DevOps Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 115 85
Rank change year-on-year +45 -30 -11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 23 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.96% 0.45% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 0.48% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 24
10th Percentile £413 £439 £480
25th Percentile £428 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £513 £607
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -15.50% +15.52%
75th Percentile £675 £556 £675
90th Percentile £684 £590 £696
South East median daily rate £550 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +4.27% -12.08% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +39 14 £650 +30.00% 5
Wokingham - 5 £425 -
Windsor - 3 £600 -
Bracknell +18 1 £550 -
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (86.96%) Azure
3 16 (69.57%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
4 15 (65.22%) PowerShell
5 10 (43.48%) Python
5 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (43.48%) Terraform
6 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
7 8 (34.78%) SQL
8 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
8 7 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (30.43%) IaaS
8 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
8 7 (30.43%) Bicep
8 7 (30.43%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
9 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (26.09%) PaaS
9 6 (26.09%) Bash
9 6 (26.09%) ADO
9 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (21.74%) B2B
10 5 (21.74%) B2C
10 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (21.74%) ETL
10 5 (21.74%) Windows
10 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
10 5 (21.74%) YAML

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (30.43%) IaaS
5 6 (26.09%) PaaS
6 5 (21.74%) Azure API Management
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Storage
6 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
7 4 (17.39%) GitHub
8 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (8.70%) AWS
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) SSDT
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 4 (17.39%) Marketing
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ADO
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) YAML
3 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
6 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) B2B
7 5 (21.74%) B2C
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (21.74%) ETL
7 5 (21.74%) RBAC
7 5 (21.74%) Release Management
8 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
9 3 (13.04%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (43.48%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 7 (30.43%) Bicep
5 6 (26.09%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Puppet
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) UiPath