DevOps Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

DevOps
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 9 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 6.21% 2.55% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 3.51% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £441 £289 £431
25th Percentile £513 £340 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £463 £500
90th Percentile - £470 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -14.71% +1.96% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 114 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.28% 72.61% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 78 132
10th Percentile £174 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £334 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £550 £509 £603
90th Percentile £680 £641 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.49% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 14
10th Percentile £19.15 £13.83 £25.29
25th Percentile - £17.63 £27.58
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -21.12% +61.60%
75th Percentile £81.63 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £80.63 £52.63
South East median hourly rate £22.35 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.72% +7.37% +86.77%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Oxfordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Oxfordshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Banbury - 4 - - 3
Oxford -6 1 £525 +47.89% 6
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Prefect
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Celery
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (33.33%) Smart Meter
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (44.44%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) BPMN
4 3 (33.33%) Business Case
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Presales
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
4 3 (33.33%) System Testing
4 3 (33.33%) UML
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (44.44%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) HIPAA
1 4 (44.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft