DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Development Operations Engineer
Worcestershire > Worcester

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Worcester is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 3.33% 3.13% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 3.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £540 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £580 £613 -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -17.65%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Worcester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Worcester. 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 Worcester with a recognized job title 28 27 31
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 84.38% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 19
10th Percentile - £139 £184
25th Percentile £525 £261 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +55.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £554
90th Percentile £850 £900 £688
Worcestershire median daily rate £563 £563 £525
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.53
25th Percentile - £15.94 £16.38
Median hourly rate £13.00 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +2.31% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £35.94
90th Percentile - £20.74 £72.50
Worcestershire median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £17.33
% change year-on-year +65.47% +4.63% -2.22%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Worcester

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Worcester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Worcester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester

For the 6 months to 20 March 2026, 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 Worcester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat