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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 162 84 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.29% 15.33% 14.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.82% 17.54% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 96 31 165
10th Percentile £50,625 £47,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £66,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £66,763 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.85% +8.56% -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 1,371 479 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.61% 87.41% 83.80%
Number of salaries quoted 895 270 1,025
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,766 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,125 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.83%

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 11 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 11 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
Gloucester -1 62 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Cheltenham -11 56 £90,000 +38.46% 13
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 18 (11.11%) Apache
2 5 (3.09%) Confluence
3 4 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.01%) AWS
2 20 (12.35%) Azure
3 13 (8.02%) GCP
4 6 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.09%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.09%) Serverless
6 4 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.47%) Azure AKS
6 4 (2.47%) Miro
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.23%) GitHub
8 2 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.62%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) DHCP
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.64%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.70%) MySQL
4 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.09%) Big Data
6 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.85%) Flink
7 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) GitLab
2 18 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.26%) Git
4 10 (6.17%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.17%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.94%) Subversion
6 6 (3.70%) JIRA
7 4 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.23%) Gradle
8 2 (1.23%) Maven
9 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.62%) JMeter
9 1 (0.62%) Postman
9 1 (0.62%) Selenium
9 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.88%) Finance
3 10 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.32%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (35.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (23.46%) Software Engineer
3 20 (12.35%) Senior
4 18 (11.11%) Lead
5 17 (10.49%) Architect
5 17 (10.49%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (10.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 13 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
8 12 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.17%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.49%) Apache NiFi
2 16 (9.88%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (9.26%) Vue
4 14 (8.64%) Spring
4 14 (8.64%) Spring Boot
5 12 (7.41%) Kafka
6 6 (3.70%) React
6 6 (3.70%) RESTful
7 5 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.47%) REST
9 3 (1.85%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.23%) Flask
10 2 (1.23%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.23%) JPA
10 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.62%) CSS
11 1 (0.62%) Django
11 1 (0.62%) HTML
11 1 (0.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.17%) Cyberattack
3 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.23%) PKI
5 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (3.09%) Unix
3 4 (2.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (37.65%) Software Engineering
2 51 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 50 (30.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 45 (27.78%) Agile
5 40 (24.69%) AI
6 39 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (17.90%) Containerisation
9 25 (15.43%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.73%) Data Science
14 17 (10.49%) Scrum
15 14 (8.64%) DevSecOps
15 14 (8.64%) TOGAF
16 13 (8.02%) Machine Learning
16 13 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.89%) Python
2 61 (37.65%) Java
3 28 (17.28%) Bash
4 22 (13.58%) C++
5 20 (12.35%) Go
6 14 (8.64%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.56%) SQL
9 8 (4.94%) Rust
10 7 (4.32%) Groovy
11 4 (2.47%) C
12 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.23%) C#
13 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.62%) Elixir
14 1 (0.62%) Erlang
14 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.62%) PHP
14 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 112 (69.14%) Security Cleared
2 65 (40.12%) DV Cleared
3 32 (19.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.41%) Degree
5 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.62%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.41%) QA
2 10 (6.17%) NIST
3 5 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (17.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 41 (25.31%) Ansible
3 40 (24.69%) Terraform
4 17 (10.49%) Grafana
5 12 (7.41%) Puppet
6 10 (6.17%) Kibana
6 10 (6.17%) logstash
6 10 (6.17%) Rancher
7 8 (4.94%) Argo
7 8 (4.94%) yum
8 7 (4.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.62%) Cisco
2 1 (0.62%) Dell