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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 299 111 215
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.20% 6.53% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 7.22% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 85 144
10th Percentile £376 £380 £397
25th Percentile £431 £460 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £666
90th Percentile £663 £700 £704
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.91% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile £70.08 - -
25th Percentile £81.25 £66.25 £70.00
Median hourly rate £90.75 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% -10.00% +14.50%
75th Percentile £99.69 £75.86 £85.00
90th Percentile £102.73 £80.12 -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -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 2,548 1,537 2,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.40% 90.46% 82.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 986 1,698
10th Percentile £313 £240 £220
25th Percentile £410 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -1.34% -3.67%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 143 327
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.26 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.31 £20.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -21.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +3 81 £550 - 50
Wiltshire +23 80 £510 -15.00% 14
Gloucestershire +15 78 £475 -22.45% 29
Somerset +6 35 £463 -26.00% 17
Dorset +9 16 £388 +18.32% 5
Devon -16 6 £775 +47.62% 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 19 (6.35%) Confluence
2 11 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.68%) IIS
4 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.01%) Apache
5 6 (2.01%) Mattermost
6 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) InDesign
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Maximo
2 6 (2.01%) NEC Housing
2 6 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 143 (47.83%) Azure
2 90 (30.10%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (26.42%) AWS
4 37 (12.37%) GCP
5 30 (10.03%) GitHub
6 19 (6.35%) Serverless
7 13 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.01%) Azure AKS
9 11 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.68%) SaaS
10 10 (3.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (3.34%) IaaS
11 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.68%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.34%) VPN
2 9 (3.01%) DNS
3 6 (2.01%) Firewall
4 3 (1.00%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.00%) HTTP
4 3 (1.00%) TETRA
5 2 (0.67%) DHCP
5 2 (0.67%) LAN
5 2 (0.67%) Network Security
5 2 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.33%) AMQP
6 1 (0.33%) NAS
6 1 (0.33%) NGFW
6 1 (0.33%) SAN
6 1 (0.33%) SMTP
6 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.34%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.68%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.01%) Flink
4 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.67%) Power BI
5 5 (1.67%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.34%) Redis
7 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.00%) Big Data
7 3 (1.00%) Power Query
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 33 (11.04%) JIRA
2 28 (9.36%) GitLab
3 25 (8.36%) Git
4 23 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
5 22 (7.36%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.68%) Gatling
6 11 (3.68%) JMeter
6 11 (3.68%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.34%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.67%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.67%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.33%) JUnit
9 1 (0.33%) MSI
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 73 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.02%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.69%) Finance
4 8 (2.68%) Legal
5 6 (2.01%) Military
6 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Back Office
7 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Banking
9 2 (0.67%) Local Government
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Marketing
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
10 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (29.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (17.39%) Senior
3 49 (16.39%) Developer
4 23 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 20 (6.69%) GCP Engineer
6 19 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (5.69%) Analyst
7 17 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 16 (5.35%) Architect
8 16 (5.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.02%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Lead
11 12 (4.01%) Performance Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) GCP DevOps
12 11 (3.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.01%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.03%) Kafka
2 19 (6.35%) REST
3 18 (6.02%) .NET
4 12 (4.01%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.68%) RESTful
5 11 (3.68%) Spring
6 10 (3.34%) .NET Framework
7 9 (3.01%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.68%) Keycloak
8 8 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.34%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (2.34%) Playwright
10 6 (2.01%) Node.js
10 6 (2.01%) React
11 5 (1.67%) Flask
11 5 (1.67%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.34%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.34%) gRPC
12 4 (1.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.37%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.67%) Legacy Code
6 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.00%) EPoS
8 3 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.00%) Wiki
9 2 (0.67%) Clustering
9 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.67%) Replication
10 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.37%) Linux
2 30 (10.03%) Windows
3 10 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (38.80%) CI/CD
2 112 (37.46%) Agile
3 58 (19.40%) Containerisation
4 55 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (12.04%) Scrum
8 33 (11.04%) ITIL
9 32 (10.70%) Microservices
10 30 (10.03%) Collaborative Working
11 29 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (9.70%) Service Management
12 28 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (9.03%) Analytics
14 26 (8.70%) Data Engineering
14 26 (8.70%) Validation
15 23 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
15 23 (7.69%) Software Delivery
16 22 (7.36%) Web Application Development
17 21 (7.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.09%) Python
2 72 (24.08%) SQL
3 34 (11.37%) JavaScript
4 32 (10.70%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.03%) PL/SQL
6 25 (8.36%) Bash
7 24 (8.03%) Java
8 19 (6.35%) Go
9 12 (4.01%) Bicep
9 12 (4.01%) C#
10 6 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.67%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) C++
14 1 (0.33%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 130 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.71%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.01%) Degree
6 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.67%) CISM
8 5 (1.67%) CISSP
8 5 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 5 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.03%) QA
2 11 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.34%) NIST
5 5 (1.67%) GDPR
5 5 (1.67%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.34%) NCSC
6 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.34%) SLA
7 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (20.40%) Docker
2 16 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.67%) Corosync
5 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 76 (25.42%) Terraform
3 40 (13.38%) Ansible
4 21 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.69%) Grafana
6 11 (3.68%) Argo
7 5 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.67%) Pacemaker
7 5 (1.67%) Packer
8 4 (1.34%) Nagios
8 4 (1.34%) Nessus
9 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.67%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.67%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Puppet
11 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.70%) Oracle
3 22 (7.36%) Google
4 20 (6.69%) Red Hat
5 14 (4.68%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.35%) VMware
7 12 (4.01%) Atlassian
7 12 (4.01%) Databricks
7 12 (4.01%) Splunk
8 11 (3.68%) AppDynamics
8 11 (3.68%) New Relic
9 7 (2.34%) IBM
10 6 (2.01%) NEC
10 6 (2.01%) Remedy
10 6 (2.01%) SAP
11 4 (1.34%) Cisco
11 4 (1.34%) InterSystems
12 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.67%) Dell
14 1 (0.33%) EMC