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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 55 99 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.85% 10.71% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 12.96% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 70
10th Percentile £413 £445 £406
25th Percentile £447 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £675
90th Percentile £695 £723 £738
South West median daily rate £518 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.25% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 37 14
10th Percentile £83.37 - -
25th Percentile £83.98 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +6.78% +0.08%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.44 £70.30
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.11% +12.31%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 764 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.87% 82.68% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 428 650
10th Percentile £235 £262 £312
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £645
90th Percentile £650 £704 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.51% +2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 155 119
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.50 £19.74
25th Percentile £18.60 £65.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £30.13 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.96% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.75 £74.72 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £84.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +20.37%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Bristol

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DevOps

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 5 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Azure
2 25 (45.45%) AWS
3 14 (25.45%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
5 3 (5.45%) OCI
6 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) DNS
1 3 (5.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) GitLab
2 11 (20.00%) Git
3 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.82%) CMake
6 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.82%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.27%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.45%) Electronics
6 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.45%) Marketing
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Lead
4 7 (12.73%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.27%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) Lead .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead C# Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) FastAPI
1 7 (12.73%) OpenID
2 5 (9.09%) .NET
3 4 (7.27%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (7.27%) React
4 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.45%) REST
4 3 (5.45%) RESTful
5 2 (3.64%) Next.js
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) XML
6 1 (1.82%) ADO
6 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.82%) Express.js
6 1 (1.82%) Jest
6 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.82%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.64%) FPGA
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.64%) Verilog
5 2 (3.64%) VHDL
6 1 (1.82%) CUDA
6 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Android
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (27.27%) Migration
3 13 (23.64%) Agile
4 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
5 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
5 8 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (12.73%) Application Security
6 7 (12.73%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 7 (12.73%) Client Onboarding
6 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
8 5 (9.09%) Validation
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.27%) OO
9 4 (7.27%) Task Automation
9 4 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (7.27%) User Experience
9 4 (7.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) C#
3 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.91%) SQL
5 4 (7.27%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) C++
6 3 (5.45%) Java
6 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.45%) Perl
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) Bicep
7 2 (3.64%) C
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.64%) OCA
7 2 (3.64%) OCP
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (43.64%) Terraform
2 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.18%) Ansible
4 8 (14.55%) Puppet
5 7 (12.73%) MIIS
6 5 (9.09%) Grafana
6 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.64%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
2 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.45%) SAP
3 3 (5.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.82%) Okta