DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Banbury

Development Operations Engineer
Oxfordshire > Banbury

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Banbury is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Banbury 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £525 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Banbury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Banbury. 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 Banbury with a recognized job title 6 1 3
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £245 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £250 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -52.38% +12.61%
75th Percentile £283 £255 £538
90th Percentile £451 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £448 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -10.50% +25.00% -11.11%

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Banbury

For the 6 months to 26 February 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 Banbury region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Banbury 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft