DevOps Contract Job Trends in Somerset

DevOps
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 25 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 5.73% 3.66% 9.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 4.51% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 12
10th Percentile £334 £450 £339
25th Percentile £395 £478 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £593 £618
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% -4.05% +7.48%
75th Percentile £550 £632 £749
90th Percentile £553 £676 £753
South West median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -9.68% +18.13%

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 136 133 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 70.83% 81.10% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 97
10th Percentile £171 £200 £143
25th Percentile £263 £355 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% - -15.93%
75th Percentile £514 £638 £588
90th Percentile £588 £726 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 25
10th Percentile £35.14 - £35.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £12.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +380.77% -74.95% +29.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £15.00 £62.92
90th Percentile £63.83 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Somerset

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Somerset over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Somerset

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DevOps

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 15 December 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 - 6 £550 - 1
Bath +5 1 £488 -15.22% 21
Street - 1 £557 - 11
Yeovil - 1 £450 -
DevOps
South West

DevOps
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 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Junior
2 2 (18.18%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Junior Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Manager
3 1 (9.09%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) JDBC
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) ODBC
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
1 2 (18.18%) Wiki
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Key Management
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Runbook
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (18.18%) Observability
4 2 (18.18%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) RBAC
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
4 2 (18.18%) UX Research
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) NCSC
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) HP ALM
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) BMC
3 1 (9.09%) Ivanti
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) VMware