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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 433 243 747
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.31% 7.63% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 8.87% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 311 149 566
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -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 5,786 2,740 7,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.98% 86.08% 78.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,849 1,784 5,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.57% -2.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,675 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -4 153 £70,000 +7.69% 56
Bristol -6 139 £75,000 -4.83% 46
Wiltshire -9 39 £75,000 +16.05% 11
Devon +8 37 £52,500 +10.53% 19
Somerset -15 31 £57,500 -14.81% 13
Dorset +5 21 £45,000 -28.00% 12
Cornwall - 6 £49,623 -
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 21 (4.85%) Apache
2 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.77%) Confluence
4 5 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.18%) Azure
2 123 (28.41%) AWS
3 100 (23.09%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (11.32%) GitHub
5 48 (11.09%) GCP
6 40 (9.24%) Serverless
7 23 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.93%) IaaS
9 17 (3.93%) PaaS
10 16 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.70%) Azure Functions
11 15 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (3.23%) Entra ID
13 12 (2.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (2.77%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.77%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.00%) Network Security
1 13 (3.00%) VPN
2 8 (1.85%) Firewall
3 6 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) RS-232
5 1 (0.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.00%) MySQL
5 13 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.31%) Power BI
8 7 (1.62%) Big Data
9 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.69%) Flink
10 3 (0.69%) Redis
11 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.46%) Metadata
11 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (11.32%) Git
2 37 (8.55%) GitLab
2 37 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.39%) JIRA
4 19 (4.39%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.23%) Selenium
6 9 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.62%) Subversion
8 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.92%) JMeter
8 4 (0.92%) MSI
9 3 (0.69%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.69%) Maven
9 3 (0.69%) Postman
9 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.46%) Gradle
10 2 (0.46%) MLflow
10 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 101 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.78%) Finance
3 36 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.46%) Law
7 10 (2.31%) Automotive
8 9 (2.08%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.46%) Electronics
10 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 119 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (17.32%) Senior
3 56 (12.93%) Lead
4 51 (11.78%) Developer
5 50 (11.55%) Software Engineer
6 34 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (5.77%) Architect
9 25 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (4.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 15 (3.46%) Analyst
13 15 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (2.77%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.78%) .NET
2 32 (7.39%) React
3 27 (6.24%) RESTful
3 27 (6.24%) Spring
4 25 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.85%) Vue
6 20 (4.62%) Apache NiFi
7 19 (4.39%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.16%) Playwright
9 16 (3.70%) Node.js
10 14 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 14 (3.23%) ASP.NET
11 13 (3.00%) REST
12 12 (2.77%) Blazor
12 12 (2.77%) Kafka
13 11 (2.54%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (2.54%) CSS
14 10 (2.31%) HTML
15 9 (2.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.93%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.77%) Podcast
4 12 (2.77%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.31%) Cyberattack
6 8 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.15%) iPhone
8 5 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.69%) IoT
10 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.69%) PropTech
11 2 (0.46%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.01%) Linux
2 37 (8.55%) Windows
3 16 (3.70%) Unix
4 14 (3.23%) VMS
5 10 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.15%) Android
8 3 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (43.65%) CI/CD
2 137 (31.64%) Agile
3 109 (25.17%) Software Engineering
4 103 (23.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (17.78%) AI
7 73 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (15.47%) Mentoring
9 66 (15.24%) Containerisation
9 66 (15.24%) Test Automation
10 62 (14.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (11.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 48 (11.09%) Scrum
13 43 (9.93%) DevSecOps
14 39 (9.01%) Analytics
15 38 (8.78%) Observability
15 38 (8.78%) SDLC
16 35 (8.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 113 (26.10%) Python
2 74 (17.09%) Java
3 61 (14.09%) Bash
4 57 (13.16%) SQL
5 48 (11.09%) JavaScript
6 38 (8.78%) C#
7 31 (7.16%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.31%) C++
10 22 (5.08%) Bicep
11 21 (4.85%) Go
12 13 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (2.08%) PHP
14 7 (1.62%) Rust
15 6 (1.39%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.15%) C
16 5 (1.15%) Groovy
17 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.69%) Ruby
17 3 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 162 (37.41%) Security Cleared
2 76 (17.55%) DV Cleared
3 63 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.24%) Degree
5 21 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) HND
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.46%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.23%) CCNA
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.23%) CSPO
12 1 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.70%) QA
2 28 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.31%) NIST
3 10 (2.31%) WCAG
4 8 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.15%) NCSC
7 4 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.69%) GDPR
8 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) IFRS
9 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.23%) DO-178B
System Software
1 80 (18.48%) Docker
2 27 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.77%) vSphere
5 7 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.15%) Firmware
7 4 (0.92%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) QEMU
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 116 (26.79%) Terraform
2 88 (20.32%) Kubernetes
3 64 (14.78%) Ansible
4 35 (8.08%) Grafana
5 26 (6.00%) Puppet
6 21 (4.85%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.31%) Kibana
8 9 (2.08%) logstash
8 9 (2.08%) Rancher
9 7 (1.62%) Argo
9 7 (1.62%) yum
10 6 (1.39%) VxRail
11 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.46%) Packer
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.62%) VMware
3 14 (3.23%) Google
3 14 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.77%) ScienceLogic
5 6 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (1.15%) Databricks
6 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.69%) Dell
7 3 (0.69%) OneLogin
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle
8 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco
8 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.46%) Thales
9 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.23%) Remedy
9 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Splunk
9 1 (0.23%) TOWER Software