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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 25 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.12% 2.08% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 2.18% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile - £455 -
25th Percentile £400 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% -5.62%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £544
90th Percentile £775 £625 £565
South West median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £59.30
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +11.45% +29.46%
75th Percentile - - £75.97
90th Percentile - - £76.89
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year +0.05% +11.45% +29.46%

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 1,107 504 991
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 95.27% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 303 567
10th Percentile £312 £213 £250
25th Percentile £404 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £652 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 78 181
10th Percentile £17.87 £23.23 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £56.15 £44.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (56.00%) Terraform
5 11 (44.00%) Ansible
6 10 (40.00%) Python
7 9 (36.00%) GCP
7 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
8 8 (32.00%) GitLab
8 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (28.00%) Red Hat
10 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
10 6 (24.00%) QA
10 6 (24.00%) REST
10 6 (24.00%) User Experience
10 6 (24.00%) Workflow
11 5 (20.00%) Apache
11 5 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (20.00%) Artifactory
11 5 (20.00%) AWS
11 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
11 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (20.00%) Degree
11 5 (20.00%) Docker
11 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
11 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 5 (20.00%) Windows
12 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
12 4 (16.00%) Google

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 5 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) GCP
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) GitLab
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) REST
2 5 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) User Experience
5 6 (24.00%) Workflow
6 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (12.00%) High Availability
9 2 (8.00%) Agile
9 2 (8.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 2 (8.00%) Microservices
9 2 (8.00%) Observability
9 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 1 (4.00%) AI
10 1 (4.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (56.00%) Terraform
3 11 (44.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (4.00%) Istio
5 1 (4.00%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) SAP