DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newport

Development Operations Engineer
South Wales > Newport

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Newport is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 4.26% 4.69% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.44% 5.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% - -
75th Percentile £713 £619 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £263 £594 £650
% change year-on-year -55.79% -8.65% -5.45%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Newport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newport. 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 Newport with a recognized job title 45 58 68
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 90.63% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 50
10th Percentile £266 £159 £141
25th Percentile £406 £189 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 £525
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% -30.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £468 £638
90th Percentile £713 £668 £688
South Wales median daily rate £410 £413 £421
% change year-on-year -0.61% -2.08% -8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 11
10th Percentile - £17.17 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -29.33% +67.00%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.00 £48.75 -
South Wales median hourly rate £20.00 £25.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year -21.88% -14.19% +66.15%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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 Newport.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Newport

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 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 Newport region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Product Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform