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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 189 83 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.59% 13.97% 11.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 16.21% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 119 29 86
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,772 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £74,063
90th Percentile - £100,000 £82,000
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 1,525 512 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.41% 86.20% 82.70%
Number of salaries quoted 990 298 754
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,748 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £66,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,375 £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 1 August 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 1 August 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 67 £87,500 +34.62% 14
Gloucester +5 61 £70,000 -26.32% 19
Tewkesbury -7 5 - - 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 21 (11.11%) Apache
2 8 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.46%) AWS
2 21 (11.11%) Azure
3 11 (5.82%) GCP
4 10 (5.29%) OpenShift
5 7 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.17%) Serverless
7 5 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.65%) Azure AKS
7 5 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.65%) PaaS
8 4 (2.12%) GitHub
8 4 (2.12%) Miro
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) DHCP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.70%) Big Data
6 5 (2.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.12%) Flink
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (10.05%) GitLab
2 17 (8.99%) Git
3 15 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.23%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.23%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.17%) Subversion
6 5 (2.65%) JIRA
7 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.53%) JMeter
8 1 (0.53%) Maven
8 1 (0.53%) Postman
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (13.23%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.52%) Finance
3 15 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 83 (43.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (17.99%) Software Engineer
3 31 (16.40%) Lead
4 26 (13.76%) Senior
5 25 (13.23%) Lead DevOps
6 24 (12.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
7 21 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (8.47%) Architect
9 16 (8.47%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.76%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Developer
12 9 (4.76%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.47%) Apache NiFi
1 16 (8.47%) Kafka
1 16 (8.47%) Spring
1 16 (8.47%) Spring Boot
2 13 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.82%) Vue
4 6 (3.17%) React
5 5 (2.65%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.12%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.12%) RESTful
7 3 (1.59%) REST
8 2 (1.06%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.06%) Flask
8 2 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.53%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.53%) CSS
9 1 (0.53%) Django
9 1 (0.53%) HTML
9 1 (0.53%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.17%) Social Media
5 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) PKI
9 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.46%) Linux
2 5 (2.65%) Unix
2 5 (2.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) CentOS
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.86%) CI/CD
2 55 (29.10%) Software Engineering
3 50 (26.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (26.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 46 (24.34%) Agile
4 46 (24.34%) AI
5 40 (21.16%) Containerisation
5 40 (21.16%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 20 (10.58%) Collaborative Culture
7 20 (10.58%) Data Science
8 19 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (9.52%) Analytics
9 18 (9.52%) ITIL
10 17 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (8.99%) ETL
10 17 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (8.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.04%) Python
2 60 (31.75%) Java
3 26 (13.76%) Bash
4 22 (11.64%) C++
5 21 (11.11%) Go
6 13 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.88%) SQL
7 9 (4.76%) Rust
7 9 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.23%) Groovy
9 4 (2.12%) C
9 4 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.12%) Scala
10 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.06%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 131 (69.31%) Security Cleared
2 72 (38.10%) DV Cleared
3 49 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.88%) Degree
5 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) NIST
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (19.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Ceph
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (27.51%) Kubernetes
2 50 (26.46%) Ansible
3 47 (24.87%) Terraform
4 13 (6.88%) Grafana
5 10 (5.29%) Argo
5 10 (5.29%) Puppet
6 9 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.23%) Kibana
7 8 (4.23%) logstash
7 8 (4.23%) Rancher
8 6 (3.17%) yum
9 5 (2.65%) Podman
10 4 (2.12%) Check_MK
10 4 (2.12%) Istio
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.65%) Dell
1 5 (2.65%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.12%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.53%) Cisco
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) VMware