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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 334 293 817
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.59% 11.12% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 12.38% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 239 210 619
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -1.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,140 £95,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,620
% change year-on-year +1.33% +6.68% -6.26%

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 5,050 2,366 7,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.41% 89.76% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 1,520 5,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -11 102 £61,250 -5.77% 41
Bristol -18 97 £65,000 -9.71% 57
Devon +18 45 £47,500 -15.56% 5
Dorset -4 27 £70,000 - 3
Wiltshire -23 26 £65,000 +0.58% 12
Somerset -20 18 £55,000 -4.35% 18
Cornwall -9 7 £49,750 -35.81% 1
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 15 (4.49%) Apache
2 6 (1.80%) Confluence
3 4 (1.20%) CMS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) IIS
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
4 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 137 (41.02%) Azure
2 86 (25.75%) AWS
3 80 (23.95%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (10.78%) GCP
4 36 (10.78%) GitHub
5 27 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.78%) Serverless
7 21 (6.29%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (4.49%) SaaS
10 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.10%) Datadog
12 7 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.10%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.50%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) Network Security
2 2 (0.60%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) Internet
2 2 (0.60%) LAN
2 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.30%) Broadband
3 1 (0.30%) DHCP
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.89%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.40%) MySQL
5 8 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.50%) Big Data
7 5 (1.50%) CockroachDB
7 5 (1.50%) Power BI
8 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.90%) Metadata
8 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.60%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.60%) Redis
10 1 (0.30%) Parquet
10 1 (0.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (11.98%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.78%) Cypress.io
2 26 (7.78%) Git
3 25 (7.49%) GitLab
4 22 (6.59%) JIRA
5 18 (5.39%) Selenium
6 9 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.10%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.10%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.10%) JUnit
8 7 (2.10%) Subversion
9 6 (1.80%) Maven
10 5 (1.50%) Gradle
10 5 (1.50%) TestNG
11 4 (1.20%) Balsamiq
11 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.90%) Gatling
12 3 (0.90%) Postman
12 3 (0.90%) TestRail
General
1 66 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.68%) Finance
3 15 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.29%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.10%) Automotive
7 3 (0.90%) Billing
7 3 (0.90%) Law
7 3 (0.90%) Military
8 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Banking
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (24.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (16.17%) Senior
3 47 (14.07%) Lead
4 38 (11.38%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.78%) Developer
6 24 (7.19%) Architect
7 20 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Consultant
10 16 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 14 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.89%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.89%) QA Leader
13 13 (3.89%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.49%) Playwright
2 24 (7.19%) Spring
3 23 (6.89%) React
4 20 (5.99%) .NET
4 20 (5.99%) Spring Boot
5 17 (5.09%) Vue
6 16 (4.79%) RESTful
7 15 (4.49%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (3.89%) Apache NiFi
9 12 (3.59%) REST
10 10 (2.99%) Node.js
11 8 (2.40%) CSS
11 8 (2.40%) HTML
12 7 (2.10%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.10%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.10%) PySpark
13 6 (1.80%) Kafka
14 5 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.99%) Cyberattack
3 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.20%) IoT
5 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
6 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.60%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.30%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.30%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.47%) Linux
2 17 (5.09%) Windows
3 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.90%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (40.12%) CI/CD
2 100 (29.94%) Agile
3 98 (29.34%) Software Engineering
4 63 (18.86%) Test Automation
5 62 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (14.67%) Containerisation
9 45 (13.47%) Mentoring
10 43 (12.87%) SDLC
11 40 (11.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (8.68%) AI
15 28 (8.38%) API Testing
15 28 (8.38%) Collaborative Culture
15 28 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (7.49%) Manual Testing
17 24 (7.19%) Analytics
18 22 (6.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (26.65%) Python
2 68 (20.36%) Java
3 44 (13.17%) Bash
4 37 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.18%) SQL
6 32 (9.58%) TypeScript
7 31 (9.28%) C#
8 29 (8.68%) PowerShell
9 19 (5.69%) Go
10 14 (4.19%) C++
11 9 (2.69%) Bicep
12 5 (1.50%) PHP
13 4 (1.20%) Rust
14 3 (0.90%) C
14 3 (0.90%) Elixir
14 3 (0.90%) Erlang
14 3 (0.90%) Groovy
14 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.90%) VB
14 3 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 52 (15.57%) DV Cleared
3 36 (10.78%) Degree
4 29 (8.68%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.79%) ISTQB
6 13 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.20%) BC Cleared
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.90%) CITP
10 3 (0.90%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCNA
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.17%) QA
2 21 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.99%) NIST
4 9 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.90%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 2 (0.60%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (19.16%) Docker
2 10 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.20%) Firmware
3 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.20%) iptables
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.30%) KVM
4 1 (0.30%) QEMU
4 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (21.26%) Kubernetes
2 58 (17.37%) Terraform
3 34 (10.18%) Ansible
4 31 (9.28%) Grafana
5 18 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.29%) Puppet
7 8 (2.40%) Argo
7 8 (2.40%) Rancher
8 7 (2.10%) Kibana
8 7 (2.10%) yum
9 6 (1.80%) logstash
9 6 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.90%) VxRail
11 2 (0.60%) Packer
12 1 (0.30%) Consul
12 1 (0.30%) Control-M
12 1 (0.30%) Istio
12 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.59%) Google
3 9 (2.69%) Oracle
4 8 (2.40%) Databricks
5 6 (1.80%) Splunk
6 5 (1.50%) Cisco
6 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.50%) VMware
7 4 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.90%) arcserve
8 3 (0.90%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.90%) Dell
8 3 (0.90%) Veeam
9 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.60%) Syncfusion
9 2 (0.60%) Telerik
9 2 (0.60%) Thales
10 1 (0.30%) Adobe
10 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.30%) IBM