 310 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 215 (24.77%) Software Engineering
4 211 (24.31%) Scrum
5 178 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (14.98%) Actionable Insight
7 122 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 110 (12.67%) Continuous Integration
9 99 (11.41%) Full Stack Development
10 97 (11.18%) Design Patterns
11 95 (10.94%) Containerisation
11 95 (10.94%) Microservices
11 95 (10.94%) MVC
12 89 (10.25%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (10.14%) UML
14 84 (9.68%) Mentoring
15 81 (9.33%) SDLC
16 76 (8.76%) Kanban
17 74 (8.53%) Data Engineering
18 67 (7.72%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 241 (27.76%) C#
2 229 (26.38%) Python
3 205 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 148 (17.05%) Java
5 107 (12.33%) SQL
6 103 (11.87%) Bash
7 83 (9.56%) PowerShell
8 56 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 26 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 26 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 23 (2.65%) Go
11 22 (2.53%) PHP
12 20 (2.30%) Ruby
13 15 (1.73%) Bicep
14 13 (1.50%) C
14 13 (1.50%) C++
15 8 (0.92%) R
16 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.46%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 355 (40.90%) Security Cleared
2 222 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 159 (18.32%) Degree
4 134 (15.44%) DV Cleared
5 95 (10.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.69%) IIBA
11 5 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.58%) PCI QSA
12 3 (0.35%) ISEB
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.33%) QA
2 22 (2.53%) GDPR
3 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.04%) PMO
6 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 200 (23.04%) Docker
2 49 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.58%) Firmware
6 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 230 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 180 (20.74%) Terraform
3 178 (20.51%) Ansible
4 78 (8.99%) Puppet
5 43 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.26%) Grafana
7 24 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.84%) HAProxy
9 8 (0.92%) Packer
10 7 (0.81%) Kibana
11 6 (0.69%) Nagios
12 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.46%) Istio
13 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.46%) vRealize
14 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.35%) Argo
14 3 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
15 1 (0.12%) Anchore
15 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 212 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.95%) Google
3 61 (7.03%) Red Hat
4 57 (6.57%) VMware
5 27 (3.11%) ESRI
6 26 (3.00%) Oracle
6 26 (3.00%) Sparx
7 17 (1.96%) Optimizely
7 17 (1.96%) Sitecore
8 11 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.15%) Cisco
9 10 (1.15%) Xamarin
10 8 (0.92%) Citrix
10 8 (0.92%) IBM
11 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.69%) Databricks
11 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.69%) Splunk
11 6 (0.69%) Twitter
12 5 (0.58%) SolarWinds