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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 224 47 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.87% 8.56% 10.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 10.20% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 141 29 76
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,250 £50,000
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 £96,250 £95,000 £76,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
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 1,741 461 980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.73% 83.97% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 304 629
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £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 £81,250 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -8 79 £85,000 +33.33% 39
Gloucester +4 74 £75,000 -21.05% 26
Tewkesbury -7 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 24 (10.71%) Apache
2 10 (4.46%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.00%) AWS
2 26 (11.61%) Azure
3 19 (8.48%) OpenShift
4 11 (4.91%) GCP
5 10 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.13%) GitHub
7 7 (3.13%) Serverless
8 5 (2.23%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.23%) PaaS
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.79%) Miro
10 3 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) DHCP
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.57%) Big Data
6 5 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.23%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.23%) MySQL
7 4 (1.79%) Flink
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 22 (9.82%) GitLab
2 18 (8.04%) Git
3 17 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 6 (2.68%) Subversion
6 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) Maven
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (12.05%) Finance
2 25 (11.16%) Social Skills
3 19 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
5 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (46.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (16.96%) Lead
3 32 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 32 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 31 (13.84%) Senior
5 30 (13.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 24 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.82%) Data Engineer
7 22 (9.82%) Senior DevOps
7 22 (9.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.59%) Architect
9 14 (6.25%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 12 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Elasticsearch Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.13%) Terraform
2 20 (8.93%) Kafka
2 20 (8.93%) Spring
2 20 (8.93%) Spring Boot
3 16 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (4.46%) Vue
6 9 (4.02%) Keycloak
7 7 (3.13%) Node.js
8 6 (2.68%) React
9 4 (1.79%) RESTful
10 3 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (1.34%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.34%) REST
11 2 (0.89%) Backbone.js
11 2 (0.89%) Flask
11 2 (0.89%) Next.js
12 1 (0.45%) Android Jetpack
12 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.46%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.68%) Social Media
5 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.34%) PKI
7 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.30%) Linux
2 7 (3.13%) Unix
3 5 (2.23%) 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 91 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 65 (29.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (25.45%) Software Engineering
4 56 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 55 (24.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 51 (22.77%) Agile
7 49 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (20.09%) AI
9 26 (11.61%) Analytics
9 26 (11.61%) DevSecOps
9 26 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (10.27%) ETL
13 22 (9.82%) Collaborative Culture
13 22 (9.82%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.38%) Data Science
15 19 (8.48%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (37.95%) Python
2 64 (28.57%) Java
3 33 (14.73%) Bash
4 27 (12.05%) Go
5 23 (10.27%) C++
6 18 (8.04%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.70%) SQL
8 12 (5.36%) Rust
9 10 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.57%) Groovy
11 7 (3.13%) Scala
12 4 (1.79%) C
12 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.34%) C#
13 3 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 164 (73.21%) Security Cleared
2 86 (38.39%) DV Cleared
3 71 (31.70%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.70%) Degree
5 9 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) QA
2 10 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.46%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (21.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Ceph
3 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (32.59%) Kubernetes
2 63 (28.13%) Ansible
3 14 (6.25%) Grafana
4 12 (5.36%) Puppet
5 10 (4.46%) Argo
5 10 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.57%) Kibana
6 8 (3.57%) logstash
6 8 (3.57%) Rancher
7 6 (2.68%) yum
8 4 (1.79%) Check_MK
8 4 (1.79%) Istio
8 4 (1.79%) Podman
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (2.23%) Dell
1 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
2 4 (1.79%) Atlassian
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.79%) VMware
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle