DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 34 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.67% 3.60% 5.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 3.72% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 30
10th Percentile - £34,000 £49,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £108,250 £81,500 £100,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 507 915 865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 96.93% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 361 468 511
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,050 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £47,021 £52,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.58% -2.53% +6.70%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Cheltenham +4 4 £77,500 +21.57% 2
Gloucester +14 2 £80,000 +128.57% 3
Tewkesbury - 1 £65,000 -
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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 Gloucestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 5 (55.56%) Docker
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (33.33%) Azure
5 3 (33.33%) Java
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (22.22%) Bash
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) GCP
6 2 (22.22%) GitLab
6 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (11.11%) Argo
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Debian
7 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps

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

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat