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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 22 14
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 172 419 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.02% 7.10% 13.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 9.25% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 135 224 471
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,375 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and 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 3,326 4,532 4,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.73% 76.83% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,206 2,524 3,209
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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
Bristol -7 54 £60,000 -14.29% 76
Gloucestershire -18 34 £66,250 +1.92% 56
Somerset +4 21 £48,750 - 18
Devon +2 21 £51,250 +17.84% 9
Dorset -10 16 £55,000 +1.03% 16
Wiltshire -16 12 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Cornwall -15 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 24
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 5 (2.91%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.58%) Primavera
2 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (58.14%) Azure
2 70 (40.70%) AWS
3 51 (29.65%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (17.44%) GitHub
5 21 (12.21%) Serverless
6 17 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.72%) SaaS
8 12 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.23%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.65%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.07%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.07%) GCP
12 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.91%) PaaS
13 4 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) AMQP
1 5 (2.91%) Firewall
2 4 (2.33%) Internet
3 2 (1.16%) Network Security
3 2 (1.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) Intranet
4 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) VLAN
4 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.81%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.65%) Power BI
4 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.91%) MySQL
5 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.74%) Big Data
6 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.16%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.16%) Metadata
7 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.72%) Git
3 12 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.49%) GitLab
4 6 (3.49%) Selenium
5 5 (2.91%) JIRA
6 4 (2.33%) Postman
7 3 (1.74%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.74%) JUnit
7 3 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.16%) Mockito
8 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.16%) webpack
8 2 (1.16%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.58%) Gatling
9 1 (0.58%) Locust
9 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 33 (19.19%) Finance
2 31 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.49%) Law
6 5 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.33%) Military
8 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Games
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (18.02%) Developer
3 18 (10.47%) Senior
4 16 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (9.30%) Software Developer
5 14 (8.14%) Architect
6 13 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.40%) Lead
8 10 (5.81%) Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) Tester
10 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Applications Developer
11 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.28%) .NET
2 19 (11.05%) React
3 13 (7.56%) Spring
4 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
4 11 (6.40%) Spring Boot
4 11 (6.40%) YAML
5 10 (5.81%) .NET Framework
5 10 (5.81%) RESTful
6 9 (5.23%) .NET Core
6 9 (5.23%) Playwright
7 8 (4.65%) CSS
7 8 (4.65%) HTML
8 7 (4.07%) Kafka
9 6 (3.49%) Blazor
10 5 (2.91%) Universal Windows Platform
10 5 (2.91%) WinUI
10 5 (2.91%) WPF
11 4 (2.33%) Jest
11 4 (2.33%) Node.js
11 4 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.74%) IoT
5 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.16%) Wiki
7 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) NHS
7 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Linux
2 12 (6.98%) Windows
3 7 (4.07%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.91%) Debian
4 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.16%) CentOS
5 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.51%) CI/CD
2 63 (36.63%) Agile
3 44 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (21.51%) Containerisation
5 33 (19.19%) Software Engineering
6 31 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (12.79%) Microservices
8 21 (12.21%) Computer Science
9 20 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.05%) Mentoring
10 19 (11.05%) Scrum
11 17 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (9.88%) SDLC
11 17 (9.88%) User Experience
12 16 (9.30%) AI
12 16 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (8.72%) Clean Code
13 15 (8.72%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 48 (27.91%) Python
2 34 (19.77%) SQL
3 31 (18.02%) Java
4 26 (15.12%) C#
5 24 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 21 (12.21%) Bicep
6 21 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 20 (11.63%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.72%) Bash
9 9 (5.23%) Go
10 7 (4.07%) C++
11 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.74%) VBScript
12 2 (1.16%) C
12 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.58%) Delphi
13 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.02%) Degree
3 23 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.47%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.81%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.74%) CITP
9 3 (1.74%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.58%) CCNA
11 1 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PMP
11 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.74%) PMO
4 2 (1.16%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) P3O
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (26.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) iptables
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 34 (19.77%) Terraform
3 18 (10.47%) Ansible
4 6 (3.49%) Grafana
5 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
6 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.74%) Kibana
7 1 (0.58%) Argo
7 1 (0.58%) logstash
7 1 (0.58%) Rancher
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.65%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.07%) Cisco
4 6 (3.49%) arcserve
4 6 (3.49%) Veeam
5 5 (2.91%) Syncfusion
5 5 (2.91%) Telerik
6 4 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.74%) Databricks
7 3 (1.74%) Oracle
8 2 (1.16%) Google
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Talend
9 1 (0.58%) Zoho