DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Development Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Reading is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 77 59
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 11 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.89% 1.52% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.72% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 30
10th Percentile £453 £486 £496
25th Percentile £475 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.24% +16.76%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £697
90th Percentile £598 £667 £739
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -26.09% -6.20% +9.46%

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 536 990 1,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 88.71% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 541 708
10th Percentile £343 £334 £312
25th Percentile £423 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +5.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 18
10th Percentile - £48.92 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £58.24 £54.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £70.27 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +6.47% +89.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £87.47 £74.59
90th Percentile £69.00 £100.00 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.75 £56.89
% change year-on-year -47.89% +8.55% +63.04%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 8 (72.73%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 6 (54.55%) Terraform
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (45.45%) Verification and Validation
5 5 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
5 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
5 5 (45.45%) High Availability
5 5 (45.45%) Validation
5 5 (45.45%) JIRA
5 5 (45.45%) QA
5 5 (45.45%) Risk Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Load Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
5 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) IaaS
6 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code

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 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Jinja
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Load Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Risk Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
3 5 (45.45%) Validation
3 5 (45.45%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) JNCIP
3 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) logstash
4 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft