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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 872 948 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.53% 13.54% 16.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 14.32% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 608 596 916
10th Percentile £36,365 £40,563 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £75,000
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 7,698 6,620 7,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.16% 94.53% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,535 3,691 4,984
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,892
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -5 380 £70,576 +8.58% 82
Gloucestershire -1 274 £55,000 -15.38% 28
Wiltshire -1 109 £55,000 -18.52% 14
Devon -9 42 £36,984 -15.95% 17
Dorset -46 24 £57,500 +2.22% 6
Somerset -17 23 £55,000 - 13
Cornwall - 3 £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 (7.68%) Confluence
2 27 (3.10%) Apache
2 27 (3.10%) ArcGIS
2 27 (3.10%) GeoServer
3 25 (2.87%) CMS
4 23 (2.64%) nginx
4 23 (2.64%) Umbraco
5 19 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 19 (2.18%) IIS
6 17 (1.95%) Headless CMS
6 17 (1.95%) Jupyter
7 16 (1.83%) Kentico
7 16 (1.83%) Sitecore CMS
8 13 (1.49%) SharePoint
9 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.34%) Captiva
11 3 (0.34%) FileNet
11 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.92%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.23%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 488 (55.96%) Azure
2 375 (43.00%) AWS
3 248 (28.44%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (13.30%) GCP
5 81 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (8.49%) OpenShift
7 68 (7.80%) SaaS
8 55 (6.31%) Power Platform
9 36 (4.13%) PaaS
10 34 (3.90%) Serverless
11 33 (3.78%) GitHub
12 32 (3.67%) PowerApps
13 30 (3.44%) Amazon S3
14 27 (3.10%) IaaS
15 22 (2.52%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.95%) MinIO
17 16 (1.83%) Kontent
18 13 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.39%) TCP/IP
2 46 (5.28%) DNS
3 41 (4.70%) HTTP
4 38 (4.36%) DHCP
5 14 (1.61%) Firewall
6 9 (1.03%) Network Security
7 8 (0.92%) VPN
8 5 (0.57%) AMQP
8 5 (0.57%) LAN
8 5 (0.57%) WAN
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.34%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.34%) IPv4
10 3 (0.34%) OSPF
10 3 (0.34%) RS-485
10 3 (0.34%) VLAN
11 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.23%) IPsec
11 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 59 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (6.42%) BigQuery
4 53 (6.08%) Looker
5 35 (4.01%) Big Data
5 35 (4.01%) GIS
6 34 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.44%) Power BI
9 27 (3.10%) QGIS
10 22 (2.52%) MySQL
11 20 (2.29%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.29%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.95%) Presto
13 16 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (1.03%) Star Schema
17 8 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 178 (20.41%) Git
2 120 (13.76%) JIRA
3 86 (9.86%) Visual Studio
4 72 (8.26%) Jenkins
5 61 (7.00%) Bitbucket
6 59 (6.77%) Sourcetree
7 21 (2.41%) GitLab
8 18 (2.06%) Selenium
8 18 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 17 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.03%) Maven
12 8 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.80%) Vagrant
14 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
16 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 161 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 83 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (8.94%) Finance
5 66 (7.57%) Games
6 61 (7.00%) Aerospace
7 33 (3.78%) Billing
8 31 (3.56%) Banking
9 25 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.52%) Fire and Rescue
12 20 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.18%) Tech for Good
14 16 (1.83%) Legal
15 15 (1.72%) Retail
16 13 (1.49%) Law
16 13 (1.49%) Publishing
16 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.57%) Marketing
17 5 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (31.65%) Developer
2 247 (28.33%) Senior
3 153 (17.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 104 (11.93%) Senior Developer
5 95 (10.89%) Software Engineer
6 86 (9.86%) Architect
7 77 (8.83%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.77%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.77%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.77%) Unity 3D Developer
9 58 (6.65%) Software Developer
10 56 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (5.85%) Data Engineer
12 47 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
