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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 867 876 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.93% 13.04% 15.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 13.78% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 591 542 888
10th Percentile £36,365 £40,913 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +8.70% +12.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £75,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £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 7,925 6,357 8,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.59% 94.63% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,692 3,502 5,073
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £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 28 May 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 28 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
Bristol -5 375 £70,000 +7.69% 61
Gloucestershire +2 278 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Wiltshire -7 100 £61,250 -9.26% 12
Devon -4 46 £36,984 -11.18% 18
Somerset -10 24 £55,000 - 14
Dorset -50 24 £57,500 - 10
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 67 (7.73%) Confluence
2 29 (3.34%) Apache
3 27 (3.11%) ArcGIS
3 27 (3.11%) GeoServer
4 25 (2.88%) CMS
5 24 (2.77%) nginx
5 24 (2.77%) Umbraco
6 20 (2.31%) IIS
7 18 (2.08%) Apache Spark
7 18 (2.08%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.96%) Jupyter
8 17 (1.96%) Kentico
8 17 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.92%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.35%) JBoss
13 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.23%) WordPress
14 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
1 494 (56.98%) Azure
2 388 (44.75%) AWS
3 244 (28.14%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (12.11%) GCP
5 80 (9.23%) OpenShift
6 69 (7.96%) SaaS
7 67 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (6.23%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.04%) Serverless
10 33 (3.81%) GitHub
10 33 (3.81%) PaaS
11 32 (3.69%) PowerApps
12 29 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.77%) Power Automate
14 22 (2.54%) IaaS
15 18 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.96%) Kontent
16 17 (1.96%) MinIO
17 15 (1.73%) Datadog
17 15 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.54%) TCP/IP
2 47 (5.42%) DNS
3 43 (4.96%) HTTP
4 40 (4.61%) DHCP
5 14 (1.61%) Firewall
6 10 (1.15%) Network Security
7 6 (0.69%) LAN
7 6 (0.69%) VPN
7 6 (0.69%) WAN
8 5 (0.58%) AMQP
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
9 4 (0.46%) SSL
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.35%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.35%) RS-485
11 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.23%) IPv4
11 2 (0.23%) OSPF
11 2 (0.23%) VLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (6.11%) BigQuery
3 53 (6.11%) Looker
4 38 (4.38%) Big Data
5 33 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.69%) Power BI
7 30 (3.46%) GIS
8 27 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 27 (3.11%) QGIS
9 25 (2.88%) MySQL
10 22 (2.54%) MongoDB
11 17 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 17 (1.96%) Presto
12 13 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.15%) Tableau
14 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 172 (19.84%) Git
2 125 (14.42%) JIRA
3 86 (9.92%) Visual Studio
4 67 (7.73%) Jenkins
5 66 (7.61%) Bitbucket
6 59 (6.81%) Sourcetree
7 21 (2.42%) GitLab
8 17 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 16 (1.85%) Selenium
10 13 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.81%) Eclipse
11 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.81%) Vagrant
12 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.69%) JMeter
12 6 (0.69%) Maven
12 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.46%) Moq
General
1 171 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (9.23%) Aerospace
4 79 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (7.73%) Games
6 56 (6.46%) Finance
7 33 (3.81%) Billing
8 27 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.54%) Fire and Rescue
10 20 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.31%) Tech for Good
11 18 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Legal
12 16 (1.85%) Retail
13 14 (1.61%) Banking
13 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.50%) Publishing
15 11 (1.27%) Law
16 5 (0.58%) Marketing
16 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (32.18%) Developer
2 257 (29.64%) Senior
3 157 (18.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (12.80%) Senior Developer
5 92 (10.61%) Architect
6 91 (10.50%) Software Engineer
7 84 (9.69%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.81%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.81%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.81%) Software Developer
8 59 (6.81%) Unity 3D Developer
9 53 (6.11%) Senior .NET Developer
10 51 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
11 46 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 43 (4.96%) C# Developer
12 43 (4.96%) Lead
13 42 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
15 39 (4.50%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (25.49%) .NET
2 148 (17.07%) React
3 115 (13.26%) CSS
4 109 (12.57%) .NET Core
5 95 (10.96%) HTML
6 89 (10.27%) .NET Framework
7 88 (10.15%) ASP.NET
8 79 (9.11%) AngularJS
9 61 (7.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 53 (6.11%) Entity Framework
11 49 (5.65%) RESTful
12 36 (4.15%) Vue
13 35 (4.04%) Spring
14 34 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
15 32 (3.69%) LESS
16 30 (3.46%) YAML
17 29 (3.34%) Node.js
18 28 (3.23%) PostGIS
19 27 (3.11%) Leaflet
19 27 (3.11%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.15%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.81%) Virtual Reality
3 43 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.50%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 19 (2.19%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.85%) 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 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.58%) e-Learning
15 5 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.58%) Low-Code
16 4 (0.46%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 204 (23.53%) Linux
2 81 (9.34%) Windows
3 51 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.38%) Unix
6 10 (1.15%) Debian
7 8 (0.92%) CentOS
7 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.81%) Android
8 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.81%) CoreOS
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.46%) AIX
12 3 (0.35%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.12%) VMS
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (49.94%) Agile
2 311 (35.87%) CI/CD
3 215 (24.80%) Software Engineering
4 212 (24.45%) Scrum
5 181 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (15.22%) Actionable Insight
7 125 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
9 100 (11.53%) Design Patterns
9 100 (11.53%) Full Stack Development
10 98 (11.30%) Containerisation
11 94 (10.84%) MVC
12 93 (10.73%) Microservices
13 89 (10.27%) Collaborative Working
14 88 (10.15%) UML
15 85 (9.80%) Mentoring
16 80 (9.23%) SDLC
17 76 (8.77%) Kanban
18 75 (8.65%) Data Engineering
19 68 (7.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 241 (27.80%) C#
2 234 (26.99%) Python
3 208 (23.99%) JavaScript
4 150 (17.30%) Java
5 109 (12.57%) SQL
6 106 (12.23%) Bash
7 86 (9.92%) PowerShell
8 55 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.88%) Go
10 25 (2.88%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.54%) PHP
11 22 (2.54%) Ruby
12 15 (1.73%) Bicep
13 13 (1.50%) C
13 13 (1.50%) C++
14 8 (0.92%) R
15 6 (0.69%) Perl
16 4 (0.46%) Tcl
16 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 357 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 222 (25.61%) SC Cleared
3 159 (18.34%) Degree
4 134 (15.46%) DV Cleared
5 95 (10.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (4.96%) 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
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.57%) QA
2 22 (2.54%) GDPR
3 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.04%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) 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
1 202 (23.30%) Docker
2 51 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.50%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.58%) Firmware
9 3 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 230 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 181 (20.88%) Terraform
3 177 (20.42%) Ansible
4 79 (9.11%) Puppet
5 43 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.27%) Grafana
7 23 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.96%) 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%) vRealize
14 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.35%) Argo
14 3 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
16 1 (0.12%) Anchore
Vendors
1 215 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.19%) Google
3 60 (6.92%) Red Hat
3 60 (6.92%) VMware
4 28 (3.23%) Oracle
5 27 (3.11%) ESRI
6 26 (3.00%) Sparx
7 17 (1.96%) Optimizely
7 17 (1.96%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.15%) Cisco
9 10 (1.15%) Citrix
9 10 (1.15%) Xamarin
10 8 (0.92%) IBM
11 7 (0.81%) SolarWinds
12 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.69%) Databricks
12 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.69%) Splunk
12 6 (0.69%) Twitter