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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 68 207 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 12.88% 17.47% 13.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.96% 19.90% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 138 116
10th Percentile £392 £486 £500
25th Percentile £435 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -17.01% +4.78% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 4
10th Percentile - £56.61 £76.26
25th Percentile - £56.65 £78.14
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - +10.44% -
75th Percentile - £87.51 -
90th Percentile - £87.53 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £77.43
% change year-on-year -27.48% +8.18% +46.09%

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 487 1,040 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.23% 87.76% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 542 603
10th Percentile £335 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -2.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £664
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £502 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 51 23
10th Percentile £67.34 £14.50 £45.50
25th Percentile £68.99 £52.21 £58.32
Median hourly rate £72.35 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £75.08 £80.69 £75.38
90th Percentile £76.35 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £63.00
% change year-on-year +1.14% -3.49% +199.64%

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 3 June 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 4 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.47%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (1.47%) Smallworld
2 1 (1.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) Azure
2 28 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (33.82%) AWS
4 10 (14.71%) Azure API Management
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.88%) Serverless
9 3 (4.41%) GCP
9 3 (4.41%) GitHub
9 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.41%) SonarCloud
10 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.94%) OCI
10 2 (2.94%) SaaS
11 1 (1.47%) Figma
11 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
1 2 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.47%) 4G
2 1 (1.47%) 5G
2 1 (1.47%) Converged Networks
2 1 (1.47%) DOCSIS
2 1 (1.47%) GPON
2 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.47%) LTE
2 1 (1.47%) MPLS
2 1 (1.47%) SMS
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) VoIP
2 1 (1.47%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) SSDT
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.47%) GIS
5 1 (1.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (32.35%) Selenium
2 18 (26.47%) JIRA
3 14 (20.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (17.65%) Cucumber
5 11 (16.18%) GitLab
6 10 (14.71%) Git
6 10 (14.71%) REST Assured
7 7 (10.29%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.41%) Snyk
9 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (1.47%) DbUnit
10 1 (1.47%) jMock
10 1 (1.47%) JUnit
10 1 (1.47%) Maven
10 1 (1.47%) Mockito
10 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.47%) Vite
General
1 27 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.35%) Law
5 4 (5.88%) Police
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Billing
6 3 (4.41%) Finance
7 2 (2.94%) Electronics
7 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Java Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Compliance Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) REST
2 10 (14.71%) Java EE
3 7 (10.29%) ADO
3 7 (10.29%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.82%) OAuth
5 5 (7.35%) CSS
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
6 4 (5.88%) React
7 3 (4.41%) Node.js
7 3 (4.41%) RESTful
7 3 (4.41%) YAML
8 2 (2.94%) .NET
8 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.94%) Express.js
8 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.94%) Playwright
8 2 (2.94%) SOAP
8 2 (2.94%) TanStack
8 2 (2.94%) Web Services
9 1 (1.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.94%) CMDB
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.47%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 27 (39.71%) Test Automation
3 20 (29.41%) Agile
3 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
4 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (16.18%) Configuration Management
6 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
7 10 (14.71%) Software Architecture
7 10 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (11.76%) Test Scripting
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.29%) Validation
11 6 (8.82%) Load Testing
11 6 (8.82%) Open Source
11 6 (8.82%) RBAC
11 6 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Java
3 11 (16.18%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.24%) Bash
4 9 (13.24%) SQL
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.88%) C#
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) Bicep
8 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Magik
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) HL7
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Postfix
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Terraform
2 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.65%) Ansible
4 6 (8.82%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (8.82%) Podman
5 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.47%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) Oracle
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.41%) UiPath
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.47%) Cramer
5 1 (1.47%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.47%) ESRI
5 1 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.47%) VMware