DevOps Developer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in Bristol is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.074% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,263 607 1,049
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 93.53% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 318 576
10th Percentile £363 £235 £260
25th Percentile £425 £357 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -12.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £644 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 99 253
10th Percentile £19.25 £17.69 £27.60
25th Percentile £45.00 £18.87 £44.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.49 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -25.21% +3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.20 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +75.57% -42.03% -9.62%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

DevOps Developer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 6 July 2026, DevOps Developer 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 Bristol region featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform