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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 352 258 766
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.61% 9.47% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 10.40% 9.90%
Number of salaries quoted 256 162 587
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £93,125 £98,376 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,628 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.20% -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 5,289 2,480 7,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.25% 91.04% 80.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 1,507 5,777
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,688 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -5.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,319 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -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 2 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 2 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 -6 116 £70,000 +7.69% 46
Bristol -11 111 £73,750 +1.72% 52
Wiltshire -20 35 £75,000 +16.05% 7
Devon -7 34 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Dorset +3 25 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Somerset -21 15 £43,750 -35.19% 13
Cornwall - 7 £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 17 (4.83%) Apache
2 7 (1.99%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
4 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.57%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Drupal
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.28%) Sketch
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (37.50%) Azure
2 99 (28.13%) AWS
3 69 (19.60%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (12.50%) GCP
5 33 (9.38%) GitHub
6 27 (7.67%) Serverless
7 23 (6.53%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.69%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.84%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.84%) SaaS
11 10 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.70%) Datadog
14 5 (1.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.69%) Network Security
2 6 (1.70%) Firewall
3 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) Internet
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) RS-232
5 1 (0.28%) RS-485
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.98%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.69%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.56%) Power BI
5 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.27%) MySQL
7 7 (1.99%) Big Data
8 5 (1.42%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.14%) Metadata
10 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.57%) Flink
11 2 (0.57%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) DB2
Development Applications
1 37 (10.51%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.24%) GitLab
3 27 (7.67%) JIRA
4 25 (7.10%) Git
5 20 (5.68%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.55%) Selenium
7 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.99%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.70%) JUnit
9 6 (1.70%) Maven
9 6 (1.70%) Subversion
10 5 (1.42%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.42%) Gradle
10 5 (1.42%) TestNG
11 4 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.85%) Mockito
12 3 (0.85%) Postman
12 3 (0.85%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.34%) Finance
3 21 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.84%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.84%) Automotive
7 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.57%) Billing
9 2 (0.57%) Electronics
9 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (25.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (16.48%) Senior
3 53 (15.06%) Lead
4 46 (13.07%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.23%) Developer
6 30 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.82%) Architect
9 23 (6.53%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (5.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (5.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.69%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.69%) QA Leader
15 12 (3.41%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.39%) React
2 23 (6.53%) Spring
3 20 (5.68%) Playwright
3 20 (5.68%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.11%) Vue
5 17 (4.83%) .NET
6 16 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (4.26%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (4.26%) RESTful
8 14 (3.98%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.69%) Node.js
9 13 (3.69%) REST
10 9 (2.56%) Kafka
11 8 (2.27%) ASP.NET
11 8 (2.27%) Blazor
12 7 (1.99%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.70%) CSS
13 6 (1.70%) Keycloak
13 6 (1.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.84%) Cyberattack
3 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (1.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.85%) IoT
4 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.57%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
5 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.28%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.19%) Linux
2 20 (5.68%) Windows
3 15 (4.26%) Unix
4 10 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (41.48%) CI/CD
2 99 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 92 (26.14%) Agile
4 65 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (17.61%) Test Automation
6 59 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (16.19%) Mentoring
8 51 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (14.20%) Containerisation
10 48 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 46 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (12.22%) AI
14 40 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (11.36%) SDLC
15 30 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (7.95%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (7.39%) Analytics
18 24 (6.82%) DevSecOps
19 23 (6.53%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 96 (27.27%) Python
2 69 (19.60%) Java
3 45 (12.78%) Bash
4 40 (11.36%) SQL
5 33 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.82%) C#
7 23 (6.53%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.68%) C++
8 20 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.98%) Go
10 7 (1.99%) PHP
11 6 (1.70%) C
12 5 (1.42%) Bicep
12 5 (1.42%) Rust
13 4 (1.14%) Groovy
14 3 (0.85%) Elixir
14 3 (0.85%) Erlang
14 3 (0.85%) Scala
14 3 (0.85%) VB
15 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.90%) DV Cleared
3 38 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.82%) Degree
5 7 (1.99%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.85%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) HND
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CCNA
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.35%) QA
2 23 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.84%) NIST
4 8 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) GDPR
5 3 (0.85%) 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 (0.28%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (18.75%) Docker
2 13 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.70%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.42%) Firmware
5 4 (1.14%) iptables
5 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (24.15%) Terraform
2 69 (19.60%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.64%) Ansible
4 34 (9.66%) Grafana
5 23 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.25%) Puppet
7 7 (1.99%) Argo
7 7 (1.99%) Kibana
7 7 (1.99%) Rancher
8 6 (1.70%) logstash
8 6 (1.70%) yum
9 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.42%) VxRail
10 2 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 40 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.98%) Red Hat
3 13 (3.69%) Google
4 8 (2.27%) Oracle
5 7 (1.99%) Databricks
5 7 (1.99%) VMware
6 5 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.42%) Splunk
7 3 (0.85%) Dell
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco
8 2 (0.57%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.57%) Thales
9 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.28%) Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.28%) Talend