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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 338 284 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.39% 10.53% 8.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 11.53% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 244 194 609
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,300 £36,365
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £98,181 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +7.69% -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 5,297 2,464 7,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.77% 91.36% 83.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,506 1,537 5,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £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 12 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 12 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
Bristol -14 109 £72,500 - 44
Gloucestershire -8 103 £60,000 -7.69% 35
Devon +4 39 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wiltshire -23 28 £75,000 +16.05% 11
Dorset +1 24 £67,500 -3.57% 8
Somerset -21 17 £40,000 -30.43% 12
Cornwall -4 7 £49,623 -35.97%
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 14 (4.14%) Apache
2 6 (1.78%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) CMS
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Drupal
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Sketch
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 133 (39.35%) Azure
2 85 (25.15%) AWS
3 76 (22.49%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (11.24%) GCP
5 33 (9.76%) GitHub
6 25 (7.40%) Serverless
7 24 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.85%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.85%) SaaS
12 10 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.07%) Datadog
15 6 (1.78%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.85%) Network Security
2 3 (0.89%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) LAN
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Broadband
4 1 (0.30%) DHCP
4 1 (0.30%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.37%) MySQL
5 8 (2.37%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.78%) Power BI
7 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.48%) Big Data
8 5 (1.48%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.18%) Metadata
9 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.89%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.59%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.59%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.28%) JIRA
3 26 (7.69%) GitLab
4 25 (7.40%) Git
5 23 (6.80%) Cypress.io
6 17 (5.03%) Selenium
7 7 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.07%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.07%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.07%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.07%) Subversion
8 6 (1.78%) JUnit
8 6 (1.78%) Maven
9 5 (1.48%) Gradle
9 5 (1.48%) TestNG
10 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.89%) Gatling
11 3 (0.89%) Mockito
11 3 (0.89%) Postman
11 3 (0.89%) SoapUI
General
1 64 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.09%) Finance
3 17 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.55%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.96%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.96%) Automotive
7 3 (0.89%) Billing
7 3 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Banking
9 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (26.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (16.27%) Senior
3 51 (15.09%) Lead
4 39 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 37 (10.95%) Developer
6 27 (7.99%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.80%) Architect
9 22 (6.51%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 15 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (3.85%) QA Leader
17 12 (3.55%) Data Engineer
17 12 (3.55%) Java Engineer
17 12 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.80%) React
2 22 (6.51%) Playwright
2 22 (6.51%) Spring
3 19 (5.62%) Spring Boot
4 17 (5.03%) .NET
4 17 (5.03%) Vue
5 16 (4.73%) RESTful
6 14 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 13 (3.85%) REST
8 12 (3.55%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (2.96%) Node.js
10 7 (2.07%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.07%) ASP.NET
10 7 (2.07%) Blazor
11 6 (1.78%) CSS
11 6 (1.78%) Kafka
11 6 (1.78%) PySpark
12 5 (1.48%) OAuth
12 5 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.96%) Cyberattack
3 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.89%) IoT
4 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.89%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
4 3 (0.89%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
5 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.30%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.30%) iPhone
6 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.27%) Linux
2 19 (5.62%) Windows
3 10 (2.96%) Unix
4 7 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.94%) CI/CD
2 94 (27.81%) Software Engineering
3 93 (27.51%) Agile
4 61 (18.05%) Test Automation
5 60 (17.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (15.68%) Mentoring
7 51 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (13.02%) SDLC
10 43 (12.72%) Containerisation
11 42 (12.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (10.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (10.65%) AI
16 26 (7.69%) API Testing
16 26 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
16 26 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (7.10%) Analytics
17 24 (7.10%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (25.74%) Python
2 67 (19.82%) Java
3 43 (12.72%) Bash
4 38 (11.24%) SQL
5 32 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.40%) C#
6 25 (7.40%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.51%) PowerShell
8 16 (4.73%) Go
9 15 (4.44%) C++
10 6 (1.78%) PHP
11 4 (1.18%) Bicep
11 4 (1.18%) C
11 4 (1.18%) Rust
12 3 (0.89%) Elixir
12 3 (0.89%) Erlang
12 3 (0.89%) Groovy
12 3 (0.89%) VB
13 2 (0.59%) Scala
13 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.98%) DV Cleared
3 31 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.69%) Degree
5 13 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 9 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.18%) BC Cleared
9 4 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.30%) CCNA
12 1 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.50%) QA
2 23 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.96%) NIST
4 9 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.89%) GDPR
5 3 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (18.05%) Docker
2 13 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.18%) Firmware
4 4 (1.18%) iptables
4 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.30%) QEMU
5 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (21.30%) Terraform
2 66 (19.53%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.95%) Ansible
4 31 (9.17%) Grafana
5 20 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.62%) Puppet
7 8 (2.37%) Argo
7 8 (2.37%) Rancher
8 7 (2.07%) yum
9 6 (1.78%) Kibana
9 6 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.48%) logstash
11 4 (1.18%) VxRail
12 2 (0.59%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Consul
13 1 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.30%) Istio
13 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.85%) Google
3 11 (3.25%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.37%) Oracle
5 7 (2.07%) Databricks
6 6 (1.78%) VMware
7 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.48%) Splunk
8 4 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.89%) Dell
10 2 (0.59%) Cisco
10 2 (0.59%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.59%) Thales
11 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.30%) Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) Palantir
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) Syncfusion
11 1 (0.30%) Talend