DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 132 105
Rank change year-on-year +53 -27 -14
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 23 13 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.52% 0.48% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 0.52% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 36
10th Percentile £413 £408 £471
25th Percentile £428 £419 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £450 £623
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -27.71% +14.48%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £691
90th Percentile £684 £568 £756
South East median daily rate £550 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +4.27% -12.08% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +45 23 £613 +19.51% 8
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (86.96%) Azure
3 16 (69.57%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
4 15 (65.22%) PowerShell
5 10 (43.48%) Python
5 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (43.48%) Terraform
6 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
7 8 (34.78%) SQL
8 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
8 7 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (30.43%) IaaS
8 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
8 7 (30.43%) Bicep
8 7 (30.43%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
9 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (26.09%) PaaS
9 6 (26.09%) Bash
9 6 (26.09%) ADO
9 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (21.74%) B2B
10 5 (21.74%) B2C
10 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (21.74%) ETL
10 5 (21.74%) Windows
10 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
10 5 (21.74%) YAML

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 20 (86.96%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (30.43%) IaaS
5 6 (26.09%) PaaS
6 5 (21.74%) Azure API Management
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Storage
6 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
7 4 (17.39%) GitHub
8 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (8.70%) AWS
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) SSDT
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 4 (17.39%) Marketing
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ADO
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) YAML
3 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
6 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) B2B
7 5 (21.74%) B2C
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (21.74%) ETL
7 5 (21.74%) RBAC
7 5 (21.74%) Release Management
8 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
9 3 (13.04%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (43.48%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 7 (30.43%) Bicep
5 6 (26.09%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Puppet
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) UiPath