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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 318 134 254
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.55% 6.89% 9.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 7.62% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 105 153
10th Percentile £400 £341 £456
25th Percentile £449 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £664
90th Percentile £708 £698 £701
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 40
10th Percentile £60.20 - -
25th Percentile £66.13 £85.00 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £90.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +28.57% -10.26%
75th Percentile £85.88 £95.00 £74.11
90th Percentile £90.60 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%

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 2,892 1,758 2,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.78% 90.39% 83.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,635 1,012 1,333
10th Percentile £325 £220 £276
25th Percentile £429 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £706 £701
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 235 216
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.90 £16.56
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.51 £49.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -63.42% +7.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.73 £69.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +10 115 £534 +5.69% 108
Somerset +14 66 £475 +5.56% 29
Gloucestershire +10 53 £575 -10.68% 151
Wiltshire +10 52 £563 -5.26% 25
Devon -8 16 £560 +7.69% 22
Dorset -16 5 £413 -10.81% 20
Cornwall - 1 £505 - 3
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 15 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.94%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.94%) Trello
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.31%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 148 (46.54%) Azure
2 100 (31.45%) AWS
3 80 (25.16%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (17.61%) GCP
5 22 (6.92%) GitHub
6 15 (4.72%) Serverless
7 14 (4.40%) Azure AKS
7 14 (4.40%) dbt
8 13 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (2.52%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.52%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.52%) SaaS
11 7 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.20%) OCI
12 5 (1.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.46%) DNS
1 11 (3.46%) Firewall
2 6 (1.89%) VPN
3 4 (1.26%) VSAN
4 2 (0.63%) CTI
5 1 (0.31%) AMQP
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.31%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.46%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.52%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.52%) Power BI
4 7 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.20%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.57%) Big Data
5 5 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.26%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.26%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.26%) Metadata
6 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.94%) EDRMS
7 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 51 (16.04%) Git
2 38 (11.95%) JIRA
3 36 (11.32%) GitLab
4 35 (11.01%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.46%) MSI
6 9 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.20%) Gatling
7 7 (2.20%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.20%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.89%) JMeter
8 6 (1.89%) Postman
9 4 (1.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.94%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.63%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.63%) InstallShield
11 2 (0.63%) JUnit
11 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 66 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.32%) Public Sector
3 23 (7.23%) Finance
4 18 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.52%) Banking
6 6 (1.89%) Legal
7 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.57%) Military
7 5 (1.57%) Retail
8 4 (1.26%) Local Government
8 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Police
9 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Aviation
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (26.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (15.09%) Developer
3 29 (9.12%) Architect
4 27 (8.49%) Senior
5 25 (7.86%) Data Engineer
6 19 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
7 18 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.66%) Lead
7 18 (5.66%) Software Developer
8 16 (5.03%) Analyst
8 16 (5.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 16 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (4.72%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.77%) GCP DevOps
11 12 (3.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (35.53%) Terraform
2 34 (10.69%) .NET
3 27 (8.49%) REST
4 20 (6.29%) .NET Framework
4 20 (6.29%) RESTful
5 16 (5.03%) React
6 15 (4.72%) .NET Core
6 15 (4.72%) Playwright
7 14 (4.40%) Kafka
7 14 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.09%) CSS
8 13 (4.09%) HTML
9 12 (3.77%) CSS3
9 12 (3.77%) HTML5
9 12 (3.77%) Spring
10 11 (3.46%) ATL
10 11 (3.46%) COM
10 11 (3.46%) GeoJSON
10 11 (3.46%) MFC
10 11 (3.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (5.97%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (4.40%) Wiki
8 6 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.94%) EPoS
10 3 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.94%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.94%) Replication
11 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.47%) Linux
2 34 (10.69%) Windows
3 14 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.26%) CentOS
5 4 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (52.20%) CI/CD
2 112 (35.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (34.28%) Agile
4 75 (23.58%) Containerisation
5 74 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (14.78%) Test Automation
7 46 (14.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 46 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (13.84%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (12.58%) Deployment Automation
11 39 (12.26%) DevSecOps
12 35 (11.01%) Microservices
13 34 (10.69%) Observability
14 31 (9.75%) Software Engineering
15 30 (9.43%) AI
16 27 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 27 (8.49%) Software Delivery
17 26 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (27.36%) Python
2 48 (15.09%) Bash
3 43 (13.52%) SQL
4 38 (11.95%) Java
5 36 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 32 (10.06%) C#
7 25 (7.86%) Bicep
8 23 (7.23%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.66%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.77%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.52%) Go
12 4 (1.26%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.94%) Groovy
13 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 157 (49.37%) Security Cleared
2 108 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 55 (17.30%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.09%) Degree
5 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.57%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.94%) VCAP
8 3 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.97%) QA
2 17 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.03%) WCAG
4 14 (4.40%) NCSC
5 11 (3.46%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.20%) SLA
7 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.94%) GDPR
8 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) NIST
9 2 (0.63%) PMO
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (22.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.89%) Corosync
2 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.26%) vSphere
5 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) zsh
Systems Management
1 115 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 52 (16.35%) Ansible
3 15 (4.72%) Grafana
4 13 (4.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.14%) Argo
6 7 (2.20%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (2.20%) Pacemaker
7 4 (1.26%) PowerCLI
7 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.94%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.63%) SCCM
9 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) CASB
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
10 1 (0.31%) OPNET
10 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.12%) Google
3 13 (4.09%) Oracle
4 12 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.77%) VMware
5 11 (3.46%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.83%) SAP
6 9 (2.83%) Splunk
7 8 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.89%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.89%) Databricks
8 6 (1.89%) New Relic
9 5 (1.57%) InterSystems
10 4 (1.26%) Conga
10 4 (1.26%) GoCardless
10 4 (1.26%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.26%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.94%) Dell
11 3 (0.94%) Informatica