DevSecOps Job Trends in the South West

DevSecOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 154 144
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 +79
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 19 28 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.37% 0.67% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.79% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 19
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £39,950
25th Percentile £71,125 £60,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,375 £86,000 £72,375
90th Percentile £90,250 £93,750 £90,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -2.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

DevSecOps 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 3,650 3,558 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.58% 85.65% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,781 3,194
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in the South West

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
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 DevSecOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Gloucestershire +24 12 £75,000 +7.14% 16
Bristol +11 4 £75,000 +1.69% 8
Wiltshire -3 1 £85,000 +1.19% 1
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Datadog
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JUnit
2 3 (15.79%) Balsamiq
2 3 (15.79%) CircleCI
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Test Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Playwright
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Blockchain
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Software Engineering
3 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
5 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Security Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
8 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
8 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
8 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (15.79%) Threat Detection
8 3 (15.79%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Bash
3 9 (47.37%) Java
4 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.79%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Elixir
5 3 (15.79%) Erlang
5 3 (15.79%) Go
5 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.79%) VBScript
6 2 (10.53%) C
6 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
7 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) Degree
5 3 (15.79%) CITP
5 3 (15.79%) CREST Certified
6 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
6 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 8 (42.11%) Ansible
4 6 (31.58%) Grafana
5 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Guidewire