DevOps Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 91 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 17 72 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.36% 2.32% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 2.39% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 14 71 65
10th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +8.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £98,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £70,576 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.82% +8.58% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,191 3,010 2,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 96.97% 92.77%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,250 1,531
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,510 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £74,051
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
4 10 (58.82%) Python
4 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
5 9 (52.94%) Docker
6 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
6 8 (47.06%) Azure
7 7 (41.18%) Bash
7 7 (41.18%) Agile
7 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
7 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (35.29%) Terraform
9 5 (29.41%) Finance
10 4 (23.53%) Migration
10 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 4 (23.53%) Benchmarking
10 4 (23.53%) Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
10 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
10 4 (23.53%) Git
10 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
10 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
10 4 (23.53%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
10 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (5.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) IaaS
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) IBM UrbanCode
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (23.53%) Benchmarking
5 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
5 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Culture Change
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
6 3 (17.65%) GitOps
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
3 7 (41.18%) Bash
4 4 (23.53%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft