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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 268 866 889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.72% 8.98% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 10.98% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 168 590 548
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,365 £41,138
25th Percentile £51,698 £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 £82,500 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £91,250
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 3,232 7,886 6,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.06% 81.81% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,823 5,675 3,522
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,784 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -8 107 £72,500 +3.57% 123
Gloucestershire 0 82 £65,000 +18.18% 90
Wiltshire +6 43 £64,627 +5.51% 20
Devon -15 12 £50,000 +35.19% 14
Somerset -3 10 £67,500 +3.85% 23
Dorset +26 9 £70,000 +21.74% 21
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 (11.19%) Oracle Application Server
2 20 (7.46%) Jupyter
3 10 (3.73%) Confluence
4 4 (1.49%) nginx
4 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 110 (41.04%) Azure
2 93 (34.70%) AWS
3 47 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (11.57%) GCP
5 27 (10.07%) Power Platform
6 22 (8.21%) Serverless
7 14 (5.22%) SaaS
8 13 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.48%) GitHub
10 10 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.99%) OCI
13 7 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.61%) Pulumi
14 6 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.24%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.36%) Network Security
1 9 (3.36%) VPN
2 8 (2.99%) Broadband
3 5 (1.87%) Firewall
4 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 4 (1.49%) IPv4
5 3 (1.12%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) OSPF
6 2 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.75%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.37%) FTP
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.37%) IPsec
7 1 (0.37%) SMTP
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.81%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.19%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (9.33%) Big Data
4 19 (7.09%) Power BI
4 19 (7.09%) SQL Server
5 14 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.48%) Tableau
7 9 (3.36%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.61%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.87%) Data Hub
9 5 (1.87%) Looker
10 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.49%) MySQL
11 3 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (13.81%) Git
2 25 (9.33%) JIRA
3 19 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.97%) GitLab
5 9 (3.36%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.36%) Postman
6 8 (2.99%) Selenium
7 7 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.24%) Jaeger
8 6 (2.24%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.87%) webpack
10 4 (1.49%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.12%) JUnit
12 2 (0.75%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (40.67%) Finance
2 74 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 55 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (12.31%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (11.94%) Banking
7 31 (11.57%) Military
8 25 (9.33%) Retail
9 24 (8.96%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.73%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.87%) Electronics
12 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.87%) Marketing
13 4 (1.49%) Law
13 4 (1.49%) Legal
14 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (21.27%) Senior
2 37 (13.81%) Lead
3 36 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.69%) Developer
5 27 (10.07%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.84%) Data Scientist
6 21 (7.84%) Senior Data Scientist
7 17 (6.34%) Architect
7 17 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.73%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.73%) Database Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Release Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Change and Release Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Change Manager
13 8 (2.99%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.07%) .NET
2 20 (7.46%) React
3 19 (7.09%) RESTful
4 16 (5.97%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.22%) .NET Framework
5 14 (5.22%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.85%) HTML
6 13 (4.85%) Node.js
7 11 (4.10%) CSS
8 10 (3.73%) Spring
8 10 (3.73%) Web Services
9 9 (3.36%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.36%) ASP.NET
9 9 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (2.99%) JSON
11 7 (2.61%) Bootstrap
11 7 (2.61%) REST
12 6 (2.24%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.58%) Cyberattack
2 21 (7.84%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.24%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.24%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.49%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.49%) Robotics
7 3 (1.12%) CMDB
7 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.75%) PKI
8 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.96%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Windows
3 9 (3.36%) Unix
4 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (50.37%) Agile
2 95 (35.45%) CI/CD
3 71 (26.49%) Software Engineering
4 67 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (23.88%) Mentoring
6 57 (21.27%) ITIL
7 48 (17.91%) Analytics
7 48 (17.91%) Containerisation
8 46 (17.16%) Service Management
9 45 (16.79%) Data Modelling
9 45 (16.79%) Microservices
10 39 (14.55%) Customer Experience
11 35 (13.06%) Data Management
11 35 (13.06%) Roadmaps
12 34 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 33 (12.31%) Data Integration
13 33 (12.31%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.31%) Test Automation
13 33 (12.31%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (30.60%) Python
2 65 (24.25%) JavaScript
3 49 (18.28%) Java
4 41 (15.30%) SQL
5 28 (10.45%) C#
6 25 (9.33%) Bash
7 19 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.48%) Go
10 5 (1.87%) R
10 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.87%) VB
10 5 (1.87%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.49%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.12%) Bicep
12 3 (1.12%) PHP
13 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.75%) VB6
14 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 71 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.79%) Degree
3 39 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 31 (11.57%) DBS Check
4 31 (11.57%) SC Cleared
5 26 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (7.84%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.10%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.12%) CISSP
13 2 (0.75%) CEH
13 2 (0.75%) CISM
13 2 (0.75%) GIAC
13 2 (0.75%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.72%) QA
2 8 (2.99%) NIST
3 5 (1.87%) GDPR
3 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.49%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.49%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) COBIT
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 74 (27.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.75%) vSphere
3 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (27.61%) Kubernetes
2 46 (17.16%) Terraform
3 26 (9.70%) Ansible
4 9 (3.36%) Argo
4 9 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.24%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.49%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) Grafana
7 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.75%) Istio
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (15.67%) Oracle
2 29 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.46%) Google
4 12 (4.48%) Databricks
4 12 (4.48%) IBM
5 10 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.87%) SAP
8 4 (1.49%) Adobe
9 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco
10 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.75%) Thales
10 2 (0.75%) UiPath
10 2 (0.75%) VMware
11 1 (0.37%) 3PAR
11 1 (0.37%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.37%) HP
11 1 (0.37%) Splunk