DevOps Job Trends in Berkshire

DevOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -49 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 52 150 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 2.66% 9.19% 8.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 9.91% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 28 91 106
10th Percentile - £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £60,850
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +23.25% -13.07%
75th Percentile £75,563 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,004
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.86% -4.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,611 1,514 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.28% 92.71% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 744 653 1,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,750 £88,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 -20 16 £67,500 +7.14% 17
Bracknell +22 5 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Slough -27 4 - - 74
Wokingham +1 3 £42,500 -45.16% 5
Maidenhead - 1 £80,000 - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) Azure
2 22 (42.31%) AWS
3 21 (40.38%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (25.00%) SaaS
5 9 (17.31%) Serverless
6 8 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (15.38%) Power Platform
7 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
7 7 (13.46%) GCP
8 6 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (11.54%) GitHub
9 5 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (9.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.92%) Azure AI
12 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) S/MIME
3 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) DynamoDB
1 6 (11.54%) MySQL
1 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.85%) Data Hub
3 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) git-flow
3 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) MLflow
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) JUnit
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Law
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Lead
3 12 (23.08%) Senior
4 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (15.38%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Architect
6 5 (9.62%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) React
2 8 (15.38%) .NET
3 6 (11.54%) CSS
3 6 (11.54%) Kafka
4 5 (9.62%) AWS CDK
4 5 (9.62%) HTML
4 5 (9.62%) Material-UI
4 5 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.69%) Node.js
6 3 (5.77%) Keras
6 3 (5.77%) RESTful
6 3 (5.77%) scikit-learn
6 3 (5.77%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.85%) REST
7 2 (3.85%) SAPUI5
7 2 (3.85%) Spring
7 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Life Science
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.92%) Social Network
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (44.23%) Agile
3 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (21.15%) Data Governance
5 10 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (17.31%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.31%) ITIL
6 9 (17.31%) ITSM
6 9 (17.31%) Microservices
6 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Waterfall
7 8 (15.38%) Business Process Analysis
7 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (13.46%) AI
8 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
9 5 (9.62%) B2B
9 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) C#
3 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.54%) Bash
6 4 (7.69%) Java
7 2 (3.85%) ABAP
8 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) CEH
4 1 (1.92%) CISM
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) GIAC
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Terraform
2 6 (11.54%) Ansible
2 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) Argo
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (3.85%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) Workday
4 1 (1.92%) Pure Storage
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Thales
4 1 (1.92%) VMware