DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bath

Development Operations Engineer
Somerset > Bath

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bath is £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 3.64% 2.50% 4.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.92% 2.78% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £469 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +21.05% -34.48%
75th Percentile £484 £588 £506
90th Percentile £485 - £518
Somerset median daily rate £475 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -24.00% +31.58% -28.68%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bath

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bath. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bath with a recognized job title 51 36 58
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 90.00% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 43
10th Percentile £350 £177 £333
25th Percentile £403 £241 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -3.95% +18.75%
75th Percentile £569 £616 £525
90th Percentile £589 £675 £585
Somerset median daily rate £405 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -19.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £12.50
75th Percentile £16.50 - £12.75
90th Percentile - - £16.80
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -37.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bath

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bath.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bath

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bath region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform