Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Reading is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.85% - 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - £578
25th Percentile £406 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.37%
75th Percentile - - £744
90th Percentile £433 - £765
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +18.37%

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 658 974 966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 90.02% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 558 642
10th Percentile £325 £327 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +11.52% -2.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 10 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £47.61 £59.21
25th Percentile £15.39 £50.20 £60.93
Median hourly rate £73.50 £58.98 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +24.62% -6.81% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.45 £65.63
90th Percentile £97.25 £76.13 £67.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £58.38 £61.65
% change year-on-year -30.73% -5.30% +29.78%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) REST
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (50.00%) B2C
4 3 (50.00%) CRM
4 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
5 2 (33.33%) Agile

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (16.67%) PaaS
6 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (33.33%) OpenID
2 2 (33.33%) SAML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) B2C
4 3 (50.00%) CRM
4 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) API Management
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) MLOps
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) RBAC
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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