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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 32 186 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.29% 19.04% 18.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 22.30% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25 52 82
10th Percentile £49,000 £43,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £86,900 £87,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 419 834 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 82.32% 85.36% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 284 396 492
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,108
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,750 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +4 20 £63,750 +4.94% 16
Tewkesbury - 3 £67,500 -
Gloucester +1 2 £100,000 +53.85% 21
Stroud +3 1 - -
Filton - 1 £65,000 -
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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) Serverless
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.38%) SaaS
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Balsamiq
2 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.38%) Law
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) React
2 5 (15.63%) Spring
2 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.50%) .NET
4 3 (9.38%) Node.js
5 2 (6.25%) Blazor
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.13%) Jest
6 1 (3.13%) Kafka
6 1 (3.13%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.13%) Pandas
6 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.13%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (3.13%) Redux
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) CentOS
4 2 (6.25%) Debian
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) CoreOS
5 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) AI
4 8 (25.00%) Coaching
4 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.50%) Project Management
7 4 (12.50%) User Experience
8 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps
8 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.38%) Service Management
8 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CITP
4 1 (3.13%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.00%) Ansible
3 7 (21.88%) Terraform
4 1 (3.13%) Kibana
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) VMware