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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 278 106 232
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.42% 6.37% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 7.04% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 81 155
10th Percentile £369 £384 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £663 £700 £704
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 24
10th Percentile £68.10 - -
25th Percentile £79.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £89.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.85% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £100.63 £75.86 £85.00
90th Percentile £102.80 £80.12 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%

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 2,586 1,506 2,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.34% 90.56% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 941 1,680
10th Percentile £319 £230 £220
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £625
90th Percentile £714 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 153 341
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.26 £13.86
25th Percentile £26.13 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +6 83 £550 +0.92% 48
Wiltshire +23 71 £500 -16.67% 12
Gloucestershire +11 55 £575 -6.50% 35
Somerset +8 38 £475 -24.00% 12
Dorset +5 14 £350 +6.87% 9
Devon -13 10 £650 +23.81% 5
Cornwall -9 1 £505 -1.46% 1
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 13 (4.68%) Confluence
2 10 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.88%) IIS
3 8 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.16%) Apache
4 6 (2.16%) Mattermost
5 4 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) 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 (2.52%) Maximo
2 6 (2.16%) NEC Housing
2 6 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 122 (43.88%) Azure
2 82 (29.50%) AWS
3 69 (24.82%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (14.75%) GCP
5 30 (10.79%) GitHub
6 17 (6.12%) Serverless
7 14 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.32%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (3.96%) SaaS
10 10 (3.60%) Azure AKS
10 10 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (3.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (3.24%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) DNS
1 11 (3.96%) VPN
2 9 (3.24%) Firewall
3 3 (1.08%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.08%) HTTP
3 3 (1.08%) TETRA
4 2 (0.72%) DHCP
4 2 (0.72%) LAN
4 2 (0.72%) Network Security
4 2 (0.72%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) AMQP
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
5 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.24%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.24%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.52%) SAP HANA
5 6 (2.16%) Flink
5 6 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.80%) Power BI
7 4 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.44%) Redis
8 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.08%) Power Query
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.72%) Big Data
9 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (10.43%) JIRA
2 26 (9.35%) GitLab
3 24 (8.63%) Git
4 22 (7.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.96%) Gatling
5 11 (3.96%) JMeter
5 11 (3.96%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.44%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.72%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.72%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) TestNG
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.83%) Finance
2 19 (6.83%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.60%) Legal
5 6 (2.16%) Military
6 5 (1.80%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Back Office
7 4 (1.44%) Banking
7 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Publishing
9 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (33.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (9.71%) Senior
3 26 (9.35%) Developer
4 21 (7.55%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (6.12%) Analyst
5 17 (6.12%) Architect
5 17 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (6.12%) Site Engineer
5 17 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (5.40%) Data Engineer
7 12 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (4.32%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.32%) Lead
7 12 (4.32%) Performance Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) GCP DevOps
8 11 (3.96%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.60%) Backend Developer
10 9 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.91%) Kafka
2 17 (6.12%) .NET
3 14 (5.04%) REST
3 14 (5.04%) Spring Boot
4 13 (4.68%) Spring
5 11 (3.96%) .NET Framework
5 11 (3.96%) RESTful
6 8 (2.88%) Playwright
6 8 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (2.52%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (2.52%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.52%) React
8 6 (2.16%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.16%) Node.js
9 5 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.80%) Flask
9 5 (1.80%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.44%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.44%) gRPC
10 4 (1.44%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.80%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.44%) Wiki
9 3 (1.08%) EPoS
9 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.08%) Replication
9 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.72%) Clustering
10 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.39%) Linux
2 29 (10.43%) Windows
3 12 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.08%) Unix
6 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (43.17%) CI/CD
2 85 (30.58%) Agile
3 56 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (19.42%) Containerisation
5 45 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (10.79%) Microservices
9 28 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (9.71%) Analytics
10 27 (9.71%) ITIL
11 24 (8.63%) Data Engineering
12 22 (7.91%) Service Management
13 21 (7.55%) High Availability
13 21 (7.55%) Migration
13 21 (7.55%) Test Automation
14 20 (7.19%) Data Modelling
14 20 (7.19%) Decision-Making
14 20 (7.19%) Observability
14 20 (7.19%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.82%) Python
2 52 (18.71%) SQL
3 28 (10.07%) Java
4 24 (8.63%) Bash
4 24 (8.63%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.47%) Go
6 12 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.96%) C#
8 10 (3.60%) Bicep
9 8 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.72%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
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
1 131 (47.12%) Security Cleared
2 99 (35.61%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.03%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.40%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.32%) Degree
6 7 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.80%) CISM
8 5 (1.80%) CISSP
8 5 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.36%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.63%) QA
2 11 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.52%) NIST
5 6 (2.16%) GDPR
6 5 (1.80%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.44%) NCSC
7 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) PMO
8 2 (0.72%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (20.14%) Docker
2 14 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.16%) Corosync
4 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 100 (35.97%) Kubernetes
2 77 (27.70%) Terraform
3 36 (12.95%) Ansible
4 19 (6.83%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.40%) Grafana
6 10 (3.60%) Argo
7 7 (2.52%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (2.52%) Pacemaker
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) Nessus
8 3 (1.08%) Packer
8 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.72%) Istio
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.72%) SCCM
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.36%) logstash
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.63%) Google
3 22 (7.91%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.04%) Databricks
4 14 (5.04%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.68%) Splunk
6 11 (3.96%) AppDynamics
6 11 (3.96%) New Relic
7 10 (3.60%) Oracle
8 9 (3.24%) VMware
9 8 (2.88%) SAP
10 7 (2.52%) IBM
11 6 (2.16%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.16%) NEC
11 6 (2.16%) Remedy
12 4 (1.44%) InterSystems
13 3 (1.08%) Cisco
13 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.72%) Dell
14 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft