DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South West is £68,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 105 131
Rank change year-on-year -40 +26 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 161 188 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.55% 2.89% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 3.26% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 112 112 135
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,397 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -7.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,975 5,765 8,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.76% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,226 3,665 5,138
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Gloucestershire -3 74 £66,250 -11.67% 13
Bristol -14 71 £77,500 +9.20% 15
Wiltshire -12 9 £47,500 -47.95% 1
Devon -31 3 £39,500 +3.19%
Dorset -27 2 £67,500 +10.20% 1
Somerset -16 1 £75,000 +28.76% 1
Cornwall - 1 £55,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 161 (100.00%) DevOps
2 122 (75.78%) Terraform
3 118 (73.29%) Kubernetes
4 112 (69.57%) Docker
5 108 (67.08%) AWS
6 103 (63.98%) CI/CD
7 94 (58.39%) Ansible
8 93 (57.76%) Linux
9 89 (55.28%) Security Cleared
10 75 (46.58%) Agile
11 70 (43.48%) Azure
12 65 (40.37%) DV Cleared
13 63 (39.13%) Python
14 58 (36.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 45 (27.95%) Continuous Integration
16 44 (27.33%) Jenkins
16 44 (27.33%) Scrum
16 44 (27.33%) Prometheus
17 41 (25.47%) SDLC
17 41 (25.47%) JIRA
18 40 (24.84%) Collaborative Working
18 40 (24.84%) Continuous Deployment
19 39 (24.22%) Observability
20 38 (23.60%) Containerisation
20 38 (23.60%) Kanban
20 38 (23.60%) Bash
20 38 (23.60%) Aerospace
20 38 (23.60%) Validation
21 36 (22.36%) Grafana
22 29 (18.01%) Actionable Insight

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 19 (11.80%) Apache
1 19 (11.80%) nginx
2 16 (9.94%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.94%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.86%) JBoss
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 108 (67.08%) AWS
2 70 (43.48%) Azure
3 28 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 27 (16.77%) GCP
4 27 (16.77%) OpenShift
5 16 (9.94%) MinIO
6 15 (9.32%) Datadog
6 15 (9.32%) GitHub
7 14 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.97%) Serverless
10 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.11%) OCI
12 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.48%) PaaS
13 3 (1.86%) Route 53
13 3 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.21%) Network Security
2 7 (4.35%) Firewall
3 5 (3.11%) AMQP
3 5 (3.11%) DNS
4 3 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.86%) SSL
5 1 (0.62%) HTTP
5 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) Big Data
1 16 (9.94%) Hadoop
1 16 (9.94%) Presto
2 12 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.11%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.24%) DB2
6 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 44 (27.33%) Jenkins
2 41 (25.47%) JIRA
3 16 (9.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (8.07%) Git
5 7 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 7 (4.35%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.73%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.11%) Maven
8 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.48%) Selenium
8 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.86%) GitLab
10 2 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.62%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (23.60%) Aerospace
2 15 (9.32%) Tech for Good
3 13 (8.07%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.73%) Finance
7 3 (1.86%) Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Games
9 1 (0.62%) Advertising
9 1 (0.62%) Law
9 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.29%) YAML
2 21 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
3 20 (12.42%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (11.80%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (9.94%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (3.73%) RESTful
7 4 (2.48%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.48%) JSON
7 4 (2.48%) React
7 4 (2.48%) XML
8 3 (1.86%) .NET
8 3 (1.86%) CSS
8 3 (1.86%) CSS3
8 3 (1.86%) HTML
8 3 (1.86%) HTML5
8 3 (1.86%) Kafka
8 3 (1.86%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.86%) OAuth
8 3 (1.86%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (6.83%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.86%) Blockchain
4 3 (1.86%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.86%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.24%) PKI
6 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 93 (57.76%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Windows
3 4 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (63.98%) CI/CD
3 75 (46.58%) Agile
4 58 (36.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (27.95%) Continuous Integration
6 44 (27.33%) Scrum
7 41 (25.47%) SDLC
8 40 (24.84%) Collaborative Working
8 40 (24.84%) Continuous Deployment
9 39 (24.22%) Observability
10 38 (23.60%) Containerisation
10 38 (23.60%) Kanban
10 38 (23.60%) Validation
11 29 (18.01%) Actionable Insight
12 22 (13.66%) Configuration Management
13 18 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (9.94%) Data Engineering
14 16 (9.94%) Requirements Engineering
14 16 (9.94%) Service Delivery
14 16 (9.94%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (39.13%) Python
2 38 (23.60%) Bash
3 25 (15.53%) Shell Script
4 22 (13.66%) PowerShell
5 15 (9.32%) Java
6 9 (5.59%) C#
6 9 (5.59%) Go
6 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.97%) SQL
8 6 (3.73%) Ruby
9 4 (2.48%) Lua
9 4 (2.48%) Perl
9 4 (2.48%) Tcl
10 3 (1.86%) Bicep
11 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) Groovy
12 1 (0.62%) PHP
12 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (55.28%) Security Cleared
2 65 (40.37%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) Degree
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 112 (69.57%) Docker
2 5 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 122 (75.78%) Terraform
2 118 (73.29%) Kubernetes
3 94 (58.39%) Ansible
4 44 (27.33%) Prometheus
5 36 (22.36%) Grafana
6 19 (11.80%) Progress Chef
7 16 (9.94%) HAProxy
8 13 (8.07%) Puppet
9 8 (4.97%) Packer
10 5 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.48%) Istio
11 4 (2.48%) vRealize
12 3 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.86%) Argo
12 3 (1.86%) Nagios
12 3 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.62%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.35%) Cisco
2 7 (4.35%) VMware
3 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.48%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.48%) SaltStack
5 3 (1.86%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.86%) IBM
5 3 (1.86%) New Relic
5 3 (1.86%) Oracle
5 3 (1.86%) Splunk
6 2 (1.24%) Sybase
7 1 (0.62%) Black Duck