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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 237 41 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.80% 7.55% 10.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 9.07% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 149 28 66
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £52,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £76,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +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 1,845 452 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.30% 83.24% 82.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 294 529
10th Percentile £31,500 £27,500 £30,973
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £51,250 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year +25.37% -3.00% -8.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -5 86 £85,000 +33.33% 50
Gloucester +1 77 £75,000 -25.00% 40
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 24 (10.13%) Apache
2 10 (4.22%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (24.05%) AWS
2 30 (12.66%) Azure
3 20 (8.44%) OpenShift
4 12 (5.06%) GCP
5 11 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.38%) Serverless
8 7 (2.95%) GitHub
9 6 (2.53%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.11%) PaaS
11 4 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.69%) Miro
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) DHCP
2 1 (0.42%) DNS
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.13%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.06%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.38%) Big Data
6 6 (2.53%) MySQL
7 5 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.69%) Flink
9 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (10.97%) GitLab
2 22 (9.28%) Git
3 20 (8.44%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.80%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.95%) Subversion
6 6 (2.53%) JIRA
7 5 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
General
1 28 (11.81%) Finance
2 24 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (48.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (16.03%) Lead
3 35 (14.77%) Senior
4 33 (13.92%) Lead DevOps
5 32 (13.50%) Software Engineer
6 31 (13.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 28 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (9.70%) Data Engineer
8 23 (9.70%) Senior DevOps
8 23 (9.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 15 (6.33%) Architect
11 12 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Elasticsearch Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Kafka Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.69%) Terraform
2 23 (9.70%) Spring
2 23 (9.70%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.86%) Kafka
4 16 (6.75%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.64%) Keycloak
6 11 (4.64%) Vue
7 7 (2.95%) Node.js
7 7 (2.95%) RESTful
8 6 (2.53%) React
9 3 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (1.27%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.27%) REST
10 2 (0.84%) Backbone.js
10 2 (0.84%) Flask
10 2 (0.84%) Next.js
11 1 (0.42%) Android Jetpack
11 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.38%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.53%) Social Media
5 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.27%) PKI
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.14%) Linux
2 7 (2.95%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) CentOS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (40.93%) CI/CD
2 72 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (26.16%) Containerisation
4 57 (24.05%) Software Engineering
5 56 (23.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 52 (21.94%) Agile
7 46 (19.41%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (18.14%) AI
9 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (11.81%) DevSecOps
11 27 (11.39%) Analytics
11 27 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.13%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (10.13%) ETL
14 23 (9.70%) Data Science
15 22 (9.28%) Microservices
15 22 (9.28%) Test Automation
16 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.97%) Python
2 71 (29.96%) Java
3 35 (14.77%) Bash
4 32 (13.50%) Go
5 24 (10.13%) C++
6 19 (8.02%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.33%) SQL
8 13 (5.49%) Rust
9 11 (4.64%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.95%) Groovy
10 7 (2.95%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.27%) C#
12 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) C
14 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 175 (73.84%) Security Cleared
2 91 (38.40%) DV Cleared
3 75 (31.65%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.91%) Degree
5 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) QA
2 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (22.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Ceph
3 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (32.91%) Kubernetes
2 69 (29.11%) Ansible
3 14 (5.91%) Grafana
4 13 (5.49%) Puppet
5 11 (4.64%) Argo
6 10 (4.22%) Rancher
7 9 (3.80%) Kibana
7 9 (3.80%) logstash
7 9 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.95%) yum
9 4 (1.69%) Check_MK
9 4 (1.69%) Istio
9 4 (1.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.11%) Dell
1 5 (2.11%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.69%) Atlassian
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.69%) VMware
3 1 (0.42%) Cisco
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle