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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 102 117
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 152 185 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.64% 2.75% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 3.08% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 110 115 147
10th Percentile £46,125 £34,686 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
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 £91,500 £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 8,932 6,001 7,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.09% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,537 3,764 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,075 £29,488
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 £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,450 £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 11 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 11 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 -18 69 £75,000 +7.14% 15
Gloucestershire -16 65 £70,000 -1.75% 8
Wiltshire -1 8 £47,500 -50.00% 1
Dorset -22 4 £61,250 +36.11%
Devon -22 3 £39,500 +21.81% 2
Cornwall - 2 £55,000 -
Somerset -5 1 £75,000 +25.00%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 152 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (77.63%) Terraform
3 109 (71.71%) Kubernetes
4 107 (70.39%) Docker
5 103 (67.76%) AWS
6 97 (63.82%) CI/CD
7 88 (57.89%) Linux
8 85 (55.92%) Ansible
9 82 (53.95%) Security Cleared
10 68 (44.74%) Agile
11 65 (42.76%) Azure
12 60 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 59 (38.82%) DV Cleared
14 58 (38.16%) Python
15 44 (28.95%) Jenkins
16 42 (27.63%) Prometheus
16 42 (27.63%) Continuous Integration
17 40 (26.32%) Observability
18 39 (25.66%) Bash
18 39 (25.66%) SDLC
19 37 (24.34%) Scrum
20 36 (23.68%) Collaborative Working
20 36 (23.68%) Containerisation
21 35 (23.03%) Continuous Deployment
21 35 (23.03%) JIRA
22 34 (22.37%) Grafana
23 33 (21.71%) Kanban
23 33 (21.71%) Validation
24 32 (21.05%) Aerospace
25 30 (19.74%) Amazon S3

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 (13.16%) nginx
2 18 (11.84%) Apache
3 17 (11.18%) Apache Spark
3 17 (11.18%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 103 (67.76%) AWS
2 65 (42.76%) Azure
3 30 (19.74%) Amazon S3
3 30 (19.74%) GCP
4 26 (17.11%) OpenShift
5 17 (11.18%) MinIO
6 16 (10.53%) GitHub
7 15 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.55%) Datadog
9 11 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.61%) Serverless
11 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.63%) OCI
14 3 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.97%) IBM Cloud
14 3 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) Network Security
2 8 (5.26%) DNS
3 7 (4.61%) Firewall
4 5 (3.29%) AMQP
5 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.32%) HTTP
7 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.32%) IPsec
8 1 (0.66%) DHCP
8 1 (0.66%) SSL
8 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.18%) Big Data
1 17 (11.18%) Hadoop
1 17 (11.18%) Presto
2 11 (7.24%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.61%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.29%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.32%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.32%) DB2
6 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 35 (23.03%) JIRA
3 17 (11.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (8.55%) Git
5 7 (4.61%) Artifactory
5 7 (4.61%) Maven
5 7 (4.61%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.95%) Selenium
7 5 (3.29%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.63%) GitLab
8 4 (2.63%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (21.05%) Aerospace
2 16 (10.53%) Tech for Good
3 11 (7.24%) Finance
4 10 (6.58%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.29%) Banking
7 2 (1.32%) Games
8 1 (0.66%) Advertising
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
1 24 (15.79%) YAML
2 18 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (11.18%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (11.18%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (3.95%) RESTful
5 4 (2.63%) JSON
5 4 (2.63%) XML
6 3 (1.97%) .NET
6 3 (1.97%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.32%) HTML
7 2 (1.32%) OpenID
7 2 (1.32%) Spring
7 2 (1.32%) Spring XD
8 1 (0.66%) CSS3
8 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.66%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.66%) Node.js
8 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (8.55%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.95%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.29%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.97%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.97%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.66%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 88 (57.89%) Linux
2 9 (5.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (63.82%) CI/CD
3 68 (44.74%) Agile
4 60 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (27.63%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (26.32%) Observability
7 39 (25.66%) SDLC
8 37 (24.34%) Scrum
9 36 (23.68%) Collaborative Working
9 36 (23.68%) Containerisation
10 35 (23.03%) Continuous Deployment
11 33 (21.71%) Kanban
11 33 (21.71%) Validation
12 30 (19.74%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (13.16%) Configuration Management
14 19 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (11.18%) Data Engineering
15 17 (11.18%) Requirements Engineering
15 17 (11.18%) Service Delivery
15 17 (11.18%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.16%) Python
2 39 (25.66%) Bash
3 26 (17.11%) Shell Script
4 21 (13.82%) PowerShell
5 17 (11.18%) Java
6 11 (7.24%) Go
7 9 (5.92%) C#
8 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.95%) Ruby
10 5 (3.29%) SQL
11 4 (2.63%) Lua
11 4 (2.63%) Perl
11 4 (2.63%) Tcl
12 3 (1.97%) Bicep
12 3 (1.97%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) C++
13 1 (0.66%) Groovy
13 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (53.95%) Security Cleared
2 59 (38.82%) DV Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 107 (70.39%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (77.63%) Terraform
2 109 (71.71%) Kubernetes
3 85 (55.92%) Ansible
4 42 (27.63%) Prometheus
5 34 (22.37%) Grafana
6 19 (12.50%) Progress Chef
7 17 (11.18%) HAProxy
8 13 (8.55%) Puppet
9 8 (5.26%) Packer
10 5 (3.29%) Argo
10 5 (3.29%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.63%) Istio
11 4 (2.63%) vRealize
12 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.66%) Consul
12 1 (0.66%) Nagios
12 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.58%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.61%) Cisco
2 7 (4.61%) VMware
3 4 (2.63%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.63%) SaltStack
3 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.97%) IBM
4 3 (1.97%) Oracle
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.32%) Sybase
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.66%) New Relic
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk