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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 235 249 255
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 12.38% 11.74% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.91% 13.54% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 188 203
10th Percentile £400 £409 £420
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -12.77% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £70.99
25th Percentile - - £73.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.67
75th Percentile - - £77.53
90th Percentile - - £83.86
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 1,690 1,839 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.04% 86.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,067 1,551
10th Percentile £268 £308 £225
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £630 £623
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 65 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.58
25th Percentile £15.91 £32.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £58.05 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -56.93% +13.69% +143.12%
75th Percentile £36.00 £63.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £74.40 £72.80 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +19.37%

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 18 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
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 18 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 -1 192 £500 -16.67% 46
Buckinghamshire +13 33 £463 -19.57% 48
Oxfordshire -5 10 £550 +54.93% 41
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 (3.83%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.98%) Smallworld
4 6 (2.55%) Confluence
4 6 (2.55%) GeoServer
5 4 (1.70%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.28%) nginx
7 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.43%) Camunda
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Drupal
8 1 (0.43%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.43%) Mule
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 166 (70.64%) Azure
2 95 (40.43%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (32.77%) AWS
4 36 (15.32%) GCP
4 36 (15.32%) GitHub
5 19 (8.09%) IaaS
6 18 (7.66%) SaaS
7 17 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.38%) Serverless
9 14 (5.96%) Azure AKS
10 12 (5.11%) PaaS
10 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.68%) Entra ID
11 11 (4.68%) OCI
12 9 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.98%) Azure Storage
14 7 (2.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.83%) DNS
2 6 (2.55%) BGP
2 6 (2.55%) LAN
2 6 (2.55%) MPLS
2 6 (2.55%) WAN
3 5 (2.13%) Firewall
3 5 (2.13%) Network Security
4 3 (1.28%) 5G
4 3 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.28%) SSL
5 2 (0.85%) 2G
5 2 (0.85%) HTTP
5 2 (0.85%) LTE
5 2 (0.85%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.85%) VoIP
6 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.26%) Power BI
2 9 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.40%) GIS
3 8 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.55%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (2.55%) Metadata
4 6 (2.55%) QGIS
5 5 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.13%) Big Data
5 5 (2.13%) MySQL
5 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.28%) Redis
7 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (13.62%) JIRA
2 20 (8.51%) Git
3 18 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.40%) GitLab
5 7 (2.98%) Selenium
6 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.28%) JUnit
7 3 (1.28%) NUnit
7 3 (1.28%) Storybook
7 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) MLflow
8 1 (0.43%) Mocha
8 1 (0.43%) MSTest
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (5.96%) Finance
3 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (4.68%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.26%) Billing
5 10 (4.26%) Retail
6 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.70%) Marketing
8 3 (1.28%) Electronics
8 3 (1.28%) Law
8 3 (1.28%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 33 (14.04%) Architect
2 31 (13.19%) Developer
3 29 (12.34%) Analyst
4 27 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (10.64%) Senior
6 20 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Lead
8 14 (5.96%) Test Analyst
9 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.40%) Release Manager
12 7 (2.98%) Cloud Developer
12 7 (2.98%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.98%) Site Engineer
12 7 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.55%) IP Architect
13 6 (2.55%) IP Specialist
13 6 (2.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.64%) ADO
2 21 (8.94%) REST
3 14 (5.96%) .NET
4 13 (5.53%) RESTful
5 11 (4.68%) LDAP
6 10 (4.26%) SOAP
7 8 (3.40%) HTML
7 8 (3.40%) JSON
7 8 (3.40%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.40%) React
7 8 (3.40%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.55%) CSS
8 6 (2.55%) NETCONF
8 6 (2.55%) OAuth
8 6 (2.55%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.55%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.55%) Web Services
8 6 (2.55%) XML
8 6 (2.55%) YANG
9 5 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.96%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.70%) Smart Meter
10 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.28%) IoT
10 3 (1.28%) PKI
10 3 (1.28%) Replication
11 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.64%) Linux
2 9 (3.83%) Windows
3 4 (1.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.64%) CI/CD
2 82 (34.89%) Agile
3 59 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.62%) AI
4 32 (13.62%) Analytics
4 32 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 29 (12.34%) Test Automation
8 28 (11.91%) Machine Learning
9 25 (10.64%) Validation
10 23 (9.79%) DevSecOps
10 23 (9.79%) Scrum
11 21 (8.94%) Microservices
12 20 (8.51%) Migration
13 19 (8.09%) Data Science
13 19 (8.09%) SIEM
14 18 (7.66%) End-to-End Testing
14 18 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (7.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.19%) Python
2 45 (19.15%) SQL
3 34 (14.47%) PowerShell
4 24 (10.21%) Java
5 21 (8.94%) Bash
5 21 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.09%) C#
7 9 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.55%) BeanShell
8 6 (2.55%) R
9 5 (2.13%) Bicep
10 4 (1.70%) C++
10 4 (1.70%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.70%) VB
11 3 (1.28%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.28%) C
11 3 (1.28%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.28%) PHP
11 3 (1.28%) SOQL
11 3 (1.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.81%) Degree
4 14 (5.96%) CISSP
5 11 (4.68%) CISM
5 11 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.55%) CCIE
8 6 (2.55%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.28%) CFCE
10 3 (1.28%) GCFA
10 3 (1.28%) GCIA
10 3 (1.28%) GCIH
11 2 (0.85%) GIAC
11 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.85%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.91%) GDPR
2 19 (8.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.66%) NIST
3 18 (7.66%) QA
4 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.98%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.70%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.70%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.85%) GRC
7 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (11.49%) Docker
2 22 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.83%) vSphere
4 6 (2.55%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (20.43%) Terraform
2 39 (16.60%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.34%) Ansible
4 6 (2.55%) Argo
4 6 (2.55%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.28%) CloudHub
5 3 (1.28%) Podman
5 3 (1.28%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.85%) Grafana
6 2 (0.85%) logstash
6 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.51%) Oracle
3 16 (6.81%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.68%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (4.68%) CyberArk
4 11 (4.68%) Databricks
5 9 (3.83%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.83%) Splunk
6 7 (2.98%) ESRI
7 6 (2.55%) Intergraph
7 6 (2.55%) Pure Storage
7 6 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.55%) Virgin Media
7 6 (2.55%) VMware
8 5 (2.13%) Google
8 5 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.70%) Foundry
9 4 (1.70%) Palantir
9 4 (1.70%) SAP
10 3 (1.28%) Sage