DevOps Engineer Contracts in Reading

Development Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Reading is £650, 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 46 85 65
Rank change year-on-year +39 -20 -6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 14 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.35% 0.50% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 0.54% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 19
10th Percentile £444 £430 £484
25th Percentile £588 £456 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £620
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -19.35% +18.10%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £681
90th Percentile £688 £530 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £513 £607
% change year-on-year +19.51% -15.50% +15.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (78.57%) Azure
4 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (42.86%) Terraform
6 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
7 5 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (35.71%) RBAC
7 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (35.71%) Azure API Management
7 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
7 5 (35.71%) YAML
7 5 (35.71%) OAuth
7 5 (35.71%) Git
7 5 (35.71%) Release Management
7 5 (35.71%) Python
7 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (35.71%) ETL
7 5 (35.71%) B2B
7 5 (35.71%) B2C
7 5 (35.71%) Identity Management
8 4 (28.57%) Electronics
8 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
8 4 (28.57%) Finance
8 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
8 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (28.57%) SAP

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Azure API Management
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) SSDT
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Electronics
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth
1 5 (35.71%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) B2B
4 5 (35.71%) B2C
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) ETL
4 5 (35.71%) Identity Management
4 5 (35.71%) RBAC
4 5 (35.71%) Release Management
5 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (28.57%) Programme Management
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
7 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) UiPath