DevOps Contracts in Gloucester

DevOps
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 16 6 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 18.39% 8.00% 31.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.75% 8.45% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 35
10th Percentile £384 £455 £463
25th Percentile £411 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £760 £713
90th Percentile - £765 £748
Gloucestershire median daily rate £613 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.08% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -10.26% +52.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 71 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 93.10% 94.67% 98.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 54 102
10th Percentile £224 £378 £413
25th Percentile £350 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £675
90th Percentile £728 £750 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.00 £66.10
25th Percentile £22.97 £18.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -73.08% -
75th Percentile £41.95 £22.75 -
90th Percentile £52.03 £23.20 £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £76.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% -50.96% +135.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Gloucester

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Gloucester over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Gloucester

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (18.75%) MSI
4 1 (6.25%) AdminStudio
4 1 (6.25%) InstallShield
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) ARM Templates
2 4 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Blackberry
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
4 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Application Packaging
6 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (18.75%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.25%) MCITP
4 1 (6.25%) MCP
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) MCTS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (6.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow