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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 46 28
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 550 144 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.28% 4.10% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 4.99% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 372 104 271
10th Percentile £45,075 £42,150 £42,608
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £89,063 £75,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +2.84% +1.00% -0.99%

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 7,418 2,887 5,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.23% 82.23% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,039 1,798 3,112
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £31,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +12 245 £85,000 +30.77% 71
Bristol +15 160 £72,500 +16.00% 68
Wiltshire +8 47 £75,000 +25.00% 37
Somerset -5 38 £57,500 +27.78% 40
Devon -11 32 £63,813 +27.63% 17
Dorset +11 24 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Cornwall +3 1 £52,246 - 3
Avon - 1 £47,500 - 28
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 28 (5.09%) Apache
2 17 (3.09%) Confluence
3 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.00%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (34.73%) Azure
2 161 (29.27%) AWS
3 92 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.36%) GitHub
5 42 (7.64%) GCP
6 33 (6.00%) Serverless
7 24 (4.36%) OpenShift
8 23 (4.18%) PaaS
9 20 (3.64%) Entra ID
10 19 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (2.91%) IaaS
13 14 (2.55%) Azure Functions
13 14 (2.55%) Power Platform
13 14 (2.55%) SaaS
14 12 (2.18%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.36%) VPN
2 11 (2.00%) Firewall
3 9 (1.64%) Network Security
4 5 (0.91%) Internet
4 5 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.55%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.55%) TETRA
6 2 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) LAN
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) RS-232
7 1 (0.18%) RS-485
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 19 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.55%) Big Data
5 13 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.18%) Power BI
7 11 (2.00%) MySQL
8 10 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.64%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.73%) Flink
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
13 3 (0.55%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 75 (13.64%) Git
2 53 (9.64%) GitLab
3 41 (7.45%) JIRA
4 40 (7.27%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.18%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.00%) Subversion
7 9 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.27%) MSI
9 7 (1.27%) Selenium
10 6 (1.09%) Postman
11 4 (0.73%) NUnit
12 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.55%) git-flow
12 3 (0.55%) JUnit
12 3 (0.55%) Snyk
12 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
General
1 118 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 86 (15.64%) Finance
3 54 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.55%) Law
8 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.45%) Military
10 6 (1.09%) Automotive
11 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.36%) Electronics
14 2 (0.36%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 205 (37.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (16.55%) Senior
3 63 (11.45%) Lead
4 46 (8.36%) Software Engineer
5 45 (8.18%) Developer
6 44 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (6.18%) Lead DevOps
7 34 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
7 34 (6.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 32 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (5.64%) Data Engineer
9 31 (5.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.27%) Architect
11 26 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.27%) Analyst
13 18 (3.27%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 18 (3.27%) Security Engineer
14 17 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (2.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (28.36%) Terraform
2 46 (8.36%) .NET
3 36 (6.55%) Spring
3 36 (6.55%) Spring Boot
4 33 (6.00%) RESTful
5 30 (5.45%) React
6 23 (4.18%) AngularJS
6 23 (4.18%) Kafka
7 22 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
7 22 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (3.82%) Node.js
9 18 (3.27%) Keycloak
9 18 (3.27%) REST
10 17 (3.09%) Vue
11 16 (2.91%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.18%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.82%) CSS
14 9 (1.64%) Blazor
14 9 (1.64%) HTML
14 9 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.18%) Podcast
6 12 (2.18%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.27%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.09%) Social Media
12 5 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.91%) iPhone
12 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.73%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.45%) Linux
2 33 (6.00%) Windows
3 19 (3.45%) Unix
4 13 (2.36%) VMS
5 11 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.09%) Android
7 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.27%) CI/CD
2 187 (34.00%) Agile
3 156 (28.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (21.82%) Containerisation
5 105 (19.09%) AI
6 102 (18.55%) Software Engineering
7 99 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (14.36%) Test Automation
10 78 (14.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 70 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 69 (12.55%) Mentoring
13 68 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
14 63 (11.45%) Scrum
15 60 (10.91%) DevSecOps
16 59 (10.73%) Observability
17 58 (10.55%) Microservices
18 53 (9.64%) Analytics
19 52 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
20 47 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (29.45%) Python
2 97 (17.64%) Java
3 70 (12.73%) Bash
3 70 (12.73%) SQL
4 61 (11.09%) JavaScript
5 43 (7.82%) C#
6 40 (7.27%) Go
7 31 (5.64%) C++
8 27 (4.91%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.36%) Bicep
10 21 (3.82%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (2.36%) Rust
12 8 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.27%) Scala
14 6 (1.09%) Groovy
15 4 (0.73%) PHP
16 3 (0.55%) C
16 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (47.45%) Security Cleared
2 145 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 122 (22.18%) DV Cleared
4 35 (6.36%) Degree
5 30 (5.45%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.55%) OCP
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.36%) HND
12 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.36%) PMP
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.18%) QA
2 40 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.55%) WCAG
4 13 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.82%) NCSC
5 10 (1.82%) NIST
6 6 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
7 5 (0.91%) GDPR
8 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) IFRS
9 2 (0.36%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 118 (21.45%) Docker
2 36 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.18%) vSphere
5 8 (1.45%) NDS
6 4 (0.73%) Ceph
7 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) QEMU
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 92 (16.73%) Ansible
3 28 (5.09%) Grafana
4 26 (4.73%) Puppet
5 22 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.18%) Argo
7 11 (2.00%) Rancher
8 9 (1.64%) Kibana
8 9 (1.64%) logstash
9 8 (1.45%) yum
10 4 (0.73%) Check_MK
10 4 (0.73%) Istio
10 4 (0.73%) Podman
11 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.55%) VxRail
12 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 86 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.00%) VMware
3 20 (3.64%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.18%) Google
4 12 (2.18%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 8 (1.45%) ForgeRock
6 8 (1.45%) NetIQ
6 8 (1.45%) Okta
6 8 (1.45%) OpenText
7 4 (0.73%) Databricks
7 4 (0.73%) Dell
7 4 (0.73%) OneLogin
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle
8 3 (0.55%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.55%) YouTube
9 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.36%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.36%) Veeam