DevOps Contracts in Somerset

DevOps
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 18 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 9 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 5.04% 4.43% 15.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 5.84% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 24
10th Percentile £528 £370 £516
25th Percentile £607 £396 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £644
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -33.98% +39.19%
75th Percentile £696 £488 £717
90th Percentile £776 £510 £764
South West median daily rate £573 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
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
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 154 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.53% 75.86% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 140
10th Percentile £263 £159 £234
25th Percentile £413 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £664
90th Percentile £775 £613 £724
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
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 Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Somerset

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Somerset

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Somerset

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Somerset

DevOps
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 within the Somerset 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
Street - 2 £625 - 9
Bath -14 1 - - 25
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Pendo
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Straight-Through Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft