DevOps Contract Job Trends in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 281 116 260
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.05% 6.56% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.16% 7.21% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 89 163
10th Percentile £371 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 37
10th Percentile £64.15 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -3.57% +6.70%
75th Percentile £102.50 £75.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £102.95 £80.12 £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £66.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.38% +1.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,767 1,609 2,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.28% 91.01% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 984 1,689
10th Percentile £325 £215 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 167 373
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.85
25th Percentile £28.19 £18.69 £28.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the South West

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Bristol +5 93 £538 -2.27% 29
Wiltshire +25 66 £500 -9.50% 5
Gloucestershire +11 51 £575 -6.50% 32
Somerset +13 43 £475 -24.00% 14
Devon -16 12 £560 +7.69% 7
Dorset -5 8 £350 -36.36% 6
Cornwall -5 1 £505 -12.17%
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (6.05%) Confluence
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.85%) IIS
3 8 (2.85%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.14%) Mattermost
5 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.07%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) InDesign
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Maximo
2 6 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 113 (40.21%) Azure
2 86 (30.60%) AWS
3 65 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (14.95%) GCP
5 28 (9.96%) GitHub
6 19 (6.76%) Serverless
7 18 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.27%) SaaS
9 11 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.56%) Azure AKS
10 10 (3.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (3.20%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.85%) Datadog
12 8 (2.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.91%) DNS
2 10 (3.56%) VPN
3 9 (3.20%) Firewall
4 3 (1.07%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.07%) TETRA
5 2 (0.71%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) AMQP
6 1 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) Network Security
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) SMTP
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
1 10 (3.56%) Relational Database
1 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.85%) Power BI
3 7 (2.49%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.49%) SAP HANA
4 6 (2.14%) Flink
5 5 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.42%) Redis
7 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.07%) Power Query
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.71%) Big Data
8 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (11.74%) JIRA
2 30 (10.68%) Git
3 23 (8.19%) GitLab
3 23 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.27%) Gatling
4 12 (4.27%) LoadRunner
5 11 (3.91%) JMeter
6 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.14%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.78%) Postman
8 4 (1.42%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.42%) MSI
9 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.71%) AdminStudio
10 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.71%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.36%) Gradle
11 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 62 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.83%) Public Sector
3 18 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.27%) Finance
5 10 (3.56%) Legal
6 7 (2.49%) Military
7 4 (1.42%) Banking
7 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.36%) Back Office
9 1 (0.36%) Local Government
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Police
9 1 (0.36%) Publishing
9 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (32.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (10.32%) Developer
3 22 (7.83%) Senior
4 19 (6.76%) Analyst
4 19 (6.76%) Architect
4 19 (6.76%) GCP Engineer
5 16 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (5.69%) Site Engineer
5 16 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (5.34%) Data Engineer
7 14 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) GCP DevOps
8 13 (4.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) Lead
9 12 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) Performance Engineer
10 11 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.56%) Backend Developer
12 9 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.54%) .NET
2 20 (7.12%) Spring Boot
3 17 (6.05%) REST
3 17 (6.05%) Spring
4 16 (5.69%) Kafka
5 15 (5.34%) React
5 15 (5.34%) RESTful
6 14 (4.98%) .NET Framework
7 13 (4.63%) Playwright
8 7 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.14%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.14%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.14%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.14%) Flask
9 6 (2.14%) Node.js
10 5 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.78%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.78%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (1.42%) PySpark
11 4 (1.42%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.12%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.49%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.78%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.42%) Wiki
9 3 (1.07%) EPoS
9 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) Replication
10 2 (0.71%) Clustering
10 2 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.66%) Linux
2 32 (11.39%) Windows
3 12 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.20%) CI/CD
2 90 (32.03%) Agile
3 61 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (20.28%) Containerisation
5 54 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (12.81%) Microservices
7 35 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (11.03%) Test Automation
10 29 (10.32%) ITIL
11 28 (9.96%) Analytics
12 27 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (8.19%) Data Modelling
14 23 (8.19%) Observability
15 22 (7.83%) High Availability
15 22 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
16 20 (7.12%) Migration
17 19 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 19 (6.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (23.84%) Python
2 48 (17.08%) SQL
3 38 (13.52%) Java
4 26 (9.25%) Bash
5 20 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.69%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.98%) Go
8 13 (4.63%) C#
9 12 (4.27%) Bicep
10 9 (3.20%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.42%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (44.48%) Security Cleared
2 92 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.23%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.63%) Degree
5 10 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.78%) CISM
9 5 (1.78%) CISSP
9 5 (1.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) QA
2 11 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.49%) NCSC
5 7 (2.49%) WCAG
6 6 (2.14%) GDPR
6 6 (2.14%) NIST
6 6 (2.14%) SLA
7 5 (1.78%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.07%) PMO
System Software
1 61 (21.71%) Docker
2 13 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.14%) Corosync
4 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (36.65%) Kubernetes
2 75 (26.69%) Terraform
3 34 (12.10%) Ansible
4 21 (7.47%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.69%) Grafana
6 12 (4.27%) Argo
7 7 (2.49%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (2.49%) Pacemaker
8 5 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.07%) Istio
9 3 (1.07%) Nagios
10 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.71%) SCCM
10 2 (0.71%) VxRail
11 1 (0.36%) CASB
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 46 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.47%) Google
3 19 (6.76%) Red Hat
4 14 (4.98%) Databricks
4 14 (4.98%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.63%) Splunk
6 11 (3.91%) AppDynamics
6 11 (3.91%) New Relic
7 9 (3.20%) SAP
8 8 (2.85%) IBM
8 8 (2.85%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.49%) VMware
10 6 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.14%) Remedy
11 5 (1.78%) InterSystems
12 4 (1.42%) Conga
12 4 (1.42%) Dell
12 4 (1.42%) GoCardless
12 4 (1.42%) Oracle
13 2 (0.71%) BiZZdesign