DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Somerset

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Somerset is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.42% 3.33% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 3.60% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £414 £578 -
25th Percentile £434 £600 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +31.58% -28.68%
75th Percentile £484 £657 £506
90th Percentile £485 £692 £518
South West median daily rate £463 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -24.49% +11.36% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 261 111 183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.50% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 79 113
10th Percentile £225 £199 £164
25th Percentile £261 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +5.56% -6.49%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £614 £688 £606
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 3 36
10th Percentile £37.25 £13.66 £12.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.48 £17.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -37.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.76 £40.00
90th Percentile - £20.51 £52.73
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.29
% change year-on-year -11.54% +34.60% -25.71%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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 Somerset.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Somerset

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Bath -4 2 £478 -16.96% 2
Taunton - 2 £400 -
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 2026, 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 Somerset region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible