DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 126 100
Rank change year-on-year -6 -26 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 45 63 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.89% 1.52% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.62% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 41 56 105
10th Percentile £52,000 £37,202 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,813 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,745 3,881 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 93.59% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 2,088 3,513
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,886
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.19% +1.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Bristol -6 13 £83,750 +13.56% 10
Gloucestershire +15 10 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Dorset +10 10 £57,500 -25.81% 2
Devon +2 8 £55,000 -6.38% 5
Wiltshire +9 2 £80,000 +23.79% 2
Somerset - 2 £55,000 - 6
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
3 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
5 13 (28.89%) Azure
6 12 (26.67%) AWS
6 12 (26.67%) Docker
6 12 (26.67%) Terraform
7 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
7 10 (22.22%) Python
8 9 (20.00%) Agile
8 9 (20.00%) Bash
9 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.56%) Linux
9 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
10 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (13.33%) Bicep
10 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
10 6 (13.33%) Scrum
11 5 (11.11%) Ansible
11 5 (11.11%) Java
11 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
11 5 (11.11%) SaaS
11 5 (11.11%) Windows
12 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
12 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
12 4 (8.89%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.11%) SaaS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub
5 4 (8.89%) Serverless
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.44%) CloudFront
7 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) AMQP
1 2 (4.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.89%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) Subversion
4 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (15.56%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.44%) J2EE
1 2 (4.44%) Kafka
1 2 (4.44%) Spring
1 2 (4.44%) YAML
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Debian
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
3 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (20.00%) Agile
5 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Scrum
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (6.67%) E-Commerce
9 3 (6.67%) Kanban
9 3 (6.67%) SDLC
9 3 (6.67%) Validation
10 2 (4.44%) DevSecOps
10 2 (4.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 2 (4.44%) Microservices
10 2 (4.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) Bash
3 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.33%) Bicep
5 5 (11.11%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) Go
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
8 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) iptables
3 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (26.67%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (8.89%) Puppet
5 3 (6.67%) Argo
5 3 (6.67%) Rancher
5 3 (6.67%) yum
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
6 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat