DevOps Job Trends in Cheltenham

DevOps
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 18 32 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 9.84% 22.22% 21.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.85% 23.70% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +26.09% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £83,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £91,875 £81,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 135 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 71.04% 93.75% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 98 66 208
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

DevOps
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Cheltenham

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Games
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) React
1 6 (33.33%) Spring
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.56%) Blazor
3 1 (5.56%) Jest
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (5.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) CentOS
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) Coaching
5 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) AI
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) ITIL
8 2 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) Elixir
4 3 (16.67%) Erlang
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) C
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) BC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (27.78%) Terraform
4 4 (22.22%) Grafana
4 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Kibana
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco
1 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.56%) Splunk
1 1 (5.56%) VMware