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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 397 254 756
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.01% 8.85% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 9.98% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 285 158 574
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +7.00% -2.80%
75th Percentile £79,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,931 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -7.14%

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 5,553 2,544 8,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.13% 88.67% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 1,620 5,992
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -2 132 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Bristol -7 130 £75,000 +3.81% 32
Devon -2 36 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Wiltshire -14 36 £75,000 +16.05% 4
Somerset -21 26 £57,500 -14.81% 10
Dorset +14 22 £45,000 -28.00% 3
Cornwall - 7 £49,623 -
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 20 (5.04%) Apache
2 11 (2.77%) Confluence
2 11 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.76%) CMS
4 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Sketch
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 161 (40.55%) Azure
2 113 (28.46%) AWS
3 94 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.84%) GitHub
5 46 (11.59%) GCP
6 37 (9.32%) Serverless
7 23 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.29%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.53%) Azure Functions
12 13 (3.27%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.27%) IaaS
13 12 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.02%) PaaS
13 12 (3.02%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.77%) SaaS
15 10 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) Network Security
2 11 (2.77%) VPN
3 7 (1.76%) Firewall
4 6 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.50%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) Internet
5 2 (0.50%) LAN
5 2 (0.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.25%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) RS-232
6 1 (0.25%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (4.03%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.27%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.77%) MySQL
5 11 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.52%) Power BI
7 7 (1.76%) Big Data
8 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.76%) Flink
9 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.76%) Redis
9 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (10.83%) Git
2 36 (9.07%) GitLab
2 36 (9.07%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.30%) JIRA
4 22 (5.54%) Cypress.io
5 17 (4.28%) Selenium
6 10 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.02%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.51%) Subversion
10 4 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.01%) JMeter
10 4 (1.01%) Maven
10 4 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.76%) Gradle
11 3 (0.76%) MSI
11 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.50%) JUnit
12 2 (0.50%) Mockito
12 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 91 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.36%) Finance
3 31 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.78%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.27%) Law
7 10 (2.52%) Automotive
8 9 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.50%) Billing
10 2 (0.50%) Electronics
10 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (25.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (15.87%) Senior
3 54 (13.60%) Lead
4 46 (11.59%) Developer
4 46 (11.59%) Software Engineer
5 32 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (5.79%) Architect
7 23 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
9 19 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (4.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 15 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.53%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.27%) QA Leader
16 12 (3.02%) Java Engineer
16 12 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.30%) .NET
2 28 (7.05%) React
3 23 (5.79%) RESTful
4 22 (5.54%) Playwright
5 19 (4.79%) Apache NiFi
5 19 (4.79%) Spring
5 19 (4.79%) Vue
6 18 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (4.28%) Spring Boot
8 16 (4.03%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.27%) Node.js
9 13 (3.27%) REST
10 11 (2.77%) .NET Core
10 11 (2.77%) ASP.NET
11 10 (2.52%) Blazor
11 10 (2.52%) Kafka
12 9 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (2.27%) CSS
13 8 (2.02%) HTML
13 8 (2.02%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.78%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.02%) Security Posture
4 11 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.52%) Cyberattack
5 10 (2.52%) Podcast
6 7 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.76%) IoT
10 3 (0.76%) iPhone
10 3 (0.76%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.76%) PropTech
11 2 (0.50%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.37%) Linux
2 34 (8.56%) Windows
3 16 (4.03%) Unix
4 12 (3.02%) VMS
5 10 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.76%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.76%) Android
7 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (43.07%) CI/CD
2 118 (29.72%) Agile
3 105 (26.45%) Software Engineering
4 88 (22.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (16.37%) Test Automation
7 62 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (15.62%) Mentoring
8 61 (15.37%) AI
9 58 (14.61%) Containerisation
10 51 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 48 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 45 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (10.83%) SDLC
15 39 (9.82%) DevSecOps
15 39 (9.82%) Scrum
16 36 (9.07%) Analytics
17 32 (8.06%) Collaborative Culture
18 30 (7.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.19%) Python
2 66 (16.62%) Java
3 61 (15.37%) Bash
4 51 (12.85%) SQL
5 40 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.06%) C#
7 29 (7.30%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.55%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.54%) C++
10 19 (4.79%) Bicep
11 18 (4.53%) Go
12 11 (2.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (2.27%) PHP
14 7 (1.76%) Rust
15 6 (1.51%) C
15 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 4 (1.01%) Groovy
17 3 (0.76%) Elixir
17 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 3 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 137 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.12%) DV Cleared
3 55 (13.85%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.80%) Degree
5 16 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.50%) HND
12 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.25%) CCNA
13 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (14.36%) QA
2 29 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.52%) NIST
4 8 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.51%) WCAG
7 4 (1.01%) NCSC
8 3 (0.76%) GDPR
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.50%) IFRS
9 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
System Software
1 72 (18.14%) Docker
2 23 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (2.52%) vSphere
5 7 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.26%) Firmware
7 4 (1.01%) iptables
8 1 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) QEMU
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (26.95%) Terraform
2 76 (19.14%) Kubernetes
3 58 (14.61%) Ansible
4 37 (9.32%) Grafana
5 24 (6.05%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.05%) Puppet
6 10 (2.52%) Kibana
7 9 (2.27%) logstash
8 8 (2.02%) Rancher
9 7 (1.76%) Argo
10 6 (1.51%) VxRail
10 6 (1.51%) yum
11 5 (1.26%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.50%) Packer
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 56 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.53%) VMware
3 14 (3.53%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.27%) Google
5 10 (2.52%) ScienceLogic
6 6 (1.51%) BeyondTrust
7 5 (1.26%) Databricks
7 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.01%) Oracle
9 3 (0.76%) Dell
10 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.50%) Splunk
10 2 (0.50%) Thales
11 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.25%) Freshdesk
11 1 (0.25%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow