DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Development Operations Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Gloucester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 1.49% 7.69% 7.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 8.33% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £606 £498
25th Percentile £425 £711 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £723 £695
Median % change year-on-year -37.72% +3.96% +15.83%
75th Percentile £475 £734 £775
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £613 £710
% change year-on-year -14.29% -13.73% +15.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 111 84 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.84% 92.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 65 78
10th Percentile £219 £280 £409
25th Percentile £372 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £676
90th Percentile £750 £734 £754
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £28.26 - £23.15
25th Percentile £32.93 £22.50 £30.63
Median hourly rate £41.33 £23.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -70.51% -
75th Percentile £50.35 £23.50 -
90th Percentile £55.39 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -50.86% +38.55% -18.80%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 Gloucester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp