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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 255 384 716
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.68% 9.91% 11.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.59% 11.38% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 193 212 568
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,365
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,698 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,814 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +8.02% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 3,872 3,375 5,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.12% 87.10% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 1,643 4,230
10th Percentile £28,225 £30,900 £29,225
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,601
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.69% -0.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -15 71 £70,000 +3.70% 34
Gloucestershire -12 60 £65,000 - 37
Devon +18 34 £47,500 -19.15% 3
Dorset -3 25 £70,000 +28.58% 11
Somerset -1 24 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Wiltshire -25 18 £60,000 -7.16% 16
Cornwall -11 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 26
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 8 (3.14%) Apache
2 4 (1.57%) CMS
3 3 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Primavera
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (52.16%) Azure
2 91 (35.69%) AWS
3 68 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (14.90%) GitHub
5 28 (10.98%) Serverless
6 27 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (8.24%) GCP
8 19 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (5.88%) SaaS
11 10 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.92%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.53%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) Firewall
1 5 (1.96%) Internet
2 3 (1.18%) AMQP
2 3 (1.18%) Network Security
3 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) Broadband
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) VLAN
4 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.71%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.53%) Power BI
3 8 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.96%) CockroachDB
6 5 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.57%) Big Data
7 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.57%) Metadata
8 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.18%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.18%) MySQL
8 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.78%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.39%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (14.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.45%) Cypress.io
3 16 (6.27%) Git
3 16 (6.27%) GitLab
4 14 (5.49%) Selenium
5 9 (3.53%) JIRA
6 6 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.35%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.35%) JUnit
6 6 (2.35%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.96%) Gradle
7 5 (1.96%) Maven
7 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.96%) Subversion
7 5 (1.96%) TestNG
8 4 (1.57%) Postman
9 3 (1.18%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.78%) Mockito
General
1 43 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.12%) Finance
3 16 (6.27%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.75%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.18%) Billing
7 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.18%) Law
7 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.18%) Military
8 2 (0.78%) Games
8 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.39%) Legal
9 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (16.08%) Senior
3 32 (12.55%) Developer
4 27 (10.59%) Lead
5 25 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.06%) Architect
7 17 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (6.27%) Consultant
9 15 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.49%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.10%) Technical Consultant
12 12 (4.71%) Tester
13 9 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (3.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.80%) React
2 24 (9.41%) Spring
3 22 (8.63%) .NET
4 21 (8.24%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.27%) Playwright
6 14 (5.49%) RESTful
7 11 (4.31%) AngularJS
7 11 (4.31%) YAML
8 10 (3.92%) .NET Framework
8 10 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (3.92%) Node.js
8 10 (3.92%) Vue
9 9 (3.53%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.14%) Blazor
10 8 (3.14%) REST
11 6 (2.35%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (2.35%) PySpark
12 5 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.96%) Universal Windows Platform
12 5 (1.96%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.18%) IoT
5 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.78%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.39%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.37%) Linux
2 12 (4.71%) Windows
3 5 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.57%) Debian
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 92 (36.08%) Agile
3 62 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (22.75%) Software Engineering
5 52 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (18.82%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 37 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.94%) SDLC
10 32 (12.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (10.59%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (10.20%) Microservices
15 25 (9.80%) API Testing
15 25 (9.80%) Mentoring
16 23 (9.02%) Scrum
17 22 (8.63%) AI
18 20 (7.84%) Computer Science
18 20 (7.84%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.20%) Python
2 57 (22.35%) Java
3 39 (15.29%) SQL
4 37 (14.51%) Bash
5 29 (11.37%) PowerShell
6 28 (10.98%) C#
7 27 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.80%) JavaScript
9 19 (7.45%) Bicep
10 15 (5.88%) Go
11 8 (3.14%) C++
12 3 (1.18%) Elixir
12 3 (1.18%) Erlang
12 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.18%) VBScript
13 2 (0.78%) C
13 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.78%) Scala
13 2 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.51%) DV Cleared
3 31 (12.16%) Degree
4 24 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.88%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.18%) BC Cleared
10 3 (1.18%) CITP
10 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.73%) QA
2 13 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) P3O
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (22.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.78%) iptables
3 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (29.02%) Kubernetes
2 53 (20.78%) Terraform
3 30 (11.76%) Ansible
4 21 (8.24%) Grafana
5 13 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.75%) Puppet
7 6 (2.35%) Argo
8 5 (1.96%) Kibana
8 5 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.96%) Rancher
8 5 (1.96%) yum
9 3 (1.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.39%) Control-M
11 1 (0.39%) Istio
11 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.75%) Cisco
2 7 (2.75%) Oracle
2 7 (2.75%) Red Hat
2 7 (2.75%) Splunk
3 6 (2.35%) arcserve
3 6 (2.35%) Google
3 6 (2.35%) Veeam
4 5 (1.96%) Databricks
4 5 (1.96%) Syncfusion
4 5 (1.96%) Telerik
5 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.57%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.78%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.78%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) BMC
8 1 (0.39%) Dell
8 1 (0.39%) IBM