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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 41 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 121 16 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.84% 2.93% 3.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.14% 3.12% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 83 8 21
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% +29.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile - £108,250 £82,500
South West median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% +12.00%

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 2,353 513 975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 93.96% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 345 572
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -3 50 £90,000 +38.46% 15
Gloucester -41 14 £90,000 - 6
Tewkesbury -10 7 - -
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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.

1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (67.77%) Security Cleared
3 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (39.67%) Kubernetes
4 44 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 38 (31.40%) Ansible
5 38 (31.40%) Terraform
6 36 (29.75%) DV Cleared
6 36 (29.75%) SC Cleared
7 32 (26.45%) Python
8 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
9 29 (23.97%) Docker
9 29 (23.97%) Java
10 26 (21.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (16.53%) AI
12 19 (15.70%) DevSecOps
13 18 (14.88%) Spring
13 18 (14.88%) Spring Boot
14 17 (14.05%) Linux
15 15 (12.40%) Agile
16 14 (11.57%) Bash
16 14 (11.57%) Machine Learning
17 12 (9.92%) AWS
17 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
18 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 11 (9.09%) Git
19 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 10 (8.26%) Mentoring
20 9 (7.44%) Test Automation
21 8 (6.61%) Argo

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 12 (9.92%) AWS
2 8 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
4 6 (4.96%) Serverless
5 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.48%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.48%) Flink
1 3 (2.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (6.61%) Subversion
3 6 (4.96%) GitLab
4 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (7.44%) Finance
2 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.40%) Terraform
2 18 (14.88%) Spring
2 18 (14.88%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.13%) Node.js
4 3 (2.48%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.48%) Kafka
4 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (2.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (16.53%) AI
7 19 (15.70%) DevSecOps
8 15 (12.40%) Agile
9 14 (11.57%) Machine Learning
10 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (8.26%) Mentoring
13 9 (7.44%) Test Automation
14 8 (6.61%) Kanban
14 8 (6.61%) Scrum
14 8 (6.61%) Service Delivery
14 8 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (5.79%) GAP Analysis
15 7 (5.79%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.45%) Python
2 29 (23.97%) Java
3 14 (11.57%) Bash
4 8 (6.61%) Go
5 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.48%) C#
6 3 (2.48%) C++
6 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (67.77%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.75%) DV Cleared
2 36 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (23.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (39.67%) Kubernetes
2 38 (31.40%) Ansible
3 8 (6.61%) Argo
3 8 (6.61%) Puppet
3 8 (6.61%) Rancher
3 8 (6.61%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft