DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 90 174
Rank change year-on-year -38 +84 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 148 220 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.68% 3.54% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 3.94% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 109 147 119
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,525 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,524 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,539 £88,000
England median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.33% - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Bristol -16 67 £77,500 +6.90% 4
Gloucestershire -3 66 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Devon -15 6 £35,015 -8.53% 2
Wiltshire -15 4 £45,000 -47.06%
Dorset -20 3 £67,500 +12.50%
Somerset -5 1 £75,000 +34.53% 1
Cornwall -14 1 £55,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (77.70%) Terraform
3 107 (72.30%) Kubernetes
4 104 (70.27%) AWS
5 94 (63.51%) Docker
6 86 (58.11%) CI/CD
7 80 (54.05%) Ansible
8 78 (52.70%) Security Cleared
9 73 (49.32%) Linux
10 63 (42.57%) Agile
11 60 (40.54%) Python
12 56 (37.84%) Azure
13 55 (37.16%) DV Cleared
14 52 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (31.08%) Prometheus
16 39 (26.35%) Observability
17 38 (25.68%) Grafana
17 38 (25.68%) Scrum
18 37 (25.00%) Containerisation
19 36 (24.32%) Jenkins
20 34 (22.97%) JIRA
21 31 (20.95%) Kanban
21 31 (20.95%) Continuous Integration
22 30 (20.27%) Amazon S3
22 30 (20.27%) Aerospace
22 30 (20.27%) Continuous Deployment
23 29 (19.59%) Bash
24 28 (18.92%) Validation
24 28 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
24 28 (18.92%) SDLC

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 19 (12.84%) Apache
1 19 (12.84%) nginx
2 16 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 16 (10.81%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 104 (70.27%) AWS
2 56 (37.84%) Azure
3 30 (20.27%) Amazon S3
4 27 (18.24%) OpenShift
5 23 (15.54%) GCP
6 16 (10.81%) MinIO
7 15 (10.14%) Datadog
8 12 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (7.43%) GitHub
9 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.41%) Serverless
11 7 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.05%) OCI
13 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (3.38%) SaaS
14 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.70%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.76%) Network Security
2 5 (3.38%) AMQP
2 5 (3.38%) Firewall
3 4 (2.70%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) Big Data
1 16 (10.81%) Hadoop
1 16 (10.81%) Presto
2 14 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.38%) InfluxDB
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.35%) DB2
6 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 34 (22.97%) JIRA
3 16 (10.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (4.73%) Artifactory
4 7 (4.73%) Vagrant
5 6 (4.05%) Git
5 6 (4.05%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.70%) GitLab
7 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (20.27%) Aerospace
2 15 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.78%) Tech for Good
4 10 (6.76%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.03%) Finance
6 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.35%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.54%) YAML
2 21 (14.19%) Apache NiFi
2 21 (14.19%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (14.19%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (4.05%) OAuth
4 6 (4.05%) OpenID
5 5 (3.38%) Kafka
6 4 (2.70%) React
7 3 (2.03%) .NET
7 3 (2.03%) CSS
7 3 (2.03%) CSS3
7 3 (2.03%) HTML
7 3 (2.03%) HTML5
7 3 (2.03%) Keycloak
7 3 (2.03%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.03%) RESTful
7 3 (2.03%) SAML
8 2 (1.35%) Spring
8 2 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.70%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.70%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.03%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.35%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (49.32%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (58.11%) CI/CD
3 63 (42.57%) Agile
4 52 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (26.35%) Observability
6 38 (25.68%) Scrum
7 37 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 31 (20.95%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (20.95%) Kanban
9 30 (20.27%) Continuous Deployment
10 28 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
10 28 (18.92%) SDLC
10 28 (18.92%) Validation
11 19 (12.84%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (10.81%) Configuration Management
13 16 (10.81%) Data Engineering
13 16 (10.81%) Requirements Engineering
13 16 (10.81%) Service Delivery
13 16 (10.81%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.54%) Python
2 29 (19.59%) Bash
3 23 (15.54%) Shell Script
4 17 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.76%) Java
5 10 (6.76%) SQL
6 9 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.41%) C#
8 5 (3.38%) Go
9 3 (2.03%) Ruby
10 2 (1.35%) Lua
10 2 (1.35%) Perl
10 2 (1.35%) Tcl
10 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (52.70%) Security Cleared
2 55 (37.16%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 94 (63.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (77.70%) Terraform
2 107 (72.30%) Kubernetes
3 80 (54.05%) Ansible
4 46 (31.08%) Prometheus
5 38 (25.68%) Grafana
6 16 (10.81%) HAProxy
7 12 (8.11%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.73%) Packer
9 6 (4.05%) Puppet
9 6 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (3.38%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.70%) Istio
12 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (2.03%) Nagios
13 2 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (8.11%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.73%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.70%) IBM
4 4 (2.70%) VMware
5 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.03%) Cisco
5 3 (2.03%) Google
5 3 (2.03%) New Relic
5 3 (2.03%) Oracle
5 3 (2.03%) Splunk
6 2 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.35%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Black Duck