DevOps Job Trends in Gloucestershire

DevOps
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 214 55 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.95% 9.77% 10.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 11.58% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 134 30 78
10th Percentile £54,125 £47,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,938 £75,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £84,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,655 475 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.98% 84.37% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 310 689
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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 -6 77 £85,000 +30.77% 14
Gloucester +3 69 £75,000 -21.05% 14
Tewkesbury -4 7 - - 1
DevOps
South West

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (10.75%) Apache
2 9 (4.21%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.17%) AWS
2 24 (11.21%) Azure
3 16 (7.48%) OpenShift
4 10 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (4.67%) GCP
5 8 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.27%) Serverless
7 6 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.80%) GitHub
8 5 (2.34%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.34%) PaaS
9 4 (1.87%) Miro
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) DHCP
2 1 (0.47%) DNS
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.88%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (6.07%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.74%) Big Data
5 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.34%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.34%) MySQL
6 4 (1.87%) Flink
7 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 20 (9.35%) GitLab
2 17 (7.94%) Git
3 16 (7.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.74%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.80%) JIRA
6 5 (2.34%) Subversion
7 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.47%) JMeter
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) Selenium
8 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (11.68%) Finance
1 25 (11.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
4 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (46.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (17.29%) Lead
3 32 (14.95%) Software Engineer
4 31 (14.49%) Lead DevOps
5 30 (14.02%) Senior
6 29 (13.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 22 (10.28%) Senior DevOps
7 22 (10.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 21 (9.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (9.81%) Data Engineer
9 17 (7.94%) Architect
10 12 (5.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.21%) Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Elasticsearch Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Kafka Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (28.04%) Terraform
2 20 (9.35%) Spring
2 20 (9.35%) Spring Boot
3 19 (8.88%) Kafka
4 16 (7.48%) Apache NiFi
5 13 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.67%) Vue
7 8 (3.74%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.80%) React
9 5 (2.34%) Node.js
10 4 (1.87%) RESTful
11 3 (1.40%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.40%) REST
12 2 (0.93%) Backbone.js
12 2 (0.93%) Flask
12 2 (0.93%) Next.js
13 1 (0.47%) Android Jetpack
13 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.67%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.80%) Social Media
5 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.40%) PKI
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.76%) Linux
2 6 (2.80%) Unix
3 5 (2.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) CentOS
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.25%) CI/CD
2 62 (28.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (26.64%) Software Engineering
4 54 (25.23%) Containerisation
4 54 (25.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 51 (23.83%) Agile
6 46 (21.50%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (21.03%) AI
8 26 (12.15%) DevSecOps
9 25 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (11.21%) Analytics
11 23 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (10.28%) ETL
13 21 (9.81%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (9.35%) Data Science
14 20 (9.35%) Test Automation
15 19 (8.88%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.38%) Python
2 63 (29.44%) Java
3 29 (13.55%) Bash
4 24 (11.21%) Go
5 23 (10.75%) C++
6 16 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.01%) SQL
8 11 (5.14%) Rust
9 10 (4.67%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.74%) Groovy
11 6 (2.80%) Scala
12 4 (1.87%) C
12 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.40%) C#
13 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 157 (73.36%) Security Cleared
2 84 (39.25%) DV Cleared
3 64 (29.91%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.01%) Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.67%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.67%) Data Quality
1 10 (4.67%) NIST
2 9 (4.21%) QA
System Software
1 45 (21.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) Ceph
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (30.84%) Kubernetes
2 61 (28.50%) Ansible
3 13 (6.07%) Grafana
4 10 (4.67%) Puppet
5 9 (4.21%) Argo
5 9 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.74%) Kibana
6 8 (3.74%) logstash
7 7 (3.27%) Rancher
8 5 (2.34%) yum
9 4 (1.87%) Check_MK
9 4 (1.87%) Istio
9 4 (1.87%) Podman
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.34%) Dell
1 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.40%) VMware
4 1 (0.47%) Cisco
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle