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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 48 30
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 520 154 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.47% 4.43% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.70% 5.38% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 358 110 319
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,450 £44,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £50,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,241 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £70,298 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.71% +4.15% -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 6,751 2,864 5,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.00% 82.30% 75.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 1,862 3,865
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +11 222 £75,000 +15.38% 112
Bristol +13 152 £72,500 -8.70% 91
Wiltshire +7 43 £75,000 +28.49% 16
Somerset 0 40 £57,500 -23.33% 16
Devon -2 29 £62,500 +31.58% 19
Dorset +10 28 £75,000 +15.38% 12
Cornwall +8 4 £49,623 - 1
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 29 (5.58%) Apache
2 17 (3.27%) Confluence
3 14 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.12%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.58%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 174 (33.46%) Azure
2 151 (29.04%) AWS
3 95 (18.27%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (9.23%) GitHub
5 40 (7.69%) GCP
6 35 (6.73%) Serverless
7 23 (4.42%) PaaS
8 22 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (4.23%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.27%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.08%) IaaS
12 14 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.69%) SaaS
13 13 (2.50%) Azure Functions
13 13 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.50%) Network Security
1 13 (2.50%) VPN
2 10 (1.92%) Firewall
3 6 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.58%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.58%) TETRA
5 2 (0.38%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) LAN
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) MQTT
6 1 (0.19%) RS-232
6 1 (0.19%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 19 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.69%) Big Data
5 14 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.31%) MySQL
8 10 (1.92%) Power BI
9 9 (1.73%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.73%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.77%) Flink
11 4 (0.77%) Redis
12 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.58%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (11.92%) Git
2 46 (8.85%) GitLab
3 43 (8.27%) JIRA
4 33 (6.35%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 10 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.73%) Selenium
8 8 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.54%) Subversion
9 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.35%) MSI
9 7 (1.35%) Postman
10 4 (0.77%) JMeter
10 4 (0.77%) JUnit
10 4 (0.77%) NUnit
11 3 (0.58%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.58%) git-flow
11 3 (0.58%) Snyk
11 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 116 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.38%) Finance
3 47 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.69%) Law
8 10 (1.92%) Automotive
8 10 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.35%) Military
10 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.77%) Legal
11 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.38%) Electronics
12 2 (0.38%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (35.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (15.19%) Senior
3 65 (12.50%) Lead
4 46 (8.85%) Developer
4 46 (8.85%) Software Engineer
5 40 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
7 33 (6.35%) Lead DevOps
8 30 (5.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 29 (5.58%) Architect
9 29 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
10 27 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.27%) Analyst
12 17 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (2.88%) Software Developer
13 15 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (28.85%) Terraform
2 45 (8.65%) .NET
3 34 (6.54%) Spring
3 34 (6.54%) Spring Boot
4 29 (5.58%) React
5 28 (5.38%) RESTful
6 23 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
7 22 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 22 (4.23%) Kafka
8 20 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (3.85%) Node.js
9 17 (3.27%) REST
10 16 (3.08%) .NET Core
10 16 (3.08%) Vue
11 14 (2.69%) Keycloak
12 13 (2.50%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.31%) CSS
14 11 (2.12%) HTML
15 10 (1.92%) Blazor
15 10 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 83 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.31%) Podcast
6 12 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.92%) Cyberattack
8 9 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.15%) Social Media
11 5 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.96%) iPhone
12 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.77%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 72 (13.85%) Linux
2 37 (7.12%) Windows
3 18 (3.46%) Unix
4 14 (2.69%) VMS
5 11 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.15%) Android
7 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.38%) CentOS
9 2 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (45.38%) CI/CD
2 175 (33.65%) Agile
3 142 (27.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (20.58%) Software Engineering
5 106 (20.38%) Containerisation
6 100 (19.23%) AI
7 92 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (14.62%) Test Automation
10 73 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 67 (12.88%) Mentoring
11 67 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
12 61 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (11.73%) Scrum
13 60 (11.54%) Observability
14 53 (10.19%) DevSecOps
15 50 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
16 48 (9.23%) Microservices
17 47 (9.04%) Analytics
18 41 (7.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 147 (28.27%) Python
2 86 (16.54%) Java
3 68 (13.08%) SQL
4 67 (12.88%) Bash
5 58 (11.15%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.88%) C#
7 32 (6.15%) Go
8 29 (5.58%) PowerShell
9 26 (5.00%) C++
10 25 (4.81%) Bicep
11 20 (3.85%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (2.31%) Rust
14 8 (1.54%) Groovy
14 8 (1.54%) PHP
14 8 (1.54%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.15%) Scala
16 5 (0.96%) C
17 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (46.73%) Security Cleared
2 132 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 114 (21.92%) DV Cleared
4 34 (6.54%) Degree
5 27 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.31%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.58%) OCP
11 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.38%) CSPO
12 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (9.23%) QA
2 42 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.69%) WCAG
4 13 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.50%) NIST
5 11 (2.12%) NCSC
6 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (0.58%) GDPR
7 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
8 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 111 (21.35%) Docker
2 37 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.31%) vSphere
5 5 (0.96%) Firmware
6 4 (0.77%) Ceph
6 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.77%) NDS
7 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.19%) iptables
7 1 (0.19%) KVM
7 1 (0.19%) QEMU
7 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 121 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 87 (16.73%) Ansible
3 29 (5.58%) Grafana
4 26 (5.00%) Puppet
5 24 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.92%) Argo
7 8 (1.54%) Kibana
7 8 (1.54%) logstash
7 8 (1.54%) Rancher
8 6 (1.15%) yum
9 4 (0.77%) Check_MK
9 4 (0.77%) Istio
9 4 (0.77%) Podman
10 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.58%) VxRail
11 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.38%) Packer
11 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 75 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.23%) Red Hat
3 21 (4.04%) VMware
4 12 (2.31%) ScienceLogic
5 10 (1.92%) Google
6 9 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 5 (0.96%) Dell
7 5 (0.96%) Oracle
8 4 (0.77%) Cisco
8 4 (0.77%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.77%) NetIQ
8 4 (0.77%) Okta
8 4 (0.77%) OneLogin
8 4 (0.77%) OpenText
9 3 (0.58%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.58%) Databricks
9 3 (0.58%) YouTube
10 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.38%) Veeam