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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 149 83 240
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.94% 15.75% 14.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.44% 17.74% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 86 30 166
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £67,313
90th Percentile - £100,000 £80,625
South West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 1,302 468 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.10% 88.80% 83.72%
Number of salaries quoted 861 263 1,057
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.71%

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 5 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 5 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
Gloucester +1 55 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Cheltenham -10 54 £90,000 +38.46% 17
Stroud -10 1 £47,500 -
Tewkesbury -11 1 £52,500 -8.70% 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 14 (9.40%) Apache
2 4 (2.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) nginx
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.53%) AWS
2 19 (12.75%) Azure
3 13 (8.72%) GCP
4 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.36%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.68%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.01%) Miro
7 3 (2.01%) Serverless
8 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.34%) GitHub
8 2 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.67%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) DHCP
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.03%) MySQL
5 5 (3.36%) Big Data
5 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.01%) Flink
7 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (12.08%) GitLab
2 17 (11.41%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.40%) Git
4 9 (6.04%) Cucumber
4 9 (6.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.70%) Subversion
6 5 (3.36%) JIRA
7 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.34%) Gradle
8 2 (1.34%) Maven
9 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.67%) JMeter
9 1 (0.67%) Postman
9 1 (0.67%) Selenium
9 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (11.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.40%) Finance
3 10 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.70%) Aerospace
5 6 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (34.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (24.83%) Software Engineer
3 17 (11.41%) Senior
4 16 (10.74%) Architect
5 15 (10.07%) Lead
5 15 (10.07%) Senior DevOps
5 15 (10.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Java Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (6.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (9.40%) Vue
3 13 (8.72%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (7.38%) Spring
4 11 (7.38%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.37%) Kafka
6 6 (4.03%) React
6 6 (4.03%) RESTful
7 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.68%) REST
9 2 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (1.34%) Flask
9 2 (1.34%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.34%) JPA
9 2 (1.34%) Keycloak
9 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.67%) CSS
10 1 (0.67%) Django
10 1 (0.67%) HTML
10 1 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Cyberattack
2 9 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.34%) PKI
5 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.12%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
3 4 (2.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.27%) Software Engineering
2 45 (30.20%) CI/CD
3 42 (28.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 40 (26.85%) Agile
5 36 (24.16%) AI
5 36 (24.16%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (16.11%) Containerisation
8 23 (15.44%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.74%) Data Science
12 14 (9.40%) DevSecOps
13 13 (8.72%) Machine Learning
13 13 (8.72%) Scrum
13 13 (8.72%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.72%) TOGAF
14 12 (8.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.91%) Python
2 53 (35.57%) Java
3 27 (18.12%) Bash
4 21 (14.09%) C++
5 17 (11.41%) Go
6 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.04%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.70%) Rust
9 6 (4.03%) SQL
10 4 (2.68%) C
10 4 (2.68%) Groovy
11 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.34%) C#
12 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.67%) Elixir
13 1 (0.67%) Erlang
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.67%) PHP
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (66.44%) Security Cleared
2 55 (36.91%) DV Cleared
3 28 (18.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.05%) Degree
5 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) QA
2 10 (6.71%) NIST
3 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (16.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (24.16%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.49%) Ansible
3 34 (22.82%) Terraform
4 16 (10.74%) Grafana
5 11 (7.38%) Puppet
6 9 (6.04%) Kibana
6 9 (6.04%) logstash
6 9 (6.04%) Rancher
7 7 (4.70%) Argo
7 7 (4.70%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.70%) yum
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (1.34%) Atlassian
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.67%) Cisco
2 1 (0.67%) Dell