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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 280 417 739
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.66% 12.36% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 13.92% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 209 217 585
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,608 £36,365
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,060 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.91%

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 4,273 2,995 5,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.17% 88.77% 87.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,893 1,476 4,604
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,813 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -17 75 £65,000 -9.71% 40
Gloucestershire -13 65 £65,000 - 27
Devon +20 41 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Wiltshire -25 27 £62,500 -3.29% 10
Dorset -6 26 £70,000 +28.58% 4
Somerset -13 22 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Cornwall -11 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 26
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 8 (2.86%) Apache
2 4 (1.43%) CMS
2 4 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.36%) Primavera
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 138 (49.29%) Azure
2 91 (32.50%) AWS
3 72 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (13.21%) GitHub
5 27 (9.64%) GCP
5 27 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (9.29%) Serverless
7 18 (6.43%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.36%) SaaS
9 11 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.21%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.14%) Datadog
14 6 (2.14%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) Firewall
1 4 (1.43%) Internet
1 4 (1.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) AMQP
3 1 (0.36%) Broadband
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.21%) Power BI
3 8 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.79%) Big Data
5 5 (1.79%) CockroachDB
5 5 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.43%) Metadata
6 4 (1.43%) MySQL
7 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.36%) Parquet
9 1 (0.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.21%) Cypress.io
3 19 (6.79%) GitLab
4 18 (6.43%) Git
5 15 (5.36%) Selenium
6 11 (3.93%) JIRA
7 7 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.14%) JUnit
8 6 (2.14%) Maven
8 6 (2.14%) Subversion
9 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.79%) Gradle
9 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.79%) TestNG
10 4 (1.43%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.07%) Balsamiq
11 3 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.71%) Mockito
12 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.57%) Finance
3 17 (6.07%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.43%) Law
7 3 (1.07%) Billing
7 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.07%) Military
8 2 (0.71%) Games
8 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.36%) Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.36%) Legal
9 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (17.86%) Senior
3 38 (13.57%) Developer
4 36 (12.86%) Lead
5 29 (10.36%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.14%) Architect
6 20 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (6.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 16 (5.71%) Consultant
9 15 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Technical Consultant
11 12 (4.29%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.29%) Tester
12 10 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.57%) QA Leader
12 10 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.00%) Spring
2 27 (9.64%) React
3 24 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 20 (7.14%) .NET
4 20 (7.14%) Playwright
5 13 (4.64%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.64%) RESTful
6 11 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.93%) Vue
6 11 (3.93%) YAML
7 10 (3.57%) .NET Framework
7 10 (3.57%) Node.js
8 9 (3.21%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (2.86%) REST
10 7 (2.50%) PySpark
11 6 (2.14%) Blazor
12 5 (1.79%) CSS
12 5 (1.79%) HTML
12 5 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.07%) IoT
5 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.36%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.64%) Linux
2 13 (4.64%) Windows
3 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (43.21%) CI/CD
2 99 (35.36%) Agile
3 67 (23.93%) Software Engineering
4 62 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (18.57%) Containerisation
7 50 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 42 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (13.21%) SDLC
11 31 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (10.71%) API Testing
13 29 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (10.00%) Microservices
15 27 (9.64%) Collaborative Culture
15 27 (9.64%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.93%) AI
16 25 (8.93%) Manual Testing
16 25 (8.93%) Scrum
17 22 (7.86%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.14%) Python
2 62 (22.14%) Java
3 39 (13.93%) Bash
3 39 (13.93%) SQL
4 30 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 29 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 26 (9.29%) C#
8 17 (6.07%) Bicep
9 16 (5.71%) Go
10 9 (3.21%) C++
11 3 (1.07%) Elixir
11 3 (1.07%) Erlang
11 3 (1.07%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.07%) VBScript
12 2 (0.71%) C
12 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.71%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) VB
13 1 (0.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 76 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 34 (12.14%) Degree
4 23 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (6.07%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.43%) BC Cleared
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.07%) CITP
11 3 (1.07%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CCNA
13 1 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.36%) QA
2 17 (6.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.07%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) P3O
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (20.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.07%) iptables
2 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 49 (17.50%) Terraform
3 25 (8.93%) Ansible
4 23 (8.21%) Grafana
5 14 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.50%) Argo
7 6 (2.14%) Kibana
7 6 (2.14%) Puppet
7 6 (2.14%) Rancher
7 6 (2.14%) yum
8 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.07%) logstash
9 3 (1.07%) VxRail
10 1 (0.36%) Control-M
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.36%) Podman
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.21%) Google
3 8 (2.86%) Oracle
4 7 (2.50%) Cisco
4 7 (2.50%) Splunk
5 6 (2.14%) arcserve
5 6 (2.14%) Databricks
5 6 (2.14%) Veeam
6 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.43%) Syncfusion
6 4 (1.43%) Telerik
6 4 (1.43%) VMware
7 3 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.71%) Dell
8 2 (0.71%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.71%) Thales