DevOps Contract Job Trends in Swindon

DevOps
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 12 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 12.63% 5.49% 13.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 6.67% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 13
10th Percentile £409 £590 £576
25th Percentile £413 £613 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +8.00% +37.36%
75th Percentile £614 £709 £679
90th Percentile £675 £726 £758
Wiltshire median daily rate £580 £590 £594
% change year-on-year -1.69% -0.63% +3.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 75 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 80.00% 82.42% 86.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 87
10th Percentile £332 £208 £282
25th Percentile £400 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £616
90th Percentile £730 £738 £677
Wiltshire median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £36.40 £50.00
% change year-on-year -38.82% -27.21% -23.66%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swindon

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swindon over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Swindon

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Principal Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Developer
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Change Management
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) ITSM
2 5 (41.67%) Problem Management
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Icinga
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Talend