Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Development Operations Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 122 132
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 6 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.047% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.050% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile £406 £775 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -47.66% +10.34% +5.45%
75th Percentile £428 £825 £750
90th Percentile £434 - £780
South East median daily rate £419 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -44.17% +3.45% +16.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,758 1,983 2,431
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.40% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,137 1,584
10th Percentile £263 £262 £210
25th Percentile £400 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 76 110
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.41 £16.23
25th Percentile £18.00 £23.25 £24.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.88 £64.73 £65.96
90th Percentile £90.04 £97.50 £75.29
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £57.38 £51.42
% change year-on-year -56.43% +11.58% +37.12%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 November 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 £419 - 3
Buckinghamshire 0 1 - -
Senior DevOps Engineer
South East

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) B2C
4 3 (50.00%) CRM
4 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) API Management

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (33.33%) OpenID
2 2 (33.33%) SAML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) CRM
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) API Management
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) UiPath
5 Senior DevOps Engineer jobs in the Thames Valley