DevOps Contracts in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 22 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 109 218 525
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.50% 6.81% 14.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 8.21% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 146 396
10th Percentile £379 £400 £409
25th Percentile £462 £486 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £675
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 58
10th Percentile - - £58.13
25th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £74.44 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +13.65% +2.99%
75th Percentile £75.86 £85.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.12 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and 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 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 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 -2 42 £550 +4.76% 85
Gloucestershire -7 24 £613 +2.08% 85
Wiltshire +19 21 £600 +14.29% 23
Devon +12 7 £525 -5.62% 26
Somerset +1 7 £625 +47.06% 17
Cornwall - 4 £513 - 1
Dorset -7 2 £328 -40.45% 13
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 7 (6.42%) Confluence
2 6 (5.50%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) Appian
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.46%) Azure
2 40 (36.70%) AWS
3 25 (22.94%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.01%) OpenShift
5 9 (8.26%) GCP
6 8 (7.34%) GitHub
7 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.42%) Serverless
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.75%) IaaS
9 3 (2.75%) SaaS
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.83%) PaaS
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) DNS
2 7 (6.42%) Firewall
2 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.50%) DHCP
3 6 (5.50%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Big Data
1 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
1 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.75%) MySQL
1 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (22.02%) Jenkins
2 22 (20.18%) Git
3 17 (15.60%) JIRA
4 6 (5.50%) GitLab
5 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.59%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.75%) NUnit
7 3 (2.75%) Selenium
8 2 (1.83%) Postman
8 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.92%) Ant
9 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.92%) Gatling
9 1 (0.92%) JMeter
9 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.92%) MLflow
9 1 (0.92%) TestRail
General
1 23 (21.10%) Public Sector
2 18 (16.51%) Finance
3 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Electronics
4 9 (8.26%) Manufacturing
4 9 (8.26%) Marketing
4 9 (8.26%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.67%) Military
6 3 (2.75%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Aviation
7 1 (0.92%) Back Office
7 1 (0.92%) Billing
7 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Law
7 1 (0.92%) Local Government
7 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (28.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Developer
3 12 (11.01%) Lead
3 12 (11.01%) Senior
4 9 (8.26%) Architect
5 7 (6.42%) Administrator
6 5 (4.59%) Analyst
6 5 (4.59%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 5 (4.59%) Test Leader
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Consultant
7 4 (3.67%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.67%) Test Manager
8 3 (2.75%) .NET Developer
8 3 (2.75%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (2.75%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) .NET
2 7 (6.42%) FastAPI
2 7 (6.42%) OpenID
3 6 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.50%) REST
4 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.67%) SOAP
6 3 (2.75%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.75%) Node.js
6 3 (2.75%) Playwright
6 3 (2.75%) YAML
7 2 (1.83%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.83%) CSS
7 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.83%) HTML
7 2 (1.83%) LAMP
7 2 (1.83%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.83%) React
7 2 (1.83%) RESTful
7 2 (1.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.34%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.75%) EPoS
4 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 38 (34.86%) Linux
2 24 (22.02%) Windows
3 13 (11.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.92%) CentOS
6 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.28%) CI/CD
2 37 (33.94%) Agile
3 22 (20.18%) Containerisation
4 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
6 12 (11.01%) Software Testing
7 11 (10.09%) Service Management
8 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.17%) Validation
9 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (8.26%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (8.26%) Programme Management
9 9 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.34%) DevSecOps
10 8 (7.34%) Scrum
10 8 (7.34%) Test Strategy
11 7 (6.42%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.03%) Python
2 21 (19.27%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.51%) Bash
4 17 (15.60%) Java
5 14 (12.84%) SQL
6 12 (11.01%) C#
7 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.59%) Perl
8 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.67%) C++
10 2 (1.83%) Go
10 2 (1.83%) PHP
10 2 (1.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (55.05%) Security Cleared
2 39 (35.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.94%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.75%) CCNP
6 3 (2.75%) CCSP
6 3 (2.75%) CEH
6 3 (2.75%) CISM
6 3 (2.75%) CISSP
6 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.75%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.75%) OCA
6 3 (2.75%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.75%) RHCA
6 3 (2.75%) RHCE
6 3 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) NIST
3 3 (2.75%) COBIT
3 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (26.61%) Docker
2 10 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (33.94%) Terraform
2 32 (29.36%) Kubernetes
3 27 (24.77%) Ansible
4 13 (11.93%) Puppet
5 12 (11.01%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.09%) Grafana
7 7 (6.42%) MIIS
8 3 (2.75%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.92%) Nessus
10 1 (0.92%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) VMware
2 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.26%) SAP
4 8 (7.34%) Oracle
4 8 (7.34%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.50%) Cisco
6 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.75%) Foundry
7 3 (2.75%) Splunk
8 2 (1.83%) F5
8 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.92%) Databricks
9 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.92%) Google
9 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.92%) New Relic
9 1 (0.92%) Pardot
9 1 (0.92%) Rapid7