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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 42 165 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.39% 25.35% 17.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.42% 27.55% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 31 44 73
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,875 £86,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 499 599 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.95% 92.01% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 349 253 504
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,536 £42,500 £36,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -1.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,313
90th Percentile £82,750 £78,750 £81,100
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +5.03%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -1 19 £58,750 -16.07% 14
Gloucester -4 12 £80,000 +23.08% 13
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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
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%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) SaaS
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
3 3 (7.14%) Balsamiq
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
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
1 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 3 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (2.38%) Games
3 1 (2.38%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Junior
5 3 (7.14%) Junior Project Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) React
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.76%) Blazor
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%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.38%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (2.38%) Redux
5 1 (2.38%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
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 19 (45.24%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) Software Engineering
3 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (19.05%) Coaching
5 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (16.67%) AI
6 7 (16.67%) Microservices
6 7 (16.67%) SDLC
6 7 (16.67%) User Experience
7 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (14.29%) Validation
8 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
9 4 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) Java
3 12 (28.57%) Bash
4 7 (16.67%) Go
5 6 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.14%) SQL
8 3 (7.14%) VBScript
9 2 (4.76%) Elixir
9 2 (4.76%) Erlang
10 1 (2.38%) C
10 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 12 (28.57%) 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 4 (9.52%) Grafana
5 3 (7.14%) Argo
5 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Rancher
5 3 (7.14%) yum
6 2 (4.76%) Kibana
7 1 (2.38%) logstash
7 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.38%) Puppet
7 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