DevOps Engineer Jobs in Reading

Development Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Reading is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 114 79
Rank change year-on-year +53 -35 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 13 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.78% 0.76% 3.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 0.80% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 33
10th Percentile £47,500 £74,125 £61,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £76,563 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £81,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% -1.52% +13.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £86,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £79,500 - £98,500
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £59,175 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.84% -28.27% +17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 422 1,621 1,525
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.40% 94.68% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 239 1,036 813
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Reading.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
3 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 7 (77.78%) Python
3 7 (77.78%) Terraform
4 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (66.67%) Ansible
4 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 6 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 6 (66.67%) Shell Script
4 6 (66.67%) Serverless
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (44.44%) Key Management
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
5 4 (44.44%) Firewall
5 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) Nessus
5 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
5 4 (44.44%) SSL
5 4 (44.44%) Active Directory

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (22.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Key Management
3 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
5 2 (22.22%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (44.44%) Nessus
3 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
4 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) Packer
5 1 (11.11%) Grafana
5 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) VMware