DevOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 181 286 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.50% 10.73% 10.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 12.63% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 176 223
10th Percentile £325 £453 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +12.15%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £675
90th Percentile £640 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £558 £590
% change year-on-year -10.31% -5.51% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 28 7
10th Percentile £35.98 £56.65 £73.57
25th Percentile £44.56 £61.60 £75.34
Median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +10.70% -
75th Percentile £77.56 £87.46 £79.19
90th Percentile £86.53 £87.53 -
South East median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £75.67
% change year-on-year -27.48% +10.70% +116.20%

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 1,463 2,264 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.95% 84.95% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,227 1,797
10th Percentile £296 £232 £317
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 170 77
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £19.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.91 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% -5.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £57.81 £65.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £79.25 £85.65 £76.20
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -1 161 £500 -17.36% 72
Buckinghamshire +8 18 £325 -40.91% 34
Oxfordshire -8 2 £413 -8.33% 30
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 5 (2.76%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.66%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.66%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (1.66%) Smallworld
3 2 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.10%) Camunda
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Mule
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 125 (69.06%) Azure
2 77 (42.54%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (28.73%) AWS
4 25 (13.81%) GitHub
5 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.73%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (7.73%) IaaS
6 14 (7.73%) PaaS
7 12 (6.63%) Azure Storage
8 11 (6.08%) GCP
8 11 (6.08%) Serverless
9 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.42%) SaaS
12 7 (3.87%) Azure API Management
12 7 (3.87%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.63%) Firewall
2 9 (4.97%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.76%) 5G
3 5 (2.76%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (2.21%) 4G
5 3 (1.66%) DNS
5 3 (1.66%) DOCSIS
5 3 (1.66%) GPON
5 3 (1.66%) LTE
5 3 (1.66%) MPLS
5 3 (1.66%) VoIP
5 3 (1.66%) xDSL
6 2 (1.10%) BGP
6 2 (1.10%) HTTP
6 2 (1.10%) IPv6
6 2 (1.10%) Network Security
6 2 (1.10%) OSPF
6 2 (1.10%) SAN
6 2 (1.10%) SSL
6 2 (1.10%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.87%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.31%) Power BI
5 5 (2.76%) Big Data
6 4 (2.21%) GIS
7 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.66%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.10%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.10%) MS Access
8 2 (1.10%) MySQL
8 2 (1.10%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Metadata
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.57%) JIRA
2 26 (14.36%) Git
3 24 (13.26%) Jenkins
4 22 (12.15%) Selenium
5 20 (11.05%) GitLab
6 15 (8.29%) Cucumber
7 13 (7.18%) REST Assured
8 10 (5.52%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.66%) Snyk
10 3 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.10%) NUnit
11 2 (1.10%) QARun
11 2 (1.10%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.10%) WinRunner
12 1 (0.55%) jMock
12 1 (0.55%) JUnit
12 1 (0.55%) Maven
12 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.39%) Telecoms
4 16 (8.84%) Finance
5 8 (4.42%) Law
6 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.76%) Billing
8 4 (2.21%) Police
9 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Electronics
10 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (20.99%) Developer
2 30 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.15%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (9.94%) Senior
5 16 (8.84%) Lead
6 15 (8.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.73%) Architect
8 13 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.63%) Analyst
9 12 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Site Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Test Analyst
12 7 (3.87%) React Developer
13 6 (3.31%) .NET Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Cloud Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.71%) REST
2 18 (9.94%) .NET
3 16 (8.84%) ARM Templates
4 14 (7.73%) ADO
5 13 (7.18%) Java EE
6 11 (6.08%) React
6 11 (6.08%) RESTful
7 10 (5.52%) Web Services
8 9 (4.97%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.97%) HTML
9 8 (4.42%) CSS
9 8 (4.42%) JBoss Seam
9 8 (4.42%) JSON
10 6 (3.31%) Middleware
10 6 (3.31%) OAuth
10 6 (3.31%) Playwright
11 5 (2.76%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.76%) Node.js
12 4 (2.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Algorithms
2 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.66%) TM Forum
7 2 (1.10%) CMDB
7 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.10%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) CESG
8 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.55%) FPGA
8 1 (0.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.60%) Windows
2 16 (8.84%) Linux
3 7 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (42.54%) CI/CD
2 53 (29.28%) Agile
2 53 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (23.76%) Test Automation
4 35 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (15.47%) Containerisation
6 27 (14.92%) Configuration Management
7 24 (13.26%) Software Engineering
8 21 (11.60%) Migration
9 20 (11.05%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (10.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (10.50%) Validation
11 18 (9.94%) Decision-Making
11 18 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (8.29%) Open Source
12 15 (8.29%) SDLC
12 15 (8.29%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (7.73%) Analytics
13 14 (7.73%) Machine Learning
13 14 (7.73%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.73%) Python
2 35 (19.34%) SQL
3 27 (14.92%) C#
4 25 (13.81%) Java
4 25 (13.81%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.84%) Bash
5 16 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.18%) Bicep
7 8 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.87%) VB
9 4 (2.21%) C
9 4 (2.21%) C++
9 4 (2.21%) R
10 3 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.66%) Magik
10 3 (1.66%) SOQL
10 3 (1.66%) X++
11 2 (1.10%) Korn
11 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.08%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.42%) Degree
5 7 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) PMP
8 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CCNP
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) GDPR
3 5 (2.76%) EU AI Act
3 5 (2.76%) NIST
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) OASIS TOSCA
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (13.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.76%) vSphere
3 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.10%) Ceph
5 1 (0.55%) Postfix
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 43 (23.76%) Terraform
3 28 (15.47%) Ansible
4 9 (4.97%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (4.97%) Podman
5 7 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.31%) Grafana
7 4 (2.21%) Puppet
8 3 (1.66%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (1.10%) Argo
10 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) QRadar
10 1 (0.55%) SCCM
10 1 (0.55%) SCOM
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.08%) Oracle
3 9 (4.97%) Darktrace
4 8 (4.42%) Databricks
5 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.76%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.66%) Cisco
6 3 (1.66%) Ericsson
6 3 (1.66%) ESRI
6 3 (1.66%) Google
6 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.66%) SAP
7 2 (1.10%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.10%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.10%) Citrix
7 2 (1.10%) Dell
7 2 (1.10%) Huawei
7 2 (1.10%) NetCracker
7 2 (1.10%) Nokia