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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 234 250 247
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 11.52% 11.76% 9.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.03% 13.33% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 186 202
10th Percentile £400 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £655 £663
90th Percentile £625 £681 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £77.00 - £71.75
25th Percentile £80.00 - £74.37
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £75.67
75th Percentile £100.25 - £83.11
90th Percentile £103.40 - £84.61
South East median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 1,796 1,875 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.39% 88.19% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,100 1,498
10th Percentile £263 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £686 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 60 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.30 £28.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.10 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £70.21 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

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 6 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 December 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 6 December 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 £492 -18.00% 47
Buckinghamshire +16 32 £500 -20.00% 21
Oxfordshire -7 10 £550 +54.93% 39
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 11 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.56%) Confluence
3 6 (2.56%) GeoServer
3 6 (2.56%) Smallworld
4 4 (1.71%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) Drupal
6 1 (0.43%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Maximo
1 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 166 (70.94%) Azure
2 94 (40.17%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (35.04%) AWS
4 43 (18.38%) GCP
5 34 (14.53%) GitHub
6 23 (9.83%) SaaS
7 17 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.26%) Power Platform
8 16 (6.84%) Serverless
9 15 (6.41%) IaaS
10 13 (5.56%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.70%) Entra ID
11 11 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.70%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.85%) OCI
12 9 (3.85%) PaaS
13 8 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.85%) DNS
2 6 (2.56%) BGP
2 6 (2.56%) LAN
2 6 (2.56%) MPLS
2 6 (2.56%) Network Security
2 6 (2.56%) WAN
3 5 (2.14%) Firewall
4 3 (1.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.85%) 2G
5 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.85%) LTE
5 2 (0.85%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.85%) SSL
5 2 (0.85%) VoIP
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.98%) Power BI
2 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (2.56%) GIS
4 6 (2.56%) Metadata
4 6 (2.56%) QGIS
5 5 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.14%) Big Data
5 5 (2.14%) MySQL
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) Redis
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (14.96%) JIRA
2 25 (10.68%) Git
3 22 (9.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.99%) Selenium
5 5 (2.14%) GitLab
6 4 (1.71%) 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
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) Mocha
8 1 (0.43%) MSTest
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 94 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (6.84%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.13%) Finance
6 10 (4.27%) Billing
7 9 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.42%) Retail
9 6 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.14%) Marketing
11 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.28%) Electronics
12 3 (1.28%) Law
12 3 (1.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.43%) Automotive
13 1 (0.43%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (15.81%) Architect
2 32 (13.68%) Analyst
3 28 (11.97%) Senior
4 27 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.83%) Developer
6 17 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (6.84%) Test Analyst
8 14 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.56%) Lead
10 11 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.42%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.42%) Release Manager
13 7 (2.99%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (2.99%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.83%) ADO
2 20 (8.55%) REST
3 17 (7.26%) LDAP
4 14 (5.98%) .NET
5 13 (5.56%) RESTful
6 8 (3.42%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.42%) React
6 8 (3.42%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.99%) CSS
7 7 (2.99%) HTML
7 7 (2.99%) SOAP
8 6 (2.56%) GraphQL
8 6 (2.56%) JSON
8 6 (2.56%) NETCONF
8 6 (2.56%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.56%) YANG
9 5 (2.14%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.14%) OAuth
9 5 (2.14%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.71%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.70%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.14%) PKI
6 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.71%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.28%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.82%) Linux
2 11 (4.70%) Windows
3 4 (1.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 82 (35.04%) Agile
3 66 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (13.25%) Containerisation
6 30 (12.82%) AI
7 29 (12.39%) Analytics
8 26 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 26 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 24 (10.26%) Scrum
9 24 (10.26%) SIEM
10 23 (9.83%) Machine Learning
10 23 (9.83%) Validation
11 22 (9.40%) Microservices
12 21 (8.97%) Migration
13 20 (8.55%) Roadmaps
14 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.04%) Python
2 43 (18.38%) PowerShell
3 37 (15.81%) SQL
4 25 (10.68%) Java
5 22 (9.40%) Bash
6 20 (8.55%) C#
6 20 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.56%) BeanShell
8 6 (2.56%) R
9 5 (2.14%) PHP
10 4 (1.71%) Bicep
10 4 (1.71%) C++
10 4 (1.71%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.28%) C
11 3 (1.28%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.28%) VB
12 2 (0.85%) Groovy
12 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.12%) CISSP
4 17 (7.26%) Degree
5 16 (6.84%) CISM
6 12 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.56%) CCIE
9 6 (2.56%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.71%) RHCE
11 3 (1.28%) CFCE
11 3 (1.28%) GCFA
11 3 (1.28%) GCIA
11 3 (1.28%) GCIH
11 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.85%) GIAC
12 2 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.53%) GDPR
2 25 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (10.26%) NIST
4 18 (7.69%) QA
5 10 (4.27%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.99%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.71%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.71%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.28%) PMO
9 2 (0.85%) GRC
9 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.11%) Docker
3 7 (2.99%) vSphere
4 6 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (21.37%) Terraform
2 38 (16.24%) Kubernetes
3 31 (13.25%) Ansible
4 6 (2.56%) Argo
4 6 (2.56%) 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 19 (8.12%) Microsoft
1 19 (8.12%) Oracle
2 17 (7.26%) BeyondTrust
2 17 (7.26%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.98%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.56%) Databricks
5 9 (3.85%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.85%) Splunk
6 7 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.99%) VMware
7 6 (2.56%) ESRI
7 6 (2.56%) Intergraph
7 6 (2.56%) Pure Storage
7 6 (2.56%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.71%) Foundry
8 4 (1.71%) Google
8 4 (1.71%) Palantir
8 4 (1.71%) SAP
9 3 (1.28%) Zscaler