DevOps Contracts in Gloucestershire

DevOps
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 24 64 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.76% 14.92% 19.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 17.39% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 73
10th Percentile £445 £475 £400
25th Percentile £550 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - -
75th Percentile £653 £706 £700
90th Percentile £700 £734 £750
South West median daily rate £573 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -10.26% +52.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £74.44 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.32% +13.65% +2.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheltenham -6 9 £613 +2.08% 56
Gloucester -8 5 £663 -1.85% 56
Filton +5 4 £400 -
DevOps
South West

DevOps
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 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Matillion
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) DHCP
2 5 (20.83%) HTTP
2 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Big Data
1 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 3 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (12.50%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) TestRail
General
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (12.50%) YAML
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) React
2 2 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) JPA
3 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.83%) Validation
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Service Management
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) ETL
6 3 (12.50%) Observability
6 3 (12.50%) Requirements Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (8.33%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.83%) Bash
5 4 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (12.50%) C++
7 2 (8.33%) Go
7 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Terraform
2 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 10 (41.67%) Ansible
4 5 (20.83%) Puppet
5 3 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) HAProxy
5 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
1 5 (20.83%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow