DevOps Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 187 116
Rank change year-on-year +38 -71 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 53 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.79% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.83% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 14 47 94
10th Percentile £48,125 £51,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -0.71% -2.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

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

Permanent vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,472 6,377 5,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.83% 94.68% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 4,540 3,219
10th Percentile £29,375 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,625 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £86,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +34 18 £65,000 +9.84% 4
Oxfordshire +31 3 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Buckinghamshire +41 1 £70,000 +21.74% 5
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 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 Thames Valley region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) Terraform
3 13 (59.09%) AWS
4 12 (54.55%) Python
5 11 (50.00%) Linux
5 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (36.36%) Serverless
7 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
8 7 (31.82%) Ansible
8 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
8 7 (31.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (27.27%) Docker
9 6 (27.27%) Agile
10 5 (22.73%) Finance
10 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
10 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (22.73%) Azure
10 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (22.73%) Fintech
11 4 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 4 (18.18%) Microservices
11 4 (18.18%) Patch Management
11 4 (18.18%) Proxmox
11 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Serverless
3 7 (31.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (18.18%) AWS KMS
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
8 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
1 4 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) MERN Stack
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Fintech
6 4 (18.18%) Capacity Management
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Key Management
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Patch Management
7 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.09%) Observability
8 2 (9.09%) Software Delivery
9 1 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Go
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Perl
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Terraform
2 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Ansible
4 4 (18.18%) Nessus
4 4 (18.18%) Proxmox
5 2 (9.09%) Kubespray
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
6 1 (4.55%) Packer
6 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) VMware