DevOps Job Trends in Dorset

DevOps
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset 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 23 25 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 25 25 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 5.43% 6.61% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 7.25% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18 17 20
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,663 £43,763
25th Percentile £55,000 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,439 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -5.32% +9.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £94,500 £77,625
South West median annual salary £60,000 £64,814 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +3.70% +5.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 358 345 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.83% 91.27% 89.89%
Number of salaries quoted 266 180 281
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,344 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -9.09% +13.99%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Dorset

DevOps
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Dorset

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

Salary histogram for DevOps in Dorset

DevOps
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bournemouth 0 16 £80,000 +46.95% 15
Poole - 9 £55,000 - 1
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) SaaS
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) iPaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) JUnit
2 5 (20.00%) TestNG
3 4 (16.00%) Cypress.io
3 4 (16.00%) Postman
3 4 (16.00%) REST Assured
3 4 (16.00%) Selenium
4 3 (12.00%) Gradle
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
5 2 (8.00%) Checkstyle
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.00%) ESLint
5 2 (8.00%) Git
5 2 (8.00%) Mockito
5 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
5 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) GCP DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Development Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) Kafka
4 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) J2EE
5 2 (8.00%) JWT
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.00%) Playwright
5 2 (8.00%) pytest
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (8.00%) Swagger
6 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.00%) API Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) MVC
7 2 (8.00%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (8.00%) IT Strategy
7 2 (8.00%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (8.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (8.00%) Sprint Review
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
3 3 (12.00%) Google