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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 105 90 237
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.64% 21.79% 14.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 24.13% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 64 39 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,500 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -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 947 373 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.94% 90.31% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 642 211 1,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +4.16% -3.81%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 42 £75,000 +8.70% 11
Cheltenham -15 35 £57,591 -11.40% 14
Tewkesbury -8 1 £52,500 -8.70%
Stroud -9 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 11 (10.48%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.95%) nginx
2 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.52%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) Azure
3 8 (7.62%) GCP
4 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.95%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.95%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) DHCP
2 1 (0.95%) DNS
2 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
1 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.81%) Big Data
3 4 (3.81%) MySQL
4 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.95%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (10.48%) Git
1 11 (10.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.57%) GitLab
3 7 (6.67%) Subversion
4 6 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.81%) JIRA
6 3 (2.86%) Balsamiq
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Gradle
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
8 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) JMeter
8 1 (0.95%) Postman
8 1 (0.95%) Selenium
8 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.52%) Aerospace
2 10 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (3.81%) Finance
4 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Military
4 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.90%) Law
6 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 25 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) Architect
3 15 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.48%) Java Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Developer
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior
9 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Junior
9 4 (3.81%) Junior Project Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) Vue
2 10 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (8.57%) Spring
3 9 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 8 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.67%) React
6 5 (4.76%) REST
7 4 (3.81%) RESTful
8 3 (2.86%) Kafka
9 2 (1.90%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.90%) JPA
9 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.95%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.95%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.95%) CSS
10 1 (0.95%) HTML
10 1 (0.95%) Laravel
10 1 (0.95%) Middleware
10 1 (0.95%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Cyberattack
2 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) PKI
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.90%) Unix
2 2 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) Software Engineering
2 38 (36.19%) Agile
3 27 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
3 27 (25.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 22 (20.95%) AI
4 22 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (17.14%) Collaborative Culture
7 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (15.24%) Data Science
9 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (12.38%) ITIL
11 12 (11.43%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.43%) Validation
12 11 (10.48%) SDLC
13 10 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (9.52%) Line Management
13 10 (9.52%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.95%) Java
2 39 (37.14%) Python
3 24 (22.86%) Bash
4 16 (15.24%) Go
5 12 (11.43%) C++
6 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.76%) SQL
9 4 (3.81%) C#
9 4 (3.81%) Rust
10 3 (2.86%) C
10 3 (2.86%) Elixir
10 3 (2.86%) Erlang
10 3 (2.86%) Groovy
10 3 (2.86%) VBScript
11 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (75.24%) Security Cleared
2 51 (48.57%) DV Cleared
3 21 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.29%) Degree
5 3 (2.86%) BC Cleared
5 3 (2.86%) CITP
5 3 (2.86%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) NIST
2 8 (7.62%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (15.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.10%) Ansible
2 19 (18.10%) Terraform
3 13 (12.38%) Grafana
4 8 (7.62%) Rancher
5 7 (6.67%) Argo
5 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.67%) yum
6 6 (5.71%) Kibana
6 6 (5.71%) logstash
7 5 (4.76%) Puppet
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.95%) Podman
8 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco
3 1 (0.95%) Dell
3 1 (0.95%) Splunk