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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 183 412 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.85% 8.01% 14.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 9.95% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 148 230 484
10th Percentile £41,723 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and 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 3,535 4,140 4,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 74.36% 80.48% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 2,257 3,112
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,775
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,350 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 -15 53 £62,500 -10.71% 72
Gloucestershire -18 39 £70,000 +7.69% 87
Somerset +1 24 £45,000 -5.26% 36
Devon +8 23 £50,000 +14.97% 43
Dorset -3 15 £60,000 +10.22% 34
Wiltshire -16 13 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Cornwall -16 6 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 29
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 6 (3.28%) Apache
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.55%) Primavera
2 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (56.83%) Azure
2 70 (38.25%) AWS
3 56 (30.60%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (16.39%) GitHub
5 22 (12.02%) Serverless
6 19 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.20%) SaaS
8 14 (7.65%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.92%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.92%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.28%) GCP
13 5 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.19%) Azure App Service
14 4 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) AMQP
1 5 (2.73%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) Internet
3 2 (1.09%) Network Security
3 2 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.37%) Power BI
3 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.19%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.19%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.64%) Big Data
5 3 (1.64%) MySQL
6 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.09%) Metadata
6 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Power Query
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (12.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.20%) Git
3 12 (6.56%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.37%) JIRA
5 7 (3.83%) GitLab
5 7 (3.83%) Selenium
6 4 (2.19%) Postman
7 3 (1.64%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.64%) Gatling
7 3 (1.64%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.64%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.64%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.09%) JUnit
8 2 (1.09%) Locust
8 2 (1.09%) Subversion
8 2 (1.09%) TestRail
9 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Finance
3 12 (6.56%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (1.64%) Law
5 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.64%) Military
6 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.09%) Games
6 2 (1.09%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Back Office
7 1 (0.55%) Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Billing
7 1 (0.55%) Legal
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing
7 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (14.75%) Developer
3 22 (12.02%) Senior
4 17 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.20%) Architect
5 15 (8.20%) Software Developer
6 14 (7.65%) Consultant
7 11 (6.01%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.01%) Technical Consultant
7 11 (6.01%) Tester
8 9 (4.92%) Lead
9 8 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.28%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.28%) Analyst
10 6 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.73%) Applications Developer
11 5 (2.73%) Azure Architect
11 5 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.02%) .NET
2 17 (9.29%) React
3 13 (7.10%) Spring
4 11 (6.01%) Spring Boot
4 11 (6.01%) YAML
5 9 (4.92%) .NET Framework
6 8 (4.37%) Playwright
7 7 (3.83%) .NET Core
7 7 (3.83%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.83%) RESTful
8 6 (3.28%) Blazor
9 5 (2.73%) CSS
9 5 (2.73%) HTML
9 5 (2.73%) Kafka
9 5 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.73%) Universal Windows Platform
9 5 (2.73%) WinUI
9 5 (2.73%) WPF
10 4 (2.19%) Node.js
10 4 (2.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.64%) IoT
5 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 11 (6.01%) Windows
3 6 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.73%) Debian
5 4 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) CentOS
6 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.55%) Android
7 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.55%) Unix
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (45.36%) CI/CD
2 64 (34.97%) Agile
3 48 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.77%) Containerisation
5 32 (17.49%) Software Engineering
6 30 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.11%) Test Automation
8 22 (12.02%) Computer Science
8 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (11.48%) Microservices
9 21 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (10.93%) Scrum
10 20 (10.93%) SDLC
11 19 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (9.84%) API Testing
13 17 (9.29%) Software Testing
13 17 (9.29%) User Experience
14 16 (8.74%) Coaching
14 16 (8.74%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (8.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.32%) Python
2 34 (18.58%) Java
3 33 (18.03%) SQL
4 24 (13.11%) C#
5 22 (12.02%) PowerShell
6 21 (11.48%) Bicep
6 21 (11.48%) JavaScript
7 18 (9.84%) Bash
7 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.01%) Go
9 6 (3.28%) C++
10 3 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.64%) VBScript
11 2 (1.09%) C
11 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.55%) Delphi
12 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.49%) Degree
3 23 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.02%) DV Cleared
5 18 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (8.20%) ISTQB
7 9 (4.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.64%) CITP
10 3 (1.64%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.09%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.55%) CCNA
12 1 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMP
12 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.02%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.64%) PMO
5 2 (1.09%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) P3O
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (22.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.55%) iptables
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 37 (20.22%) Terraform
3 19 (10.38%) Ansible
4 8 (4.37%) Grafana
5 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.19%) Puppet
7 3 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.64%) Kibana
8 2 (1.09%) Argo
8 2 (1.09%) Rancher
8 2 (1.09%) yum
9 1 (0.55%) logstash
9 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.83%) Cisco
2 7 (3.83%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.28%) arcserve
3 6 (3.28%) Veeam
4 5 (2.73%) Syncfusion
4 5 (2.73%) Telerik
5 4 (2.19%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.64%) Databricks
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Splunk
7 2 (1.09%) Google
8 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Talend
8 1 (0.55%) VMware
8 1 (0.55%) Zoho