Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Lead Development Operations
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Bristol is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.28% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £813
% change year-on-year -4.55% -32.31% +12.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 658 864 1,032
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 95.15% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 468 696
10th Percentile £250 £254 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £638
90th Percentile £720 £688 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 167 117
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.50 £19.24
25th Percentile £18.22 £58.63 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.45 £78.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in Bristol

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Bristol

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in Bristol

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby

Lead DevOps Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat