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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 490 225 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.61% 6.47% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 7.72% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 344 132 369
10th Percentile £43,435 £43,775 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,688 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,169 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 6,248 2,916 6,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.53% 83.91% 75.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,091 1,905 4,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £73,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -2 189 £75,000 +15.38% 72
Bristol -2 150 £72,500 -9.38% 55
Wiltshire 0 44 £75,000 +16.71% 10
Somerset -5 38 £57,500 - 14
Devon -3 34 £57,500 +21.05% 10
Dorset +11 26 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Cornwall - 6 £49,623 - 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 27 (5.51%) Apache
2 17 (3.47%) Confluence
3 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 181 (36.94%) Azure
2 139 (28.37%) AWS
3 101 (20.61%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (9.80%) GitHub
5 44 (8.98%) GCP
6 36 (7.35%) Serverless
7 23 (4.69%) PaaS
8 22 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.47%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.47%) IaaS
10 16 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (3.27%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.06%) SaaS
12 14 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.65%) Azure Functions
13 13 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.86%) Network Security
2 13 (2.65%) VPN
3 9 (1.84%) Firewall
4 6 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.41%) DNS
5 2 (0.41%) LAN
5 2 (0.41%) TETRA
5 2 (0.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) RS-232
6 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.29%) MongoDB
2 18 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (3.06%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.45%) Big Data
8 11 (2.24%) MySQL
9 10 (2.04%) Power BI
10 7 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.82%) Flink
11 4 (0.82%) Redis
12 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.61%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.41%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 59 (12.04%) Git
2 46 (9.39%) GitLab
3 41 (8.37%) JIRA
4 32 (6.53%) Jenkins
5 17 (3.47%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.65%) Selenium
7 11 (2.24%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.43%) MSI
9 7 (1.43%) Postman
9 7 (1.43%) Subversion
10 4 (0.82%) JMeter
10 4 (0.82%) JUnit
10 4 (0.82%) NUnit
11 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.61%) Snyk
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.41%) MLflow
12 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 118 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 73 (14.90%) Finance
3 45 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.06%) Law
7 13 (2.65%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.04%) Automotive
8 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (0.41%) Electronics
10 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.41%) Legal
10 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.20%) Environmental Health
11 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 156 (31.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (15.92%) Senior
3 66 (13.47%) Lead
4 51 (10.41%) Developer
5 46 (9.39%) Software Engineer
6 34 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (5.92%) Architect
8 26 (5.31%) Lead DevOps
8 26 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (4.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 24 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.69%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Analyst
13 17 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.39%) .NET
2 31 (6.33%) React
3 30 (6.12%) Spring
4 29 (5.92%) Spring Boot
5 28 (5.71%) RESTful
6 25 (5.10%) Apache NiFi
7 23 (4.69%) AngularJS
8 20 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (3.88%) Kafka
10 18 (3.67%) .NET Core
10 18 (3.67%) REST
11 16 (3.27%) Vue
12 15 (3.06%) Node.js
13 14 (2.86%) Playwright
14 13 (2.65%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.65%) Keycloak
15 12 (2.45%) CSS
16 11 (2.24%) HTML
17 10 (2.04%) .NET Framework
17 10 (2.04%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.27%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.45%) Podcast
4 12 (2.45%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.04%) Cyberattack
7 9 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.22%) Social Media
11 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.02%) iPhone
12 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.82%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.47%) Linux
2 39 (7.96%) Windows
3 16 (3.27%) Unix
4 14 (2.86%) VMS
5 11 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.22%) Android
6 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) CentOS
8 2 (0.41%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 165 (33.67%) Agile
3 125 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (22.45%) Software Engineering
5 96 (19.59%) AI
6 93 (18.98%) Containerisation
7 85 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (15.10%) Test Automation
10 68 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 66 (13.47%) Mentoring
12 58 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
13 54 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 54 (11.02%) Scrum
14 53 (10.82%) Observability
15 52 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 49 (10.00%) DevSecOps
17 44 (8.98%) Analytics
17 44 (8.98%) Microservices
18 37 (7.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.35%) Python
2 80 (16.33%) Java
3 71 (14.49%) SQL
4 58 (11.84%) Bash
5 56 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 42 (8.57%) C#
7 29 (5.92%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.51%) Go
9 25 (5.10%) Bicep
10 24 (4.90%) C++
10 24 (4.90%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.84%) Rust
13 8 (1.63%) Groovy
13 8 (1.63%) PHP
14 7 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.02%) C
16 4 (0.82%) Scala
17 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 210 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 108 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 99 (20.20%) DV Cleared
4 37 (7.55%) Degree
5 24 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.63%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.61%) OCP
11 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.41%) HND
12 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.82%) QA
2 41 (8.37%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.86%) WCAG
4 13 (2.65%) NIST
5 11 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.04%) NCSC
7 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.61%) GDPR
9 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.41%) IFRS
10 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 102 (20.82%) Docker
2 34 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.45%) vSphere
5 6 (1.22%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.02%) Firmware
7 4 (0.82%) Ceph
7 4 (0.82%) NDS
8 2 (0.41%) iptables
9 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) QEMU
9 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (27.35%) Terraform
2 107 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 76 (15.51%) Ansible
4 32 (6.53%) Grafana
5 26 (5.31%) Prometheus
6 24 (4.90%) Puppet
7 10 (2.04%) Argo
8 9 (1.84%) Kibana
9 8 (1.63%) logstash
9 8 (1.63%) Rancher
10 6 (1.22%) yum
11 5 (1.02%) VxRail
12 4 (0.82%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.82%) Istio
12 4 (0.82%) Podman
13 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.41%) Packer
15 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.20%) Consul
15 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.29%) Red Hat
3 20 (4.08%) VMware
4 14 (2.86%) Google
5 12 (2.45%) ScienceLogic
6 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.22%) Dell
7 6 (1.22%) Oracle
8 5 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (0.82%) Cisco
9 4 (0.82%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.82%) Databricks
9 4 (0.82%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.82%) NetIQ
9 4 (0.82%) Okta
9 4 (0.82%) OneLogin
9 4 (0.82%) OpenText
10 3 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.41%) arcserve
11 2 (0.41%) Veeam