DevOps Contracts in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 107 273 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.00% 8.29% 12.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 10.04% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 170 338
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £449 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £693
90th Percentile £668 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 53
10th Percentile - - £60.18
25th Percentile - - £60.91
Median hourly rate £82.96 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year +18.51% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £75.50
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.70% +0.93%

All Process and 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 1,614 2,719 3,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.57% 82.59% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,712 2,211
10th Percentile £217 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 381 303
10th Percentile £16.89 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.69 £29.75 £22.96
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £70.25 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South West.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 2025. 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 -8 47 £550 +4.76% 217
Wiltshire +15 19 £538 +2.38% 61
Gloucestershire -14 14 £615 +2.50% 243
Devon +7 11 £520 -5.45% 87
Dorset +2 9 £550 - 77
Somerset +1 4 £625 +51.52% 139
Cornwall +9 2 £575 -
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.54%) Confluence
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.14%) Azure
2 45 (42.06%) AWS
3 27 (25.23%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.35%) GCP
4 10 (9.35%) GitHub
5 9 (8.41%) Serverless
6 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Functions
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.87%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) DNS
2 7 (6.54%) Firewall
3 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.80%) DHCP
4 3 (2.80%) HTTP
5 2 (1.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.82%) Git
3 15 (14.02%) GitLab
4 12 (11.21%) JIRA
5 7 (6.54%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Ant
8 1 (0.93%) Appium
8 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.93%) Gatling
8 1 (0.93%) JMeter
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.63%) Finance
2 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.54%) Electronics
3 7 (6.54%) Manufacturing
3 7 (6.54%) Marketing
3 7 (6.54%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
4 4 (3.74%) Military
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Back Office
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 28 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (24.30%) Developer
3 17 (15.89%) Lead
4 10 (9.35%) Senior
5 8 (7.48%) Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.61%) .NET Developer
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Developer
6 6 (5.61%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.67%) Administrator
7 5 (4.67%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Lead Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 5 (4.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Test Analyst
8 4 (3.74%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (3.74%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.15%) .NET
2 7 (6.54%) FastAPI
2 7 (6.54%) Node.js
2 7 (6.54%) OpenID
2 7 (6.54%) REST
3 6 (5.61%) React
4 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.74%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.74%) JSON
5 4 (3.74%) RESTful
5 4 (3.74%) SOAP
5 4 (3.74%) XML
6 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.80%) CSS
6 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 3 (2.80%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.87%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.80%) EPoS
4 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.91%) Linux
2 19 (17.76%) Windows
3 9 (8.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.54%) Unix
5 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.99%) CI/CD
2 39 (36.45%) Agile
3 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.89%) Mentoring
5 16 (14.95%) Containerisation
5 16 (14.95%) Migration
6 14 (13.08%) Software Testing
7 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
7 11 (10.28%) Validation
8 10 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.35%) SDLC
8 10 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (9.35%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (8.41%) Software Engineering
10 8 (7.48%) Configuration Management
10 8 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (6.54%) High Availability
11 7 (6.54%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.71%) Python
2 19 (17.76%) C#
3 18 (16.82%) PowerShell
4 16 (14.95%) Bash
4 16 (14.95%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.08%) SQL
6 12 (11.21%) Java
7 7 (6.54%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.74%) Perl
9 2 (1.87%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) PHP
9 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (47.66%) Security Cleared
2 33 (30.84%) SC Cleared
3 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.80%) CCNP
5 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.80%) Degree
5 3 (2.80%) OCA
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.80%) RHCA
5 3 (2.80%) RHCE
5 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) ISEB
6 2 (1.87%) MCSE
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (18.69%) Docker
2 8 (7.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (40.19%) Terraform
2 28 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 21 (19.63%) Ansible
4 13 (12.15%) Puppet
5 9 (8.41%) Grafana
6 8 (7.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.54%) MIIS
8 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.80%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.93%) Nessus
9 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
1 13 (12.15%) VMware
2 7 (6.54%) Oracle
2 7 (6.54%) SAP
3 6 (5.61%) Cisco
3 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.74%) Splunk
5 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.87%) IBM
6 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Citrix
7 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.93%) ESRI
7 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.93%) NetApp
7 1 (0.93%) New Relic
7 1 (0.93%) Pardot
7 1 (0.93%) Rapid7