DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 +15
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 37 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.64% 8.26% 4.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 8.67% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 29 17
10th Percentile £443 £518 £503
25th Percentile £470 £533 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £775
90th Percentile £649 £727 -
South West median daily rate £508 £575 £606
% change year-on-year -11.74% -5.15% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.40
25th Percentile - - £80.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £74.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -17.78% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 273 427 474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.78% 95.31% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 208 285
10th Percentile £200 £359 £360
25th Percentile £334 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £653 £675
90th Percentile £722 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £536
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.43% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 49 47
10th Percentile £13.50 £22.50 £31.80
25th Percentile £13.84 £40.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £33.67 £67.50 £73.31
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% -7.93% +105.24%
75th Percentile £67.19 £71.50 £78.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £84.04
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -11 1 £450 -37.72% 2
DevOps Engineer
South West

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Gloucestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
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%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp