DevOps Job Trends in Bournemouth

DevOps
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 16 21 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 11.11% 14.00% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.40% 15.00% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 10
10th Percentile £54,400 £53,470 £45,000
25th Percentile - - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £54,439 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.95% -5.32% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,375 £75,000
Dorset median annual salary £65,000 £54,439 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.40% -5.32% +9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 140 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 89.58% 93.33% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 89 88 139
10th Percentile £27,707 £38,300 £36,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,363 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £39,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.00% -9.09% +15.79%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

DevOps
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Bournemouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Bournemouth

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) CockroachDB
2 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 5 (31.25%) JUnit
2 5 (31.25%) TestNG
3 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 4 (25.00%) Postman
3 4 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (18.75%) Gradle
4 3 (18.75%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) Maven
5 2 (12.50%) Checkstyle
5 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (12.50%) ESLint
5 2 (12.50%) Git
5 2 (12.50%) Mockito
5 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
5 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 5 (31.25%) REST
3 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (18.75%) Kafka
4 3 (18.75%) Spring MVC
5 2 (12.50%) J2EE
5 2 (12.50%) JWT
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
5 2 (12.50%) Playwright
5 2 (12.50%) pytest
5 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
5 2 (12.50%) Swagger
6 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) API Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) MVC
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 2 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (18.75%) Google