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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 244 38 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.75% 6.99% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 8.35% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 151 27 53
10th Percentile £55,544 £47,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £98,125 £91,875 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,300
South West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%

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 1,904 455 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.07% 83.64% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 289 444
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,536 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £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 7 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 7 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 -2 93 £87,500 +40.00% 51
Gloucester +3 78 £85,000 -15.00% 26
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 26 (10.66%) Apache
2 11 (4.51%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.00%) AWS
2 38 (15.57%) Azure
3 21 (8.61%) OpenShift
4 15 (6.15%) GCP
5 13 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.92%) Serverless
7 11 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.28%) GitHub
10 7 (2.87%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.46%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.05%) PaaS
13 4 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.64%) Miro
14 3 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.46%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.25%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.28%) Big Data
5 8 (3.28%) Flink
6 7 (2.87%) MySQL
7 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.05%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.23%) Metadata
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 30 (12.30%) GitLab
2 26 (10.66%) Git
3 24 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.28%) SonarQube
4 8 (3.28%) Subversion
5 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.46%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 31 (12.70%) Finance
2 21 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (8.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (51.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (16.39%) Lead
2 40 (16.39%) Senior
3 35 (14.34%) Lead DevOps
4 33 (13.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 29 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.48%) Software Engineer
7 25 (10.25%) Data Engineer
8 24 (9.84%) Senior DevOps
8 24 (9.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Architect
10 13 (5.33%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Kafka Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Python Data Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (29.10%) Terraform
2 23 (9.43%) Kafka
3 22 (9.02%) Spring
3 22 (9.02%) Spring Boot
4 15 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (5.74%) Apache NiFi
6 13 (5.33%) Keycloak
7 9 (3.69%) RESTful
7 9 (3.69%) Vue
8 7 (2.87%) Node.js
9 5 (2.05%) React
10 4 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.82%) Backbone.js
11 2 (0.82%) Next.js
11 2 (0.82%) REST
12 1 (0.41%) Android Jetpack
12 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
12 1 (0.41%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.46%) Social Media
5 5 (2.05%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.05%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.64%) PKI
7 3 (1.23%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.67%) Linux
2 8 (3.28%) Unix
3 4 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.21%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (27.46%) Containerisation
4 57 (23.36%) Agile
5 52 (21.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 49 (20.08%) Software Engineering
7 45 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (17.62%) AI
9 36 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (13.11%) DevSecOps
11 28 (11.48%) Analytics
11 28 (11.48%) ETL
12 27 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.66%) Microservices
14 24 (9.84%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 22 (9.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 93 (38.11%) Python
2 71 (29.10%) Java
3 37 (15.16%) Bash
4 34 (13.93%) Go
5 26 (10.66%) C++
6 17 (6.97%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.74%) SQL
8 12 (4.92%) Rust
9 10 (4.10%) Scala
9 10 (4.10%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.46%) Groovy
11 4 (1.64%) C#
11 4 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.82%) C
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 182 (74.59%) Security Cleared
2 91 (37.30%) DV Cleared
3 84 (34.43%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.74%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.92%) Degree
6 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.92%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.23%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 56 (22.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 81 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 71 (29.10%) Ansible
3 15 (6.15%) Grafana
4 14 (5.74%) Puppet
5 13 (5.33%) Argo
6 11 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.51%) Rancher
7 8 (3.28%) Kibana
7 8 (3.28%) logstash
7 8 (3.28%) yum
8 4 (1.64%) Check_MK
8 4 (1.64%) Istio
8 4 (1.64%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (2.05%) Atlassian
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.64%) Dell
2 4 (1.64%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.64%) VMware
3 3 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle