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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 42 115 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.69% 10.47% 18.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 12.74% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 27 68 93
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £91,875 £76,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £90,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and 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 454 903 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 83.15% 82.24% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 290 535 491
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,796 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +4 28 £63,750 +3.66% 24
Gloucester -3 5 £100,000 +73.91% 17
Tewkesbury - 3 £67,500 -
Stroud - 2 - -
Filton - 1 £65,000 -
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (19.05%) Serverless
4 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) SaaS
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) IPv4
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) OSPF
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VLAN
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Games
4 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) React
2 6 (14.29%) Spring
2 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.90%) .NET
4 4 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) Blazor
5 2 (4.76%) Kafka
5 2 (4.76%) REST
5 2 (4.76%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.38%) Jest
6 1 (2.38%) OAuth
6 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.38%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.38%) Pandas
6 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.38%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.38%) Redux
6 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.90%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) e-Learning
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.76%) Debian
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) CentOS
5 1 (2.38%) CoreOS
5 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (19.05%) Coaching
4 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (14.29%) Microservices
6 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.90%) Project Management
7 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Service Management
7 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps
8 3 (7.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Java
2 9 (21.43%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (14.29%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) R
7 2 (4.76%) SQL
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.43%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) IBM
2 9 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft