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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 154 295 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.19% 10.98% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.98% 12.61% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 190 205
10th Percentile £363 £459 £450
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 3
10th Percentile £35.98 £56.65 -
25th Percentile £44.56 £61.60 -
Median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +5.78% +14.77%
75th Percentile £77.56 £87.46 -
90th Percentile £86.53 £87.53 -
South East median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £67.35
% change year-on-year -27.48% +24.38% +92.41%

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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -5 137 £500 -16.67% 135
Buckinghamshire +15 14 £419 -23.82% 82
Oxfordshire -3 3 - - 76
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 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 122 (79.22%) Azure
2 76 (49.35%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (30.52%) AWS
4 22 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (13.64%) Serverless
6 19 (12.34%) Azure AKS
6 19 (12.34%) GitHub
7 15 (9.74%) Azure API Management
8 14 (9.09%) Entra ID
9 12 (7.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (7.79%) Power Platform
10 11 (7.14%) Azure Functions
11 10 (6.49%) IaaS
12 9 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (5.84%) PaaS
13 8 (5.19%) Azure Storage
14 6 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.90%) GCP
14 6 (3.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.84%) Firewall
2 6 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.95%) DNS
3 3 (1.95%) Network Security
4 2 (1.30%) BGP
4 2 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.30%) IPv6
4 2 (1.30%) OSPF
4 2 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.30%) SAN
4 2 (1.30%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (1.30%) SSL
4 2 (1.30%) TACACS
4 2 (1.30%) VSAN
5 1 (0.65%) 4G
5 1 (0.65%) 5G
5 1 (0.65%) IPFIX
5 1 (0.65%) NGFW
5 1 (0.65%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.49%) Big Data
4 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.19%) Power BI
6 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.90%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.90%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (2.60%) Redis
9 3 (1.95%) SSDT
10 2 (1.30%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.30%) MS Access
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.65%) Metadata
11 1 (0.65%) MySQL
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (18.83%) Git
2 27 (17.53%) Selenium
3 23 (14.94%) Jenkins
4 20 (12.99%) JIRA
5 17 (11.04%) GitLab
6 15 (9.74%) Cucumber
7 13 (8.44%) REST Assured
8 10 (6.49%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.60%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.95%) Snyk
11 2 (1.30%) QARun
11 2 (1.30%) WinRunner
12 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.65%) DbUnit
12 1 (0.65%) jMock
12 1 (0.65%) JUnit
12 1 (0.65%) Maven
12 1 (0.65%) Mockito
12 1 (0.65%) NUnit
12 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.04%) Finance
4 13 (8.44%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.19%) Law
7 6 (3.90%) Electronics
7 6 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.90%) Marketing
8 4 (2.60%) Police
9 3 (1.95%) Billing
9 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (24.03%) Developer
2 23 (14.94%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (14.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (11.04%) Software Engineer
4 15 (9.74%) Azure Developer
4 15 (9.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (8.44%) Senior
6 11 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.49%) Lead
8 9 (5.84%) Architect
8 9 (5.84%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Analyst
10 7 (4.55%) React Developer
11 6 (3.90%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.34%) .NET
1 19 (12.34%) REST
2 17 (11.04%) ADO
3 15 (9.74%) ARM Templates
4 13 (8.44%) Java EE
5 12 (7.79%) React
6 11 (7.14%) CSS
6 11 (7.14%) HTML
7 8 (5.19%) .NET Core
7 8 (5.19%) JSON
7 8 (5.19%) OAuth
7 8 (5.19%) RESTful
8 7 (4.55%) YAML
9 6 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.90%) PySpark
10 5 (3.25%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.25%) JBoss Seam
10 5 (3.25%) Node.js
10 5 (3.25%) Web Services
11 4 (2.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.90%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) IoT
6 2 (1.30%) Replication
6 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.65%) CESG
7 1 (0.65%) FPGA
7 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.65%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) VHDL
7 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.04%) Windows
2 11 (7.14%) Linux
3 6 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.95%) Unix
6 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (35.06%) Agile
1 54 (35.06%) CI/CD
2 39 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (23.38%) Test Automation
4 31 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 26 (16.88%) Software Engineering
7 25 (16.23%) Configuration Management
7 25 (16.23%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (12.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (12.34%) Microservices
9 18 (11.69%) Migration
9 18 (11.69%) Unit Testing
10 17 (11.04%) Software Testing
11 16 (10.39%) Scrum
11 16 (10.39%) SDLC
12 15 (9.74%) Decision-Making
13 13 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.12%) Python
2 41 (26.62%) SQL
3 27 (17.53%) C#
3 27 (17.53%) Java
3 27 (17.53%) PowerShell
4 15 (9.74%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.79%) Bicep
6 9 (5.84%) Bash
7 7 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.90%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.95%) C
9 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.95%) VB
10 2 (1.30%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.65%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) VBScript
11 1 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.79%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.55%) Degree
6 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.25%) CCNP
7 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.60%) MCSE
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CISM
9 1 (0.65%) CISSP
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.65%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) QA
2 7 (4.55%) NIST
3 5 (3.25%) NCSC
4 4 (2.60%) PMO
5 3 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.30%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.65%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (16.88%) Docker
2 12 (7.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.30%) Ceph
4 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.65%) Postfix
5 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (24.03%) Terraform
2 28 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.99%) Ansible
4 9 (5.84%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.84%) Podman
5 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.60%) Grafana
6 4 (2.60%) Puppet
7 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.30%) Argo
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.65%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.65%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) QRadar
9 1 (0.65%) SCCM
9 1 (0.65%) SCOM
9 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.14%) Databricks
3 9 (5.84%) Oracle
4 6 (3.90%) Darktrace
4 6 (3.90%) SAP
5 5 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.25%) VMware
6 3 (1.95%) Cisco
6 3 (1.95%) UiPath
7 2 (1.30%) Citrix
7 2 (1.30%) Dell
7 2 (1.30%) Google
7 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.65%) Cramer
8 1 (0.65%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.65%) Genesys
8 1 (0.65%) Intel
8 1 (0.65%) Siemens
8 1 (0.65%) Snow