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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 179 83 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.32% 14.02% 12.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.02% 16.21% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 111 30 96
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +10.64% -9.62%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £81,500
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 1,489 512 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.55% 86.49% 82.74%
Number of salaries quoted 966 299 779
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,250 £29,888
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,375 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -4.76% -11.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £66,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -10 62 £91,250 +40.38% 10
Gloucester +3 60 £70,000 -26.32% 15
Tewkesbury -8 4 - - 2
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 20 (11.17%) Apache
2 8 (4.47%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.23%) Confluence
4 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.37%) AWS
2 21 (11.73%) Azure
3 11 (6.15%) GCP
4 10 (5.59%) OpenShift
5 7 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.35%) Serverless
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.79%) Azure AKS
7 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.79%) PaaS
8 4 (2.23%) Miro
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.68%) GitHub
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (7.82%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.35%) Big Data
6 5 (2.79%) MySQL
7 4 (2.23%) Flink
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) GitLab
2 16 (8.94%) Git
3 15 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.47%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.47%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.35%) Subversion
6 5 (2.79%) JIRA
7 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (12.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.50%) Finance
3 13 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (43.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (18.44%) Software Engineer
3 26 (14.53%) Lead
3 26 (14.53%) Senior
4 21 (11.73%) Senior DevOps
4 21 (11.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 20 (11.17%) Lead DevOps
5 20 (11.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (8.94%) Architect
8 15 (8.38%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.03%) Developer
11 9 (5.03%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.94%) Apache NiFi
1 16 (8.94%) Kafka
2 15 (8.38%) Spring
2 15 (8.38%) Spring Boot
3 13 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (6.15%) Vue
5 6 (3.35%) React
6 5 (2.79%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.23%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.23%) RESTful
8 3 (1.68%) REST
9 2 (1.12%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (1.12%) Flask
9 2 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.56%) CSS
10 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.56%) HTML
10 1 (0.56%) Loki
10 1 (0.56%) Next.js
10 1 (0.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.59%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.35%) Social Media
5 5 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.20%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) CentOS
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.84%) CI/CD
2 53 (29.61%) Software Engineering
3 49 (27.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 45 (25.14%) Agile
4 45 (25.14%) AI
5 44 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (21.23%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (18.99%) Containerisation
8 20 (11.17%) DevSecOps
9 19 (10.61%) Collaborative Culture
9 19 (10.61%) Data Science
10 17 (9.50%) Analytics
10 17 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (9.50%) ITIL
11 16 (8.94%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (8.94%) ETL
11 16 (8.94%) Machine Learning
11 16 (8.94%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.87%) Python
2 58 (32.40%) Java
3 23 (12.85%) Bash
4 22 (12.29%) C++
5 19 (10.61%) Go
6 13 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.70%) SQL
8 9 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.47%) Groovy
10 7 (3.91%) Rust
11 4 (2.23%) C
12 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.68%) Scala
12 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.12%) C#
Qualifications
1 122 (68.16%) Security Cleared
2 68 (37.99%) DV Cleared
3 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.70%) Degree
5 5 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) NIST
1 10 (5.59%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (18.99%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Ceph
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (26.82%) Kubernetes
2 46 (25.70%) Ansible
3 42 (23.46%) Terraform
4 13 (7.26%) Grafana
5 10 (5.59%) Argo
5 10 (5.59%) Puppet
6 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.47%) Kibana
7 8 (4.47%) logstash
7 8 (4.47%) Rancher
8 6 (3.35%) yum
9 5 (2.79%) Podman
10 4 (2.23%) Check_MK
10 4 (2.23%) Istio
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.79%) Dell
1 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.23%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) Cisco
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle