DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South West is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 113 114
Rank change year-on-year -39 +1 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 155 184 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.67% 2.70% 3.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 3.02% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 111 114 157
10th Percentile £46,250 £34,666 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -7.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,750 £85,000
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,945 6,087 7,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.19% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,520 3,772 5,137
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,450
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 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 -16 71 £76,250 +9.80% 16
Gloucestershire -6 66 £70,000 -5.08% 13
Wiltshire -9 8 £47,500 -50.00% 1
Dorset -20 4 £61,250 +36.11%
Devon -24 3 £39,500 +21.81% 2
Cornwall - 2 £55,000 -
Somerset -1 1 £75,000 +25.00% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (77.42%) Terraform
3 112 (72.26%) Kubernetes
4 110 (70.97%) Docker
5 105 (67.74%) AWS
6 99 (63.87%) CI/CD
7 91 (58.71%) Linux
8 87 (56.13%) Ansible
9 83 (53.55%) Security Cleared
10 71 (45.81%) Agile
11 68 (43.87%) Azure
12 61 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 60 (38.71%) DV Cleared
14 58 (37.42%) Python
15 45 (29.03%) Jenkins
16 44 (28.39%) Continuous Integration
17 43 (27.74%) Prometheus
18 40 (25.81%) SDLC
18 40 (25.81%) Bash
18 40 (25.81%) Observability
19 39 (25.16%) Scrum
20 38 (24.52%) Containerisation
21 36 (23.23%) JIRA
21 36 (23.23%) Continuous Deployment
21 36 (23.23%) Collaborative Working
22 35 (22.58%) Grafana
22 35 (22.58%) Kanban
23 34 (21.94%) Validation
24 32 (20.65%) Aerospace
24 32 (20.65%) Actionable Insight

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 20 (12.90%) nginx
2 18 (11.61%) Apache
3 17 (10.97%) Apache Spark
3 17 (10.97%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.29%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 105 (67.74%) AWS
2 68 (43.87%) Azure
3 30 (19.35%) Amazon S3
3 30 (19.35%) GCP
4 26 (16.77%) OpenShift
5 17 (10.97%) MinIO
6 16 (10.32%) GitHub
7 15 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.39%) Datadog
9 11 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.52%) Serverless
12 5 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.58%) OCI
14 3 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.94%) IBM Cloud
14 3 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) Network Security
2 8 (5.16%) DNS
3 7 (4.52%) Firewall
4 5 (3.23%) AMQP
5 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.29%) HTTP
7 2 (1.29%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.29%) IPsec
8 1 (0.65%) DHCP
8 1 (0.65%) SSL
8 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.97%) Big Data
1 17 (10.97%) Hadoop
1 17 (10.97%) Presto
2 11 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.87%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.29%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.29%) DB2
6 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.29%) MySQL
6 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 36 (23.23%) JIRA
3 17 (10.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (8.39%) Git
5 7 (4.52%) Artifactory
5 7 (4.52%) Maven
5 7 (4.52%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.87%) Selenium
6 6 (3.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.23%) GitLab
8 4 (2.58%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (20.65%) Aerospace
2 16 (10.32%) Tech for Good
3 12 (7.74%) Finance
4 10 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.87%) Banking
7 2 (1.29%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.48%) RabbitMQ
1 24 (15.48%) YAML
2 19 (12.26%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (10.97%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (10.97%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (3.87%) RESTful
5 4 (2.58%) JSON
5 4 (2.58%) XML
6 3 (1.94%) .NET
6 3 (1.94%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.29%) HTML
7 2 (1.29%) OpenID
7 2 (1.29%) Spring
7 2 (1.29%) Spring XD
8 1 (0.65%) CSS
8 1 (0.65%) CSS3
8 1 (0.65%) HTML5
8 1 (0.65%) Node.js
8 1 (0.65%) OAuth
8 1 (0.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (9.03%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.87%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.94%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.94%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.29%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 91 (58.71%) Linux
2 11 (7.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (63.87%) CI/CD
3 71 (45.81%) Agile
4 61 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (28.39%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (25.81%) Observability
6 40 (25.81%) SDLC
7 39 (25.16%) Scrum
8 38 (24.52%) Containerisation
9 36 (23.23%) Collaborative Working
9 36 (23.23%) Continuous Deployment
10 35 (22.58%) Kanban
11 34 (21.94%) Validation
12 32 (20.65%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (12.90%) Configuration Management
14 19 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (11.61%) Thought Leadership
16 17 (10.97%) Data Engineering
16 17 (10.97%) Requirements Engineering
16 17 (10.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 58 (37.42%) Python
2 40 (25.81%) Bash
3 26 (16.77%) Shell Script
4 22 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 17 (10.97%) Java
6 11 (7.10%) Go
7 9 (5.81%) C#
8 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.87%) Ruby
10 5 (3.23%) SQL
11 4 (2.58%) Lua
11 4 (2.58%) Perl
11 4 (2.58%) Tcl
12 3 (1.94%) Bicep
12 3 (1.94%) PHP
13 1 (0.65%) C++
13 1 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (53.55%) Security Cleared
2 60 (38.71%) DV Cleared
3 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 110 (70.97%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 120 (77.42%) Terraform
2 112 (72.26%) Kubernetes
3 87 (56.13%) Ansible
4 43 (27.74%) Prometheus
5 35 (22.58%) Grafana
6 19 (12.26%) Progress Chef
7 17 (10.97%) HAProxy
8 13 (8.39%) Puppet
9 8 (5.16%) Packer
10 5 (3.23%) Argo
10 5 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.58%) Istio
11 4 (2.58%) vRealize
12 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.65%) Consul
12 1 (0.65%) Nagios
12 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.52%) Cisco
2 7 (4.52%) VMware
3 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.58%) SaltStack
3 4 (2.58%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.94%) IBM
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle
5 2 (1.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.29%) Sybase
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.65%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) New Relic
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk