DevOps Jobs in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 497 705 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.38% 11.50% 11.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.66% 12.14% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 326 378 458
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,055 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% +6.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £105,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,737 5,806 6,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.16% 94.68% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,018 3,157 3,953
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -12 237 £60,000 -14.29% 35
Buckinghamshire -11 141 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Oxfordshire -1 119 £59,000 +2.61% 13
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 43 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 29 (5.84%) ArcGIS
2 29 (5.84%) GeoServer
2 29 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (5.63%) OpenStack
4 26 (5.23%) CMS
5 24 (4.83%) Headless CMS
5 24 (4.83%) Kentico
6 20 (4.02%) IIS
7 19 (3.82%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (3.82%) Umbraco
8 12 (2.41%) nginx
9 11 (2.21%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (2.01%) JBoss
11 9 (1.81%) Confluence
12 4 (0.80%) Apache
12 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (5.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 327 (65.79%) Azure
2 177 (35.61%) Azure DevOps
3 171 (34.41%) AWS
4 59 (11.87%) Dynamics 365
5 56 (11.27%) Power Platform
6 47 (9.46%) GCP
7 46 (9.26%) Power Automate
8 45 (9.05%) Serverless
9 37 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (6.64%) PowerApps
13 19 (3.82%) Kontent
14 18 (3.62%) Azure Storage
14 18 (3.62%) Entra ID
15 17 (3.42%) SaaS
16 16 (3.22%) Amazon S3
16 16 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (3.02%) PaaS
18 12 (2.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.04%) Firewall
2 17 (3.42%) DNS
3 14 (2.82%) DHCP
4 8 (1.61%) VPN
5 4 (0.80%) MQTT
5 4 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.80%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.60%) BGP
6 3 (0.60%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) LAN
7 2 (0.40%) SSL
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.20%) HTTP
8 1 (0.20%) NaaS
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
8 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (9.66%) Relational Database
3 38 (7.65%) SQL Server
4 34 (6.84%) BigQuery
5 33 (6.64%) Looker
6 31 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (5.84%) GIS
7 29 (5.84%) Power BI
7 29 (5.84%) QGIS
8 28 (5.63%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.22%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.01%) MySQL
11 7 (1.41%) Big Data
11 7 (1.41%) Metadata
12 6 (1.21%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 71 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 70 (14.08%) Git
3 25 (5.03%) JIRA
4 14 (2.82%) NUnit
5 13 (2.62%) Selenium
6 11 (2.21%) GitLab
6 11 (2.21%) Visual Studio
7 10 (2.01%) JUnit
7 10 (2.01%) MorphX
8 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.81%) WebDriver
9 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.01%) Bugzilla
10 5 (1.01%) MSTest
10 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio Team System
10 5 (1.01%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.60%) JDeveloper
12 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.40%) ERwin
12 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 99 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.44%) Law
5 31 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.23%) Finance
7 24 (4.83%) Billing
8 16 (3.22%) Retail
9 12 (2.41%) Marketing
9 12 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.21%) Legal
11 9 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Back Office
13 7 (1.41%) Police
14 6 (1.21%) Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.40%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 168 (33.80%) Developer
2 86 (17.30%) Senior
3 56 (11.27%) Software Engineer
4 53 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 50 (10.06%) Senior Developer
6 43 (8.65%) .NET Developer
7 41 (8.25%) Java Developer
8 29 (5.84%) Analyst
9 28 (5.63%) C# .NET Developer
9 28 (5.63%) C# Developer
9 28 (5.63%) Senior .NET Developer
10 27 (5.43%) Consultant
10 27 (5.43%) Data Manager
10 27 (5.43%) Engineering Manager
11 25 (5.03%) ASP.NET Developer
11 25 (5.03%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 25 (5.03%) JavaScript Developer
11 25 (5.03%) Lead
12 22 (4.43%) Full Stack Developer
13 20 (4.02%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (25.35%) .NET
2 78 (15.69%) React
3 76 (15.29%) .NET Core
4 67 (13.48%) CSS
5 47 (9.46%) Node.js
6 43 (8.65%) ASP.NET
7 42 (8.45%) AngularJS
8 41 (8.25%) Web Services
9 40 (8.05%) Spring
10 36 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (7.04%) JSON
11 35 (7.04%) REST
11 35 (7.04%) Spring Boot
12 34 (6.84%) .NET Framework
13 33 (6.64%) HTML
13 33 (6.64%) RESTful
14 30 (6.04%) XML
15 29 (5.84%) Leaflet
15 29 (5.84%) OpenLayers
15 29 (5.84%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 47 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.82%) PKI
6 9 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.61%) IoT
8 7 (1.41%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.01%) Hackathon
10 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 78 (15.69%) Linux
2 28 (5.63%) Windows
3 16 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (52.92%) Agile
2 136 (27.36%) CI/CD
3 93 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (18.51%) Scrum
5 78 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
6 76 (15.29%) Web Development
7 73 (14.69%) Software Engineering
8 72 (14.49%) Microservices
9 62 (12.47%) CRM
10 56 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 52 (10.46%) Data Modelling
11 52 (10.46%) MVC
12 51 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
12 51 (10.26%) ITIL
13 49 (9.86%) TDD
14 48 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
14 48 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (9.46%) Analytics
16 45 (9.05%) Mentoring
17 44 (8.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (32.19%) JavaScript
2 138 (27.77%) C#
3 112 (22.54%) Python
4 85 (17.10%) SQL
5 70 (14.08%) Java
6 41 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 29 (5.84%) Bash
8 22 (4.43%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.82%) Go
10 17 (3.42%) Bicep
11 16 (3.22%) VBScript
12 14 (2.82%) VB
13 13 (2.62%) Kotlin
14 12 (2.41%) Groovy
15 8 (1.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.21%) Ruby
16 6 (1.21%) VB.NET
17 5 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.80%) JSX
18 4 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 154 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 112 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 89 (17.91%) Degree
4 24 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.02%) CTC Cleared
7 17 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.02%) CCNA
8 15 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 11 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.40%) GCFA
14 2 (0.40%) OSCP
14 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.08%) QA
2 16 (3.22%) GDPR
3 12 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (20.32%) Docker
2 44 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.02%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.40%) HDFS
7 2 (0.40%) KVM
7 2 (0.40%) QEMU
7 2 (0.40%) Xen
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 72 (14.49%) Terraform
3 67 (13.48%) Ansible
4 18 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (3.02%) Rancher
6 14 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (2.82%) SCCM
6 14 (2.82%) SCOM
6 14 (2.82%) WSUS
7 7 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (1.41%) Kibana
8 5 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Netcool
10 1 (0.20%) Packer
10 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 170 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.65%) Google
3 29 (5.84%) ESRI
4 28 (5.63%) WSO2
5 19 (3.82%) Optimizely
5 19 (3.82%) Oracle
5 19 (3.82%) Sitecore
6 15 (3.02%) Cisco
6 15 (3.02%) VMware
7 11 (2.21%) Nintex
8 9 (1.81%) Databricks
9 6 (1.21%) Informatica
10 5 (1.01%) HP
11 4 (0.80%) Adobe
11 4 (0.80%) Apple
11 4 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.60%) Juniper
12 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow