DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +14
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 34 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.52% 1.47% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 1.59% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 16
10th Percentile £425 £345 £444
25th Percentile £449 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £495 £542
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -8.59% -1.55%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £605
90th Percentile £588 £568 £647
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £600
% change year-on-year +8.37% -15.42% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.78%

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 1,248 692 845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 92.51% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 335 444
10th Percentile £381 £241 £215
25th Percentile £450 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.21%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £748 £701
South West median daily rate £535 £510 £502
% change year-on-year +4.90% +1.69% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 150 157
10th Percentile £20.58 £12.82 £22.15
25th Percentile £46.43 £18.87 £58.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.48 £68.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +138.57% -62.74% +12.80%

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 October 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 October 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 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (44.12%) Linux
4 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
5 11 (32.35%) Azure
5 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
5 11 (32.35%) Terraform
6 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) Bash
6 9 (26.47%) GCP
7 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
7 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
7 8 (23.53%) Windows
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.59%) Data Transformation
8 7 (20.59%) Docker
8 7 (20.59%) Python
9 6 (17.65%) AWS
9 6 (17.65%) Git
9 6 (17.65%) High Availability
10 5 (14.71%) Ansible
10 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
10 5 (14.71%) Observability
10 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (11.76%) Agile
11 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (11.76%) DNS
11 4 (11.76%) GitLab
11 4 (11.76%) Microservices

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (26.47%) GCP
3 6 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) DHCP
3 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.94%) Gatling
5 1 (2.94%) Gradle
5 1 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (2.94%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.94%) Postman
5 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.94%) Selenium
5 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (8.82%) Banking
1 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) Pulumi
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) Playwright
3 1 (2.94%) Quarkus
3 1 (2.94%) React
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (44.12%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Windows
3 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
5 1 (2.94%) Android
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (20.59%) Data Transformation
5 6 (17.65%) High Availability
6 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (14.71%) Observability
7 4 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (11.76%) Microservices
7 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.82%) API Development
8 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
9 2 (5.88%) AI
9 2 (5.88%) Fintech
9 2 (5.88%) Incident Management
9 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Bash
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Go
4 2 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) Pacemaker
4 2 (5.88%) Istio
4 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
1 3 (8.82%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
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