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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 343 260 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.44% 9.91% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 10.88% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 248 167 596
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 5,305 2,389 7,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.71% 91.04% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,501 1,449 5,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,700 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -5.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £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 26 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 26 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
Gloucestershire -4 110 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Bristol -13 110 £72,500 - 43
Devon +7 35 £50,000 - 7
Wiltshire -20 32 £75,000 +16.05% 9
Dorset +1 24 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Somerset -24 15 £41,250 -38.89% 10
Cornwall - 7 £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 17 (4.96%) Apache
2 7 (2.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.87%) CMS
4 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.58%) IIS
5 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 2 (0.58%) 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 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) Sketch
4 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 133 (38.78%) Azure
2 95 (27.70%) AWS
3 71 (20.70%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (12.24%) GCP
5 31 (9.04%) GitHub
6 27 (7.87%) Serverless
7 23 (6.71%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.79%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.92%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.92%) SaaS
11 10 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.04%) Datadog
13 6 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.79%) Network Security
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 2 (0.58%) Internet
3 2 (0.58%) LAN
3 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.58%) WAN
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.50%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.62%) Power BI
5 9 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.33%) MySQL
7 7 (2.04%) Big Data
8 5 (1.46%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.17%) Metadata
9 4 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.58%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.58%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 39 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.45%) JIRA
3 28 (8.16%) GitLab
4 24 (7.00%) Git
5 20 (5.83%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.66%) Selenium
7 8 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.33%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.04%) Subversion
9 6 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.75%) JUnit
9 6 (1.75%) Maven
10 5 (1.46%) Gradle
10 5 (1.46%) TestNG
11 4 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.87%) JMeter
12 3 (0.87%) Mockito
12 3 (0.87%) Postman
12 3 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.74%) Finance
3 20 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.92%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.92%) Automotive
7 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (0.87%) Law
8 2 (0.58%) Billing
8 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (25.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (16.33%) Senior
3 50 (14.58%) Lead
4 40 (11.66%) Software Engineer
5 37 (10.79%) Developer
6 30 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (7.00%) Architect
9 21 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
9 21 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (5.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.79%) QA Leader
15 12 (3.50%) Data Engineer
15 12 (3.50%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.00%) React
2 22 (6.41%) Spring
3 20 (5.83%) Playwright
4 19 (5.54%) Spring Boot
5 18 (5.25%) Vue
6 17 (4.96%) .NET
7 16 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (4.37%) RESTful
9 14 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 14 (4.08%) Apache NiFi
10 13 (3.79%) REST
11 11 (3.21%) Node.js
12 8 (2.33%) ASP.NET
12 8 (2.33%) Blazor
13 7 (2.04%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (1.75%) CSS
14 6 (1.75%) Kafka
14 6 (1.75%) Keycloak
14 6 (1.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.92%) Cyberattack
3 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.87%) IoT
4 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.58%) Blockchain
5 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.29%) iPhone
6 1 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.20%) Linux
2 19 (5.54%) Windows
3 13 (3.79%) Unix
4 10 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.52%) CI/CD
2 94 (27.41%) Software Engineering
3 92 (26.82%) Agile
4 62 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (17.78%) Test Automation
6 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (16.03%) Mentoring
8 50 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (12.83%) Containerisation
10 43 (12.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 42 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 41 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (11.95%) SDLC
13 38 (11.08%) AI
14 30 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (8.16%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (7.29%) Analytics
17 24 (7.00%) API Testing
18 23 (6.71%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 90 (26.24%) Python
2 67 (19.53%) Java
3 46 (13.41%) Bash
4 39 (11.37%) SQL
5 31 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.00%) C#
7 23 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.66%) C++
9 16 (4.66%) Go
10 7 (2.04%) PHP
11 5 (1.46%) Rust
12 4 (1.17%) Bicep
12 4 (1.17%) C
13 3 (0.87%) Elixir
13 3 (0.87%) Erlang
13 3 (0.87%) Groovy
13 3 (0.87%) Scala
13 3 (0.87%) VB
14 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 112 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 58 (16.91%) DV Cleared
3 37 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.00%) Degree
5 8 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.17%) BC Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CCNA
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.70%) QA
2 23 (6.71%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.92%) NIST
4 9 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (18.37%) Docker
2 13 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.17%) Firmware
4 4 (1.17%) iptables
4 4 (1.17%) 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 82 (23.91%) Terraform
2 66 (19.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.83%) Ansible
4 35 (10.20%) Grafana
5 23 (6.71%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.41%) Puppet
7 8 (2.33%) Argo
7 8 (2.33%) Rancher
8 7 (2.04%) Kibana
8 7 (2.04%) yum
9 6 (1.75%) logstash
9 6 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.46%) VxRail
11 2 (0.58%) 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 41 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.08%) Red Hat
3 13 (3.79%) Google
4 9 (2.62%) Oracle
5 7 (2.04%) Databricks
5 7 (2.04%) VMware
6 5 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.46%) Splunk
7 3 (0.87%) Dell
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco
8 2 (0.58%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.58%) Thales
9 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.29%) Foundry
9 1 (0.29%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Palantir
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) Talend