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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 165 82 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.92% 14.36% 13.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.50% 16.63% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 106 29 136
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £66,938
90th Percentile - £100,000 £79,375
South West median annual salary £70,000 £66,763 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.85% +6.82% -

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 1,435 493 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.57% 86.34% 83.31%
Number of salaries quoted 947 283 887
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,375 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.34%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 57 £92,500 +42.31% 12
Gloucester +1 54 £72,500 -23.68% 11
Tewkesbury -7 4 - - 2
Stroud -10 1 £47,500 -
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 17 (10.30%) Apache
2 4 (2.42%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.27%) AWS
2 20 (12.12%) Azure
3 11 (6.67%) GCP
4 6 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 5 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.03%) Serverless
6 4 (2.42%) Miro
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.82%) GitHub
8 2 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.70%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.48%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.03%) Big Data
5 5 (3.03%) MySQL
6 4 (2.42%) Flink
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (10.91%) GitLab
2 14 (8.48%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.88%) Git
4 8 (4.85%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.85%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.64%) Subversion
6 5 (3.03%) JIRA
7 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.61%) JMeter
8 1 (0.61%) Postman
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (10.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.09%) Finance
3 10 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 69 (41.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (20.61%) Software Engineer
3 23 (13.94%) Lead
3 23 (13.94%) Senior
4 18 (10.91%) Senior DevOps
4 18 (10.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Lead DevOps
5 17 (10.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 16 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (9.09%) Architect
8 13 (7.88%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (7.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.45%) Developer
12 7 (4.24%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 15 (9.09%) Kafka
2 13 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (7.27%) Spring
3 12 (7.27%) Spring Boot
3 12 (7.27%) Vue
4 5 (3.03%) Keycloak
4 5 (3.03%) React
5 4 (2.42%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.42%) RESTful
6 3 (1.82%) REST
7 2 (1.21%) Flask
8 1 (0.61%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.61%) CSS
8 1 (0.61%) Django
8 1 (0.61%) HTML
8 1 (0.61%) Laravel
8 1 (0.61%) Node.js
8 1 (0.61%) pytest
8 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.06%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.61%) PKI
7 1 (0.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Unix
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.73%) Software Engineering
2 49 (29.70%) CI/CD
3 47 (28.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 41 (24.85%) AI
5 40 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (22.42%) Agile
8 29 (17.58%) Containerisation
9 19 (11.52%) Collaborative Culture
9 19 (11.52%) Data Science
9 19 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.30%) DevSecOps
10 17 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (9.09%) Analytics
13 14 (8.48%) ETL
13 14 (8.48%) Machine Learning
13 14 (8.48%) Scrum
13 14 (8.48%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.36%) Python
2 54 (32.73%) Java
3 23 (13.94%) Bash
4 20 (12.12%) C++
5 19 (11.52%) Go
6 12 (7.27%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.06%) SQL
8 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.24%) Groovy
9 7 (4.24%) Rust
10 4 (2.42%) C
11 3 (1.82%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.21%) Scala
12 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.61%) C#
13 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 111 (67.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (36.97%) DV Cleared
3 40 (24.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.27%) Degree
5 5 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.06%) NIST
1 10 (6.06%) QA
2 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (16.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Ceph
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 39 (23.64%) Ansible
3 38 (23.03%) Terraform
4 13 (7.88%) Grafana
5 10 (6.06%) Puppet
6 8 (4.85%) Kibana
6 8 (4.85%) logstash
6 8 (4.85%) Rancher
7 7 (4.24%) Argo
8 6 (3.64%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.64%) yum
9 2 (1.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.61%) Istio
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.21%) Dell
2 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.61%) Cisco