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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 103 86 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 7.78% 20.33% 14.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 22.57% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 59 33 159
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 1,010 381 1,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.28% 90.07% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 677 209 1,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £77,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,950
% change year-on-year +2.66% +3.24% -2.95%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -2 41 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Cheltenham -16 35 £57,591 -11.40% 18
Tewkesbury -9 1 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Stroud -11 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 9 (8.74%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.18%) AWS
2 18 (17.48%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) GCP
4 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.97%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.97%) Serverless
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) DHCP
2 1 (0.97%) DNS
2 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) MongoDB
1 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.88%) Big Data
3 4 (3.88%) MySQL
4 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.97%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.68%) Git
3 10 (9.71%) GitLab
4 7 (6.80%) Subversion
5 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.88%) JIRA
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.94%) Gradle
7 2 (1.94%) Maven
8 1 (0.97%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.97%) JMeter
8 1 (0.97%) Postman
8 1 (0.97%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.74%) Aerospace
4 6 (5.83%) Finance
5 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (26.21%) Software Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Architect
3 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.68%) Java Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Developer
6 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Junior
10 4 (3.88%) Junior Project Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Senior
11 3 (2.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) Vue
2 9 (8.74%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (8.74%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (7.77%) Spring
3 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.83%) React
5 5 (4.85%) REST
6 4 (3.88%) RESTful
7 3 (2.91%) Kafka
8 2 (1.94%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.94%) JPA
8 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.97%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.97%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.97%) Flask
9 1 (0.97%) HTML
9 1 (0.97%) Laravel
9 1 (0.97%) Loki
9 1 (0.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Cyberattack
2 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.94%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.97%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.97%) PKI
5 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
2 3 (2.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.40%) Software Engineering
2 35 (33.98%) Agile
3 29 (28.16%) Platform Engineering
3 29 (28.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 27 (26.21%) CI/CD
5 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (22.33%) AI
7 19 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (16.50%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (15.53%) Data Science
9 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
11 13 (12.62%) ITIL
12 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.68%) SDLC
13 11 (10.68%) Validation
14 10 (9.71%) Line Management
14 10 (9.71%) Time Management
14 10 (9.71%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.75%) Java
2 40 (38.83%) Python
3 24 (23.30%) Bash
4 15 (14.56%) C++
5 14 (13.59%) Go
6 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.85%) SQL
9 4 (3.88%) C
9 4 (3.88%) Rust
10 3 (2.91%) Elixir
10 3 (2.91%) Erlang
10 3 (2.91%) Groovy
10 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.94%) C#
11 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.97%) PHP
12 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (74.76%) Security Cleared
2 49 (47.57%) DV Cleared
3 21 (20.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.62%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) CITP
6 1 (0.97%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) NIST
2 9 (8.74%) QA
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (16.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (24.27%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.39%) Ansible
2 21 (20.39%) Terraform
3 14 (13.59%) Grafana
4 8 (7.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.77%) Rancher
5 7 (6.80%) Argo
5 7 (6.80%) Puppet
5 7 (6.80%) yum
6 6 (5.83%) Kibana
6 6 (5.83%) logstash
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.97%) Podman
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.97%) Cisco
3 1 (0.97%) Dell