DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 102 58
Rank change year-on-year +22 -44 +34
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 55 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.85% 1.72% 3.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.84% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 118
10th Percentile £493 £474 £450
25th Percentile £525 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £631 £628 £684
90th Percentile £680 £688 £729
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £60.95 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +29.46% -
75th Percentile - £75.21 £68.38
90th Percentile - £76.58 £72.65
England median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +11 9 £523 -0.48% 9
Gloucestershire +3 9 £613 +11.36% 15
Wiltshire +35 8 £600 +14.29% 7
Somerset +4 3 £625 +31.58% 2
Devon - 2 £600 - 5
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (74.19%) Linux
3 22 (70.97%) Security Cleared
4 20 (64.52%) Ansible
5 19 (61.29%) Kubernetes
5 19 (61.29%) Terraform
6 16 (51.61%) AWS
6 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
7 15 (48.39%) Windows
8 14 (45.16%) Docker
9 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
9 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
9 13 (41.94%) Bash
9 13 (41.94%) Python
10 12 (38.71%) Puppet
10 12 (38.71%) Azure
10 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
11 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
12 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
12 10 (32.26%) OpenShift
12 10 (32.26%) Windows Server
12 10 (32.26%) VMware
12 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (29.03%) Service Management
14 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
14 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (22.58%) Grafana
15 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
15 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 12 (38.71%) Azure
3 10 (32.26%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) DNS
1 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (16.13%) DHCP
2 5 (16.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Big Data
1 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) Git
3 4 (12.90%) GitLab
3 4 (12.90%) JIRA
4 3 (9.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Electronics
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.45%) Marketing
2 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.90%) REST
3 3 (9.68%) SOAP
3 3 (9.68%) YAML
4 2 (6.45%) LAMP
5 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Linux
2 15 (48.39%) Windows
3 10 (32.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
3 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
4 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (29.03%) Service Management
6 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (19.35%) Configuration Management
7 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.90%) Agile
8 4 (12.90%) Workflow
9 3 (9.68%) Data Engineering
9 3 (9.68%) ETL
9 3 (9.68%) ITSM
9 3 (9.68%) Requirements Engineering
9 3 (9.68%) Reverse Engineering
9 3 (9.68%) System Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Bash
1 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) PHP
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) CCNP
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.68%) OCA
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (9.68%) RHCA
4 3 (9.68%) RHCE
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.45%) Degree
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Docker
2 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (64.52%) Ansible
2 19 (61.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (61.29%) Terraform
3 12 (38.71%) Puppet
4 7 (22.58%) Grafana
4 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.68%) HAProxy
5 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.23%) Nessus
6 1 (3.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) VMware
2 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco
4 3 (9.68%) Atlassian
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle
5 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow