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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 32 12 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.42% 1.75% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 1.88% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 14
10th Percentile £425 £378 £441
25th Percentile £449 £461 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £529
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.43% -11.83%
75th Percentile £494 £543 £565
90th Percentile £510 £581 £636
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.62% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £65.90
25th Percentile - - £73.25
Median hourly rate - £82.96 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.11% -
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - £75.66
South West median hourly rate - £82.96 £74.00
% change year-on-year - +12.11% -17.78%

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 1,235 637 899
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 92.72% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 330 489
10th Percentile £376 £235 £248
25th Percentile £444 £355 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -9.03% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £652 £650 £713
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 107 217
10th Percentile £20.53 £12.82 £31.97
25th Percentile £45.00 £18.51 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.34 £73.65 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.17 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +139.22% -61.31% +3.17%

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 August 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 August 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 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) GCP
3 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (43.75%) Linux
5 13 (40.63%) Terraform
6 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
7 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
7 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
7 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
8 10 (31.25%) Bash
8 10 (31.25%) High Availability
8 10 (31.25%) Python
9 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (21.88%) Ansible
10 7 (21.88%) Docker
10 7 (21.88%) Git
10 7 (21.88%) Windows
11 6 (18.75%) AWS
11 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
11 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (15.63%) Agile
12 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (15.63%) Corosync
12 5 (15.63%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (15.63%) Go
12 5 (15.63%) Microservices
12 5 (15.63%) Pacemaker
12 5 (15.63%) SAP

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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) GCP
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Pulumi
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (3.13%) Gatling
6 1 (3.13%) Gradle
6 1 (3.13%) JUnit
6 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.13%) Postman
6 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 3 (9.38%) Banking
1 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) Kafka
1 2 (6.25%) REST
1 2 (6.25%) RESTful
1 2 (6.25%) Spring
1 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) Playwright
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) CentOS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (31.25%) High Availability
5 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Observability
9 3 (9.38%) AI
9 3 (9.38%) API Development
9 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
10 2 (6.25%) Configuration Management
10 2 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 1 (3.13%) Data Modelling
11 1 (3.13%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Bash
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) Go
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Terraform
2 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.88%) Ansible
4 5 (15.63%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (15.63%) Pacemaker
5 3 (9.38%) Istio
6 2 (6.25%) Grafana
6 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.63%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace