DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 51 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 19 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.06% 2.00% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 2.06% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £375 £513 £347
25th Percentile £463 £528 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +14.15% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £538
90th Percentile £775 £626 £544
South West median daily rate £494 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -19.39% +2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 £74.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% - -
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £74.22 -
% change year-on-year +11.83% - -

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 864 583 982
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 97.33% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 314 588
10th Percentile £265 £186 £263
25th Percentile £400 £335 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £640
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 68 153
10th Percentile £17.87 £32.23 £33.00
25th Percentile £33.50 £60.44 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £84.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
4 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
5 10 (52.63%) Ansible
5 10 (52.63%) GitLab
5 10 (52.63%) Terraform
6 9 (47.37%) Python
7 7 (36.84%) Artifactory
7 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
7 7 (36.84%) QA
7 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
7 7 (36.84%) User Experience
7 7 (36.84%) Windows
7 7 (36.84%) Workflow
8 6 (31.58%) Apache
8 6 (31.58%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared
8 6 (31.58%) REST
8 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
9 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 4 (21.05%) Docker
10 3 (15.79%) Azure
10 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
10 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (15.79%) Degree
10 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
10 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack

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 6 (31.58%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) GitLab
2 7 (36.84%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Electronics
2 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.26%) Marketing
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (31.58%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) User Experience
3 7 (36.84%) Workflow
4 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Observability
7 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
8 1 (5.26%) Cost Management
8 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
8 1 (5.26%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 1 (5.26%) Secrets Management
8 1 (5.26%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) CCNP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.26%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Ansible
2 10 (52.63%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) VMware