DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 18 43 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.29% 3.91% 6.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.50% 4.05% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8 26 34
10th Percentile £56,375 £51,250 £50,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £96,250 £80,625 £81,875
90th Percentile £108,250 £85,000 £96,625
South West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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 515 1,062 852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 96.46% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 352 662 520
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £77,400 £80,075
South West median annual salary £45,027 £51,000 £54,736
% change year-on-year -11.71% -6.83% +9.47%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +8 8 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Gloucester +16 4 - - 3
Stroud - 2 - -
Tewkesbury - 2 £65,000 -
DevOps Engineer
South West

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) IBM
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
4 7 (38.89%) Azure
5 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (33.33%) Ansible
5 6 (33.33%) Docker
5 6 (33.33%) Terraform
5 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Coaching
6 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) e-Learning
7 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) Linux
7 3 (16.67%) Python
7 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (11.11%) Task Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) e-Learning
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Debian
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Coaching
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Co-Creation
6 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Open Source
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) RBAC
7 1 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) IBM
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat