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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 46 30
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 531 151 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.31% 4.34% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 5.30% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 366 108 302
10th Percentile £44,750 £42,350 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,438 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £89,688 £79,063 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +4.41% -2.86%

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 7,083 2,847 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.77% 81.90% 75.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 1,801 3,470
10th Percentile £30,575 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +13 234 £82,500 +26.92% 155
Bristol +9 154 £72,500 +7.41% 109
Wiltshire +9 48 £75,000 +25.00% 25
Somerset -6 39 £57,500 +21.05% 29
Dorset +13 26 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Devon -13 26 £63,813 +34.34% 23
Cornwall +6 2 £49,623 - 3
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 30 (5.65%) Apache
2 17 (3.20%) Confluence
3 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.07%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 178 (33.52%) Azure
2 154 (29.00%) AWS
3 92 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (9.04%) GitHub
5 40 (7.53%) GCP
6 32 (6.03%) Serverless
7 24 (4.52%) OpenShift
8 23 (4.33%) PaaS
9 21 (3.95%) Entra ID
9 21 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.01%) IaaS
11 16 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.64%) Azure Functions
12 14 (2.64%) Power Platform
13 13 (2.45%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.45%) VPN
2 11 (2.07%) Network Security
3 10 (1.88%) Firewall
4 6 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.56%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.56%) TETRA
6 2 (0.38%) DNS
6 2 (0.38%) LAN
6 2 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) Internet
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) RS-232
7 1 (0.19%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.64%) Big Data
7 13 (2.45%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.26%) MySQL
8 12 (2.26%) Power BI
9 10 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.75%) Flink
13 4 (0.75%) Redis
13 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.56%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 66 (12.43%) Git
2 49 (9.23%) GitLab
3 42 (7.91%) JIRA
4 35 (6.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.26%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.69%) Subversion
7 8 (1.51%) Selenium
8 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.32%) MSI
8 7 (1.32%) Postman
9 4 (0.75%) JMeter
9 4 (0.75%) NUnit
10 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.56%) git-flow
10 3 (0.56%) JUnit
10 3 (0.56%) Snyk
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 116 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.07%) Finance
3 50 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.01%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.64%) Law
8 10 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.69%) Automotive
10 8 (1.51%) Military
11 5 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.38%) Electronics
14 2 (0.38%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (35.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (15.07%) Senior
3 64 (12.05%) Lead
4 47 (8.85%) Software Engineer
5 45 (8.47%) Developer
6 43 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (6.21%) Architect
7 33 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
7 33 (6.21%) Lead DevOps
8 30 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 30 (5.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 27 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.20%) Analyst
12 17 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (3.20%) Security Engineer
13 16 (3.01%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 15 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (28.44%) Terraform
2 44 (8.29%) .NET
3 33 (6.21%) Spring
3 33 (6.21%) Spring Boot
4 29 (5.46%) React
4 29 (5.46%) RESTful
5 23 (4.33%) Apache NiFi
6 22 (4.14%) AngularJS
6 22 (4.14%) Kafka
7 21 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (3.95%) Node.js
8 17 (3.20%) REST
8 17 (3.20%) Vue
9 16 (3.01%) .NET Core
9 16 (3.01%) Keycloak
10 12 (2.26%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.07%) CSS
12 10 (1.88%) Blazor
12 10 (1.88%) HTML
12 10 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.20%) Public Cloud
4 15 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.26%) Podcast
7 12 (2.26%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.88%) Cyberattack
8 10 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.13%) Social Media
12 5 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.94%) iPhone
13 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.75%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.75%) Linux
2 36 (6.78%) Windows
3 18 (3.39%) Unix
4 14 (2.64%) VMS
5 11 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.13%) Android
7 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.38%) CentOS
9 2 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (44.63%) CI/CD
2 178 (33.52%) Agile
3 142 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (20.15%) Software Engineering
5 106 (19.96%) Containerisation
6 103 (19.40%) AI
7 97 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (14.50%) Test Automation
10 72 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 67 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
12 64 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 63 (11.86%) Mentoring
14 61 (11.49%) Scrum
15 59 (11.11%) Observability
16 55 (10.36%) DevSecOps
17 51 (9.60%) Analytics
17 51 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
17 51 (9.60%) Microservices
18 45 (8.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 154 (29.00%) Python
2 89 (16.76%) Java
3 70 (13.18%) SQL
4 69 (12.99%) Bash
5 59 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 40 (7.53%) C#
7 37 (6.97%) Go
8 29 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 28 (5.27%) C++
10 24 (4.52%) Bicep
11 21 (3.95%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (2.45%) Rust
13 8 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.32%) Groovy
14 7 (1.32%) Scala
15 5 (0.94%) C
15 5 (0.94%) PHP
16 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 256 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 143 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 119 (22.41%) DV Cleared
4 34 (6.40%) Degree
5 29 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.07%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.56%) OCP
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.38%) CSPO
13 2 (0.38%) HND
13 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.29%) QA
2 42 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.64%) WCAG
4 13 (2.45%) NIST
5 11 (2.07%) NCSC
6 6 (1.13%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (0.56%) GDPR
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
8 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 108 (20.34%) Docker
2 40 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.26%) vSphere
5 8 (1.51%) NDS
6 4 (0.75%) Ceph
6 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.19%) KVM
8 1 (0.19%) QEMU
8 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 121 (22.79%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.57%) Ansible
3 28 (5.27%) Grafana
4 26 (4.90%) Puppet
5 22 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.07%) Argo
7 10 (1.88%) Rancher
8 9 (1.69%) Kibana
8 9 (1.69%) logstash
9 7 (1.32%) yum
10 4 (0.75%) Check_MK
10 4 (0.75%) Istio
10 4 (0.75%) Podman
11 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.56%) VxRail
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) Packer
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.14%) Red Hat
2 22 (4.14%) VMware
3 12 (2.26%) ScienceLogic
4 9 (1.69%) Atlassian
4 9 (1.69%) Google
5 8 (1.51%) CyberArk
5 8 (1.51%) ForgeRock
5 8 (1.51%) NetIQ
5 8 (1.51%) Okta
5 8 (1.51%) OpenText
6 5 (0.94%) Dell
6 5 (0.94%) Oracle
7 4 (0.75%) Cisco
7 4 (0.75%) Databricks
7 4 (0.75%) OneLogin
8 3 (0.56%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.56%) YouTube
9 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.38%) Veeam