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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 64 178 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.16% 31.17% 17.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.49% 33.46% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 40 141
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +18.18% -6.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,750 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +0.80%

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 610 532 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.81% 93.17% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 416 214 839
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,425 £79,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 0 27 £80,000 +23.08% 7
Cheltenham -9 19 £62,500 - 15
Tewkesbury -2 2 £61,250 - 1
Stroud -5 1 £47,500 - 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 6 (9.38%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.56%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) AWS
2 17 (26.56%) Azure
3 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.81%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.81%) Serverless
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.56%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) VLAN
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.69%) Big Data
3 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.69%) MySQL
3 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Git
1 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.38%) GitLab
2 6 (9.38%) Subversion
3 4 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (4.69%) Balsamiq
4 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.13%) Gradle
5 2 (3.13%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 8 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.69%) Military
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Games
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Junior
6 4 (6.25%) Junior Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Spring
1 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
2 8 (12.50%) React
3 7 (10.94%) Vue
4 5 (7.81%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.69%) RESTful
7 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.13%) JPA
7 2 (3.13%) Kafka
7 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.13%) REST
8 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.56%) Jest
8 1 (1.56%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.56%) LoopBack
8 1 (1.56%) Middleware
8 1 (1.56%) Nuxt
8 1 (1.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.56%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) CentOS
3 1 (1.56%) Debian
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Agile
2 30 (46.88%) Software Engineering
3 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 15 (23.44%) AI
4 15 (23.44%) Collaborative Culture
4 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.19%) SDLC
7 11 (17.19%) Validation
8 10 (15.63%) Coaching
8 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (14.06%) Scrum
10 8 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 8 (12.50%) Microservices
11 7 (10.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Java
2 26 (40.63%) Python
3 21 (32.81%) Bash
4 12 (18.75%) Go
5 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) C#
6 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.69%) C++
7 3 (4.69%) Elixir
7 3 (4.69%) Erlang
7 3 (4.69%) VBScript
8 2 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.13%) SQL
9 1 (1.56%) C
9 1 (1.56%) Groovy
9 1 (1.56%) PHP
9 1 (1.56%) Rust
9 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 33 (51.56%) DV Cleared
3 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) BC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CITP
4 3 (4.69%) CREST Certified
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.88%) Ansible
3 12 (18.75%) Terraform
4 8 (12.50%) Grafana
5 6 (9.38%) Argo
5 6 (9.38%) Rancher
5 6 (9.38%) yum
6 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (6.25%) Kibana
8 3 (4.69%) logstash
9 2 (3.13%) Puppet
10 1 (1.56%) Podman
10 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco
3 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.56%) Splunk
3 1 (1.56%) VMware