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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 189 82 152
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.52% 13.67% 11.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.36% 15.83% 14.30%
Number of salaries quoted 117 28 85
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £82,100
South West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +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 1,529 518 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.03% 86.33% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 987 302 716
10th Percentile £30,550 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -10 68 £87,500 +34.62% 15
Gloucester +6 62 £70,000 -12.50% 23
Tewkesbury -6 5 - - 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 21 (11.11%) Apache
2 8 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.46%) AWS
2 21 (11.11%) Azure
3 11 (5.82%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.29%) GCP
5 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.17%) Serverless
7 5 (2.65%) Azure AKS
7 5 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.65%) PaaS
8 4 (2.12%) GitHub
8 4 (2.12%) Miro
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) DHCP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (6.88%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.17%) Big Data
6 4 (2.12%) Flink
6 4 (2.12%) MySQL
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 19 (10.05%) GitLab
2 17 (8.99%) Git
3 15 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.23%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.23%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.17%) JIRA
5 6 (3.17%) Subversion
6 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (13.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.05%) Finance
3 15 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (16.93%) Software Engineer
3 31 (16.40%) Lead
4 26 (13.76%) Senior
5 25 (13.23%) Lead DevOps
6 24 (12.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
7 21 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (8.47%) Architect
9 16 (8.47%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.76%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Developer
11 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.47%) Apache NiFi
1 16 (8.47%) Kafka
1 16 (8.47%) Spring
1 16 (8.47%) Spring Boot
2 13 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (5.29%) Vue
4 5 (2.65%) Keycloak
4 5 (2.65%) React
5 4 (2.12%) RESTful
6 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.59%) REST
7 2 (1.06%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.06%) Flask
7 2 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.53%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.53%) CSS
8 1 (0.53%) Django
8 1 (0.53%) HTML
8 1 (0.53%) JSON
8 1 (0.53%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.17%) Social Media
5 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) PKI
8 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.46%) Linux
2 5 (2.65%) Unix
2 5 (2.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) CentOS
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.39%) CI/CD
2 54 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 51 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (26.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 47 (24.87%) Agile
6 44 (23.28%) AI
7 40 (21.16%) Containerisation
7 40 (21.16%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (11.64%) DevSecOps
9 21 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.58%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (10.05%) Data Science
11 19 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (9.52%) Analytics
12 18 (9.52%) ITIL
13 17 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.99%) ETL
13 17 (8.99%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (36.51%) Python
2 58 (30.69%) Java
3 25 (13.23%) Bash
4 21 (11.11%) C++
5 20 (10.58%) Go
6 13 (6.88%) SQL
7 12 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.76%) Rust
8 9 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.23%) Groovy
10 4 (2.12%) C
10 4 (2.12%) Scala
11 3 (1.59%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.06%) C#
13 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 132 (69.84%) Security Cleared
2 72 (38.10%) DV Cleared
3 48 (25.40%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.41%) Degree
5 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) NIST
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (19.05%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Ceph
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (27.51%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.98%) Ansible
3 48 (25.40%) Terraform
4 13 (6.88%) Grafana
5 10 (5.29%) Argo
5 10 (5.29%) Puppet
6 9 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.23%) Kibana
7 8 (4.23%) logstash
7 8 (4.23%) Rancher
8 6 (3.17%) yum
9 4 (2.12%) Check_MK
9 4 (2.12%) Istio
9 4 (2.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.65%) Dell
1 5 (2.65%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.12%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.53%) Cisco
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) VMware