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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 252 385 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.69% 9.83% 11.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 11.29% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 189 211 543
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £36,365
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,698 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% +7.71% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 3,814 3,411 5,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.04% 87.06% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,575 1,662 4,103
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,025 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -0.09%
75th Percentile £67,825 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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
Bristol -13 71 £62,500 -7.41% 42
Gloucestershire -12 60 £65,000 - 48
Devon +20 32 £47,500 -19.15% 14
Dorset 0 25 £70,000 +28.58% 21
Somerset -3 24 £45,000 -5.26% 20
Wiltshire -26 18 £60,000 -7.16% 25
Cornwall -13 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 29
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 8 (3.17%) Apache
2 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 2 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Primavera
2 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (52.78%) Azure
2 88 (34.92%) AWS
3 68 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (15.08%) GitHub
5 27 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (10.71%) Serverless
6 21 (8.33%) GCP
7 18 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.35%) SaaS
9 15 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.37%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.97%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.57%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.98%) Azure App Service
16 5 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Firewall
1 5 (1.98%) Internet
2 3 (1.19%) AMQP
3 2 (0.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) VLAN
4 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 10 (3.97%) Power BI
3 8 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.98%) CockroachDB
6 4 (1.59%) Big Data
6 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.59%) Metadata
6 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.19%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.79%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 17 (6.75%) GitLab
4 16 (6.35%) Git
5 13 (5.16%) Selenium
6 9 (3.57%) JIRA
7 6 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.38%) JUnit
7 6 (2.38%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.98%) Gradle
8 5 (1.98%) Maven
8 5 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.98%) Subversion
8 5 (1.98%) TestNG
9 4 (1.59%) Postman
10 3 (1.19%) Balsamiq
10 3 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.79%) Mockito
11 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.29%) Finance
3 15 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.19%) Billing
7 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.19%) Law
7 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.19%) Military
8 2 (0.79%) Games
8 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (20.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (15.08%) Senior
3 31 (12.30%) Developer
4 26 (10.32%) Lead
5 24 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.14%) Architect
6 18 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (6.35%) Consultant
8 14 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.16%) Technical Consultant
10 12 (4.76%) Tester
11 9 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.52%) React
1 24 (9.52%) Spring
2 22 (8.73%) .NET
3 21 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 15 (5.95%) Playwright
5 13 (5.16%) RESTful
6 11 (4.37%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.37%) YAML
7 10 (3.97%) .NET Framework
7 10 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.57%) Vue
9 8 (3.17%) Blazor
9 8 (3.17%) Node.js
9 8 (3.17%) REST
10 6 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (2.38%) PySpark
11 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.98%) Universal Windows Platform
11 5 (1.98%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.19%) IoT
5 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.40%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.71%) Linux
2 12 (4.76%) Windows
3 6 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.98%) Debian
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.79%) CentOS
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.03%) CI/CD
2 91 (36.11%) Agile
3 60 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 49 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (18.25%) Containerisation
7 42 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 36 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (12.70%) SDLC
10 30 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (9.92%) Microservices
14 24 (9.52%) API Testing
15 23 (9.13%) AI
15 23 (9.13%) Mentoring
15 23 (9.13%) Scrum
16 20 (7.94%) Computer Science
17 19 (7.54%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.56%) Python
2 57 (22.62%) Java
3 40 (15.87%) SQL
4 35 (13.89%) Bash
5 28 (11.11%) C#
6 27 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 26 (10.32%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.92%) JavaScript
9 19 (7.54%) Bicep
10 15 (5.95%) Go
11 8 (3.17%) C++
12 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.19%) Elixir
12 3 (1.19%) Erlang
12 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.19%) VBScript
13 2 (0.79%) C
13 2 (0.79%) Scala
13 2 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.08%) DV Cleared
3 31 (12.30%) Degree
4 24 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.95%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.19%) BC Cleared
9 3 (1.19%) CITP
9 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.49%) QA
2 12 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.19%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) P3O
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (29.37%) Kubernetes
2 52 (20.63%) Terraform
3 28 (11.11%) Ansible
4 19 (7.54%) Grafana
5 12 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.38%) Argo
6 6 (2.38%) Puppet
7 5 (1.98%) Kibana
7 5 (1.98%) Rancher
7 5 (1.98%) yum
8 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.19%) logstash
10 2 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.40%) Control-M
11 1 (0.40%) Istio
11 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
3 7 (2.78%) Cisco
3 7 (2.78%) Google
3 7 (2.78%) Oracle
3 7 (2.78%) Splunk
4 6 (2.38%) arcserve
4 6 (2.38%) Veeam
5 5 (1.98%) Databricks
5 5 (1.98%) Syncfusion
5 5 (1.98%) Telerik
6 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.79%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.79%) Talend
8 2 (0.79%) VMware
9 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.40%) Palantir