DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 17 13 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.02% 2.06% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.14% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £73 £513 £333
25th Percentile £269 £519 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £622 £538
90th Percentile £685 £625 £545
South West median daily rate £481 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -21.43% +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 785 608 922
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 96.51% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 327 564
10th Percentile £232 £190 £256
25th Percentile £400 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £450 £518
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.04% +3.50%
75th Percentile £613 £589 £638
90th Percentile £773 £701 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 72 130
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £39.50
25th Percentile £27.50 £58.94 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.82 £65.00 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -2.62% +2.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £90.00
South West median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -32.31% +8.91% -8.18%

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 12 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 12 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 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
3 11 (64.71%) Terraform
4 10 (58.82%) Ansible
4 10 (58.82%) GitLab
4 10 (58.82%) Python
5 9 (52.94%) Artifactory
5 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
5 9 (52.94%) QA
5 9 (52.94%) User Experience
5 9 (52.94%) Windows
5 9 (52.94%) Workflow
6 8 (47.06%) Apache
6 8 (47.06%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (47.06%) Red Hat
6 8 (47.06%) REST
7 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
8 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
8 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (29.41%) Degree
8 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
9 4 (23.53%) Docker
10 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
10 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
11 2 (11.76%) .NET
11 2 (11.76%) Azure

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 8 (47.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) GitLab
2 9 (52.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Apache NiFi
1 8 (47.06%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) React
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) User Experience
3 9 (52.94%) Workflow
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) RBAC
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
7 1 (5.88%) Cost Management
7 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
7 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Observability
7 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) SBOM
7 1 (5.88%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.88%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) VMware