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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 871 897 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.10% 13.35% 15.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.08% 14.12% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 598 549 891
10th Percentile £36,365 £41,175 £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% +12.75%
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 7,858 6,351 7,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 94.55% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,659 3,483 5,020
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,738
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,700 £66,250
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 24 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 24 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 -3 381 £70,000 +7.69% 65
Gloucestershire +1 277 £55,000 -15.38% 28
Wiltshire -5 100 £61,250 -9.26% 12
Devon -4 46 £36,984 -3.38% 20
Dorset -46 25 £57,500 - 9
Somerset -18 23 £65,000 +18.18% 14
Cornwall - 1 £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 67 (7.69%) Confluence
2 29 (3.33%) Apache
3 27 (3.10%) ArcGIS
3 27 (3.10%) GeoServer
4 25 (2.87%) CMS
4 25 (2.87%) nginx
5 24 (2.76%) Umbraco
6 20 (2.30%) IIS
7 19 (2.18%) Apache Spark
8 18 (2.07%) Headless CMS
9 17 (1.95%) Jupyter
9 17 (1.95%) Kentico
9 17 (1.95%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.92%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.34%) JBoss
14 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 26 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.34%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 493 (56.60%) Azure
2 389 (44.66%) AWS
3 242 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (12.97%) GCP
5 79 (9.07%) OpenShift
6 69 (7.92%) SaaS
7 67 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (6.20%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.02%) GitHub
9 35 (4.02%) Serverless
10 34 (3.90%) PaaS
11 32 (3.67%) PowerApps
12 30 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.76%) Power Automate
14 23 (2.64%) IaaS
15 18 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.95%) Kontent
16 17 (1.95%) MinIO
17 16 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (1.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.51%) TCP/IP
2 47 (5.40%) DNS
3 42 (4.82%) HTTP
4 39 (4.48%) DHCP
5 14 (1.61%) Firewall
6 10 (1.15%) Network Security
7 6 (0.69%) VPN
8 5 (0.57%) AMQP
8 5 (0.57%) LAN
8 5 (0.57%) WAN
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
9 4 (0.46%) SSL
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.34%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.34%) RS-485
11 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.23%) IPsec
11 2 (0.23%) IPv4
11 2 (0.23%) OSPF
11 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 55 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (6.20%) BigQuery
4 53 (6.08%) Looker
5 38 (4.36%) Big Data
6 33 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (3.79%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.67%) Power BI
8 30 (3.44%) GIS
9 28 (3.21%) NoSQL
10 27 (3.10%) QGIS
11 24 (2.76%) MySQL
12 22 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 18 (2.07%) Hadoop
14 17 (1.95%) Presto
15 14 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.15%) Tableau
18 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 175 (20.09%) Git
2 123 (14.12%) JIRA
3 86 (9.87%) Visual Studio
4 72 (8.27%) Jenkins
5 66 (7.58%) Bitbucket
6 59 (6.77%) Sourcetree
7 21 (2.41%) GitLab
8 17 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 16 (1.84%) Selenium
10 13 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.80%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.80%) Maven
12 7 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.80%) Vagrant
13 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.69%) JMeter
13 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 169 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.84%) Aerospace
5 67 (7.69%) Games
6 63 (7.23%) Finance
7 33 (3.79%) Billing
8 27 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.53%) Fire and Rescue
10 20 (2.30%) Banking
10 20 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.07%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.84%) Legal
12 16 (1.84%) Retail
13 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.49%) Publishing
15 11 (1.26%) Law
16 5 (0.57%) Marketing
16 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (31.80%) Developer
2 258 (29.62%) Senior
3 158 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (12.74%) Senior Developer
5 94 (10.79%) Software Engineer
6 93 (10.68%) Architect
7 84 (9.64%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.77%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.77%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.77%) Software Developer
8 59 (6.77%) Unity 3D Developer
9 53 (6.08%) Senior .NET Developer
10 52 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
11 47 (5.40%) Data Engineer
12 44 (5.05%) Lead
13 43 (4.94%) C# Developer
13 43 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 41 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
16 39 (4.48%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (25.37%) .NET
2 146 (16.76%) React
3 115 (13.20%) CSS
4 109 (12.51%) .NET Core
5 95 (10.91%) HTML
6 89 (10.22%) .NET Framework
7 88 (10.10%) ASP.NET
8 79 (9.07%) AngularJS
9 61 (7.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 53 (6.08%) Entity Framework
11 47 (5.40%) RESTful
12 36 (4.13%) Spring
13 34 (3.90%) ASP.NET MVC
13 34 (3.90%) Vue
14 32 (3.67%) LESS
15 30 (3.44%) YAML
16 29 (3.33%) Node.js
17 28 (3.21%) PostGIS
18 27 (3.10%) Leaflet
18 27 (3.10%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.77%) Virtual Reality
3 43 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (4.59%) Cloud Native
5 29 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 21 (2.41%) Private Cloud
9 20 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (1.84%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.57%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.57%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.46%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 203 (23.31%) Linux
2 81 (9.30%) Windows
3 50 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.49%) Unix
6 10 (1.15%) Debian
7 8 (0.92%) CentOS
7 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.80%) Android
8 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.80%) CoreOS
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.46%) AIX
12 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (49.83%) Agile
2 313 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 220 (25.26%) Software Engineering
4 210 (24.11%) Scrum
5 181 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
7 127 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (12.97%) Continuous Integration
9 100 (11.48%) Design Patterns
10 99 (11.37%) Containerisation
11 98 (11.25%) Full Stack Development
12 94 (10.79%) MVC
13 91 (10.45%) Microservices
14 88 (10.10%) UML
15 87 (9.99%) Collaborative Working
16 86 (9.87%) Mentoring
17 79 (9.07%) SDLC
18 77 (8.84%) Data Engineering
19 74 (8.50%) Kanban
20 68 (7.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 240 (27.55%) C#
2 234 (26.87%) Python
3 207 (23.77%) JavaScript
4 153 (17.57%) Java
5 111 (12.74%) SQL
6 106 (12.17%) Bash
7 85 (9.76%) PowerShell
8 54 (6.20%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 26 (2.99%) Go
11 25 (2.87%) T-SQL
12 22 (2.53%) Ruby
13 21 (2.41%) PHP
14 15 (1.72%) Bicep
15 13 (1.49%) C
15 13 (1.49%) C++
16 8 (0.92%) R
17 6 (0.69%) Perl
18 5 (0.57%) Scala
19 4 (0.46%) Lua
Qualifications
1 355 (40.76%) Security Cleared
2 221 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 159 (18.25%) Degree
4 132 (15.15%) DV Cleared
5 95 (10.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (4.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.69%) IIBA
11 5 (0.57%) PCI QSA
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.34%) ISEB
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.41%) QA
2 23 (2.64%) GDPR
3 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.03%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 202 (23.19%) Docker
2 51 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.36%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.57%) Firmware
9 3 (0.34%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 230 (26.41%) Kubernetes
2 182 (20.90%) Terraform
3 175 (20.09%) Ansible
4 79 (9.07%) Puppet
5 43 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.25%) Grafana
7 24 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.95%) HAProxy
9 8 (0.92%) Packer
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 6 (0.69%) Nagios
12 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.46%) Argo
13 4 (0.46%) Istio
13 4 (0.46%) vRealize
14 3 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
15 1 (0.11%) Anchore
Vendors
1 214 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.61%) Google
3 60 (6.89%) VMware
4 59 (6.77%) Red Hat
5 31 (3.56%) Oracle
6 27 (3.10%) ESRI
7 26 (2.99%) Sparx
8 17 (1.95%) Optimizely
8 17 (1.95%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.15%) Cisco
10 10 (1.15%) Citrix
10 10 (1.15%) Xamarin
11 9 (1.03%) IBM
12 7 (0.80%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.69%) Databricks
13 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.69%) Splunk
13 6 (0.69%) Twitter