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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 245 39 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.85% 7.34% 10.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 8.80% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 152 28 60
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £83,000
South West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 1,897 443 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.25% 83.43% 82.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 288 470
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 October 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 October 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 -3 89 £85,000 +33.33% 49
Gloucester +3 82 £85,000 -15.00% 25
Tewkesbury -11 7 - -
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 23 (9.39%) Apache
2 11 (4.49%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (23.67%) AWS
2 33 (13.47%) Azure
3 21 (8.57%) OpenShift
4 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.90%) GCP
6 11 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.27%) Serverless
8 7 (2.86%) GitHub
9 6 (2.45%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.04%) PaaS
11 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.63%) Miro
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.61%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.27%) Big Data
6 7 (2.86%) MySQL
7 5 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.63%) Flink
9 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 29 (11.84%) GitLab
2 26 (10.61%) Git
3 24 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.67%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.67%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.27%) Subversion
6 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.45%) JIRA
7 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 32 (13.06%) Finance
2 23 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (48.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.92%) Senior
3 37 (15.10%) Lead
4 33 (13.47%) Lead DevOps
5 32 (13.06%) Software Engineer
6 31 (12.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 29 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.80%) Data Engineer
8 24 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
8 24 (9.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 14 (5.71%) Architect
11 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Kafka Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Python Data Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Python Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (28.57%) Terraform
2 23 (9.39%) Spring
2 23 (9.39%) Spring Boot
3 22 (8.98%) Kafka
4 16 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.12%) Apache NiFi
6 13 (5.31%) Keycloak
7 11 (4.49%) Vue
8 9 (3.67%) RESTful
9 7 (2.86%) Node.js
10 6 (2.45%) React
11 4 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.22%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.22%) REST
13 2 (0.82%) Backbone.js
13 2 (0.82%) Flask
13 2 (0.82%) Next.js
14 1 (0.41%) Bootstrap
14 1 (0.41%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.86%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.45%) Social Media
5 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.63%) PKI
6 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.18%) Linux
2 8 (3.27%) Unix
3 3 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (41.63%) CI/CD
2 75 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (26.94%) Containerisation
4 57 (23.27%) Software Engineering
5 55 (22.45%) Agile
5 55 (22.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 47 (19.18%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (18.37%) AI
8 34 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (12.24%) DevSecOps
10 28 (11.43%) Analytics
11 27 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (10.20%) ETL
13 25 (10.20%) Microservices
14 23 (9.39%) Data Science
14 23 (9.39%) Test Automation
15 22 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (38.78%) Python
2 74 (30.20%) Java
3 38 (15.51%) Bash
4 35 (14.29%) Go
5 27 (11.02%) C++
6 19 (7.76%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.71%) SQL
8 13 (5.31%) Rust
9 11 (4.49%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.86%) Scala
11 6 (2.45%) Groovy
12 4 (1.63%) C#
12 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.82%) C
15 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 181 (73.88%) Security Cleared
2 93 (37.96%) DV Cleared
3 79 (32.24%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.71%) Degree
5 13 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) QA
2 9 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 56 (22.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 81 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 71 (28.98%) Ansible
3 15 (6.12%) Grafana
4 14 (5.71%) Puppet
5 12 (4.90%) Argo
6 11 (4.49%) Rancher
7 10 (4.08%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.67%) Kibana
8 9 (3.67%) logstash
9 8 (3.27%) yum
10 4 (1.63%) Check_MK
10 4 (1.63%) Istio
10 4 (1.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (1.63%) Atlassian
1 4 (1.63%) Dell
1 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
1 4 (1.63%) VMware
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle