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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 19 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 262 860 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.36% 8.12% 13.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 10.18% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 157 578 528
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,365 £41,138
25th Percentile £51,698 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £91,625
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 3,266 8,445 6,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 91.77% 79.73% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 5,957 3,481
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -2.48% +6.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -9 102 £73,750 +5.36% 127
Gloucestershire -2 83 £65,000 +18.18% 64
Wiltshire +6 40 £64,627 +3.40% 24
Devon -10 12 £47,500 +28.43% 12
Dorset +25 10 £62,500 -7.41% 20
Somerset +2 10 £67,500 +22.73% 60
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 (11.45%) Oracle Application Server
2 20 (7.63%) Jupyter
3 10 (3.82%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 108 (41.22%) Azure
2 93 (35.50%) AWS
3 43 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (12.21%) GCP
5 24 (9.16%) Power Platform
6 23 (8.78%) Serverless
7 14 (5.34%) SaaS
8 13 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.58%) GitHub
10 10 (3.82%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.67%) OCI
12 7 (2.67%) Pulumi
13 6 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.44%) Network Security
1 9 (3.44%) VPN
2 8 (3.05%) Broadband
3 4 (1.53%) Firewall
3 4 (1.53%) IPv4
4 3 (1.15%) DNS
4 3 (1.15%) SSL
5 2 (0.76%) OSPF
5 2 (0.76%) SSH
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.76%) VLAN
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.38%) FTP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.38%) SMTP
6 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.45%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (9.54%) Big Data
4 20 (7.63%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.87%) Power BI
6 14 (5.34%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.96%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.20%) Tableau
10 9 (3.44%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.05%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.91%) Data Hub
13 5 (1.91%) Looker
13 5 (1.91%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.53%) MySQL
14 4 (1.53%) Redis
15 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (14.12%) Git
2 23 (8.78%) JIRA
3 19 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.73%) GitLab
5 11 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.44%) Postman
7 8 (3.05%) Selenium
8 7 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.67%) webpack
9 6 (2.29%) Jaeger
9 6 (2.29%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.91%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.53%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (1.53%) JUnit
11 4 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (1.15%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.76%) Gatling
13 2 (0.76%) TestRail
General
1 108 (41.22%) Finance
2 76 (29.01%) Social Skills
3 55 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (12.60%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (12.21%) Military
7 31 (11.83%) Banking
8 25 (9.54%) Retail
9 24 (9.16%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.82%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.91%) Electronics
12 5 (1.91%) Law
12 5 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.91%) Marketing
13 3 (1.15%) Legal
14 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (22.14%) Senior
2 36 (13.74%) Developer
2 36 (13.74%) Lead
3 34 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.45%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.02%) Data Scientist
5 21 (8.02%) Senior Data Scientist
6 17 (6.49%) Architect
7 14 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (4.96%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Database Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.44%) Release Manager
13 8 (3.05%) Change Manager
13 8 (3.05%) IT Change Manager
13 8 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 8 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.45%) .NET
2 22 (8.40%) RESTful
3 21 (8.02%) React
4 18 (6.87%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.49%) Spring Boot
6 14 (5.34%) Node.js
7 13 (4.96%) .NET Framework
7 13 (4.96%) HTML
8 11 (4.20%) CSS
8 11 (4.20%) Spring
8 11 (4.20%) Web Services
9 10 (3.82%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (3.05%) JSON
12 7 (2.67%) ASP.NET
12 7 (2.67%) Bootstrap
12 7 (2.67%) Jest
12 7 (2.67%) Kafka
12 7 (2.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.78%) Cyberattack
2 21 (8.02%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.29%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.91%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.53%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.53%) Robotics
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.76%) PKI
10 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.78%) Linux
2 11 (4.20%) Windows
3 9 (3.44%) Unix
4 4 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (51.15%) Agile
2 88 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.10%) Software Engineering
4 67 (25.57%) Mentoring
5 64 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (20.23%) ITIL
7 47 (17.94%) Microservices
8 46 (17.56%) Analytics
9 44 (16.79%) Containerisation
9 44 (16.79%) Data Modelling
9 44 (16.79%) Service Management
10 38 (14.50%) Customer Experience
11 36 (13.74%) Roadmaps
12 35 (13.36%) Test Automation
13 34 (12.98%) Data Management
14 33 (12.60%) Artificial Intelligence
14 33 (12.60%) Data Integration
15 32 (12.21%) Decision-Making
15 32 (12.21%) Visualisation
16 31 (11.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (30.15%) Python
2 67 (25.57%) JavaScript
3 49 (18.70%) Java
4 43 (16.41%) SQL
5 28 (10.69%) C#
6 25 (9.54%) Bash
7 21 (8.02%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.11%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.58%) Go
10 5 (1.91%) R
10 5 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.91%) VB
11 4 (1.53%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.53%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
12 2 (0.76%) VB6
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.18%) Degree
3 40 (15.27%) DV Cleared
4 31 (11.83%) DBS Check
4 31 (11.83%) SC Cleared
5 26 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (7.63%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.15%) CISSP
11 2 (0.76%) CEH
11 2 (0.76%) CISM
11 2 (0.76%) GIAC
11 2 (0.76%) ISSAP
11 2 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.25%) QA
2 8 (3.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.53%) GDPR
4 4 (1.53%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.53%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) COBIT
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (29.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.76%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (28.24%) Kubernetes
2 43 (16.41%) Terraform
3 27 (10.31%) Ansible
4 9 (3.44%) Argo
4 9 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.29%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.53%) Puppet
7 3 (1.15%) Grafana
7 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.76%) Istio
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (16.03%) Oracle
2 26 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.25%) Google
4 11 (4.20%) IBM
4 11 (4.20%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.82%) Databricks
6 7 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.91%) SAP
8 4 (1.53%) Adobe
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco
9 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.76%) Thales
9 2 (0.76%) VMware
10 1 (0.38%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.38%) Meraki
10 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.38%) PayPal
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) UiPath
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