13 44 (5.05%) Applications Developer
13 44 (5.05%) Lead
14 42 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
16 37 (4.24%) C# Developer
17 35 (4.01%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (24.77%) .NET
2 145 (16.63%) React
3 112 (12.84%) CSS
4 102 (11.70%) .NET Core
5 92 (10.55%) HTML
6 88 (10.09%) AngularJS
7 83 (9.52%) ASP.NET
8 81 (9.29%) .NET Framework
9 61 (7.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 48 (5.50%) Entity Framework
11 45 (5.16%) RESTful
12 40 (4.59%) Spring
13 34 (3.90%) ASP.NET MVC
13 34 (3.90%) Vue
14 30 (3.44%) YAML
15 29 (3.33%) PostGIS
16 28 (3.21%) LESS
16 28 (3.21%) Node.js
16 28 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (3.10%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.77%) Virtual Reality
3 48 (5.50%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (4.93%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.64%) Private Cloud
7 23 (2.64%) Virtual Team
8 19 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
9 16 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.69%) IoT
13 6 (0.69%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 204 (23.39%) Linux
2 81 (9.29%) Windows
3 47 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.95%) Unix
5 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.03%) CentOS
6 9 (1.03%) CoreOS
7 8 (0.92%) Debian
7 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.80%) Android
8 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.46%) AIX
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (48.62%) Agile
2 292 (33.49%) CI/CD
3 227 (26.03%) Software Engineering
4 204 (23.39%) Scrum
5 180 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (16.63%) Actionable Insight
7 123 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 110 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
9 104 (11.93%) Full Stack Development
10 101 (11.58%) Design Patterns
11 98 (11.24%) Containerisation
12 96 (11.01%) Microservices
13 90 (10.32%) UML
14 89 (10.21%) MVC
15 86 (9.86%) Mentoring
16 81 (9.29%) SDLC
17 80 (9.17%) Data Engineering
18 74 (8.49%) Project Management
19 71 (8.14%) Collaborative Working
20 68 (7.80%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 239 (27.41%) Python
2 226 (25.92%) C#
3 211 (24.20%) JavaScript
4 166 (19.04%) Java
5 122 (13.99%) SQL
6 105 (12.04%) Bash
7 87 (9.98%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.65%) TypeScript
9 28 (3.21%) Go
10 27 (3.10%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.87%) T-SQL
12 23 (2.64%) PHP
12 23 (2.64%) Ruby
13 16 (1.83%) Bicep
14 13 (1.49%) C++
15 12 (1.38%) C
16 9 (1.03%) R
17 7 (0.80%) Perl
17 7 (0.80%) Scala
18 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 352 (40.37%) Security Cleared
2 216 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 159 (18.23%) Degree
4 127 (14.56%) DV Cleared
5 102 (11.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (5.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 26 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.69%) IIBA
11 5 (0.57%) ISEB
11 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.57%) PCI QSA
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.44%) QA
2 25 (2.87%) GDPR
3 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.03%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 196 (22.48%) Docker
2 50 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (4.13%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.41%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.57%) Firmware
7 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.34%) XenApp
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 219 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 169 (19.38%) Terraform
3 165 (18.92%) Ansible
4 81 (9.29%) Puppet
5 41 (4.70%) Prometheus
6 34 (3.90%) Grafana
7 23 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.95%) HAProxy
9 8 (0.92%) Kibana
9 8 (0.92%) Packer
10 5 (0.57%) Argo
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.46%) Nagios
11 4 (0.46%) vRealize
12 3 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.11%) Anchore
13 1 (0.11%) Podman
13 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 223 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.52%) Google
3 62 (7.11%) VMware
4 55 (6.31%) Red Hat
5 33 (3.78%) Oracle
6 28 (3.21%) Sparx
7 27 (3.10%) ESRI
8 16 (1.83%) Optimizely
8 16 (1.83%) Sitecore
9 15 (1.72%) Citrix
9 15 (1.72%) IBM
10 12 (1.38%) SolarWinds
11 11 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.15%) Cisco
12 10 (1.15%) Xamarin
13 8 (0.92%) SAP
14 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.69%) Databricks
15 6 (0.69%) Twitter
16 5 (0.57%) Apple