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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 143 83 240
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.93% 16.53% 13.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 18.49% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 82 30 166
10th Percentile £45,125 £47,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £99,063 £95,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +5.69% -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 1,252 449 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.20% 89.44% 84.06%
Number of salaries quoted 827 246 1,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,198
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.21% -2.91%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 54 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Cheltenham -11 51 £88,750 +36.54% 17
Stroud -10 1 £47,500 -
Tewkesbury -12 1 £52,500 -8.70% 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 14 (9.79%) Apache
2 4 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.07%) AWS
2 19 (13.29%) Azure
3 14 (9.79%) GCP
4 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.80%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.10%) Miro
7 3 (2.10%) Serverless
8 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.40%) GitHub
8 2 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) DHCP
2 1 (0.70%) DNS
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.20%) MySQL
5 5 (3.50%) Big Data
6 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.10%) Flink
8 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) GitLab
2 17 (11.89%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.79%) Git
4 9 (6.29%) Cucumber
4 9 (6.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.90%) Subversion
6 5 (3.50%) JIRA
7 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.40%) Gradle
8 2 (1.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.70%) JMeter
9 1 (0.70%) Postman
9 1 (0.70%) Selenium
9 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (12.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.79%) Finance
3 10 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.90%) Aerospace
5 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Law
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (32.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (25.17%) Software Engineer
3 15 (10.49%) Architect
4 14 (9.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Senior
5 13 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 13 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Java Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Lead
6 12 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (4.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.20%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.79%) Elastic Stack
1 14 (9.79%) Vue
2 13 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (6.99%) Spring
3 10 (6.99%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.90%) Kafka
5 6 (4.20%) React
5 6 (4.20%) RESTful
6 5 (3.50%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.80%) REST
8 2 (1.40%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.40%) Flask
8 2 (1.40%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.40%) JPA
8 2 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.70%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.70%) CSS
9 1 (0.70%) HTML
9 1 (0.70%) Middleware
9 1 (0.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Cyberattack
2 8 (5.59%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.80%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.40%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.40%) PKI
5 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.18%) Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Unix
3 4 (2.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.96%) Software Engineering
2 43 (30.07%) CI/CD
3 40 (27.97%) Agile
3 40 (27.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 36 (25.17%) Platform Engineering
5 34 (23.78%) AI
6 33 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (16.08%) Collaborative Culture
7 23 (16.08%) Containerisation
8 20 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.19%) Data Science
12 13 (9.09%) DevSecOps
12 13 (9.09%) Test Automation
13 12 (8.39%) Scrum
13 12 (8.39%) TOGAF
14 11 (7.69%) ITIL
14 11 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.06%) Python
2 52 (36.36%) Java
3 28 (19.58%) Bash
4 21 (14.69%) C++
5 16 (11.19%) Go
6 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.90%) Rust
9 6 (4.20%) SQL
10 4 (2.80%) C
10 4 (2.80%) Groovy
11 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.40%) C#
12 2 (1.40%) Elixir
12 2 (1.40%) Erlang
12 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.70%) PHP
13 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (65.73%) Security Cleared
2 52 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.39%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) QA
2 10 (6.99%) NIST
3 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (16.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 35 (24.48%) Ansible
3 34 (23.78%) Terraform
4 17 (11.89%) Grafana
5 11 (7.69%) Puppet
6 9 (6.29%) Kibana
6 9 (6.29%) logstash
6 9 (6.29%) Rancher
7 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
8 7 (4.90%) Argo
8 7 (4.90%) yum
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.70%) Cisco
2 1 (0.70%) Dell