DevOps Job Trends in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 349 259 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.55% 9.22% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 10.26% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 252 161 582
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year - +7.00% -2.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £96,125 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,755 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +10.39% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,327 2,525 7,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.46% 89.92% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 1,555 5,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the South West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Gloucestershire -4 119 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Bristol -14 110 £72,500 - 35
Devon +1 34 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Wiltshire -15 34 £75,000 +16.05% 6
Dorset +5 21 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Somerset -25 15 £43,750 -35.19% 18
Cornwall - 7 £49,623 - 2
DevOps
England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.87%) Apache
2 7 (2.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.57%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) Sketch
4 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (37.54%) Azure
2 99 (28.37%) AWS
3 70 (20.06%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (12.32%) GCP
5 34 (9.74%) GitHub
6 29 (8.31%) Serverless
7 23 (6.59%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.72%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.15%) Power Platform
13 10 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.87%) SaaS
13 10 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.72%) Azure Functions
16 5 (1.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.72%) Network Security
2 6 (1.72%) Firewall
3 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) LAN
5 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Broadband
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) RS-232
6 1 (0.29%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.72%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.87%) Power BI
5 9 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.29%) MySQL
7 7 (2.01%) Big Data
8 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.15%) Metadata
10 3 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.86%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.57%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.57%) Flink
11 2 (0.57%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 33 (9.46%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.45%) GitLab
3 25 (7.16%) Git
3 25 (7.16%) JIRA
4 20 (5.73%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.58%) Selenium
6 8 (2.29%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.72%) Subversion
9 5 (1.43%) Maven
10 4 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.15%) Gradle
11 3 (0.86%) JUnit
11 3 (0.86%) Mockito
12 2 (0.57%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.57%) JMeter
12 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.57%) TestNG
12 2 (0.57%) TestRail
General
1 69 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.47%) Finance
3 22 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.01%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.87%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.87%) Automotive
7 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (0.57%) Billing
8 2 (0.57%) Electronics
8 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 89 (25.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (16.05%) Senior
3 52 (14.90%) Lead
4 47 (13.47%) Software Engineer
5 35 (10.03%) Developer
6 30 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.88%) Architect
9 21 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (5.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 18 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.72%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.72%) QA Leader
15 12 (3.44%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.45%) React
2 22 (6.30%) Spring
3 20 (5.73%) Playwright
4 19 (5.44%) Spring Boot
5 18 (5.16%) Vue
6 17 (4.87%) .NET
7 15 (4.30%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (4.30%) RESTful
8 14 (4.01%) AngularJS
8 14 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (3.72%) Node.js
10 12 (3.44%) REST
11 8 (2.29%) ASP.NET
11 8 (2.29%) Blazor
11 8 (2.29%) Kafka
12 7 (2.01%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.72%) CSS
13 6 (1.72%) Keycloak
13 6 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.87%) Cyberattack
3 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.86%) IoT
6 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.57%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.57%) Podcast
7 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.05%) Linux
2 22 (6.30%) Windows
3 15 (4.30%) Unix
4 10 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (41.55%) CI/CD
2 100 (28.65%) Software Engineering
3 92 (26.36%) Agile
4 66 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (17.19%) Test Automation
6 58 (16.62%) Mentoring
7 51 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (14.04%) Containerisation
8 49 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 47 (13.47%) Platform Engineering
10 46 (13.18%) AI
11 44 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (11.17%) SDLC
14 30 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (8.02%) Analytics
15 28 (8.02%) Collaborative Culture
16 26 (7.45%) DevSecOps
17 24 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (26.65%) Python
2 66 (18.91%) Java
3 46 (13.18%) Bash
4 40 (11.46%) SQL
5 31 (8.88%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.30%) C#
8 21 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 20 (5.73%) C++
10 14 (4.01%) Go
11 7 (2.01%) Bicep
11 7 (2.01%) PHP
12 6 (1.72%) C
13 5 (1.43%) Rust
14 4 (1.15%) Groovy
15 3 (0.86%) Elixir
15 3 (0.86%) Erlang
15 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.86%) Scala
15 3 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.05%) DV Cleared
3 38 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.88%) Degree
5 7 (2.01%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.57%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) HND
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCNA
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.18%) QA
2 23 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.87%) NIST
4 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) GDPR
5 3 (0.86%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.57%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (18.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.43%) Firmware
5 4 (1.15%) iptables
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.57%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) QEMU
7 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (24.64%) Terraform
2 67 (19.20%) Kubernetes
3 47 (13.47%) Ansible
4 33 (9.46%) Grafana
5 23 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.30%) Puppet
7 7 (2.01%) Argo
7 7 (2.01%) Kibana
7 7 (2.01%) Rancher
8 6 (1.72%) logstash
8 6 (1.72%) yum
9 5 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.43%) VxRail
10 2 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Consul
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.01%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.44%) Google
4 9 (2.58%) VMware
5 7 (2.01%) Databricks
6 5 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (1.43%) Oracle
6 5 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.86%) Dell
7 3 (0.86%) Splunk
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco
8 2 (0.57%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
8 2 (0.57%) Thales
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe
9 1 (0.29%) BMC
9 1 (0.29%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Juniper