DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £93,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 45 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 105 17 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.53% 3.10% 4.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.81% 3.27% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72 7 29
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.23% +8.33% -9.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile - £97,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -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 2,181 520 1,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.89% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 361 732
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £77,400
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 7 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 7 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 -9 42 £92,500 +42.31% 7
Gloucester -38 11 £90,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -7 7 - -
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 42 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 39 (37.14%) CI/CD
4 39 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (32.38%) Terraform
6 33 (31.43%) Ansible
6 33 (31.43%) SC Cleared
7 31 (29.52%) DV Cleared
8 26 (24.76%) Containerisation
8 26 (24.76%) Docker
8 26 (24.76%) Python
9 23 (21.90%) Java
10 22 (20.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (18.10%) DevSecOps
12 17 (16.19%) AI
13 15 (14.29%) Spring
13 15 (14.29%) Spring Boot
14 14 (13.33%) Linux
14 14 (13.33%) Machine Learning
15 12 (11.43%) Bash
16 11 (10.48%) Agile
16 11 (10.48%) AWS
16 11 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
17 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
17 9 (8.57%) Test Automation
18 8 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (7.62%) Git
19 7 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance

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 (10.48%) AWS
2 8 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (4.76%) Serverless
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 3 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.95%) Azure
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.86%) Flink
2 2 (1.90%) MySQL
3 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) GitLab
2 6 (5.71%) Subversion
3 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.38%) Terraform
2 15 (14.29%) Spring
2 15 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.76%) Node.js
4 3 (2.86%) Kafka
5 2 (1.90%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.95%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (37.14%) CI/CD
2 39 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (24.76%) Containerisation
4 22 (20.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 19 (18.10%) DevSecOps
6 17 (16.19%) AI
7 14 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 11 (10.48%) Agile
8 11 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.57%) Test Automation
10 7 (6.67%) Contingency Planning
10 7 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
10 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (6.67%) Manual Testing
10 7 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (5.71%) Kanban
11 6 (5.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.76%) Python
2 23 (21.90%) Java
3 12 (11.43%) Bash
4 6 (5.71%) Go
5 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.90%) C#
7 2 (1.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 75 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 31 (29.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (24.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (31.43%) Ansible
3 6 (5.71%) Argo
3 6 (5.71%) Puppet
3 6 (5.71%) Rancher
3 6 (5.71%) yum
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft