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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 115 78 233
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.31% 18.98% 13.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.87% 20.58% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 68 25 156
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +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 1,058 379 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.45% 92.21% 84.21%
Number of salaries quoted 714 200 1,068
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,625 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -6.48%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -13 44 £57,591 -11.40% 15
Gloucester 0 39 £70,000 -12.50% 4
Tewkesbury -6 1 £52,500 -8.70%
Stroud -8 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 10 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
3 1 (0.87%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.70%) AWS
2 19 (16.52%) Azure
3 12 (10.43%) GCP
4 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.61%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.87%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.87%) GitHub
7 1 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.87%) Miro
7 1 (0.87%) Serverless
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) DHCP
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.35%) Big Data
5 4 (3.48%) MySQL
6 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.74%) Flink
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Git
1 11 (9.57%) GitLab
1 11 (9.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.22%) Cucumber
2 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
2 6 (5.22%) Subversion
3 5 (4.35%) JIRA
4 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.74%) Gradle
4 2 (1.74%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) JMeter
5 1 (0.87%) Postman
5 1 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.96%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.09%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Law
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Software Engineer
2 28 (24.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Architect
5 13 (11.30%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (10.43%) Java Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Senior
9 7 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Lead
10 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.30%) Vue
2 10 (8.70%) Spring
2 10 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 9 (7.83%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.09%) React
5 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.35%) REST
7 4 (3.48%) Kafka
7 4 (3.48%) RESTful
8 2 (1.74%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.74%) JPA
9 1 (0.87%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.87%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.87%) CSS
9 1 (0.87%) HTML
9 1 (0.87%) Laravel
9 1 (0.87%) Middleware
9 1 (0.87%) Node.js
9 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Cyberattack
2 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.74%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.30%) Software Engineering
2 37 (32.17%) Agile
3 34 (29.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 33 (28.70%) Platform Engineering
5 32 (27.83%) CI/CD
6 29 (25.22%) AI
7 25 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.78%) Collaborative Culture
9 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.78%) Data Science
10 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.30%) ITIL
13 11 (9.57%) TOGAF
14 10 (8.70%) Line Management
14 10 (8.70%) SDLC
14 10 (8.70%) Time Management
15 9 (7.83%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.00%) Java
2 41 (35.65%) Python
3 22 (19.13%) Bash
4 18 (15.65%) C++
5 11 (9.57%) Go
6 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.35%) C
8 5 (4.35%) Rust
8 5 (4.35%) SQL
9 3 (2.61%) Elixir
9 3 (2.61%) Erlang
9 3 (2.61%) Groovy
10 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.87%) C#
11 1 (0.87%) PHP
11 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (67.83%) Security Cleared
2 49 (42.61%) DV Cleared
3 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.43%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) NIST
2 9 (7.83%) QA
3 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (24.35%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.87%) Ansible
3 23 (20.00%) Terraform
4 13 (11.30%) Grafana
5 7 (6.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.09%) Puppet
5 7 (6.09%) Rancher
6 6 (5.22%) Argo
6 6 (5.22%) Kibana
6 6 (5.22%) logstash
6 6 (5.22%) yum
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco
3 1 (0.87%) Dell