DevOps Architect Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Development Operations Architect
South West > Somerset

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in Somerset is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.55% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £643 £500 £720
% change year-on-year +28.50% -30.51% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 165 170 182
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 88.54% 96.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 117 122
10th Percentile £207 £200 £158
25th Percentile £263 £270 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £634
90th Percentile £662 £680 £722
South West median daily rate £510 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +0.99% -6.05% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 30
10th Percentile £38.09 £12.50 £33.50
25th Percentile £57.50 £13.25 £46.05
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +96.72% -41.22% +3.78%
75th Percentile £64.50 £57.81 £62.22
90th Percentile £69.30 £64.38 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £58.84
% change year-on-year -62.74% +14.73% +1.53%

DevOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
DevOps Architect
South West

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, DevOps Architect 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 Somerset region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST