DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Development Operations Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Gloucester is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 12 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 6.49% 4.72% 6.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 4.72% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile - £32,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £35,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -50.00% -
75th Percentile - £40,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £55,000 £81,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -26.67% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 176 127 312
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 100.00% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 98 75 182
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £30,038
25th Percentile £39,125 £47,500 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £87,500 £78,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -6.54%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, DevOps 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 Gloucester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) Git
4 6 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (50.00%) Linux
4 6 (50.00%) Python
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Argo
5 5 (41.67%) Bash
5 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (41.67%) Go
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (41.67%) Kanban
5 5 (41.67%) QA
5 5 (41.67%) Rancher
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) SDLC
5 5 (41.67%) Subversion
5 5 (41.67%) yum
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (8.33%) Ansible
7 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (8.33%) C#
7 1 (8.33%) C++
7 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Kanban
2 5 (41.67%) Scrum
2 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Argo
2 5 (41.67%) Rancher
2 5 (41.67%) yum
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform