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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 22 5
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 245 34 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.76% 6.48% 18.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 7.78% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 150 27 53
10th Percentile £55,489 £47,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,875 £76,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £82,300
South West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%

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 1,914 437 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.25% 83.24% 84.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,222 282 433
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -3 93 £87,500 +40.00% 46
Gloucester +3 79 £85,000 -15.00% 17
Tewkesbury -14 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 28 (11.43%) Apache
2 11 (4.49%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.71%) AWS
2 38 (15.51%) Azure
3 20 (8.16%) OpenShift
4 15 (6.12%) GCP
5 14 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (5.31%) Serverless
7 10 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.27%) GitHub
9 7 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.45%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.04%) PaaS
12 4 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.63%) Miro
13 2 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.61%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.27%) Big Data
5 8 (3.27%) Flink
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.45%) MySQL
8 5 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.22%) Metadata
11 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 32 (13.06%) GitLab
2 27 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.20%) Git
4 10 (4.08%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.08%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.27%) Subversion
6 6 (2.45%) JIRA
7 5 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 33 (13.47%) Finance
2 22 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.35%) Social Skills
4 9 (3.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (52.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (17.14%) Lead
3 40 (16.33%) Senior
4 37 (15.10%) Lead DevOps
5 35 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 28 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.43%) Software Engineer
7 25 (10.20%) Data Engineer
8 24 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
8 24 (9.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Kafka Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Python Data Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (29.39%) Terraform
2 23 (9.39%) Kafka
3 22 (8.98%) Spring
3 22 (8.98%) Spring Boot
4 18 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (6.53%) Apache NiFi
6 13 (5.31%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.08%) Vue
8 9 (3.67%) RESTful
9 7 (2.86%) Node.js
10 5 (2.04%) React
11 4 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.82%) Backbone.js
12 2 (0.82%) Django
12 2 (0.82%) Flask
12 2 (0.82%) Next.js
12 2 (0.82%) pytest
12 2 (0.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.45%) Social Media
5 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.63%) PKI
7 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.18%) Linux
2 9 (3.67%) Unix
3 4 (1.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (26.94%) Containerisation
4 57 (23.27%) Agile
5 52 (21.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 45 (18.37%) AI
6 45 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
6 45 (18.37%) Software Engineering
7 38 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 32 (13.06%) DevSecOps
9 28 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (11.43%) ETL
9 28 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (11.02%) Analytics
10 27 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (10.61%) Microservices
12 25 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (9.80%) Test Automation
14 22 (8.98%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 94 (38.37%) Python
2 69 (28.16%) Java
3 40 (16.33%) Bash
4 34 (13.88%) Go
5 26 (10.61%) C++
6 18 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.31%) Rust
7 13 (5.31%) SQL
8 11 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.08%) Scala
10 6 (2.45%) Groovy
11 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.63%) C#
13 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.82%) C
15 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 185 (75.51%) Security Cleared
2 92 (37.55%) DV Cleared
3 85 (34.69%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.08%) Degree
6 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) QA
2 9 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (22.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 80 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 72 (29.39%) Ansible
3 18 (7.35%) Grafana
4 15 (6.12%) Puppet
5 13 (5.31%) Argo
6 12 (4.90%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.08%) Kibana
7 10 (4.08%) logstash
7 10 (4.08%) Rancher
8 8 (3.27%) yum
9 4 (1.63%) Check_MK
9 4 (1.63%) Istio
9 4 (1.63%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (2.04%) Atlassian
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.63%) Dell
2 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.63%) VMware
3 3 (1.22%) Google
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle