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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 251 237 244
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 8.22% 13.99% 11.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 15.38% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 141 182
10th Percentile £363 £363 £458
25th Percentile £462 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £617 £550 £650
90th Percentile £694 £625 £675
South East median daily rate £535 £500 £580
% change year-on-year +7.00% -13.79% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 3
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.50 - £87.46
75th Percentile £86.63 - -
90th Percentile £104.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £58.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year +19.66% -33.11% +14.93%

All Process & 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 2,465 1,541 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.71% 90.97% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,510 948 1,057
10th Percentile £335 £258 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £510
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -3.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £607 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £687
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 101 79
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.30 £18.66
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.13 £30.21
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £60.46
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -58.40% +20.91%
75th Percentile £85.00 £48.71 £67.50
90th Percentile £103.30 £80.00 £86.08
South East median hourly rate £48.81 £22.13 £58.30
% change year-on-year +120.56% -62.04% +11.05%

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 27 September 2026.

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 27 September 2026.

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 27 September 2026. 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 -11 189 £545 +9.00% 122
Buckinghamshire -7 57 £492 +16.45% 57
Oxfordshire -33 5 £800 +45.45% 49
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 8 (3.19%) Confluence
2 5 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.99%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.80%) JBoss
4 2 (0.80%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) CICS
5 1 (0.40%) CIMPLICITY
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Predix
Applications
1 6 (2.39%) CPLEX
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 195 (77.69%) Azure
2 106 (42.23%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (27.49%) AWS
4 36 (14.34%) GCP
5 25 (9.96%) Power Platform
6 23 (9.16%) OpenShift
7 20 (7.97%) Entra ID
7 20 (7.97%) GitHub
8 19 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (5.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (4.38%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.98%) SaaS
13 8 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (2.79%) Azure App Service
14 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (2.79%) IaaS
15 6 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.57%) Firewall
2 18 (7.17%) DNS
3 15 (5.98%) VPN
4 13 (5.18%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.38%) DHCP
6 10 (3.98%) Network Security
7 8 (3.19%) LAN
7 8 (3.19%) WAN
8 7 (2.79%) BGP
8 7 (2.79%) MPLS
9 5 (1.99%) SSH
10 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.80%) OSPF
11 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.80%) VXLAN
12 1 (0.40%) HTTP
12 1 (0.40%) NGFW
12 1 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
2 16 (6.37%) Power BI
3 9 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.79%) Metadata
5 6 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.39%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.99%) Big Data
7 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.20%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.20%) Tableau
9 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.80%) Parquet
9 2 (0.80%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (12.35%) Git
2 26 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.37%) GitLab
4 12 (4.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.20%) JMeter
5 3 (1.20%) NUnit
5 3 (1.20%) Selenium
6 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.80%) MSTest
6 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.80%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 72 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.55%) Aerospace
3 31 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.76%) Finance
5 11 (4.38%) Billing
5 11 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.39%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.99%) Military
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Publishing
10 2 (0.80%) Automotive
10 2 (0.80%) Banking
10 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (16.73%) Senior
2 35 (13.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (13.15%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (11.95%) Developer
5 27 (10.76%) Architect
6 23 (9.16%) Lead
7 22 (8.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 20 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (6.37%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.58%) Analyst
12 11 (4.38%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.19%) Consultant
14 8 (3.19%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.19%) SIEM Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
15 7 (2.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.29%) Terraform
2 25 (9.96%) REST
3 21 (8.37%) .NET
4 17 (6.77%) ARM Templates
5 14 (5.58%) RESTful
6 13 (5.18%) OAuth
7 11 (4.38%) SAML
8 10 (3.98%) React
9 9 (3.59%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.59%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.59%) Entity Framework
9 9 (3.59%) OpenAPI
9 9 (3.59%) Swagger
10 8 (3.19%) PySpark
11 7 (2.79%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.79%) Flask
11 7 (2.79%) LDAP
11 7 (2.79%) OpenID
12 6 (2.39%) Pandas
12 6 (2.39%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.16%) Linux
2 19 (7.57%) Windows
3 15 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Rocky
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (54.58%) CI/CD
2 87 (34.66%) Agile
3 68 (27.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (19.92%) Analytics
5 48 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (15.94%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (14.74%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.94%) Test Automation
10 31 (12.35%) DevSecOps
10 31 (12.35%) Roadmaps
10 31 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (12.35%) Validation
11 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
12 27 (10.76%) SIEM
13 25 (9.96%) Cloud Security
13 25 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (9.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (29.88%) Python
2 50 (19.92%) PowerShell
3 43 (17.13%) SQL
4 32 (12.75%) Bash
5 24 (9.56%) Bicep
6 16 (6.37%) C#
7 15 (5.98%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.78%) Java
9 8 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.79%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.99%) X++
12 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.80%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.80%) Go
12 2 (0.80%) Magik
12 2 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) JCL
13 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 132 (52.59%) Security Cleared
2 114 (45.42%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.56%) Degree
4 21 (8.37%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.77%) CISSP
5 17 (6.77%) DV Cleared
6 16 (6.37%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.18%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.19%) CISM
10 7 (2.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (2.79%) CCIE
10 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.39%) RHCE
12 5 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.99%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.59%) CCNP
13 4 (1.59%) CEH
13 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.17%) QA
2 17 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.77%) NIST
3 16 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.38%) NCSC
5 9 (3.59%) GDPR
6 5 (1.99%) GRC
7 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.20%) SLA
9 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.40%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (13.15%) Docker
2 21 (8.37%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.40%) RACF
7 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (23.51%) Kubernetes
2 41 (16.33%) Ansible
3 10 (3.98%) Grafana
4 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Istio
6 4 (1.59%) SCCM
7 2 (0.80%) CASB
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.80%) SCOM
8 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.40%) Packer
8 1 (0.40%) Podman
8 1 (0.40%) QRadar
8 1 (0.40%) Rancher
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (35.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.58%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.18%) Google
3 13 (5.18%) VMware
4 12 (4.78%) Databricks
5 9 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.19%) Oracle
7 7 (2.79%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.99%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.59%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.59%) Cisco
10 4 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.59%) SAP
10 4 (1.59%) Splunk
11 3 (1.20%) IBM
11 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.40%) Conga
12 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto