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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 1 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 70 192 237
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 7.19% 40.85% 15.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 43.64% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 43 44 153
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 £81,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 761 440 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.21% 93.62% 88.27%
Number of salaries quoted 516 200 992
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,475 £28,050
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +5.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -3.81%

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 March 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 March 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
Gloucester -4 30 £80,000 +23.08% 12
Cheltenham -16 22 £75,000 +20.00% 10
Tewkesbury -7 1 £52,500 -8.70%
Stroud -9 1 £47,500 -
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 7 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
2 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.71%) AWS
2 16 (22.86%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.14%) GCP
5 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.86%) Serverless
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.43%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) VLAN
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
3 3 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.29%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.57%) Subversion
4 5 (7.14%) GitLab
5 4 (5.71%) JIRA
6 3 (4.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.29%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.86%) Gradle
7 2 (2.86%) Maven
8 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.43%) JMeter
8 1 (1.43%) Postman
8 1 (1.43%) Selenium
8 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Aerospace
3 3 (4.29%) Military
3 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.86%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Architect
4 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Senior
6 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Junior
6 4 (5.71%) Junior Project Manager
6 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Developer
7 3 (4.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Vue
2 6 (8.57%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (8.57%) Spring
2 6 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.71%) React
4 2 (2.86%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.86%) JPA
4 2 (2.86%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.86%) REST
4 2 (2.86%) RESTful
5 1 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.43%) Laravel
5 1 (1.43%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.43%) LoopBack
5 1 (1.43%) Middleware
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
5 1 (1.43%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.86%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.43%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) PKI
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) CentOS
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Agile
1 31 (44.29%) Software Engineering
2 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
3 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (21.43%) AI
4 15 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (17.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 12 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.71%) Validation
7 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (14.29%) SDLC
8 9 (12.86%) Containerisation
8 9 (12.86%) Data Science
9 8 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (11.43%) Scrum
9 8 (11.43%) Software Testing
10 6 (8.57%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.00%) Python
2 27 (38.57%) Java
3 20 (28.57%) Bash
4 12 (17.14%) Go
5 5 (7.14%) C++
5 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.71%) C#
6 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) C
7 3 (4.29%) Elixir
7 3 (4.29%) Erlang
7 3 (4.29%) SQL
7 3 (4.29%) VBScript
8 2 (2.86%) Groovy
8 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.43%) PHP
9 1 (1.43%) Rust
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (52.86%) DV Cleared
3 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) Degree
5 3 (4.29%) BC Cleared
5 3 (4.29%) CITP
5 3 (4.29%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (27.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.14%) Ansible
2 12 (17.14%) Terraform
3 9 (12.86%) Grafana
4 6 (8.57%) Argo
4 6 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.57%) Rancher
4 6 (8.57%) yum
5 3 (4.29%) Kibana
5 3 (4.29%) logstash
6 2 (2.86%) Puppet
7 1 (1.43%) Podman
7 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Cisco
2 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
2 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.43%) Splunk
2 1 (1.43%) VMware