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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 42 174 160
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.50% 24.72% 18.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.45% 27.19% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 31 52 75
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £55,938 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £87,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 497 640 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.93% 90.91% 92.33%
Number of salaries quoted 342 292 483
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,715 £42,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +5.04%

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 December 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 17 December 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 -3 20 £62,500 -10.71% 10
Gloucester -1 12 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Tewkesbury - 2 £67,500 - 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 3 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Serverless
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.90%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
6 2 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) VLAN
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
2 4 (9.52%) JIRA
3 3 (7.14%) Balsamiq
3 3 (7.14%) Subversion
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.14%) Military
4 2 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.76%) Junior
6 2 (4.76%) Junior Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) React
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.76%) Blazor
4 2 (4.76%) Node.js
4 2 (4.76%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) Vue
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Jest
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.38%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (2.38%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.76%) CentOS
3 2 (4.76%) Debian
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) CoreOS
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (19.05%) Coaching
7 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (16.67%) Microservices
7 7 (16.67%) User Experience
8 6 (14.29%) AI
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) SDLC
8 6 (14.29%) Validation
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
10 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Java
3 10 (23.81%) Bash
4 7 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (16.67%) Go
5 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.14%) SQL
8 3 (7.14%) VBScript
9 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (69.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (47.62%) DV Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) CITP
4 3 (7.14%) CREST Certified
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) BC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 7 (16.67%) Terraform
4 3 (7.14%) Argo
4 3 (7.14%) Rancher
4 3 (7.14%) yum
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Kibana
6 1 (2.38%) logstash
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco
2 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
2 1 (2.38%) Splunk
2 1 (2.38%) VMware