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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 322 404 806
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.57% 14.82% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 16.50% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 233 210 622
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -1.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,900
% change year-on-year +0.11% +6.22% -5.86%

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 4,908 2,448 7,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.70% 89.80% 84.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 1,522 5,479
10th Percentile £29,573 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -18 95 £65,000 -10.03% 64
Gloucestershire -17 90 £65,000 - 49
Devon +20 45 £47,500 -15.56% 8
Dorset -2 28 £70,000 - 7
Wiltshire -31 26 £65,000 +0.58% 10
Somerset -19 18 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Cornwall -11 7 £49,750 -35.81% 1
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 35
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 12 (3.73%) Apache
2 6 (1.86%) Confluence
3 4 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (0.62%) IIS
4 2 (0.62%) nginx
4 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Drupal
5 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.31%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 138 (42.86%) Azure
2 86 (26.71%) AWS
3 79 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (10.87%) GitHub
5 34 (10.56%) GCP
6 27 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (8.39%) Serverless
7 21 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.97%) SaaS
10 15 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.80%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.17%) Datadog
13 7 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.17%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.80%) Network Security
2 2 (0.62%) DNS
2 2 (0.62%) Firewall
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) LAN
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.62%) VPN
2 2 (0.62%) WAN
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.31%) DHCP
3 1 (0.31%) Intranet
3 1 (0.31%) VLAN
3 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.73%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.17%) MySQL
6 7 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.86%) Power BI
8 5 (1.55%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.24%) Big Data
10 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.62%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.62%) Metadata
11 2 (0.62%) Redis
12 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 38 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.07%) Cypress.io
3 24 (7.45%) Git
4 21 (6.52%) GitLab
5 20 (6.21%) JIRA
6 18 (5.59%) Selenium
7 7 (2.17%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.17%) JUnit
8 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.86%) Maven
8 6 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.86%) Subversion
9 5 (1.55%) Gradle
9 5 (1.55%) TestNG
10 4 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.93%) Gatling
11 3 (0.93%) Postman
11 3 (0.93%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 62 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.80%) Finance
3 14 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.11%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.86%) Automotive
8 3 (0.93%) Billing
8 3 (0.93%) Law
8 3 (0.93%) Military
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (25.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (16.46%) Senior
3 45 (13.98%) Lead
4 35 (10.87%) Developer
5 33 (10.25%) Software Engineer
6 21 (6.52%) Architect
7 19 (5.90%) Senior DevOps
8 18 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.97%) Consultant
10 16 (4.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 13 (4.04%) QA Leader
12 13 (4.04%) Technical Consultant
13 12 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.76%) Playwright
2 23 (7.14%) Spring
3 22 (6.83%) React
4 20 (6.21%) .NET
5 19 (5.90%) Spring Boot
6 15 (4.66%) RESTful
7 14 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.35%) Vue
8 12 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (3.42%) REST
10 10 (3.11%) Node.js
11 8 (2.48%) CSS
11 8 (2.48%) HTML
12 7 (2.17%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.17%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.17%) PySpark
13 6 (1.86%) Kafka
13 6 (1.86%) YAML
14 5 (1.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.17%) Cyberattack
3 6 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.24%) IoT
4 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.24%) Security Posture
5 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.62%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.62%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.31%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.73%) Linux
2 18 (5.59%) Windows
3 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) CentOS
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.62%) Unix
4 2 (0.62%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (40.06%) CI/CD
2 96 (29.81%) Agile
3 87 (27.02%) Software Engineering
4 60 (18.63%) Test Automation
5 59 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (15.53%) Containerisation
9 44 (13.66%) Mentoring
10 40 (12.42%) SDLC
11 37 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (8.70%) AI
14 28 (8.70%) API Testing
15 25 (7.76%) Manual Testing
16 24 (7.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (6.83%) Analytics
17 22 (6.83%) Collaborative Culture
18 21 (6.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 84 (26.09%) Python
2 61 (18.94%) Java
3 41 (12.73%) Bash
4 35 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.56%) SQL
6 31 (9.63%) PowerShell
7 30 (9.32%) C#
7 30 (9.32%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.66%) Go
9 11 (3.42%) C++
10 10 (3.11%) Bicep
11 5 (1.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.93%) C
12 3 (0.93%) Elixir
12 3 (0.93%) Erlang
12 3 (0.93%) Groovy
12 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.93%) VBScript
13 2 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.91%) DV Cleared
3 36 (11.18%) Degree
4 27 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.97%) ISTQB
6 14 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.24%) BC Cleared
10 4 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.93%) CITP
11 3 (0.93%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (16.46%) QA
2 20 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.17%) NIST
5 3 (0.93%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.31%) NCSC
7 1 (0.31%) P3O
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (19.88%) Docker
2 10 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.24%) Firmware
4 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.24%) iptables
5 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
5 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 54 (16.77%) Terraform
3 30 (9.32%) Ansible
4 28 (8.70%) Grafana
5 17 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.80%) Puppet
7 7 (2.17%) Argo
8 6 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.86%) Rancher
8 6 (1.86%) yum
9 5 (1.55%) Kibana
10 4 (1.24%) logstash
11 3 (0.93%) VxRail
12 2 (0.62%) Packer
13 1 (0.31%) Consul
13 1 (0.31%) Istio
13 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.31%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.73%) Google
3 9 (2.80%) Oracle
4 7 (2.17%) Cisco
4 7 (2.17%) Databricks
5 6 (1.86%) Splunk
5 6 (1.86%) VMware
6 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.24%) arcserve
7 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.24%) Veeam
8 3 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.62%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.62%) Syncfusion
9 2 (0.62%) Telerik
9 2 (0.62%) Thales
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.31%) Palo Alto