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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 236 235 248
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 11.42% 11.62% 9.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 13.11% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 175 202
10th Percentile £400 £409 £425
25th Percentile £420 £513 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £663
90th Percentile £625 £688 £725
South East median daily rate £514 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £77.10 - £71.75
25th Percentile £80.25 - £74.37
Median hourly rate £86.00 - £75.67
75th Percentile £97.63 - £83.11
90th Percentile £102.35 - £84.61
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 1,816 1,793 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.86% 88.67% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,051 1,470
10th Percentile £268 £298 £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 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.35 £29.75 £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 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.09 £69.03 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 0 197 £500 -17.36% 64
Buckinghamshire +14 28 £525 -19.23% 33
Oxfordshire -6 11 £550 +111.54% 24
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 14 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.54%) GeoServer
2 6 (2.54%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.54%) Smallworld
3 5 (2.12%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) Drupal
6 1 (0.42%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Maximo
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 174 (73.73%) Azure
2 101 (42.80%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (35.59%) AWS
4 45 (19.07%) GCP
5 33 (13.98%) GitHub
6 25 (10.59%) SaaS
7 19 (8.05%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.20%) IaaS
9 14 (5.93%) Serverless
10 13 (5.51%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.08%) Entra ID
11 12 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 11 (4.66%) OCI
12 11 (4.66%) PaaS
13 10 (4.24%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.97%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.81%) DNS
2 7 (2.97%) Network Security
3 6 (2.54%) BGP
3 6 (2.54%) LAN
3 6 (2.54%) MPLS
3 6 (2.54%) WAN
4 3 (1.27%) 5G
4 3 (1.27%) Firewall
4 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.85%) 2G
5 2 (0.85%) LTE
5 2 (0.85%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.85%) SSL
5 2 (0.85%) VoIP
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
6 1 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.78%) Power BI
2 7 (2.97%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (2.54%) GIS
3 6 (2.54%) QGIS
4 5 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.12%) Big Data
4 5 (2.12%) Metadata
4 5 (2.12%) MySQL
4 5 (2.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.27%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.85%) Redis
6 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (15.25%) JIRA
2 25 (10.59%) Git
3 23 (9.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.97%) Selenium
5 6 (2.54%) GitLab
6 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.27%) JUnit
7 3 (1.27%) NUnit
7 3 (1.27%) Storybook
8 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) Mocha
8 1 (0.42%) MSTest
8 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.90%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.66%) Finance
6 10 (4.24%) Billing
7 8 (3.39%) Retail
7 8 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.12%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Automotive
13 1 (0.42%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 38 (16.10%) Architect
2 30 (12.71%) Analyst
3 26 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (11.02%) Senior
4 21 (8.90%) Developer
5 17 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.36%) Test Analyst
7 12 (5.08%) Lead
8 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.81%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.97%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.97%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.97%) Release Manager
12 6 (2.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.54%) Site Engineer
12 6 (2.54%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.02%) ADO
2 21 (8.90%) REST
3 18 (7.63%) LDAP
4 14 (5.93%) .NET
5 13 (5.51%) RESTful
6 8 (3.39%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.39%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.97%) HTML
7 7 (2.97%) React
7 7 (2.97%) SOAP
8 6 (2.54%) CSS
8 6 (2.54%) GraphQL
8 6 (2.54%) NETCONF
8 6 (2.54%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.54%) YANG
9 5 (2.12%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.12%) JSON
9 5 (2.12%) OAuth
9 5 (2.12%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.69%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.66%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.12%) PKI
6 5 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.69%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.27%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.56%) Linux
2 12 (5.08%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (47.88%) CI/CD
2 81 (34.32%) Agile
3 63 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (15.68%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (12.71%) Containerisation
6 29 (12.29%) AI
7 27 (11.44%) Analytics
7 27 (11.44%) DevSecOps
8 26 (11.02%) Scrum
8 26 (11.02%) SIEM
9 24 (10.17%) Test Automation
10 23 (9.75%) Microservices
11 22 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (9.32%) Machine Learning
11 22 (9.32%) Validation
12 21 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (8.47%) Migration
14 19 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (7.20%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.75%) Python
2 44 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 40 (16.95%) SQL
4 25 (10.59%) Java
5 20 (8.47%) Bash
5 20 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.05%) C#
7 7 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.54%) BeanShell
8 6 (2.54%) R
9 5 (2.12%) PHP
9 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.69%) Bicep
10 4 (1.69%) C++
10 4 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.27%) C
11 3 (1.27%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.85%) Groovy
12 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.47%) CISSP
4 17 (7.20%) CISM
4 17 (7.20%) Degree
5 12 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.54%) CCIE
7 6 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.54%) JNCIE
8 5 (2.12%) RHCE
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.27%) GCFA
10 3 (1.27%) GCIA
10 3 (1.27%) GCIH
10 3 (1.27%) OCP
10 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.68%) GDPR
2 26 (11.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (11.02%) NIST
3 18 (7.63%) QA
4 10 (4.24%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.54%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.12%) PMO
7 4 (1.69%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.85%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.42%) NCSC
9 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (13.56%) Active Directory
2 25 (10.59%) Docker
3 6 (2.54%) VMware NSX
3 6 (2.54%) vSphere
4 5 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (20.76%) Terraform
2 39 (16.53%) Kubernetes
3 32 (13.56%) Ansible
4 6 (2.54%) Argo
4 6 (2.54%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.27%) CloudHub
5 3 (1.27%) Data Guard
5 3 (1.27%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (1.27%) Podman
5 3 (1.27%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.85%) Grafana
6 2 (0.85%) logstash
6 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.85%) systemd
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (11.02%) Oracle
2 18 (7.63%) BeyondTrust
2 18 (7.63%) CyberArk
3 17 (7.20%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.93%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.93%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.51%) Databricks
6 9 (3.81%) Splunk
7 8 (3.39%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.97%) VMware
9 6 (2.54%) ESRI
9 6 (2.54%) Intergraph
9 6 (2.54%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.12%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.69%) Foundry
11 4 (1.69%) Google
11 4 (1.69%) Palantir
12 3 (1.27%) HP
12 3 (1.27%) Sage