Principal DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Principal Development Operations Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

As of 24 March 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire.

 6 months to
24 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - £625 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wiltshire with a recognized job title 710 392 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.75% 88.09% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 279 635
10th Percentile £400 £312 £280
25th Percentile £478 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £689 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 2 27
10th Percentile £12.60 - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +263.64% -74.81%
75th Percentile £31.25 - £74.00
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.29
% change year-on-year -11.54% +34.60% -25.71%

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 24 March 2026, Principal DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
Principal DevOps Engineer jobs