DevOps Jobs in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 255 843 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.79% 8.06% 13.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 10.16% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 154 572 529
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,365 £40,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,751 £76,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,542 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

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 3,353 8,299 6,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 89.29% 79.33% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,001 5,860 3,602
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,396 £53,163
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -1.44% +6.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -10 96 £78,810 +12.59% 215
Gloucestershire +1 86 £65,000 +18.18% 241
Wiltshire +5 35 £64,627 +3.40% 62
Devon -7 12 £47,500 +28.43% 87
Dorset +23 10 £62,500 - 77
Somerset +9 10 £67,500 +35.00% 139
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 30 (11.76%) Oracle Application Server
2 20 (7.84%) Jupyter
3 10 (3.92%) Confluence
4 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.39%) Azure
2 93 (36.47%) AWS
3 40 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (11.37%) GCP
5 25 (9.80%) Serverless
6 20 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.49%) SaaS
8 13 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.10%) GitHub
9 10 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.92%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.14%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.75%) OCI
12 7 (2.75%) Pulumi
13 6 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) Network Security
1 9 (3.53%) VPN
2 8 (3.14%) Broadband
3 5 (1.96%) Firewall
4 4 (1.57%) IPv4
5 3 (1.18%) DNS
5 3 (1.18%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) SSH
6 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.39%) FTP
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.39%) SMTP
7 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (9.80%) Big Data
4 19 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 14 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.49%) Power BI
6 13 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.14%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.14%) Tableau
9 7 (2.75%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.96%) Data Hub
10 5 (1.96%) Looker
10 5 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.96%) MySQL
11 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.57%) Redis
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (14.12%) Git
2 20 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.84%) JIRA
3 15 (5.88%) GitLab
4 11 (4.31%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.53%) Postman
6 8 (3.14%) Selenium
7 7 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.75%) webpack
8 6 (2.35%) Jaeger
8 6 (2.35%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.57%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.57%) JUnit
10 4 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.18%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.78%) Gatling
12 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 103 (40.39%) Finance
2 74 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (12.94%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (12.55%) Military
7 27 (10.59%) Banking
8 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
9 23 (9.02%) Retail
10 10 (3.92%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.35%) Law
12 5 (1.96%) Electronics
12 5 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.96%) Marketing
13 3 (1.18%) Legal
14 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (22.75%) Senior
2 37 (14.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (14.12%) Developer
4 35 (13.73%) Lead
5 26 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 21 (8.24%) Data Scientist
6 21 (8.24%) Senior Data Scientist
7 16 (6.27%) Architect
8 14 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.10%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.92%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Release Manager
13 7 (2.75%) Change and Release Manager
13 7 (2.75%) Change Manager
13 7 (2.75%) IT Change Manager
13 7 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.55%) .NET
2 23 (9.02%) RESTful
3 19 (7.45%) React
4 17 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.27%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.10%) HTML
6 13 (5.10%) Node.js
7 12 (4.71%) .NET Framework
8 11 (4.31%) .NET Core
8 11 (4.31%) CSS
8 11 (4.31%) Web Services
9 10 (3.92%) Spring
10 9 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (3.14%) JSON
12 7 (2.75%) Bootstrap
12 7 (2.75%) Jest
12 7 (2.75%) REST
13 6 (2.35%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.35%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.02%) Cyberattack
2 21 (8.24%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.35%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.96%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.57%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.78%) PKI
10 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Robotics
10 2 (0.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.41%) Linux
2 11 (4.31%) Windows
3 9 (3.53%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (51.37%) Agile
2 87 (34.12%) CI/CD
3 67 (26.27%) Software Engineering
4 66 (25.88%) Mentoring
5 59 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (20.00%) ITIL
7 48 (18.82%) Containerisation
8 46 (18.04%) Microservices
9 43 (16.86%) Service Management
10 41 (16.08%) Analytics
11 38 (14.90%) Data Modelling
12 37 (14.51%) Customer Experience
13 35 (13.73%) Roadmaps
13 35 (13.73%) Test Automation
14 34 (13.33%) Data Management
15 33 (12.94%) Data Integration
15 33 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
16 32 (12.55%) Computer Science
17 31 (12.16%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.20%) Python
2 67 (26.27%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.82%) Java
4 39 (15.29%) SQL
5 29 (11.37%) C#
6 26 (10.20%) Bash
7 21 (8.24%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.71%) Go
10 5 (1.96%) R
10 5 (1.96%) VB
11 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.78%) Bicep
12 2 (0.78%) Perl
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) VB6
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.04%) Degree
3 40 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 31 (12.16%) DBS Check
5 29 (11.37%) SC Cleared
6 27 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (7.84%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.92%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.18%) CISSP
12 2 (0.78%) CEH
12 2 (0.78%) CISM
12 2 (0.78%) GIAC
12 2 (0.78%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) NIST
3 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.57%) GDPR
5 3 (1.18%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.18%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) COBIT
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 79 (30.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
3 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.82%) Terraform
3 29 (11.37%) Ansible
4 9 (3.53%) Argo
4 9 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.35%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.57%) Puppet
7 3 (1.18%) Grafana
7 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.78%) Istio
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (16.47%) Oracle
2 28 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.88%) Google
4 11 (4.31%) IBM
5 10 (3.92%) Databricks
5 10 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.96%) SAP
8 3 (1.18%) Adobe
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.78%) Thales
9 2 (0.78%) VMware
10 1 (0.39%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.39%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.39%) Meraki
10 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.39%) PayPal
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk
10 1 (0.39%) UiPath