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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 22 14
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 167 419 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.07% 7.00% 13.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 9.18% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 127 225 465
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 £92,750 £88,250 £93,774
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 3,219 4,563 4,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 78.40% 76.23% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,112 2,563 3,235
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,500
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 £82,300 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - 0.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -13 51 £60,000 -14.29% 57
Gloucestershire -20 36 £65,000 - 49
Devon +4 20 £50,000 +14.97% 9
Somerset +2 20 £45,000 -7.69% 14
Dorset -12 15 £60,000 +10.22% 11
Wiltshire -16 10 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Cornwall -11 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 23
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 (2.99%) Apache
2 3 (1.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.60%) Primavera
2 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (59.28%) Azure
2 72 (43.11%) AWS
3 49 (29.34%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (17.37%) GitHub
5 22 (13.17%) Serverless
6 17 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (8.38%) SaaS
8 12 (7.19%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.39%) GCP
10 9 (5.39%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.99%) PaaS
14 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) AMQP
1 5 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) Internet
3 3 (1.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) Broadband
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Intranet
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
5 1 (0.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) Relational Database
1 11 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.79%) Power BI
4 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.99%) MySQL
5 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.80%) Big Data
6 3 (1.80%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.20%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.20%) Metadata
7 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.98%) Git
3 11 (6.59%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.59%) GitLab
4 6 (3.59%) JIRA
4 6 (3.59%) Selenium
5 4 (2.40%) Postman
6 3 (1.80%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.80%) JUnit
6 3 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.20%) Mockito
7 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.20%) webpack
7 2 (1.20%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.60%) Gatling
8 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.60%) Locust
8 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (18.56%) Finance
1 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.19%) Law
5 4 (2.40%) Military
6 3 (1.80%) Banking
6 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.80%) Legal
6 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Games
7 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Advertising
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Back Office
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Developer
2 28 (16.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (9.58%) Senior
4 15 (8.98%) Software Developer
5 14 (8.38%) Architect
6 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Lead
8 8 (4.79%) Consultant
9 7 (4.19%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.59%) Analyst
10 6 (3.59%) Tester
11 5 (2.99%) Azure Architect
11 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.77%) .NET
2 20 (11.98%) React
3 13 (7.78%) Spring
4 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
4 11 (6.59%) Spring Boot
4 11 (6.59%) YAML
5 10 (5.99%) RESTful
6 9 (5.39%) .NET Core
6 9 (5.39%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.79%) CSS
7 8 (4.79%) HTML
7 8 (4.79%) Kafka
7 8 (4.79%) Playwright
8 6 (3.59%) Blazor
9 5 (2.99%) Node.js
10 4 (2.40%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.40%) Jest
10 4 (2.40%) Vue
10 4 (2.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.80%) IoT
6 3 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.20%) Wiki
8 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.78%) Linux
2 12 (7.19%) Windows
3 7 (4.19%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.99%) Debian
4 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.60%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.71%) CI/CD
2 62 (37.13%) Agile
3 45 (26.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (23.95%) Containerisation
5 33 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.16%) Software Engineering
7 23 (13.77%) Microservices
8 21 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (11.98%) Mentoring
9 20 (11.98%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.38%) Scrum
11 18 (10.78%) Computer Science
11 18 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (10.18%) User Experience
13 16 (9.58%) AI
13 16 (9.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (9.58%) SDLC
14 15 (8.98%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (8.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.94%) Python
2 34 (20.36%) SQL
3 33 (19.76%) Java
4 26 (15.57%) C#
5 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
6 22 (13.17%) PowerShell
7 21 (12.57%) Bicep
8 20 (11.98%) TypeScript
9 17 (10.18%) Bash
10 10 (5.99%) Go
11 7 (4.19%) C++
12 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.80%) VBScript
13 2 (1.20%) C
13 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.60%) Delphi
14 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.77%) Degree
3 25 (14.97%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.78%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.39%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.80%) CITP
10 3 (1.80%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.60%) CCNA
12 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.60%) PMP
12 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.58%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.20%) PMO
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) P3O
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (29.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.20%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.20%) vSphere
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) Firmware
4 1 (0.60%) iptables
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (32.34%) Kubernetes
2 36 (21.56%) Terraform
3 21 (12.57%) Ansible
4 6 (3.59%) Grafana
5 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.80%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.80%) Kibana
8 2 (1.20%) Argo
9 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) Rancher
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.60%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.79%) Cisco
2 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.59%) arcserve
3 6 (3.59%) Veeam
4 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.40%) Syncfusion
4 4 (2.40%) Telerik
5 3 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.80%) Databricks
5 3 (1.80%) Google
5 3 (1.80%) Oracle
5 3 (1.80%) Splunk
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.60%) Juniper
7 1 (0.60%) Talend
7 1 (0.60%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) Zoho