DevOps Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 68
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.68% 1.61% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.69% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 29
10th Percentile £446 - £496
25th Percentile £462 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £583 £563 £675
90th Percentile £611 £615 £713
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £60.95 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +29.46% -
75th Percentile - £75.21 £61.25
90th Percentile - £76.58 -
South West median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £57.50
% change year-on-year +11.45% +29.46% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) Ansible
5 3 (33.33%) Docker
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) GitLab
6 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Degree
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) QA
6 2 (22.22%) Apache
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (22.22%) Workflow
6 2 (22.22%) Puppet
6 2 (22.22%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) User Experience

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) Grafana
5 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) SAP