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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 23 93 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.42% 20.39% 19.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.70% 23.79% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 54 68
10th Percentile £389 £475 £463
25th Percentile £416 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £692 £647 £725
90th Percentile £700 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £518 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.25% +8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 16
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £77.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +52.94%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £87.50
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -2.10% +10.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 391 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.81% 85.75% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 217 274
10th Percentile £216 £370 £375
25th Percentile £350 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £743 £738 £742
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 45
10th Percentile £15.26 £23.60 £31.20
25th Percentile £27.17 £30.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -45.21% +124.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £84.36
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +18.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Gloucestershire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevOps

DevOps
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester +6 15 £500 - 21
Cheltenham -8 6 £556 -7.29% 18
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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
1 2 (8.70%) WAAS
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
2 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
2 4 (17.39%) MSI
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) AdminStudio
4 2 (8.70%) InstallShield
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Lead
1 4 (17.39%) Test Leader
2 3 (13.04%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) ARM Templates
2 4 (17.39%) YAML
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
6 4 (17.39%) Application Packaging
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Validation
7 3 (13.04%) Batch Scripting
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (13.04%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) VBScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (17.39%) MCSA
6 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CISM
6 1 (4.35%) CISSP
6 1 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (4.35%) MCITP
6 1 (4.35%) MCP
6 1 (4.35%) MCSE
6 1 (4.35%) MCTS
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (4.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) VMware