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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 220 52 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.96% 9.25% 10.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.99% 10.99% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 139 30 77
10th Percentile £54,750 £47,375 £49,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £98,125 £90,938 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,500
South West median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -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 1,694 473 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.72% 84.16% 82.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 312 666
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,813 £40,000
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,875 £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 28 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 28 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 -9 78 £85,000 +33.33% 39
Gloucester +3 71 £75,000 -21.05% 27
Tewkesbury -7 7 - - 1
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 23 (10.45%) Apache
2 10 (4.55%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.45%) AWS
2 24 (10.91%) Azure
3 18 (8.18%) OpenShift
4 10 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (4.55%) GCP
5 8 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.18%) GitHub
6 7 (3.18%) Serverless
7 6 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.27%) PaaS
9 4 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.82%) Miro
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) DHCP
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (5.91%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.64%) Big Data
5 5 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.27%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.27%) MySQL
6 4 (1.82%) Flink
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 20 (9.09%) GitLab
2 17 (7.73%) Git
3 16 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.64%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.73%) JIRA
6 5 (2.27%) Subversion
7 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.45%) JMeter
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (11.82%) Finance
2 25 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
5 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (46.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (17.27%) Lead
3 32 (14.55%) Lead DevOps
3 32 (14.55%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 30 (13.64%) Senior
5 23 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
6 22 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 21 (9.55%) Data Engineer
8 17 (7.73%) Architect
9 14 (6.36%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 11 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Developer
12 9 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Kafka Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (28.18%) Terraform
2 20 (9.09%) Spring
2 20 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 19 (8.64%) Kafka
4 16 (7.27%) Apache NiFi
5 13 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.55%) Vue
7 8 (3.64%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.73%) Node.js
8 6 (2.73%) React
9 4 (1.82%) RESTful
10 3 (1.36%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.36%) REST
11 2 (0.91%) Backbone.js
11 2 (0.91%) Flask
11 2 (0.91%) Next.js
12 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
12 1 (0.45%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.55%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.73%) Social Media
5 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.36%) PKI
7 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.73%) Linux
2 6 (2.73%) Unix
3 5 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) CentOS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 64 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (25.91%) Software Engineering
4 56 (25.45%) Containerisation
5 54 (24.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 51 (23.18%) Agile
7 48 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (20.45%) AI
9 26 (11.82%) DevSecOps
10 25 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (10.91%) Analytics
11 24 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (10.00%) ETL
13 21 (9.55%) Collaborative Culture
13 21 (9.55%) Test Automation
14 20 (9.09%) Data Science
15 19 (8.64%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.82%) Python
2 63 (28.64%) Java
3 31 (14.09%) Bash
4 25 (11.36%) Go
5 23 (10.45%) C++
6 17 (7.73%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.82%) SQL
8 12 (5.45%) Rust
9 10 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.64%) Groovy
11 6 (2.73%) Scala
12 4 (1.82%) C
12 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.36%) C#
13 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 161 (73.18%) Security Cleared
2 84 (38.18%) DV Cleared
3 68 (30.91%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.82%) Degree
5 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 10 (4.55%) NIST
2 9 (4.09%) QA
System Software
1 46 (20.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.82%) Ceph
3 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 62 (28.18%) Ansible
3 13 (5.91%) Grafana
4 10 (4.55%) Puppet
5 9 (4.09%) Argo
5 9 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.64%) Kibana
6 8 (3.64%) logstash
7 7 (3.18%) Rancher
8 5 (2.27%) yum
9 4 (1.82%) Check_MK
9 4 (1.82%) Istio
9 4 (1.82%) Podman
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.27%) Dell
1 5 (2.27%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.82%) Atlassian
2 4 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.82%) VMware
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle