DesignOps Job Trends in the South West

DesignOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DesignOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DesignOps 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary - - £59,000
% change year-on-year - - +31.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

DesignOps 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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,894 2,445 7,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.74% 89.86% 84.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,286 1,514 5,420
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,502 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

DesignOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DesignOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

DesignOps job vacancy trend in the South West

DesignOps
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DesignOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Cornwall - 2 - -
DesignOps
England

DesignOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe