DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 114 18 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.71% 3.31% 3.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.01% 3.53% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 80 8 26
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% +29.17% -9.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £80,625
90th Percentile - £108,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -7.14% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,275 510 1,056
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 93.92% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 351 654
10th Percentile £31,200 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £76,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -11.76% -5.56%

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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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
Cheltenham -4 46 £90,000 +38.46% 11
Gloucester -38 12 £90,000 - 12
Tewkesbury -10 7 - -
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 Gloucestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (70.18%) Security Cleared
3 46 (40.35%) Kubernetes
4 45 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 37 (32.46%) Ansible
6 37 (32.46%) Terraform
7 35 (30.70%) DV Cleared
7 35 (30.70%) SC Cleared
8 30 (26.32%) Python
9 29 (25.44%) Containerisation
10 28 (24.56%) Docker
11 27 (23.68%) Java
12 26 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (16.67%) DevSecOps
14 18 (15.79%) AI
14 18 (15.79%) Spring
14 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
15 15 (13.16%) Linux
16 14 (12.28%) Machine Learning
17 13 (11.40%) Agile
17 13 (11.40%) Bash
18 11 (9.65%) AWS
18 11 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
19 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 10 (8.77%) Mentoring
20 9 (7.89%) Git
20 9 (7.89%) Test Automation
21 8 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
21 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 11 (9.65%) AWS
2 8 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.26%) Serverless
5 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Flink
2 2 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Git
2 7 (6.14%) Subversion
3 6 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (6.14%) Finance
2 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.46%) Terraform
2 18 (15.79%) Spring
2 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.39%) Node.js
4 3 (2.63%) Kafka
5 2 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 29 (25.44%) Containerisation
5 26 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 18 (15.79%) AI
8 14 (12.28%) Machine Learning
9 13 (11.40%) Agile
10 11 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.77%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.89%) Test Automation
13 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (6.14%) Contingency Planning
14 7 (6.14%) GAP Analysis
14 7 (6.14%) Kanban
14 7 (6.14%) Manual Testing
14 7 (6.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.32%) Python
2 27 (23.68%) Java
3 13 (11.40%) Bash
4 7 (6.14%) Go
5 5 (4.39%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.75%) C#
7 2 (1.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 80 (70.18%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.70%) DV Cleared
2 35 (30.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (24.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (40.35%) Kubernetes
2 37 (32.46%) Ansible
3 7 (6.14%) Argo
3 7 (6.14%) Puppet
3 7 (6.14%) Rancher
3 7 (6.14%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft