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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 216 248 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.19% 11.16% 11.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.51% 13.07% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 183 245
10th Percentile £362 £459 £425
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £688
90th Percentile £625 £675 £741
South East median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 8
10th Percentile - £81.83 £73.48
25th Percentile - £84.67 £74.84
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year - +15.58% -0.11%
75th Percentile - - £80.17
90th Percentile - - £83.86
South East median hourly rate - £87.46 £75.67
% change year-on-year - +15.58% +11.48%

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 1,489 1,897 2,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.96% 85.37% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,060 1,673
10th Percentile £270 £299 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 87 91
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.50 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.21 £24.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.46 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.40% +20.91% +163.16%
75th Percentile £48.71 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £86.63 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 182 £500 -17.36% 92
Buckinghamshire +16 25 £413 -25.00% 28
Oxfordshire -4 9 £550 +22.22% 21
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.09%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.85%) Confluence
4 3 (1.39%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.39%) Camunda
4 3 (1.39%) nginx
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (1.39%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Drupal
6 1 (0.46%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) Mule
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 151 (69.91%) Azure
2 95 (43.98%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (31.94%) AWS
4 25 (11.57%) GitHub
5 20 (9.26%) Azure AKS
6 18 (8.33%) GCP
7 15 (6.94%) IaaS
8 14 (6.48%) PaaS
9 13 (6.02%) Azure Storage
9 13 (6.02%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.02%) SaaS
9 13 (6.02%) Serverless
10 12 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 9 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.70%) OCI
15 5 (2.31%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.17%) Firewall
1 9 (4.17%) MPLS
2 8 (3.70%) BGP
3 6 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (2.78%) LAN
3 6 (2.78%) WAN
4 4 (1.85%) 5G
4 4 (1.85%) Network Security
5 3 (1.39%) 4G
5 3 (1.39%) DNS
5 3 (1.39%) DOCSIS
5 3 (1.39%) GPON
5 3 (1.39%) LTE
5 3 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (1.39%) VoIP
5 3 (1.39%) xDSL
6 2 (0.93%) Converged Networks
6 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.93%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (0.93%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.63%) Power BI
4 9 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.31%) Big Data
6 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.85%) GIS
7 4 (1.85%) MySQL
8 3 (1.39%) Metadata
8 3 (1.39%) Redis
8 3 (1.39%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.93%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 40 (18.52%) JIRA
2 23 (10.65%) GitLab
3 21 (9.72%) Git
3 21 (9.72%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.80%) Selenium
5 15 (6.94%) Cucumber
6 13 (6.02%) REST Assured
7 10 (4.63%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.85%) NUnit
10 3 (1.39%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.93%) QARun
11 2 (0.93%) WinRunner
12 1 (0.46%) jMock
12 1 (0.46%) JUnit
12 1 (0.46%) Maven
12 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.02%) Telecoms
4 10 (4.63%) Finance
5 9 (4.17%) Law
6 7 (3.24%) Billing
6 7 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.24%) Retail
7 4 (1.85%) Police
8 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (18.52%) Developer
2 29 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.11%) Architect
4 20 (9.26%) Analyst
4 20 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (9.26%) Senior
5 17 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.94%) Lead
7 14 (6.48%) Test Analyst
8 13 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.56%) Site Engineer
9 12 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.70%) Release Manager
14 7 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
14 7 (3.24%) Support Engineer
14 7 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.96%) ADO
2 26 (12.04%) REST
3 18 (8.33%) .NET
4 16 (7.41%) ARM Templates
5 14 (6.48%) RESTful
6 13 (6.02%) Java EE
7 10 (4.63%) Web Services
8 8 (3.70%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.70%) React
8 8 (3.70%) scikit-learn
9 7 (3.24%) HTML
9 7 (3.24%) Middleware
9 7 (3.24%) Playwright
10 6 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.78%) JBoss Seam
10 6 (2.78%) NETCONF
10 6 (2.78%) YANG
11 5 (2.31%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.31%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.09%) Security Posture
3 10 (4.63%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.39%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.39%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.93%) CMDB
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.87%) Linux
2 12 (5.56%) Windows
3 6 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (42.13%) CI/CD
2 72 (33.33%) Agile
3 48 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (20.37%) Test Automation
5 36 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (14.35%) Containerisation
7 23 (10.65%) Microservices
7 23 (10.65%) Software Engineering
8 21 (9.72%) Analytics
8 21 (9.72%) Scrum
9 20 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (9.26%) Machine Learning
9 20 (9.26%) Validation
10 18 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (7.87%) End-to-End Testing
11 17 (7.87%) LLM
11 17 (7.87%) Migration
11 17 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (7.87%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.46%) Python
2 48 (22.22%) SQL
3 26 (12.04%) Java
4 25 (11.57%) C#
5 16 (7.41%) Bash
6 13 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.63%) Bicep
9 8 (3.70%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.24%) VB
11 4 (1.85%) C++
11 4 (1.85%) R
11 4 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.85%) X++
12 3 (1.39%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.39%) C
12 3 (1.39%) Magik
12 3 (1.39%) SOQL
13 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.09%) Degree
4 9 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.78%) CCIE
7 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.78%) JNCIE
8 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) PMP
10 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.46%) CCNA
11 1 (0.46%) CCNP
11 1 (0.46%) CFCE
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.80%) QA
2 14 (6.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.85%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.85%) NIST
4 4 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 2 (0.93%) OASIS TOSCA
6 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) WCAG
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (12.96%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) vSphere
3 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) Ceph
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.46%) Postfix
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 49 (22.69%) Terraform
3 34 (15.74%) Ansible
4 9 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (4.17%) Podman
5 6 (2.78%) Grafana
6 5 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.93%) Argo
7 2 (0.93%) logstash
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) QRadar
8 1 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.80%) Oracle
3 12 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.24%) Databricks
4 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.24%) Splunk
5 6 (2.78%) Darktrace
5 6 (2.78%) Virgin Media
6 5 (2.31%) Google
7 4 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.39%) Ericsson
8 3 (1.39%) ESRI
8 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.39%) Sage
9 2 (0.93%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco
9 2 (0.93%) Citrix
9 2 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.93%) Huawei
9 2 (0.93%) Nokia