DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 48 68
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.01% 1.55% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.62% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £335 £513 -
25th Percentile £400 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £538
90th Percentile £775 £625 £544
South West median daily rate £450 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -25.77% +10.23% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.69
25th Percentile - - £72.99
Median hourly rate £83.00 £74.44 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -0.37% +29.95%
75th Percentile - - £76.74
90th Percentile - - £77.19
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £74.44 £74.72
% change year-on-year +11.50% -0.37% +29.95%

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 1,037 494 1,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.74% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 295 567
10th Percentile £277 £190 £245
25th Percentile £400 £319 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 72 184
10th Percentile £17.87 £35.75 £40.00
25th Percentile £39.47 £60.94 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% -2.67%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.76
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -25.05%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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 Bristol.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 11 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 Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 14 (63.64%) Terraform
4 11 (50.00%) Ansible
5 10 (45.45%) Python
5 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
6 9 (40.91%) GitLab
7 8 (36.36%) QA
7 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
7 8 (36.36%) User Experience
7 8 (36.36%) Workflow
8 7 (31.82%) Apache
8 7 (31.82%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (31.82%) Artifactory
8 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
8 7 (31.82%) REST
8 7 (31.82%) Windows
9 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
9 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
10 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (22.73%) GCP
10 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
11 4 (18.18%) AWS
11 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
11 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (18.18%) Degree
11 4 (18.18%) Docker
11 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 7 (31.82%) Artifactory
3 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Apache NiFi
1 7 (31.82%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) User Experience
3 8 (36.36%) Workflow
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 2 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (9.09%) Observability
8 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
9 1 (4.55%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
9 1 (4.55%) Static Application Security Testing
9 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (63.64%) Terraform
3 11 (50.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco