DevOps Jobs in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 868 890 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.26% 13.32% 15.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.17% 14.10% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 604 548 884
10th Percentile £36,365 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +8.70% +11.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,774 6,314 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.96% 94.49% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,501 4,988
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 2024. 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 -4 381 £70,000 +7.69% 84
Gloucestershire 0 272 £55,000 -15.38% 25
Wiltshire -5 102 £58,750 -12.96% 9
Devon -4 45 £36,984 -11.18% 22
Dorset -49 26 £57,500 - 5
Somerset -15 23 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Cornwall - 2 £55,000 - 2
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 66 (7.60%) Confluence
2 28 (3.23%) Apache
3 27 (3.11%) ArcGIS
3 27 (3.11%) GeoServer
4 25 (2.88%) CMS
5 24 (2.76%) nginx
5 24 (2.76%) Umbraco
6 20 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 20 (2.30%) IIS
7 18 (2.07%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.96%) Jupyter
8 17 (1.96%) Kentico
8 17 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
9 10 (1.15%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.23%) JBoss
12 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 27 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.58%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 490 (56.45%) Azure
2 380 (43.78%) AWS
3 247 (28.46%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (13.36%) GCP
5 78 (8.99%) OpenShift
6 72 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (7.95%) SaaS
8 55 (6.34%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.03%) GitHub
9 35 (4.03%) Serverless
10 34 (3.92%) PaaS
11 33 (3.80%) PowerApps
12 30 (3.46%) Amazon S3
13 25 (2.88%) IaaS
13 25 (2.88%) Power Automate
14 18 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (1.96%) Kontent
15 17 (1.96%) MinIO
16 16 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.30%) TCP/IP
2 45 (5.18%) DNS
3 40 (4.61%) HTTP
4 37 (4.26%) DHCP
5 14 (1.61%) Firewall
6 10 (1.15%) Network Security
7 7 (0.81%) VPN
8 5 (0.58%) AMQP
8 5 (0.58%) LAN
8 5 (0.58%) WAN
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.35%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) OSPF
10 3 (0.35%) RS-485
10 3 (0.35%) SSL
10 3 (0.35%) VLAN
11 2 (0.23%) IPsec
11 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (12.79%) SQL Server
2 56 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (6.34%) BigQuery
4 53 (6.11%) Looker
5 37 (4.26%) Big Data
6 33 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.69%) GIS
7 32 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (3.57%) Power BI
9 30 (3.46%) NoSQL
10 27 (3.11%) QGIS
11 23 (2.65%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.65%) MySQL
12 19 (2.19%) Hadoop
13 17 (1.96%) Presto
14 14 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (1.04%) Star Schema
17 8 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 177 (20.39%) Git
2 119 (13.71%) JIRA
3 87 (10.02%) Visual Studio
4 75 (8.64%) Jenkins
5 64 (7.37%) Bitbucket
6 59 (6.80%) Sourcetree
7 20 (2.30%) GitLab
8 19 (2.19%) Selenium
9 17 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 15 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.92%) Maven
14 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.81%) Vagrant
15 6 (0.69%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.58%) JMeter
16 5 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 165 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 82 (9.45%) Presentation Skills
3 81 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.29%) Aerospace
5 70 (8.06%) Finance
6 67 (7.72%) Games
7 33 (3.80%) Billing
8 26 (3.00%) Banking
9 25 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 22 (2.53%) Fire and Rescue
10 22 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.19%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.84%) Legal
13 16 (1.84%) Retail
14 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.50%) Publishing
16 12 (1.38%) Law
17 5 (0.58%) Marketing
17 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (32.03%) Developer
2 256 (29.49%) Senior
3 153 (17.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 110 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 95 (10.94%) Software Engineer
6 91 (10.48%) Architect
7 83 (9.56%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.80%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.80%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.80%) Software Developer
8 59 (6.80%) Unity 3D Developer
9 53 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (5.99%) Senior .NET Developer
11 48 (5.53%) Data Engineer
12 44 (5.07%) Lead
13 43 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.84%) C# Developer
15 41 (4.72%) Applications Developer
15 41 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (4.61%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (25.81%) .NET
2 146 (16.82%) React
3 115 (13.25%) CSS
4 108 (12.44%) .NET Core
5 94 (10.83%) HTML
6 88 (10.14%) .NET Framework
6 88 (10.14%) ASP.NET
7 82 (9.45%) AngularJS
8 61 (7.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 52 (5.99%) Entity Framework
10 46 (5.30%) RESTful
11 37 (4.26%) Spring
12 35 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 35 (4.03%) Vue
13 31 (3.57%) LESS
14 30 (3.46%) YAML
15 29 (3.34%) Node.js
16 28 (3.23%) PostGIS
17 27 (3.11%) Leaflet
17 27 (3.11%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.80%) Virtual Reality
3 46 (5.30%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (4.61%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (2.65%) Virtual Team
9 22 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 20 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.69%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.46%) BBC
15 4 (0.46%) e-Learning
15 4 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 200 (23.04%) Linux
2 79 (9.10%) Windows
3 47 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 14 (1.61%) Unix
6 9 (1.04%) Debian
7 8 (0.92%) CentOS
7 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.81%) Android
8 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.81%) CoreOS
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.46%) AIX
12 3 (0.35%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.65%) Agile
2 306 (35.25%) CI/CD
3 222 (25.58%) Software Engineering
4 206 (23.73%) Scrum
5 177 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (15.32%) Actionable Insight
7 127 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
9 102 (11.75%) Design Patterns
10 99 (11.41%) Full Stack Development
11 97 (11.18%) Containerisation
12 94 (10.83%) MVC
13 93 (10.71%) Microservices
14 89 (10.25%) UML
15 86 (9.91%) Mentoring
16 83 (9.56%) Collaborative Working
17 79 (9.10%) Data Engineering
18 78 (8.99%) SDLC
19 70 (8.06%) Kanban
20 68 (7.83%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 239 (27.53%) C#
2 232 (26.73%) Python
3 212 (24.42%) JavaScript
4 156 (17.97%) Java
5 116 (13.36%) SQL
6 105 (12.10%) Bash
7 84 (9.68%) PowerShell
8 55 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 28 (3.23%) Go
10 27 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 26 (3.00%) T-SQL
12 23 (2.65%) Ruby
13 21 (2.42%) PHP
14 15 (1.73%) Bicep
15 13 (1.50%) C
15 13 (1.50%) C++
16 8 (0.92%) R
17 7 (0.81%) Perl
18 6 (0.69%) Scala
19 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 347 (39.98%) Security Cleared
2 217 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 160 (18.43%) Degree
4 126 (14.52%) DV Cleared
5 98 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (5.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.69%) IIBA
11 5 (0.58%) PCI QSA
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.35%) ISEB
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.79%) QA
2 24 (2.76%) GDPR
3 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.04%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 200 (23.04%) Docker
2 49 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (4.15%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.84%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.58%) Firmware
7 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.35%) XenApp
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 224 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 176 (20.28%) Terraform
3 169 (19.47%) Ansible
4 79 (9.10%) Puppet
5 42 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 35 (4.03%) Grafana
7 24 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.96%) HAProxy
9 8 (0.92%) Kibana
9 8 (0.92%) Packer
10 5 (0.58%) Argo
10 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.58%) Nagios
11 4 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.46%) vRealize
12 3 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Anchore
Vendors
1 218 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.10%) Google
3 59 (6.80%) VMware
4 56 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 34 (3.92%) Oracle
6 27 (3.11%) ESRI
6 27 (3.11%) Sparx
7 17 (1.96%) Optimizely
7 17 (1.96%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.38%) IBM
9 11 (1.27%) Citrix
9 11 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.15%) Cisco
10 10 (1.15%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.92%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.81%) SAP
13 6 (0.69%) Databricks
13 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.69%) Twitter
14 5 (0.58%) Sybase