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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 316 119 275
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.74% 6.28% 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.02% 7.00% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 92 167
10th Percentile £398 £314 £445
25th Percentile £425 £445 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £570
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -8.77% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £673 £691 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 42
10th Percentile £64.15 £83.37 -
25th Percentile £76.00 £83.98 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £90.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +28.57% +6.70%
75th Percentile £102.50 £95.00 £74.33
90th Percentile £102.95 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +6.87%

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 2,868 1,699 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.34% 89.66% 83.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,614 992 1,492
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £635
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 212 280
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.86 £15.39
25th Percentile £26.00 £18.51 £43.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £64.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +13 110 £525 +3.96% 73
Somerset +17 66 £475 -9.05% 9
Wiltshire +12 63 £538 - 9
Gloucestershire +9 48 £575 -9.80% 63
Devon -15 16 £560 +7.69% 11
Dorset -14 2 £625 +66.67% 10
Cornwall -4 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 28 (8.86%) Confluence
2 8 (2.53%) IIS
3 6 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) Mattermost
3 6 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.27%) Trello
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) InDesign
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.63%) Maximo
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 136 (43.04%) Azure
2 98 (31.01%) AWS
3 73 (23.10%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (15.82%) GCP
5 28 (8.86%) GitHub
6 17 (5.38%) Serverless
7 14 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (3.48%) dbt
9 11 (3.48%) SaaS
10 9 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.85%) OCI
10 9 (2.85%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.90%) Datadog
13 6 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.16%) Firewall
2 9 (2.85%) DNS
3 5 (1.58%) VPN
4 3 (0.95%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.95%) TETRA
5 2 (0.63%) CTI
6 1 (0.32%) AMQP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.48%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.53%) Power BI
4 7 (2.22%) SAP HANA
5 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.95%) Big Data
8 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.95%) Metadata
8 3 (0.95%) Redis
8 3 (0.95%) SQLite
9 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (13.92%) JIRA
2 41 (12.97%) Git
3 30 (9.49%) Jenkins
4 28 (8.86%) GitLab
5 12 (3.80%) Gatling
5 12 (3.80%) LoadRunner
5 12 (3.80%) MSI
6 11 (3.48%) JMeter
7 7 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.22%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.90%) Postman
9 4 (1.27%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.63%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.63%) InstallShield
11 2 (0.63%) JUnit
11 2 (0.63%) Selenium
11 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 71 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 19 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.70%) Finance
5 7 (2.22%) Legal
6 6 (1.90%) Military
7 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.58%) Banking
7 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Police
9 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Local Government
9 3 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.32%) Aviation
10 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.32%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (25.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (15.19%) Developer
3 27 (8.54%) Architect
4 26 (8.23%) Senior
5 21 (6.65%) Data Engineer
6 20 (6.33%) Lead
7 19 (6.01%) GCP Engineer
8 18 (5.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (5.38%) Site Engineer
10 16 (5.06%) Analyst
11 14 (4.43%) GCP DevOps
11 14 (4.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.11%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.48%) Performance Engineer
15 10 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
16 9 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
16 9 (2.85%) Technical Architect
16 9 (2.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.71%) .NET
2 31 (9.81%) REST
3 23 (7.28%) .NET Framework
4 19 (6.01%) RESTful
5 15 (4.75%) .NET Core
5 15 (4.75%) React
6 14 (4.43%) Playwright
7 13 (4.11%) Kafka
7 13 (4.11%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.80%) ATL
8 12 (3.80%) COM
8 12 (3.80%) CSS
8 12 (3.80%) GeoJSON
8 12 (3.80%) HTML
8 12 (3.80%) MFC
9 11 (3.48%) CSS3
9 11 (3.48%) HTML5
9 11 (3.48%) Spring
9 11 (3.48%) WPF
10 9 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (6.01%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.58%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.58%) Wiki
9 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) EPoS
10 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.95%) Replication
11 2 (0.63%) Clustering
11 2 (0.63%) IVR
11 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.87%) Linux
2 40 (12.66%) Windows
3 14 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.95%) CentOS
5 3 (0.95%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (48.42%) CI/CD
2 107 (33.86%) Agile
3 89 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (19.94%) Containerisation
6 46 (14.56%) Test Automation
7 43 (13.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 40 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (12.34%) Microservices
10 38 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (9.18%) DevSecOps
12 29 (9.18%) Software Engineering
13 28 (8.86%) Deployment Automation
14 26 (8.23%) ITIL
15 25 (7.91%) Migration
15 25 (7.91%) Root Cause Analysis
15 25 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (6.96%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 82 (25.95%) Python
2 47 (14.87%) SQL
3 36 (11.39%) Bash
4 35 (11.08%) Java
4 35 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 30 (9.49%) C#
6 18 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.06%) Bicep
9 12 (3.80%) PL/SQL
10 11 (3.48%) Go
11 4 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.95%) Groovy
13 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.32%) C++
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 154 (48.73%) Security Cleared
2 116 (36.71%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.92%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.11%) Degree
5 9 (2.85%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.22%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
12 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.70%) QA
2 17 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.06%) WCAG
4 14 (4.43%) NCSC
5 10 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.90%) SLA
7 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.95%) GDPR
8 3 (0.95%) PMO
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (21.20%) Docker
2 10 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.90%) Corosync
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) zsh
Systems Management
1 105 (33.23%) Kubernetes
2 95 (30.06%) Terraform
3 47 (14.87%) Ansible
4 15 (4.75%) Grafana
5 14 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.85%) Argo
7 7 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (2.22%) Pacemaker
8 3 (0.95%) Istio
9 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.63%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) SCCM
9 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) CASB
10 1 (0.32%) Nagios
10 1 (0.32%) Nessus
10 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.23%) Google
3 15 (4.75%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.43%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.11%) Splunk
6 11 (3.48%) AppDynamics
6 11 (3.48%) New Relic
6 11 (3.48%) Oracle
7 9 (2.85%) SAP
8 7 (2.22%) Databricks
8 7 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.22%) VMware
9 6 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.90%) Remedy
10 5 (1.58%) InterSystems
11 4 (1.27%) Conga
11 4 (1.27%) GoCardless
11 4 (1.27%) IBM
12 3 (0.95%) Dell
12 3 (0.95%) Informatica