Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Development Operations
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Berkshire is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 5 0 18
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.35% - 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 17
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile £406 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.37%
75th Percentile £428 - £738
90th Percentile £434 - £765
South East median daily rate £425 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -43.33% +3.45% +23.93%

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 1,280 1,458 1,675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.07% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 798 1,009
10th Percentile £306 £309 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 47 76
10th Percentile £14.75 £23.90 £24.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.15 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% -2.05% +84.23%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.50 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £98.50 £75.89
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £54.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -53.70% +5.39% +36.63%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Berkshire

Senior DevOps
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 Senior DevOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 - 5 £419 - 1
Senior DevOps
South East

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Senior DevOps 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 Berkshire region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) B2C
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) OpenID
2 2 (40.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) B2C
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) MLOps
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft