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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 36 189 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.56% 19.96% 19.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 23.45% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 58 82
10th Percentile £50,875 £41,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,688 £74,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £90,000 £87,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and 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 456 806 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 83.06% 85.11% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 322 381 475
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +5 21 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Gloucester -8 5 £80,000 +23.08% 23
Tewkesbury - 2 £67,500 -
Filton - 1 £65,000 -
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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) VLAN
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Balsamiq
1 3 (8.33%) GitLab
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Military
4 3 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) React
2 6 (16.67%) Spring
2 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.56%) Blazor
5 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.78%) Jest
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (2.78%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.78%) Pandas
6 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.78%) Redux
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) CentOS
4 2 (5.56%) Debian
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.78%) CoreOS
5 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
1 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (19.44%) User Experience
3 6 (16.67%) AI
3 6 (16.67%) Coaching
3 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (16.67%) Microservices
4 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.89%) DevSecOps
5 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 4 (11.11%) Project Management
5 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) C#
4 7 (19.44%) Bash
5 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.11%) Go
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.33%) VBScript
8 2 (5.56%) SQL
9 1 (2.78%) C++
9 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) CITP
4 3 (8.33%) CREST Certified
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Ansible
3 7 (19.44%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Rancher
4 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.78%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco
3 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) VMware