DevOps Contracts in Reading

DevOps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 82 205 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 13.74% 17.20% 12.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.77% 19.07% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 137 108
10th Percentile £366 £492 £472
25th Percentile £450 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +7.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 3
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - +10.44% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £79.19
% change year-on-year -27.48% +5.78% +14.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 71 (86.59%) Azure
2 41 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (26.83%) AWS
4 15 (18.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (14.63%) Serverless
6 11 (13.41%) Azure API Management
6 11 (13.41%) Azure Functions
7 9 (10.98%) Azure AKS
7 9 (10.98%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.66%) GCP
9 3 (3.66%) SonarCloud
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.44%) SaaS
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.22%) Network Security
2 1 (1.22%) NGFW
2 1 (1.22%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (6.10%) Power BI
4 4 (4.88%) Redis
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.66%) SSDT
6 2 (2.44%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) HBase
7 1 (1.22%) Impala
7 1 (1.22%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (29.27%) Selenium
2 20 (24.39%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) JIRA
4 14 (17.07%) Jenkins
5 12 (14.63%) Cucumber
6 11 (13.41%) GitLab
7 10 (12.20%) REST Assured
8 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
9 4 (4.88%) SpecFlow
10 3 (3.66%) Snyk
11 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (1.22%) DbUnit
11 1 (1.22%) jMock
11 1 (1.22%) JUnit
11 1 (1.22%) Maven
11 1 (1.22%) Mockito
11 1 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.22%) Vite
General
1 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.20%) Telecoms
3 8 (9.76%) Finance
4 6 (7.32%) Electronics
4 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.32%) Marketing
5 5 (6.10%) Law
6 4 (4.88%) Police
7 2 (2.44%) Billing
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Developer
2 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (15.85%) Azure Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.10%) React Developer
7 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) PMO Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) Tester
9 3 (3.66%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Compliance Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) ADO
2 11 (13.41%) REST
3 10 (12.20%) CSS
3 10 (12.20%) HTML
3 10 (12.20%) Java EE
4 9 (10.98%) React
5 8 (9.76%) ARM Templates
6 7 (8.54%) .NET
7 6 (7.32%) RESTful
8 5 (6.10%) OAuth
8 5 (6.10%) YAML
9 4 (4.88%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.88%) Prisma
10 3 (3.66%) Node.js
10 3 (3.66%) PySpark
11 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.44%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.44%) Playwright
11 2 (2.44%) TanStack
12 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
1 6 (7.32%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.44%) IoT
2 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.22%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.22%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Agile
2 29 (35.37%) CI/CD
3 26 (31.71%) Test Automation
4 18 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 18 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.51%) Software Engineering
6 15 (18.29%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (18.29%) Unit Testing
7 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (15.85%) Microservices
7 13 (15.85%) SDLC
8 11 (13.41%) Configuration Management
8 11 (13.41%) Software Testing
9 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.20%) ETL
9 10 (12.20%) Software Architecture
9 10 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (10.98%) Migration
10 9 (10.98%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.49%) Python
2 21 (25.61%) Java
3 19 (23.17%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 10 (12.20%) C#
6 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.32%) PL/SQL
8 5 (6.10%) Bash
8 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.66%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (26.83%) SC Cleared
1 22 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CISM
4 1 (1.22%) CISSP
4 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) PMO
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.66%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
2 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.22%) Postfix
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (18.29%) Terraform
2 14 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.76%) Ansible
4 6 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (7.32%) Podman
5 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.22%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.22%) Grafana
6 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) SAP
4 5 (6.10%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) UiPath
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.22%) Cramer
6 1 (1.22%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.22%) Google
6 1 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.22%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.22%) VMware