DevOps Contracts in Bristol

DevOps
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 42 80 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.82% 7.57% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 9.10% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 94
10th Percentile £414 £325 £413
25th Percentile £447 £481 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £628 £590 £669
90th Percentile £706 £661 £721
South West median daily rate £573 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 48
10th Percentile - - £58.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.72 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% +14.08% +0.77%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £74.44 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.32% +13.65% +2.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Bristol

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Bristol

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Bristol

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Bristol

DevOps
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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (40.48%) AWS
3 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) PaaS
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Git
2 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Ant
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) MLflow
5 1 (2.38%) NUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Electronics
3 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.90%) Marketing
3 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Aviation
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Administrator
4 4 (9.52%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Architect
5 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Server Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 7 (16.67%) OpenID
2 2 (4.76%) .NET
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
2 2 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.38%) Django
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) LAMP
3 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) Playwright
3 1 (2.38%) PySpark
3 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (21.43%) Agile
3 7 (16.67%) Application Security
3 7 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 7 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.90%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) ITIL
5 5 (11.90%) Migration
5 5 (11.90%) Programme Management
6 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (9.52%) Network Architecture
6 4 (9.52%) OWASP
6 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) C#
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 5 (11.90%) Perl
5 4 (9.52%) SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (7.14%) CCSP
4 3 (7.14%) CEH
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CISM
4 3 (7.14%) CISSP
4 3 (7.14%) OSCP
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) MCITP
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) COBIT
1 3 (7.14%) NIST
1 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 7 (16.67%) MIIS
4 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.90%) Grafana
6 3 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) SAP
1 5 (11.90%) VMware
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Pardot
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce