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 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 150 109
Rank change year-on-year +13 -41 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 38 152 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 1.64% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.71% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 111 115
10th Percentile £51,800 £46,250 £34,686
25th Percentile £59,890 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.58% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74,477 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £91,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +3.45%

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 3,343 8,908 5,989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 96.24% 89.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,001 6,530 3,737
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,279 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,150
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 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
Bristol +1 17 £71,991 -5.59% 34
Gloucestershire +21 15 £63,750 -8.93% 23
Wiltshire +40 5 £64,627 +36.06% 1
Dorset +37 1 £100,000 +63.27%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, 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 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
4 15 (39.47%) Mentoring
4 15 (39.47%) Agile
4 15 (39.47%) Azure
5 14 (36.84%) Docker
6 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
7 12 (31.58%) Python
8 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
8 11 (28.95%) Coaching
8 11 (28.95%) Terraform
8 11 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (26.32%) IBM
10 9 (23.68%) AWS
10 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
11 8 (21.05%) Bash
12 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
12 6 (15.79%) DV Cleared
13 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
13 5 (13.16%) Finance
13 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
13 5 (13.16%) GitLab
13 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
13 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 4 (10.53%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (10.53%) Availability Management
14 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
14 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation

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 1 (2.63%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (23.68%) AWS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.89%) IaaS
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) GitLab
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
1 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.53%) Banking
2 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (10.53%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) NumPy
1 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.63%) Pandas
1 1 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) e-Learning
1 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 15 (39.47%) Mentoring
4 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 11 (28.95%) Coaching
6 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (10.53%) Availability Management
8 4 (10.53%) Capacity Management
8 4 (10.53%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (10.53%) GitOps
8 4 (10.53%) Migration
8 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Software Delivery
8 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.53%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Bash
2 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.53%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) DV Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) RHCSA
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.95%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) IBM
2 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft