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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 143 443 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.99% 6.75% 13.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 8.86% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 107 242 480
10th Percentile £42,300 £42,608 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,439 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,625 £95,000
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 2,935 5,000 4,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.80% 76.21% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,849 2,816 3,332
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -16 46 £63,750 -12.07% 45
Gloucestershire -19 34 £65,000 +4.00% 37
Devon +3 16 £51,250 +17.84% 6
Somerset +5 15 £45,000 -12.20% 11
Dorset +3 11 £60,000 +10.22% 3
Wiltshire -14 9 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Cornwall -19 5 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 28
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 5 (3.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Apache
2 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.84%) Azure
2 69 (48.25%) AWS
3 42 (29.37%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.69%) GitHub
5 20 (13.99%) Serverless
6 15 (10.49%) SaaS
7 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 12 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.29%) GCP
11 8 (5.59%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.90%) OpenShift
13 6 (4.20%) PaaS
14 5 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 5 (3.50%) AMQP
3 4 (2.80%) Internet
3 4 (2.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.40%) DNS
4 2 (1.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.70%) Broadband
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.70%) VSAN
5 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) Power BI
1 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.99%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.50%) MySQL
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.10%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.40%) Big Data
7 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.40%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.79%) Git
3 11 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 8 (5.59%) GitLab
5 7 (4.90%) JIRA
5 7 (4.90%) Selenium
6 4 (2.80%) Postman
6 4 (2.80%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.10%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.10%) Gatling
7 3 (2.10%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.10%) Locust
7 3 (2.10%) TestRail
8 2 (1.40%) JUnit
8 2 (1.40%) Mockito
8 2 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.40%) webpack
9 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (17.48%) Finance
1 25 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Law
6 5 (3.50%) Retail
7 4 (2.80%) Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Legal
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.40%) Advertising
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Games
9 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.28%) Developer
2 24 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (9.79%) Architect
3 14 (9.79%) Senior
4 13 (9.09%) Lead
4 13 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 11 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.29%) Analyst
7 7 (4.90%) .NET Developer
7 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.48%) .NET
2 19 (13.29%) React
3 12 (8.39%) Spring
4 11 (7.69%) RESTful
4 11 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.99%) .NET Core
6 9 (6.29%) .NET Framework
6 9 (6.29%) Kafka
7 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.20%) Blazor
8 6 (4.20%) REST
8 6 (4.20%) YAML
9 5 (3.50%) CSS
9 5 (3.50%) HTML
9 5 (3.50%) Node.js
9 5 (3.50%) Playwright
10 4 (2.80%) Jest
11 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.10%) Web Services
11 3 (2.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.20%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.80%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.40%) IoT
6 2 (1.40%) NHS
6 2 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.40%) Wiki
7 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.89%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 7 (4.90%) Ubuntu
4 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.50%) Debian
6 2 (1.40%) CentOS
6 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.70%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 61 (42.66%) Agile
3 37 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (23.78%) Containerisation
5 28 (19.58%) Microservices
6 25 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.78%) Mentoring
7 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering
8 19 (13.29%) AI
8 19 (13.29%) Test Automation
9 17 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (11.19%) Coaching
10 16 (11.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
10 16 (11.19%) Scrum
11 15 (10.49%) Computer Science
12 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (9.09%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.09%) SDLC
13 12 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.97%) Python
2 38 (26.57%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) Java
4 20 (13.99%) C#
4 20 (13.99%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.89%) PowerShell
6 16 (11.19%) Bicep
7 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
8 13 (9.09%) Bash
9 6 (4.20%) Go
10 4 (2.80%) C++
11 3 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.10%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.40%) C
12 2 (1.40%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.70%) Perl
13 1 (0.70%) PHP
13 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.99%) Degree
4 14 (9.79%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.59%) AWS Certification
7 8 (5.59%) ISTQB
8 7 (4.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.40%) CCNA
11 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.70%) CCNP
12 1 (0.70%) CISSP
12 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.70%) PMP
12 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.70%) NCSC
5 1 (0.70%) P3O
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (28.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.10%) vSphere
4 2 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.70%) Firmware
5 1 (0.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 46 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 36 (25.17%) Terraform
3 23 (16.08%) Ansible
4 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.80%) Grafana
5 4 (2.80%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.80%) Puppet
6 3 (2.10%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.40%) Argo
7 2 (1.40%) Kibana
7 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.39%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.20%) Cisco
4 5 (3.50%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.50%) IBM
5 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.10%) arcserve
6 3 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.10%) Databricks
6 3 (2.10%) Google
6 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.10%) Syncfusion
6 3 (2.10%) Telerik
6 3 (2.10%) Veeam
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle
7 2 (1.40%) Splunk
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.70%) Talend
8 1 (0.70%) Zoho