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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 15
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 319 116 275
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.01% 6.10% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.22% 6.80% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 91 172
10th Percentile £381 £325 £439
25th Percentile £425 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -5.62% -7.29%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £651
90th Percentile £650 £675 £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 2,843 1,705 2,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.29% 89.60% 83.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,575 1,003 1,574
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £418 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £630
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 432 201 318
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £32.19 £18.51 £37.91
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +12 111 £531 +6.25% 41
Wiltshire +20 64 £500 -16.67% 5
Somerset +16 64 £475 -31.26% 21
Gloucestershire +12 49 £575 -8.00% 44
Devon -10 15 £560 +7.69% 14
Dorset -10 6 £350 -6.67% 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 26 (8.15%) Confluence
2 11 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.51%) IIS
3 8 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.88%) Mattermost
5 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.94%) 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 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.25%) Trello
3 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) InDesign
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.25%) 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
1 132 (41.38%) Azure
2 103 (32.29%) AWS
3 73 (22.88%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (14.42%) GCP
5 29 (9.09%) GitHub
6 22 (6.90%) Serverless
7 16 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (3.45%) Datadog
9 11 (3.45%) dbt
9 11 (3.45%) SaaS
10 10 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (2.82%) OCI
11 9 (2.82%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.13%) DNS
2 9 (2.82%) Firewall
3 5 (1.57%) VPN
4 3 (0.94%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.94%) TETRA
5 2 (0.63%) CTI
6 1 (0.31%) AMQP
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.51%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.51%) Power BI
5 7 (2.19%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.88%) Flink
7 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.94%) Big Data
9 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.94%) Metadata
9 3 (0.94%) Redis
9 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.94%) SQLite
10 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (13.17%) JIRA
2 38 (11.91%) Git
3 25 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.52%) GitLab
5 12 (3.76%) Gatling
5 12 (3.76%) LoadRunner
6 11 (3.45%) JMeter
7 10 (3.13%) MSI
8 7 (2.19%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.19%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.88%) Postman
10 4 (1.25%) 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%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.97%) Public Sector
3 20 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.02%) Finance
5 9 (2.82%) Legal
6 6 (1.88%) Military
7 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.25%) Banking
8 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.25%) Police
9 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.31%) Aviation
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (26.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (15.36%) Developer
3 28 (8.78%) Senior
4 22 (6.90%) Architect
5 21 (6.58%) Data Engineer
6 20 (6.27%) Lead
7 19 (5.96%) GCP Engineer
8 18 (5.64%) Analyst
8 18 (5.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (5.33%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) GCP DevOps
11 13 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.76%) Performance Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.13%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.97%) .NET
2 29 (9.09%) REST
3 22 (6.90%) RESTful
4 21 (6.58%) .NET Framework
5 18 (5.64%) Kafka
5 18 (5.64%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.33%) React
7 16 (5.02%) Spring
8 14 (4.39%) Playwright
9 13 (4.08%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.13%) ATL
10 10 (3.13%) COM
10 10 (3.13%) CSS
10 10 (3.13%) GeoJSON
10 10 (3.13%) HTML
10 10 (3.13%) MFC
11 9 (2.82%) CSS3
11 9 (2.82%) HTML5
11 9 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.99%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.27%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.88%) 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%) Replication
10 2 (0.63%) Clustering
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.73%) Linux
2 39 (12.23%) Windows
3 13 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.25%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.34%) CI/CD
2 108 (33.86%) Agile
3 84 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (20.06%) Containerisation
6 44 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 42 (13.17%) Microservices
8 40 (12.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (10.03%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (8.78%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (8.78%) ITIL
13 27 (8.46%) Observability
13 27 (8.46%) Software Engineering
14 26 (8.15%) Data Modelling
15 25 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
16 24 (7.52%) DevSecOps
17 23 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 23 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (26.02%) Python
2 53 (16.61%) SQL
3 38 (11.91%) Java
4 34 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.34%) Bash
6 25 (7.84%) C#
7 17 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.02%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.39%) Bicep
10 12 (3.76%) PL/SQL
11 11 (3.45%) Go
12 4 (1.25%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.63%) Groovy
14 1 (0.31%) C++
14 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Scala
14 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (46.08%) Security Cleared
2 112 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.54%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.70%) Degree
5 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.96%) QA
2 15 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.39%) WCAG
4 12 (3.76%) NCSC
5 10 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.88%) SLA
7 5 (1.57%) 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 70 (21.94%) Docker
2 11 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.88%) Corosync
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (33.23%) Kubernetes
2 89 (27.90%) Terraform
3 42 (13.17%) Ansible
4 20 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.02%) Grafana
6 11 (3.45%) Argo
7 7 (2.19%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (2.19%) Pacemaker
8 3 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.63%) Nagios
9 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.63%) SCCM
10 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.31%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) CASB
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
10 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.84%) Google
3 14 (4.39%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.39%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.08%) Databricks
4 13 (4.08%) Splunk
5 11 (3.45%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.45%) New Relic
5 11 (3.45%) Oracle
6 9 (2.82%) SAP
7 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.88%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.88%) Remedy
9 5 (1.57%) InterSystems
9 5 (1.57%) VMware
10 4 (1.25%) Conga
10 4 (1.25%) GoCardless
10 4 (1.25%) IBM
11 3 (0.94%) Dell
11 3 (0.94%) Informatica