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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 341 283 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.40% 10.44% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 11.46% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 244 190 604
10th Percentile £43,435 £45,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,356 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.51% +7.69% -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 5,297 2,470 7,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.41% 91.11% 82.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 1,538 5,600
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,976
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.99% -3.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -7 110 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Bristol -10 109 £72,500 - 42
Devon +8 36 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wiltshire -19 30 £75,000 +16.05% 10
Dorset -1 22 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Somerset -23 16 £39,490 -31.32% 10
Cornwall 0 7 £49,623 -27.82% 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 16 (4.69%) Apache
2 7 (2.05%) Confluence
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.17%) CMS
4 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Sketch
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (38.42%) Azure
2 90 (26.39%) AWS
3 74 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.73%) GCP
5 32 (9.38%) GitHub
6 27 (7.92%) Serverless
7 24 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.45%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.81%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.23%) SaaS
13 10 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.05%) Datadog
16 6 (1.76%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.81%) Network Security
2 4 (1.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) LAN
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) WAN
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.81%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.35%) MySQL
5 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.05%) Big Data
7 6 (1.76%) Power BI
7 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.47%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.17%) Metadata
9 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.59%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.59%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 40 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.50%) JIRA
3 28 (8.21%) GitLab
4 24 (7.04%) Git
5 21 (6.16%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.69%) Selenium
7 8 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.05%) Subversion
9 6 (1.76%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.76%) JUnit
9 6 (1.76%) Maven
10 5 (1.47%) Gradle
10 5 (1.47%) TestNG
11 4 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.88%) JMeter
12 3 (0.88%) Mockito
12 3 (0.88%) Postman
12 3 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.54%) Finance
3 16 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.81%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.93%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.93%) Automotive
7 3 (0.88%) Billing
7 3 (0.88%) Law
8 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Banking
9 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 89 (26.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (16.13%) Senior
3 51 (14.96%) Lead
4 41 (12.02%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.56%) Developer
6 28 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.74%) Architect
9 21 (6.16%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (5.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 14 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.81%) QA Leader
16 12 (3.52%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.52%) Java Engineer
16 12 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.74%) React
2 22 (6.45%) Spring
3 21 (6.16%) Playwright
4 19 (5.57%) Spring Boot
5 18 (5.28%) Vue
6 16 (4.69%) .NET
6 16 (4.69%) RESTful
7 15 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (4.11%) Apache NiFi
9 13 (3.81%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.81%) REST
10 11 (3.23%) Node.js
11 7 (2.05%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.05%) ASP.NET
11 7 (2.05%) Blazor
12 6 (1.76%) CSS
12 6 (1.76%) Kafka
12 6 (1.76%) Keycloak
12 6 (1.76%) PySpark
13 5 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.93%) Cyberattack
3 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.88%) IoT
4 3 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
5 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.29%) iPhone
6 1 (0.29%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.42%) Linux
2 19 (5.57%) Windows
3 11 (3.23%) Unix
4 8 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.59%) CI/CD
2 95 (27.86%) Software Engineering
3 90 (26.39%) Agile
4 61 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (17.60%) Test Automation
6 54 (15.84%) Mentoring
6 54 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (12.61%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (12.32%) SDLC
10 41 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 40 (11.73%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (10.85%) AI
13 28 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (7.33%) Analytics
15 25 (7.33%) API Testing
16 22 (6.45%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (25.81%) Python
2 67 (19.65%) Java
3 45 (13.20%) Bash
4 37 (10.85%) SQL
5 31 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 24 (7.04%) C#
8 22 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.69%) C++
9 16 (4.69%) Go
10 6 (1.76%) PHP
11 5 (1.47%) Rust
12 4 (1.17%) Bicep
12 4 (1.17%) C
13 3 (0.88%) Elixir
13 3 (0.88%) Erlang
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) Scala
13 3 (0.88%) VB
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 111 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.01%) DV Cleared
3 35 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.74%) Degree
5 11 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.17%) BC Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CCNA
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.78%) QA
2 23 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.93%) NIST
4 9 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) GDPR
5 3 (0.88%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (17.89%) Docker
2 13 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.17%) Firmware
4 4 (1.17%) iptables
4 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (22.58%) Terraform
2 66 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 41 (12.02%) Ansible
4 33 (9.68%) Grafana
5 21 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.87%) Puppet
7 8 (2.35%) Argo
7 8 (2.35%) Rancher
8 7 (2.05%) Kibana
8 7 (2.05%) yum
9 6 (1.76%) logstash
9 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.47%) VxRail
11 2 (0.59%) Packer
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Control-M
12 1 (0.29%) Istio
12 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.81%) Google
3 12 (3.52%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.35%) Oracle
5 7 (2.05%) Databricks
5 7 (2.05%) VMware
6 5 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.47%) Splunk
7 3 (0.88%) Dell
8 2 (0.59%) Cisco
8 2 (0.59%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.59%) Thales
9 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.29%) Foundry
9 1 (0.29%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Palantir
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) Talend