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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 31 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 151 416 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.34% 5.54% 13.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 7.31% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 108 297 498
10th Percentile £42,350 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £79,063 £81,500 £78,491
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £68,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.41% -2.86% -

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 2,846 5,690 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.78% 75.83% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,798 3,420 3,387
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,625
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 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -20 49 £65,000 -7.14% 55
Gloucestershire -5 42 £65,000 +8.33% 61
Wiltshire +3 17 £60,000 -9.77% 10
Devon +3 16 £47,500 +9.22% 16
Dorset +12 11 £70,000 +27.93% 12
Somerset -4 8 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Cornwall -12 3 - - 4
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.66%) Magento
2 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (52.32%) Azure
2 72 (47.68%) AWS
3 34 (22.52%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (13.91%) Serverless
5 16 (10.60%) GitHub
6 14 (9.27%) SaaS
7 12 (7.95%) GCP
8 11 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.96%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.64%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.97%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.31%) IaaS
14 5 (3.31%) PaaS
15 4 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) Firewall
1 5 (3.31%) VPN
2 4 (2.65%) AMQP
3 3 (1.99%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) IPv4
4 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) Broadband
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.66%) DNS
5 1 (0.66%) Network Security
5 1 (0.66%) OSPF
5 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.66%) VLAN
5 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.96%) Power BI
2 9 (5.96%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.31%) MySQL
5 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.99%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.99%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.32%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.32%) Tableau
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (11.92%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.93%) Git
3 10 (6.62%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.64%) GitLab
4 7 (4.64%) JIRA
4 7 (4.64%) Selenium
5 4 (2.65%) JUnit
5 4 (2.65%) Postman
5 4 (2.65%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.99%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.99%) Gatling
6 3 (1.99%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.99%) Locust
6 3 (1.99%) TestRail
7 2 (1.32%) Maven
7 2 (1.32%) Mockito
7 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 22 (14.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.25%) Finance
3 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.62%) Retail
7 8 (5.30%) Law
8 6 (3.97%) Banking
9 4 (2.65%) Legal
9 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Games
10 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Marketing
10 2 (1.32%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.66%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (19.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (18.54%) Developer
3 22 (14.57%) Senior
4 16 (10.60%) Lead
5 13 (8.61%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (6.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Architect
8 9 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.30%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.30%) Analyst
10 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.88%) .NET
2 18 (11.92%) React
3 14 (9.27%) RESTful
4 11 (7.28%) .NET Core
4 11 (7.28%) Spring
5 10 (6.62%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.96%) .NET Framework
6 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.30%) Kafka
8 6 (3.97%) HTML
8 6 (3.97%) REST
9 5 (3.31%) Blazor
9 5 (3.31%) CSS
9 5 (3.31%) Node.js
9 5 (3.31%) Playwright
10 3 (1.99%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.99%) Universal Windows Platform
10 3 (1.99%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (5.30%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.65%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.32%) Wiki
8 1 (0.66%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.57%) Linux
2 12 (7.95%) Windows
3 6 (3.97%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.31%) Debian
5 4 (2.65%) Unix
5 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.66%) Android
7 1 (0.66%) CentOS
7 1 (0.66%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.32%) CI/CD
2 67 (44.37%) Agile
3 37 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (19.87%) Software Engineering
5 29 (19.21%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.54%) Mentoring
7 26 (17.22%) Microservices
8 23 (15.23%) Test Automation
9 21 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.26%) Artificial Intelligence
10 17 (11.26%) Coaching
10 17 (11.26%) Roadmaps
11 16 (10.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (9.93%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.27%) Clean Code
13 14 (9.27%) Scrum
14 12 (7.95%) Service Management
15 11 (7.28%) ITIL
15 11 (7.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.80%) Python
2 36 (23.84%) SQL
3 28 (18.54%) Java
4 24 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.57%) C#
6 17 (11.26%) PowerShell
7 16 (10.60%) Bash
8 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.28%) Bicep
10 7 (4.64%) Go
11 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.32%) Perl
12 2 (1.32%) R
12 2 (1.32%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) C++
13 1 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 30 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.58%) Degree
4 13 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.95%) Azure Certification
6 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.64%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.32%) CCNA
11 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.66%) CCNP
12 1 (0.66%) CISSP
12 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.27%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.32%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (23.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.32%) vSphere
4 1 (0.66%) iptables
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (26.49%) Kubernetes
2 39 (25.83%) Terraform
3 24 (15.89%) Ansible
4 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.31%) Puppet
5 4 (2.65%) Grafana
5 4 (2.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.99%) Argo
6 3 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.32%) Istio
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.28%) IBM
4 6 (3.97%) Databricks
5 5 (3.31%) Oracle
6 4 (2.65%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.99%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.99%) Syncfusion
7 3 (1.99%) Telerik
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (1.32%) Google
8 2 (1.32%) VMware
9 1 (0.66%) 3PAR
9 1 (0.66%) HP
9 1 (0.66%) Juniper
9 1 (0.66%) SAP
9 1 (0.66%) Splunk
9 1 (0.66%) Zoho