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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 36 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 511 178 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.60% 5.12% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 6.15% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 356 117 344
10th Percentile £44,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £81,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.57% +3.70% -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 6,521 2,896 6,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.44% 83.29% 75.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 1,892 4,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,250 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -11.47% -0.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +3 211 £75,000 +15.38% 104
Bristol +7 153 £70,000 -12.50% 80
Wiltshire 0 40 £75,000 +9.45% 7
Somerset -2 39 £57,500 - 14
Devon -2 33 £60,000 +26.32% 7
Dorset +13 27 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Cornwall - 5 £47,000 - 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 (5.68%) Apache
2 17 (3.33%) Confluence
3 14 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.96%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) nginx
8 2 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Drupal
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.20%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 181 (35.42%) Azure
2 149 (29.16%) AWS
3 101 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (9.59%) GitHub
5 41 (8.02%) GCP
6 35 (6.85%) Serverless
7 23 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (4.50%) PaaS
8 20 (3.91%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.13%) IaaS
12 15 (2.94%) SaaS
13 14 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.54%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.54%) Network Security
1 13 (2.54%) VPN
2 10 (1.96%) Firewall
3 6 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.59%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.59%) TETRA
5 2 (0.39%) DNS
5 2 (0.39%) LAN
5 2 (0.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) RS-232
6 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.91%) MongoDB
2 18 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.74%) Big Data
4 14 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.35%) MySQL
7 10 (1.96%) Power BI
8 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.78%) Flink
10 4 (0.78%) Redis
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.59%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 61 (11.94%) Git
2 45 (8.81%) GitLab
3 43 (8.41%) JIRA
4 33 (6.46%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.35%) Selenium
7 11 (2.15%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.37%) MSI
9 7 (1.37%) Postman
9 7 (1.37%) Subversion
10 4 (0.78%) JMeter
10 4 (0.78%) JUnit
10 4 (0.78%) NUnit
11 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.59%) git-flow
11 3 (0.59%) Snyk
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 117 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 79 (15.46%) Finance
3 47 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.74%) Aerospace
6 14 (2.74%) Law
7 10 (1.96%) Automotive
7 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.17%) Military
9 4 (0.78%) Legal
10 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.39%) Electronics
11 2 (0.39%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (34.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (15.26%) Senior
3 67 (13.11%) Lead
4 46 (9.00%) Developer
5 45 (8.81%) Software Engineer
6 36 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (6.26%) Lead DevOps
9 29 (5.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 28 (5.48%) Architect
11 26 (5.09%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
12 25 (4.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.52%) Analyst
16 17 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.20%) .NET
2 31 (6.07%) Spring
2 31 (6.07%) Spring Boot
3 30 (5.87%) React
4 28 (5.48%) RESTful
5 23 (4.50%) Apache NiFi
6 22 (4.31%) AngularJS
7 21 (4.11%) Kafka
8 19 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.72%) Node.js
9 18 (3.52%) .NET Core
10 17 (3.33%) REST
11 16 (3.13%) Vue
12 13 (2.54%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.54%) Keycloak
13 12 (2.35%) CSS
13 12 (2.35%) Playwright
14 11 (2.15%) HTML
15 10 (1.96%) .NET Framework
15 10 (1.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.35%) Podcast
6 12 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.96%) Cyberattack
8 9 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.17%) Social Media
12 5 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.98%) iPhone
13 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.78%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.31%) Linux
2 37 (7.24%) Windows
3 17 (3.33%) Unix
4 14 (2.74%) VMS
5 11 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.17%) Android
7 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.39%) CentOS
9 2 (0.39%) Debian
10 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (45.60%) CI/CD
2 171 (33.46%) Agile
3 137 (26.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (21.33%) Software Engineering
5 104 (20.35%) Containerisation
6 98 (19.18%) AI
7 90 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (15.07%) Test Automation
10 72 (14.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 68 (13.31%) Mentoring
12 64 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
13 60 (11.74%) Observability
14 57 (11.15%) Scrum
15 56 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 53 (10.37%) DevSecOps
17 50 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 47 (9.20%) Analytics
19 45 (8.81%) Microservices
20 41 (8.02%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 143 (27.98%) Python
2 82 (16.05%) Java
3 71 (13.89%) SQL
4 63 (12.33%) Bash
5 59 (11.55%) JavaScript
6 44 (8.61%) C#
7 29 (5.68%) Go
7 29 (5.68%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.09%) C++
9 25 (4.89%) Bicep
10 23 (4.50%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (2.15%) Rust
13 8 (1.57%) Groovy
13 8 (1.57%) PHP
13 8 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.17%) Scala
15 5 (0.98%) C
16 3 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 235 (45.99%) Security Cleared
2 125 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 112 (21.92%) DV Cleared
4 36 (7.05%) Degree
5 26 (5.09%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.59%) OCP
11 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.39%) CSPO
12 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.98%) QA
2 44 (8.61%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.74%) WCAG
4 13 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.54%) NIST
5 11 (2.15%) NCSC
6 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.17%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (0.59%) GDPR
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) IFRS
8 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.39%) SLA
8 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 108 (21.14%) Docker
2 37 (7.24%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.35%) vSphere
5 5 (0.98%) Firmware
6 4 (0.78%) Ceph
6 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.78%) NDS
7 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.20%) iptables
7 1 (0.20%) KVM
7 1 (0.20%) QEMU
7 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 145 (28.38%) Terraform
2 114 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 85 (16.63%) Ansible
4 28 (5.48%) Grafana
5 24 (4.70%) Puppet
6 23 (4.50%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.76%) Argo
8 8 (1.57%) Kibana
8 8 (1.57%) logstash
9 7 (1.37%) Rancher
10 5 (0.98%) yum
11 4 (0.78%) Check_MK
11 4 (0.78%) Istio
11 4 (0.78%) Podman
12 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.59%) VxRail
13 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.39%) Packer
13 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 75 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.31%) Red Hat
3 20 (3.91%) VMware
4 12 (2.35%) Google
4 12 (2.35%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (1.76%) Atlassian
6 5 (0.98%) Dell
6 5 (0.98%) Oracle
7 4 (0.78%) Cisco
7 4 (0.78%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.78%) ForgeRock
7 4 (0.78%) NetIQ
7 4 (0.78%) Okta
7 4 (0.78%) OneLogin
7 4 (0.78%) OpenText
8 3 (0.59%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.59%) Databricks
9 2 (0.39%) arcserve
9 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.39%) Veeam