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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 210 383 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.15% 8.99% 12.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 10.59% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 169 210 461
10th Percentile £41,790 £42,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,814 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +3.70% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £87,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.24%

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 3,644 3,616 4,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.94% 84.88% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,484 1,838 3,145
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +2.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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
Bristol -19 58 £60,000 -11.11% 44
Gloucestershire -14 42 £65,000 - 48
Devon +12 29 £47,500 +9.22% 28
Dorset +4 25 £65,000 +19.40% 21
Somerset 0 24 £45,000 - 28
Wiltshire -24 13 £60,000 -7.16% 22
Cornwall -19 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 15
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 (2.38%) Apache
2 3 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.71%) Azure
2 76 (36.19%) AWS
3 63 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (16.19%) GitHub
5 23 (10.95%) Serverless
6 22 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.05%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.57%) SaaS
9 14 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.24%) GCP
10 11 (5.24%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.29%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.33%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.38%) AMQP
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) Internet
3 2 (0.95%) Network Security
3 2 (0.95%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.48%) VLAN
4 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.76%) Power BI
3 9 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.38%) CockroachDB
7 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.90%) Metadata
7 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.43%) Big Data
8 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.95%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.95%) MySQL
9 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) DB2
10 1 (0.48%) Power Query
10 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.10%) Cypress.io
3 15 (7.14%) Git
4 13 (6.19%) GitLab
5 12 (5.71%) Selenium
6 8 (3.81%) JIRA
7 6 (2.86%) JUnit
7 6 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.38%) Postman
8 5 (2.38%) TestNG
9 4 (1.90%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.43%) Balsamiq
10 3 (1.43%) Gatling
10 3 (1.43%) Gradle
10 3 (1.43%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.43%) Maven
10 3 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.43%) Subversion
10 3 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.29%) Finance
3 13 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.43%) Billing
6 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.43%) Military
7 2 (0.95%) Games
7 2 (0.95%) Law
7 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (19.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) Developer
3 26 (12.38%) Senior
4 19 (9.05%) Lead
5 18 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (7.62%) Architect
6 16 (7.62%) Consultant
7 15 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 13 (6.19%) Technical Consultant
10 11 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.24%) Tester
11 8 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Analyst
13 6 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.52%) .NET
2 19 (9.05%) React
2 19 (9.05%) Spring
3 16 (7.62%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.19%) Playwright
5 11 (5.24%) YAML
6 9 (4.29%) .NET Framework
6 9 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.81%) REST
7 8 (3.81%) RESTful
8 7 (3.33%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.33%) Blazor
8 7 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.38%) Kafka
9 5 (2.38%) Node.js
9 5 (2.38%) PySpark
9 5 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.38%) Universal Windows Platform
9 5 (2.38%) WinUI
9 5 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.43%) IoT
5 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.52%) Linux
2 11 (5.24%) Windows
3 6 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.38%) Debian
5 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.95%) CentOS
6 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.95%) Unix
7 1 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.48%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (46.19%) CI/CD
2 75 (35.71%) Agile
3 50 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (19.52%) Containerisation
5 40 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 34 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.71%) Test Automation
8 27 (12.86%) SDLC
9 25 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (11.43%) Microservices
11 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.48%) API Testing
12 22 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (10.00%) Scrum
14 20 (9.52%) Computer Science
14 20 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (9.05%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (9.05%) Software Testing
16 17 (8.10%) Manual Testing
16 17 (8.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 62 (29.52%) Python
2 43 (20.48%) Java
3 40 (19.05%) SQL
4 26 (12.38%) C#
5 25 (11.90%) Bash
5 25 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 21 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 21 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 20 (9.52%) Bicep
8 13 (6.19%) Go
9 6 (2.86%) C++
10 3 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.43%) VBScript
11 2 (0.95%) C
11 2 (0.95%) Elixir
11 2 (0.95%) Erlang
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.95%) Scala
11 2 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.29%) Degree
3 27 (12.86%) DV Cleared
4 24 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.10%) ISTQB
6 16 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.43%) CITP
9 3 (1.43%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.95%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CCNA
11 1 (0.48%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.48%) PMP
11 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.33%) QA
2 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.43%) PMO
5 2 (0.95%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) P3O
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (23.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) iptables
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 42 (20.00%) Terraform
3 20 (9.52%) Ansible
4 13 (6.19%) Grafana
5 10 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.90%) Argo
7 4 (1.90%) Puppet
8 3 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.43%) Kibana
8 3 (1.43%) Rancher
8 3 (1.43%) yum
9 1 (0.48%) Control-M
9 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.33%) Cisco
2 7 (3.33%) Oracle
2 7 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.86%) arcserve
3 6 (2.86%) Google
3 6 (2.86%) Splunk
3 6 (2.86%) Veeam
4 5 (2.38%) Databricks
4 5 (2.38%) Syncfusion
4 5 (2.38%) Telerik
5 4 (1.90%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.95%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.95%) Talend
8 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) Palantir
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow