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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 874 897 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.43% 13.17% 15.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 13.94% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 610 567 900
10th Percentile £36,365 £41,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +12.61% +6.73%
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 7,748 6,435 7,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.55% 94.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,571 4,992
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,225 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 9 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 9 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 -4 384 £70,576 +8.58% 85
Gloucestershire 0 273 £55,000 -15.38% 31
Wiltshire -1 108 £55,000 -18.52% 9
Devon -9 43 £36,984 -3.38% 15
Somerset -12 24 £55,000 - 10
Dorset -42 24 £57,500 - 5
Cornwall - 2 £55,000 - 1
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 (7.55%) Confluence
2 27 (3.09%) Apache
2 27 (3.09%) ArcGIS
2 27 (3.09%) GeoServer
3 25 (2.86%) CMS
4 24 (2.75%) Umbraco
5 23 (2.63%) nginx
6 20 (2.29%) Apache Spark
6 20 (2.29%) IIS
7 18 (2.06%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.95%) Jupyter
8 17 (1.95%) Kentico
8 17 (1.95%) Sitecore CMS
9 12 (1.37%) SharePoint
10 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.69%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.34%) Captiva
12 3 (0.34%) FileNet
12 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.80%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.23%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 492 (56.29%) Azure
2 377 (43.14%) AWS
3 252 (28.83%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (13.39%) GCP
5 78 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (8.58%) OpenShift
7 68 (7.78%) SaaS
8 56 (6.41%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.00%) PaaS
9 35 (4.00%) Serverless
10 34 (3.89%) GitHub
10 34 (3.89%) PowerApps
11 30 (3.43%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.97%) IaaS
13 24 (2.75%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (1.95%) Kontent
15 17 (1.95%) MinIO
16 15 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 45 (5.15%) DNS
3 40 (4.58%) HTTP
4 37 (4.23%) DHCP
5 14 (1.60%) Firewall
6 10 (1.14%) Network Security
7 7 (0.80%) VPN
8 5 (0.57%) AMQP
8 5 (0.57%) LAN
8 5 (0.57%) WAN
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.34%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.34%) IPv4
10 3 (0.34%) OSPF
10 3 (0.34%) RS-485
10 3 (0.34%) VLAN
11 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.23%) IPsec
11 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 60 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (6.41%) BigQuery
4 53 (6.06%) Looker
5 37 (4.23%) Big Data
6 34 (3.89%) GIS
7 33 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (3.66%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.43%) Power BI
10 27 (3.09%) QGIS
11 23 (2.63%) MySQL
12 22 (2.52%) MongoDB
13 20 (2.29%) Hadoop
14 17 (1.95%) Presto
15 15 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
17 10 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (1.14%) Star Schema
18 8 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 178 (20.37%) Git
2 121 (13.84%) JIRA
3 86 (9.84%) Visual Studio
4 75 (8.58%) Jenkins
5 62 (7.09%) Bitbucket
6 59 (6.75%) Sourcetree
7 21 (2.40%) GitLab
8 19 (2.17%) Selenium
9 17 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 17 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.92%) Maven
13 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.80%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.80%) Vagrant
14 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 163 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 83 (9.50%) Presentation Skills
3 81 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.47%) Finance
5 66 (7.55%) Aerospace
5 66 (7.55%) Games
6 33 (3.78%) Billing
7 28 (3.20%) Banking
8 24 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.52%) Fire and Rescue
10 19 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.17%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.83%) Legal
11 16 (1.83%) Retail
12 14 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.49%) Publishing
14 11 (1.26%) Law
15 5 (0.57%) Marketing
16 4 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 277 (31.69%) Developer
2 251 (28.72%) Senior
3 153 (17.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 107 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 94 (10.76%) Software Engineer
6 92 (10.53%) Architect
7 79 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 59 (6.75%) 3D Developer
8 59 (6.75%) Games Developer
8 59 (6.75%) Software Developer
8 59 (6.75%) Unity 3D Developer
9 56 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (5.72%) Data Engineer
10 50 (5.72%) Senior .NET Developer
11 46 (5.26%) Lead
12 44 (5.03%) Applications Developer
13 41 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (4.46%) C# Developer
16 37 (4.23%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (25.63%) .NET
2 144 (16.48%) React
3 113 (12.93%) CSS
4 105 (12.01%) .NET Core
5 93 (10.64%) HTML
6 87 (9.95%) ASP.NET
7 85 (9.73%) .NET Framework
7 85 (9.73%) AngularJS
8 61 (6.98%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 51 (5.84%) Entity Framework
10 46 (5.26%) RESTful
11 38 (4.35%) Spring
12 35 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 33 (3.78%) Vue
14 30 (3.43%) LESS
14 30 (3.43%) YAML
15 29 (3.32%) PostGIS
16 28 (3.20%) Node.js
17 27 (3.09%) Leaflet
17 27 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.75%) Virtual Reality
3 49 (5.61%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (2.63%) Private Cloud
8 23 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 19 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.69%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.46%) BBC
15 4 (0.46%) IoT
15 4 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 200 (22.88%) Linux
2 79 (9.04%) Windows
3 46 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
4 16 (1.83%) Unix
5 9 (1.03%) CentOS
6 8 (0.92%) CoreOS
6 8 (0.92%) Debian
6 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.80%) Android
7 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.46%) AIX
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (49.08%) Agile
2 302 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 223 (25.51%) Software Engineering
4 207 (23.68%) Scrum
5 178 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (15.90%) Actionable Insight
7 127 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (12.93%) Continuous Integration
9 100 (11.44%) Design Patterns
9 100 (11.44%) Full Stack Development
10 98 (11.21%) Containerisation
11 96 (10.98%) Microservices
12 93 (10.64%) MVC
13 91 (10.41%) UML
14 87 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 81 (9.27%) Data Engineering
15 81 (9.27%) SDLC
16 76 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
17 72 (8.24%) Project Management
18 70 (8.01%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 236 (27.00%) Python
2 235 (26.89%) C#
3 211 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 160 (18.31%) Java
5 121 (13.84%) SQL
6 104 (11.90%) Bash
7 84 (9.61%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.52%) TypeScript
9 28 (3.20%) Go
10 27 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.97%) T-SQL
12 23 (2.63%) Ruby
13 22 (2.52%) PHP
14 15 (1.72%) Bicep
15 13 (1.49%) C
16 12 (1.37%) C++
17 9 (1.03%) R
18 7 (0.80%) Perl
18 7 (0.80%) Scala
19 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 350 (40.05%) Security Cleared
2 219 (25.06%) SC Cleared
3 161 (18.42%) Degree
4 126 (14.42%) DV Cleared
5 102 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (5.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 26 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.69%) IIBA
10 6 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.57%) ISEB
11 5 (0.57%) PCI QSA
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (10.18%) QA
2 25 (2.86%) GDPR
3 14 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.03%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.34%) 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
System Software
1 196 (22.43%) Docker
2 48 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 18 (2.06%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.57%) Firmware
8 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.34%) XenApp
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 220 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 174 (19.91%) Terraform
3 167 (19.11%) Ansible
4 79 (9.04%) Puppet
5 43 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 35 (4.00%) Grafana
7 23 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.95%) HAProxy
9 8 (0.92%) Kibana
9 8 (0.92%) Packer
10 5 (0.57%) Argo
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.46%) Nagios
11 4 (0.46%) vRealize
12 3 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.11%) Anchore
13 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 221 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.15%) Google
3 59 (6.75%) VMware
4 55 (6.29%) Red Hat
5 35 (4.00%) Oracle
6 29 (3.32%) Sparx
7 27 (3.09%) ESRI
8 17 (1.95%) Optimizely
8 17 (1.95%) Sitecore
9 15 (1.72%) IBM
10 12 (1.37%) Citrix
11 11 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.14%) Cisco
12 10 (1.14%) Xamarin
13 9 (1.03%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.92%) SAP
15 7 (0.80%) Databricks
15 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.69%) Twitter
17 5 (0.57%) Sybase