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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 318 116 273
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.01% 6.11% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.21% 6.83% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 92 168
10th Percentile £379 £351 £434
25th Percentile £413 £447 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £556
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -5.17% -7.29%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £653
90th Percentile £630 £674 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 41
10th Percentile £64.15 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +18.51% +6.70%
75th Percentile £102.50 - £74.44
90th Percentile £102.95 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 2,838 1,699 2,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.40% 89.56% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,007 1,614
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 199 335
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.46
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.51 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £78.74 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +14 114 £538 +5.91% 40
Wiltshire +17 64 £500 -16.67% 8
Somerset +16 61 £475 -34.48% 15
Gloucestershire +14 48 £575 -8.00% 45
Devon -11 15 £560 +7.69% 14
Dorset -12 6 £350 -24.32% 4
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 25 (7.86%) Confluence
2 12 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.52%) IIS
3 8 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.89%) Mattermost
5 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.26%) Trello
3 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) InDesign
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.63%) Maximo
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 133 (41.82%) Azure
2 103 (32.39%) AWS
3 75 (23.58%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (15.09%) GCP
5 29 (9.12%) GitHub
6 22 (6.92%) Serverless
7 16 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.77%) SaaS
11 11 (3.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (3.46%) Datadog
11 11 (3.46%) dbt
12 10 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (2.83%) OCI
13 9 (2.83%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.52%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.46%) DNS
2 8 (2.52%) Firewall
3 5 (1.57%) VPN
4 3 (0.94%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.94%) TETRA
5 2 (0.63%) CTI
5 2 (0.63%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) AMQP
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.83%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.52%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.52%) Power BI
5 7 (2.20%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.89%) Flink
7 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.94%) Big Data
8 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.94%) Metadata
8 3 (0.94%) Redis
8 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.94%) SQLite
9 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (13.21%) JIRA
2 40 (12.58%) Git
3 24 (7.55%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.92%) GitLab
5 12 (3.77%) Gatling
5 12 (3.77%) LoadRunner
6 11 (3.46%) JMeter
7 10 (3.14%) MSI
8 7 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.20%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.89%) Postman
10 4 (1.26%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.63%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.63%) InstallShield
12 2 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.63%) Selenium
12 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 67 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 21 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.03%) Finance
5 9 (2.83%) Legal
6 6 (1.89%) Military
7 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.26%) Banking
8 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Police
9 3 (0.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Aviation
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
10 1 (0.31%) Publishing
10 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (26.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (15.72%) Developer
3 28 (8.81%) Senior
4 22 (6.92%) Data Engineer
5 21 (6.60%) Architect
6 19 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
7 18 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (5.35%) Analyst
8 17 (5.35%) Lead
8 17 (5.35%) Site Engineer
9 14 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.09%) GCP DevOps
10 13 (4.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.77%) Performance Engineer
12 11 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.14%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.69%) .NET
2 29 (9.12%) REST
3 22 (6.92%) RESTful
4 21 (6.60%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.97%) Kafka
5 19 (5.97%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.35%) React
6 17 (5.35%) Spring
7 14 (4.40%) Playwright
8 13 (4.09%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.14%) ATL
9 10 (3.14%) COM
9 10 (3.14%) CSS
9 10 (3.14%) GeoJSON
9 10 (3.14%) HTML
9 10 (3.14%) MFC
10 9 (2.83%) CSS3
10 9 (2.83%) HTML5
10 9 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.83%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.57%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.57%) Wiki
9 3 (0.94%) EPoS
9 3 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.94%) Replication
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.15%) Linux
2 39 (12.26%) Windows
3 13 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.94%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (46.54%) CI/CD
2 112 (35.22%) Agile
3 82 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (20.13%) Containerisation
5 63 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (13.52%) Microservices
6 43 (13.52%) Test Automation
7 39 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (9.75%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (8.49%) Data Modelling
10 27 (8.49%) Deployment Automation
10 27 (8.49%) ITIL
10 27 (8.49%) Observability
11 26 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
11 26 (8.18%) Software Engineering
12 24 (7.55%) Migration
13 23 (7.23%) Analytics
13 23 (7.23%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.16%) Python
2 56 (17.61%) SQL
3 39 (12.26%) Java
4 33 (10.38%) JavaScript
5 29 (9.12%) Bash
6 24 (7.55%) C#
7 17 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.40%) Bicep
10 12 (3.77%) Go
10 12 (3.77%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.26%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 146 (45.91%) Security Cleared
2 112 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.72%) Degree
5 10 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.20%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CISSP
12 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.97%) QA
2 15 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.40%) WCAG
4 12 (3.77%) NCSC
5 10 (3.14%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.20%) SLA
7 6 (1.89%) GDPR
8 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.94%) PMO
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (22.33%) Docker
2 12 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.89%) Corosync
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 88 (27.67%) Terraform
3 37 (11.64%) Ansible
4 20 (6.29%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.03%) Grafana
6 11 (3.46%) Argo
7 7 (2.20%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (2.20%) Pacemaker
8 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.94%) Istio
10 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.63%) Nagios
10 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.63%) SCCM
11 1 (0.31%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) Nessus
11 1 (0.31%) Puppet
11 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.86%) Google
3 14 (4.40%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.40%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.09%) Databricks
4 13 (4.09%) Splunk
5 11 (3.46%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.46%) New Relic
5 11 (3.46%) Oracle
6 9 (2.83%) SAP
7 7 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.89%) Remedy
9 5 (1.57%) InterSystems
9 5 (1.57%) VMware
10 4 (1.26%) Conga
10 4 (1.26%) GoCardless
10 4 (1.26%) IBM
11 3 (0.94%) Dell
11 3 (0.94%) Informatica