DevOps Jobs in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 728 1,142 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.45% 14.22% 15.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.33% 14.90% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 484 627 746
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,166 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £77,715 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,934 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,458 7,666 6,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 94.63% 95.47% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,112 4,529 4,575
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,125 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,375 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South West.

Salary trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 +4 326 £65,351 +9.78% 72
Gloucestershire +6 202 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Wiltshire +11 85 £54,608 -12.63% 14
Devon +12 37 £52,500 +33.63% 14
Dorset -3 31 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Somerset -7 30 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Cornwall +23 4 £55,000 - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.16%) Jupyter
2 16 (2.20%) Apache
3 15 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.06%) nginx
4 14 (1.92%) Confluence
4 14 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.69%) IIS
6 4 (0.55%) CMS
6 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.41%) Captiva
7 3 (0.41%) FileNet
7 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) Jetty
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) Kentico
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (1.51%) Maximo
3 9 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 367 (50.41%) Azure
2 304 (41.76%) AWS
3 146 (20.05%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (12.91%) GCP
5 84 (11.54%) OpenShift
6 56 (7.69%) Serverless
7 51 (7.01%) Power Platform
7 51 (7.01%) SaaS
8 41 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (5.36%) PaaS
10 33 (4.53%) Amazon S3
11 27 (3.71%) GitHub
12 26 (3.57%) IaaS
13 25 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.47%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.20%) Power Automate
18 13 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 11 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.49%) DNS
2 35 (4.81%) TCP/IP
3 32 (4.40%) HTTP
4 29 (3.98%) DHCP
5 10 (1.37%) Firewall
6 6 (0.82%) Network Security
6 6 (0.82%) VPN
7 5 (0.69%) Internet
7 5 (0.69%) IPv4
7 5 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
8 4 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.41%) AMQP
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 3 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.41%) VLAN
9 3 (0.41%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.14%) Big Data
3 37 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.43%) Power BI
6 24 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.16%) Hadoop
8 20 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.06%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.79%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.65%) Relational Database
15 11 (1.51%) GIS
15 11 (1.51%) Presto
16 10 (1.37%) RDBMS
17 9 (1.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 136 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 69 (9.48%) Git
3 49 (6.73%) JIRA
4 46 (6.32%) GitLab
5 24 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (3.02%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 20 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.75%) Selenium
8 14 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 14 (1.92%) Maven
9 11 (1.51%) Artifactory
10 10 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.10%) IBM UrbanCode
12 7 (0.96%) JUnit
12 7 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.96%) Spinnaker
13 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 178 (24.45%) Finance
2 126 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 83 (11.40%) Banking
4 48 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (5.63%) Retail
6 32 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 18 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.51%) Military
11 9 (1.24%) Law
11 9 (1.24%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.82%) Electronics
13 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Marketing
15 4 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.55%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 185 (25.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (16.07%) Developer
3 105 (14.42%) Senior
4 91 (12.50%) Architect
5 81 (11.13%) Software Engineer
6 66 (9.07%) Lead
7 61 (8.38%) Solutions Architect
8 45 (6.18%) Data Engineer
9 38 (5.22%) Analyst
9 38 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
10 29 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (3.85%) Java Engineer
12 26 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
14 23 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.75%) Data Scientist
17 19 (2.61%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.40%) .NET
2 67 (9.20%) HTML
3 66 (9.07%) React
4 59 (8.10%) AngularJS
5 39 (5.36%) Spring
6 38 (5.22%) CSS
7 36 (4.95%) JSON
8 33 (4.53%) REST
9 28 (3.85%) Node.js
10 27 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (3.57%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.88%) .NET Core
12 21 (2.88%) Kafka
13 20 (2.75%) ARM Templates
13 20 (2.75%) ASP.NET
14 18 (2.47%) Vue
14 18 (2.47%) Web Services
14 18 (2.47%) YAML
15 16 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
15 16 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.34%) Public Cloud
2 46 (6.32%) Private Cloud
3 42 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.12%) Algorithms
5 26 (3.57%) Cyberattack
6 23 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.79%) Replication
10 10 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.37%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.24%) Distributed Applications
11 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (24.86%) Linux
2 80 (10.99%) Windows
3 34 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (4.26%) Unix
5 16 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.96%) Solaris
7 5 (0.69%) CentOS
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.27%) HPUX
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (50.55%) Agile
2 237 (32.55%) CI/CD
3 183 (25.14%) Software Engineering
4 166 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (20.05%) Actionable Insight
6 118 (16.21%) Mentoring
7 112 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 94 (12.91%) Microservices
9 92 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (11.68%) Scrum
11 81 (11.13%) SDLC
12 76 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
13 71 (9.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 65 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
15 60 (8.24%) Test Automation
16 58 (7.97%) Software Architecture
17 57 (7.83%) Coaching
18 56 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 54 (7.42%) Machine Learning
20 51 (7.01%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 275 (37.77%) Python
2 227 (31.18%) Java
3 162 (22.25%) JavaScript
4 134 (18.41%) Bash
5 101 (13.87%) PowerShell
6 96 (13.19%) SQL
7 66 (9.07%) C#
8 52 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 34 (4.67%) C++
10 29 (3.98%) R
11 22 (3.02%) Go
12 19 (2.61%) Ruby
12 19 (2.61%) T-SQL
13 16 (2.20%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.92%) Perl
14 14 (1.92%) PHP
14 14 (1.92%) Scala
15 11 (1.51%) Bicep
15 11 (1.51%) C
16 10 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 285 (39.15%) Security Cleared
2 136 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 94 (12.91%) DV Cleared
4 88 (12.09%) Degree
5 45 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (5.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 24 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.69%) ISEB
13 5 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.27%) IIBA
15 1 (0.14%) CCNP
15 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.18%) QA
2 14 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.10%) SLA
5 5 (0.69%) GDPR
6 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 251 (34.48%) Docker
2 42 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.81%) Active Directory
4 30 (4.12%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 287 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 171 (23.49%) Terraform
3 137 (18.82%) Ansible
4 61 (8.38%) Puppet
5 26 (3.57%) Grafana
6 24 (3.30%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.20%) Packer
8 13 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.51%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.24%) Istio
11 5 (0.69%) Nagios
12 4 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.55%) Podman
13 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.27%) Argo
14 2 (0.27%) BMC PATROL
14 2 (0.27%) Check_MK
15 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.87%) Google
2 50 (6.87%) VMware
3 41 (5.63%) Oracle
4 33 (4.53%) Red Hat
5 24 (3.30%) IBM
6 23 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.34%) Sparx
8 10 (1.37%) SAP
9 9 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.96%) Citrix
10 7 (0.96%) SolarWinds
11 6 (0.82%) Cisco
11 6 (0.82%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.82%) Remedy
11 6 (0.82%) Splunk
12 5 (0.69%) HP
12 5 (0.69%) New Relic
13 4 (0.55%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.55%) Dell