DevOps Automation Engineer Job Trends in Cheltenham

DevOps Automation Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median DevOps Automation Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £72,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 811 135 313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 98.54% 97.51%
Number of salaries quoted 577 96 213
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 24 August 2026, DevOps Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft