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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 438 230 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.19% 6.83% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 8.07% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 322 137 505
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,600 £36,365
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.75% +5.56% -3.57%

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 6,023 2,851 7,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.40% 84.62% 77.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 1,857 5,072
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,305
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £72,875 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -2 161 £75,000 +15.38% 47
Bristol -5 136 £75,000 -6.25% 42
Wiltshire -8 38 £75,000 +16.71% 7
Devon +3 35 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Somerset -13 34 £57,500 - 15
Dorset +8 24 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Cornwall - 6 £49,623 -
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 22 (5.02%) Apache
2 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 169 (38.58%) Azure
2 120 (27.40%) AWS
3 98 (22.37%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (10.27%) GitHub
5 43 (9.82%) GCP
6 35 (7.99%) Serverless
7 19 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (4.11%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.11%) PaaS
9 17 (3.88%) IaaS
10 16 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.20%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.97%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.74%) SaaS
14 11 (2.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.97%) Network Security
1 13 (2.97%) VPN
2 8 (1.83%) Firewall
3 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) RS-232
5 1 (0.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.79%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.74%) MySQL
6 12 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.05%) Power BI
9 7 (1.60%) Big Data
10 5 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.91%) Flink
11 4 (0.91%) Redis
12 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.46%) Metadata
13 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (11.19%) Git
2 39 (8.90%) GitLab
3 34 (7.76%) JIRA
4 28 (6.39%) Jenkins
5 17 (3.88%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.97%) Selenium
7 8 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.60%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.37%) Subversion
10 5 (1.14%) MSI
11 4 (0.91%) JMeter
11 4 (0.91%) Postman
12 3 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.46%) MLflow
13 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 98 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.93%) Finance
3 37 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.97%) Law
7 10 (2.28%) Automotive
7 10 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.46%) Electronics
9 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 131 (29.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (16.21%) Senior
3 57 (13.01%) Lead
4 47 (10.73%) Software Engineer
5 45 (10.27%) Developer
6 34 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.39%) Architect
7 28 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (5.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (4.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 18 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.88%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.42%) Analyst
17 14 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.22%) .NET
2 26 (5.94%) React
2 26 (5.94%) Spring
3 25 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 23 (5.25%) RESTful
5 20 (4.57%) Apache NiFi
6 17 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (3.88%) Playwright
6 17 (3.88%) Vue
7 16 (3.65%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.65%) Kafka
8 15 (3.42%) REST
9 13 (2.97%) .NET Core
10 12 (2.74%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.74%) Node.js
11 10 (2.28%) Blazor
11 10 (2.28%) CSS
11 10 (2.28%) Keycloak
12 9 (2.05%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (2.05%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.65%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.74%) Podcast
4 12 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.28%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.14%) iPhone
10 4 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.91%) PropTech
11 3 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.68%) IoT
11 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 60 (13.70%) Linux
2 37 (8.45%) Windows
3 15 (3.42%) Unix
4 14 (3.20%) VMS
5 10 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.14%) Android
8 3 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (41.55%) CI/CD
2 135 (30.82%) Agile
3 105 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (23.52%) Software Engineering
5 84 (19.18%) AI
6 76 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 69 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (14.61%) Test Automation
10 63 (14.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 60 (13.70%) Mentoring
12 54 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
13 51 (11.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 50 (11.42%) Scrum
15 46 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 44 (10.05%) DevSecOps
17 41 (9.36%) Analytics
17 41 (9.36%) Observability
18 38 (8.68%) Microservices
19 33 (7.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (25.11%) Python
2 69 (15.75%) Java
3 59 (13.47%) SQL
4 55 (12.56%) Bash
5 45 (10.27%) JavaScript
6 34 (7.76%) C#
7 29 (6.62%) PowerShell
8 23 (5.25%) Bicep
9 22 (5.02%) C++
9 22 (5.02%) Go
10 21 (4.79%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (2.05%) PHP
13 7 (1.60%) Rust
14 6 (1.37%) Groovy
14 6 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.14%) C
16 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Ruby
17 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 170 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 79 (18.04%) DV Cleared
3 78 (17.81%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.16%) Degree
5 23 (5.25%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) CSPO
11 2 (0.46%) HND
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.46%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.23%) CCNA
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.87%) QA
2 29 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.51%) WCAG
4 10 (2.28%) NIST
5 8 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.37%) NCSC
6 6 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) IFRS
8 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.23%) DO-178B
System Software
1 83 (18.95%) Docker
2 28 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.74%) vSphere
5 7 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.68%) iptables
7 3 (0.68%) NDS
8 1 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) QEMU
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 115 (26.26%) Terraform
2 87 (19.86%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.38%) Ansible
4 30 (6.85%) Grafana
5 24 (5.48%) Puppet
6 18 (4.11%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.05%) Kibana
8 8 (1.83%) logstash
8 8 (1.83%) Rancher
9 6 (1.37%) Argo
9 6 (1.37%) VxRail
9 6 (1.37%) yum
10 4 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.46%) Packer
12 1 (0.23%) Consul
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 72 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.57%) VMware
3 14 (3.20%) Google
4 13 (2.97%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.74%) ScienceLogic
6 6 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.91%) Databricks
8 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.68%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.68%) Dell
8 3 (0.68%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.68%) NetIQ
8 3 (0.68%) Okta
8 3 (0.68%) OneLogin
8 3 (0.68%) OpenText
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle
8 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco
9 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.46%) Thales