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 25 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 44 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.56% 1.83% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.73% 1.93% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 6
10th Percentile £400 £451 -
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +0.95% -5.62%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £715 £609 £563
South West median daily rate £490 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £60.95
25th Percentile - - £68.38
Median hourly rate £83.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +11.45% +29.46%
75th Percentile - - £75.21
90th Percentile - - £76.58
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year +0.05% +11.45% +14.08%

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 1,136 519 998
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.05% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 311 555
10th Percentile £349 £213 £250
25th Percentile £413 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £625
90th Percentile £651 £669 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 88 203
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £46.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £74.10
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £48.29
% change year-on-year -5.51% +31.50% -25.71%

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 25 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 25 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 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
3 15 (48.39%) Terraform
4 13 (41.94%) GCP
5 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (35.48%) Python
6 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
7 9 (29.03%) Ansible
7 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
8 8 (25.81%) High Availability
8 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
8 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
8 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
9 6 (19.35%) AWS
9 6 (19.35%) Bash
9 6 (19.35%) Docker
9 6 (19.35%) GitLab
10 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
10 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (16.13%) Degree
10 5 (16.13%) Go
10 5 (16.13%) Google
10 5 (16.13%) Linux
11 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (12.90%) Corosync
11 4 (12.90%) DNS
11 4 (12.90%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (12.90%) Pacemaker
11 4 (12.90%) PowerShell

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 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) GCP
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (12.90%) SaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.23%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) GitLab
3 3 (9.68%) Artifactory
3 3 (9.68%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
1 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Clustering
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.81%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) User Experience
7 4 (12.90%) Workflow
8 3 (9.68%) Agile
8 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
8 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps
8 3 (9.68%) Observability
9 2 (6.45%) Cost Optimisation
9 2 (6.45%) Microservices
9 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
10 1 (3.23%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 1 (3.23%) Event-Driven
10 1 (3.23%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) Go
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (16.13%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (48.39%) Terraform
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
4 4 (12.90%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (12.90%) Pacemaker
5 2 (6.45%) Grafana
5 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
2 5 (16.13%) Google
3 4 (12.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
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