DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Berkshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Berkshire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 139 115
Rank change year-on-year +55 -24 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 45 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.33% 0.49% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.52% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31 7 11
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £75,000 - £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £84,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 3,178 1,912 2,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.91% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 796 1,324
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,900 £34,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.54% +2.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +4 28 £85,000 - 6
Bracknell +2 15 £65,000 -23.53% 1
Windsor - 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £67,500 -
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (60.00%) SaaS
3 25 (55.56%) AWS
4 24 (53.33%) Terraform
5 23 (51.11%) Linux
6 21 (46.67%) Ansible
7 15 (33.33%) Azure
7 15 (33.33%) Bash
7 15 (33.33%) Red Hat
7 15 (33.33%) Ubuntu
8 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
10 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (20.00%) Agile
11 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
12 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
12 8 (17.78%) GitLab
12 8 (17.78%) Python
13 7 (15.56%) Git
13 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
13 7 (15.56%) Microservices
14 6 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
14 6 (13.33%) Auto-Scaling
14 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (13.33%) Groovy
14 6 (13.33%) JIRA
14 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) SaaS
2 25 (55.56%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) Azure
4 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
6 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) GitLab
2 7 (15.56%) Git
2 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.33%) JIRA
3 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.89%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (8.89%) Finance
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) JSON
2 5 (11.11%) REST
3 4 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (8.89%) YAML
4 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 15 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.56%) Microservices
6 6 (13.33%) Auto-Scaling
6 6 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.11%) Security Hardening
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.89%) Fintech
8 4 (8.89%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (8.89%) Observability
8 4 (8.89%) Secrets Management
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (4.44%) Collaborative Engineering
10 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Bash
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) Groovy
4 5 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (8.89%) Perl
6 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Ansible
2 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.89%) Packer
4 1 (2.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.89%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian