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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 340 293 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.51% 10.95% 8.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 12.11% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 243 203 612
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £50,936 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.76% -1.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 5,176 2,419 7,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.58% 90.43% 83.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,418 1,547 5,562
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,833
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £52,600 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +4.16% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £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 1 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 1 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
Bristol -14 103 £65,000 -10.34% 38
Gloucestershire -8 102 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Devon +14 42 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Wiltshire -20 29 £65,000 +0.58% 12
Dorset -2 27 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Somerset -22 19 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Cornwall -9 7 £49,623 -35.97% 6
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 (4.41%) Apache
2 6 (1.76%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) CMS
4 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
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 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.29%) Sketch
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 136 (40.00%) Azure
2 83 (24.41%) AWS
3 80 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (10.88%) GCP
5 36 (10.59%) GitHub
6 26 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (7.06%) Serverless
8 18 (5.29%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.41%) SaaS
10 14 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.82%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.35%) OpenShift
15 7 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.06%) Datadog
15 7 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.59%) Firewall
2 2 (0.59%) Internet
2 2 (0.59%) LAN
2 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.29%) Broadband
3 1 (0.29%) DHCP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.82%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.24%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.35%) MySQL
6 7 (2.06%) Power BI
6 7 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.76%) Big Data
8 5 (1.47%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.18%) Metadata
9 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.59%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.59%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) Parquet
12 1 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (12.06%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.24%) GitLab
2 28 (8.24%) JIRA
3 26 (7.65%) Git
4 24 (7.06%) Cypress.io
5 18 (5.29%) Selenium
6 9 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.06%) JUnit
8 7 (2.06%) Subversion
9 6 (1.76%) Maven
10 5 (1.47%) Gradle
10 5 (1.47%) TestNG
11 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.88%) Mockito
12 3 (0.88%) Postman
12 3 (0.88%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 65 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.82%) Finance
3 16 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (3.24%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 10 (2.94%) Automotive
6 3 (0.88%) Billing
6 3 (0.88%) Law
7 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.29%) Banking
8 1 (0.29%) Military
8 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (25.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (15.00%) Lead
2 51 (15.00%) Senior
3 39 (11.47%) Software Engineer
4 37 (10.88%) Developer
5 26 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Architect
8 19 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
8 19 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 16 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 14 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.82%) Consultant
12 13 (3.82%) QA Leader
13 12 (3.53%) Data Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.76%) Playwright
1 23 (6.76%) React
1 23 (6.76%) Spring
2 20 (5.88%) .NET
2 20 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 18 (5.29%) Vue
4 16 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (4.41%) RESTful
6 14 (4.12%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.12%) Apache NiFi
7 13 (3.82%) REST
8 9 (2.65%) Node.js
9 7 (2.06%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.06%) .NET Framework
9 7 (2.06%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.06%) CSS
10 6 (1.76%) Blazor
10 6 (1.76%) HTML
10 6 (1.76%) Kafka
10 6 (1.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.94%) Cyberattack
3 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.88%) IoT
4 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (0.88%) Public 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
6 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.29%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.00%) Linux
2 19 (5.59%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 5 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.88%) CI/CD
2 96 (28.24%) Agile
2 96 (28.24%) Software Engineering
3 61 (17.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (17.94%) Test Automation
4 54 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 48 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (13.53%) Containerisation
8 45 (13.24%) SDLC
9 40 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 31 (9.12%) AI
13 27 (7.94%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (7.65%) API Testing
15 24 (7.06%) Analytics
15 24 (7.06%) Manual Testing
16 23 (6.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (26.18%) Python
2 68 (20.00%) Java
3 44 (12.94%) Bash
4 35 (10.29%) SQL
5 34 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 27 (7.94%) C#
6 27 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 25 (7.35%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.00%) Go
9 15 (4.41%) C++
10 7 (2.06%) Bicep
11 6 (1.76%) PHP
12 4 (1.18%) Rust
13 3 (0.88%) C
13 3 (0.88%) Elixir
13 3 (0.88%) Erlang
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) VB
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (15.29%) DV Cleared
3 30 (8.82%) Degree
4 29 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.12%) ISTQB
6 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.18%) BC Cleared
10 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) CCNA
12 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.29%) QA
2 22 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.94%) NIST
4 9 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.65%) 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%) PMO
6 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 64 (18.82%) Docker
2 13 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.18%) Firmware
4 4 (1.18%) iptables
4 4 (1.18%) 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 70 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 66 (19.41%) Terraform
3 36 (10.59%) Ansible
4 32 (9.41%) Grafana
5 19 (5.59%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.71%) Puppet
7 8 (2.35%) Argo
7 8 (2.35%) Rancher
8 7 (2.06%) Kibana
8 7 (2.06%) yum
9 6 (1.76%) logstash
9 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.18%) 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 42 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.53%) Google
3 9 (2.65%) Oracle
4 8 (2.35%) Databricks
4 8 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.76%) VMware
6 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.47%) Splunk
7 4 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.88%) Cisco
8 3 (0.88%) Dell
9 2 (0.59%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.59%) Syncfusion
9 2 (0.59%) Telerik
9 2 (0.59%) Thales
10 1 (0.29%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.29%) Palantir
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.29%) Talend