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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 156 83 230
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.75% 14.77% 14.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.18% 17.08% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 100 30 162
10th Percentile £53,500 £47,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £66,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £79,750
South West median annual salary £70,000 £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 1,395 486 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.24% 86.48% 83.69%
Number of salaries quoted 928 277 986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £66,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%

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 17 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 17 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 -12 56 £92,500 +42.31% 19
Gloucester 0 52 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Tewkesbury -8 1 - - 2
Stroud -10 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 16 (10.26%) Apache
2 4 (2.56%) Confluence
3 3 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.21%) AWS
2 19 (12.18%) Azure
3 11 (7.05%) GCP
4 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.21%) Serverless
6 4 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 4 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.56%) Miro
6 4 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.28%) GitHub
8 2 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) DHCP
2 1 (0.64%) DNS
2 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.21%) Big Data
5 5 (3.21%) MySQL
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.92%) Flink
7 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (10.26%) GitLab
2 14 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.69%) Git
4 8 (5.13%) Cucumber
4 8 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.85%) Subversion
6 5 (3.21%) JIRA
7 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.64%) JMeter
8 1 (0.64%) Postman
8 1 (0.64%) Selenium
8 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (10.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.62%) Finance
3 10 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 61 (39.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (22.44%) Software Engineer
3 21 (13.46%) Senior
4 19 (12.18%) Lead
5 17 (10.90%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (10.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.26%) Architect
6 16 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 14 (8.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 14 (8.97%) Lead DevOps
7 14 (8.97%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Data Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.77%) Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.97%) Apache NiFi
2 13 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (8.33%) Spring
2 13 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 13 (8.33%) Vue
3 12 (7.69%) Kafka
4 6 (3.85%) React
5 5 (3.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.56%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.56%) REST
6 4 (2.56%) RESTful
7 2 (1.28%) Flask
8 1 (0.64%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.64%) Django
8 1 (0.64%) Laravel
8 1 (0.64%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.64%) Loki
8 1 (0.64%) Node.js
8 1 (0.64%) pytest
8 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.41%) Cyberattack
3 6 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.64%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.10%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.90%) Software Engineering
2 47 (30.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 45 (28.85%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.00%) AI
5 37 (23.72%) Agile
6 36 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 27 (17.31%) Containerisation
8 20 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
8 20 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (12.18%) Data Science
10 16 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (9.62%) DevSecOps
11 15 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.97%) Scrum
12 14 (8.97%) TOGAF
13 13 (8.33%) Analytics
13 13 (8.33%) Machine Learning
13 13 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.54%) Python
2 54 (34.62%) Java
3 21 (13.46%) Bash
4 20 (12.82%) C++
5 18 (11.54%) Go
6 12 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.77%) SQL
8 8 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.49%) Rust
10 6 (3.85%) Groovy
11 4 (2.56%) C
12 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.28%) Scala
12 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.64%) C#
13 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 106 (67.95%) Security Cleared
2 59 (37.82%) DV Cleared
3 36 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) NIST
1 10 (6.41%) QA
2 5 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (23.72%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.44%) Ansible
2 35 (22.44%) Terraform
3 13 (8.33%) Grafana
4 10 (6.41%) Puppet
5 8 (5.13%) Kibana
5 8 (5.13%) logstash
5 8 (5.13%) Rancher
6 6 (3.85%) Argo
6 6 (3.85%) yum
7 5 (3.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.64%) Cisco
2 1 (0.64%) Dell
2 1 (0.64%) Red Hat