DevOps Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 237 251 257
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 11.95% 11.77% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.45% 13.47% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 183 205
10th Percentile £400 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £663
90th Percentile £625 £685 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -13.68% +3.26% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £77.00 - £70.99
25th Percentile £80.00 - £73.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £75.67
75th Percentile £100.25 - £77.53
90th Percentile £103.40 - £83.86
South East median hourly rate £82.50 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +36.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,762 1,863 2,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.86% 87.38% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 1,080 1,514
10th Percentile £263 £300 £215
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.01% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 59 109
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.19 £18.53
25th Percentile £17.40 £28.38 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £56.50 £63.20 £65.25
90th Percentile £87.00 £70.72 £75.33
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £54.36 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.53% +3.54% +21.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 -3 194 £492 -18.00% 37
Buckinghamshire +12 32 £463 -26.00% 36
Oxfordshire -4 11 £550 +54.93% 36
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.38%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.95%) Smallworld
4 6 (2.53%) Confluence
4 6 (2.53%) GeoServer
5 4 (1.69%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.84%) CMS
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.42%) Camunda
8 1 (0.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.42%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.42%) Mule
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Maximo
1 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 171 (72.15%) Azure
2 93 (39.24%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (35.86%) AWS
4 42 (17.72%) GCP
5 35 (14.77%) GitHub
6 21 (8.86%) SaaS
7 18 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.17%) IaaS
9 16 (6.75%) Serverless
10 15 (6.33%) Power Platform
11 14 (5.91%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.64%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.64%) PaaS
13 10 (4.22%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.80%) OCI
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) DNS
2 6 (2.53%) BGP
2 6 (2.53%) LAN
2 6 (2.53%) MPLS
2 6 (2.53%) Network Security
2 6 (2.53%) WAN
3 5 (2.11%) Firewall
4 3 (1.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.84%) 2G
5 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.84%) LTE
5 2 (0.84%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.84%) SSL
5 2 (0.84%) VoIP
5 2 (0.84%) VPN
6 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.64%) Power BI
2 9 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.38%) GIS
3 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (2.53%) Metadata
5 6 (2.53%) QGIS
6 5 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.11%) Big Data
6 5 (2.11%) MySQL
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.27%) Redis
7 3 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (13.50%) JIRA
2 23 (9.70%) Git
3 22 (9.28%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.95%) Selenium
5 6 (2.53%) GitLab
6 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.27%) JUnit
7 3 (1.27%) NUnit
7 3 (1.27%) Storybook
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) Mocha
8 1 (0.42%) MSTest
8 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.91%) Finance
6 10 (4.22%) Billing
6 10 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.38%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Marketing
8 5 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Electronics
10 3 (1.27%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (15.61%) Architect
2 29 (12.24%) Analyst
2 29 (12.24%) Developer
3 27 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (10.97%) Senior
5 18 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.91%) Test Analyst
8 13 (5.49%) Lead
9 11 (4.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) Release Manager
12 7 (2.95%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.95%) Site Engineer
12 7 (2.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.53%) IP Architect
13 6 (2.53%) IP Specialist
13 6 (2.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.70%) ADO
2 21 (8.86%) REST
3 17 (7.17%) LDAP
4 16 (6.75%) .NET
5 13 (5.49%) RESTful
6 9 (3.80%) React
7 8 (3.38%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.38%) scikit-learn
8 7 (2.95%) CSS
8 7 (2.95%) HTML
8 7 (2.95%) SOAP
9 6 (2.53%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.53%) JSON
9 6 (2.53%) NETCONF
9 6 (2.53%) SailPoint
9 6 (2.53%) YANG
10 5 (2.11%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.11%) OAuth
10 5 (2.11%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.49%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.11%) PKI
7 5 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.27%) IoT
9 3 (1.27%) Replication
10 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.39%) Linux
2 9 (3.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.79%) CI/CD
2 84 (35.44%) Agile
3 65 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (14.77%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (14.35%) Containerisation
6 33 (13.92%) AI
7 32 (13.50%) Analytics
8 28 (11.81%) DevSecOps
9 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (11.39%) Test Automation
10 26 (10.97%) Machine Learning
11 24 (10.13%) SIEM
11 24 (10.13%) Validation
12 23 (9.70%) Migration
12 23 (9.70%) Scrum
13 21 (8.86%) Microservices
14 20 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (8.02%) Roadmaps
16 18 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (7.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.60%) Python
2 42 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 40 (16.88%) SQL
4 25 (10.55%) Java
5 22 (9.28%) Bash
6 21 (8.86%) C#
6 21 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.53%) BeanShell
8 6 (2.53%) R
9 5 (2.11%) PHP
10 4 (1.69%) Bicep
10 4 (1.69%) C++
10 4 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.69%) VB
11 3 (1.27%) C
11 3 (1.27%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.27%) X++
12 2 (0.84%) Groovy
12 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.02%) CISSP
4 17 (7.17%) Degree
5 16 (6.75%) CISM
6 12 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.53%) CCIE
8 6 (2.53%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.27%) CFCE
10 3 (1.27%) GCFA
10 3 (1.27%) GCIA
10 3 (1.27%) GCIH
10 3 (1.27%) RHCE
11 2 (0.84%) GIAC
11 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.35%) GDPR
2 25 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (10.13%) NIST
4 17 (7.17%) QA
5 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.95%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.69%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.84%) PMO
9 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 27 (11.39%) Docker
3 8 (3.38%) vSphere
4 6 (2.53%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (20.68%) Terraform
2 40 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 32 (13.50%) Ansible
4 6 (2.53%) Argo
4 6 (2.53%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.27%) CloudHub
5 3 (1.27%) Podman
5 3 (1.27%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.84%) logstash
6 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.59%) Oracle
3 17 (7.17%) BeyondTrust
3 17 (7.17%) CyberArk
4 14 (5.91%) Salesforce
5 12 (5.06%) Databricks
6 9 (3.80%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.80%) Splunk
7 8 (3.38%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.95%) ESRI
8 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.95%) VMware
9 6 (2.53%) Intergraph
9 6 (2.53%) Pure Storage
9 6 (2.53%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.69%) Foundry
10 4 (1.69%) Google
10 4 (1.69%) Palantir
10 4 (1.69%) SAP
11 3 (1.27%) Zscaler