Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior Development Operations
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Reading is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 5 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.73% - 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - £595
25th Percentile £406 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.37%
75th Percentile £428 - £738
90th Percentile £434 - £758
Berkshire median daily rate £419 - £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 641 980 973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 90.24% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 542 634
10th Percentile £315 £334 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +10.10% +0.97%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £620
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 44 18 16
10th Percentile £14.75 £46.48 £59.32
25th Percentile £16.66 £56.25 £60.99
Median hourly rate £69.75 £66.26 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.70% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £99.38 £66.11
90th Percentile £96.75 £100.00 £71.38
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.72
% change year-on-year -33.12% -2.05% +84.23%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Reading

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) B2C
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS

Senior DevOps 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) OpenID
2 2 (40.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) B2C
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) MLOps
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft