DevOps Engineer Job Trends 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 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 175 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 -64 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 10 19 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.48% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.52% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 46
10th Percentile £56,750 £55,125 £52,575
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,750 £83,125
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -6.90%

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 3,513 3,634 3,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 91.91% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,998 1,893 2,260
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,263 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +5.99% -1.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -7 6 £66,250 - 10
Buckinghamshire - 3 £68,750 - 3
Oxfordshire +26 1 £75,000 - 7
DevOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
3 7 (70.00%) Terraform
4 6 (60.00%) Docker
5 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (30.00%) Ansible
6 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (30.00%) Git
6 3 (30.00%) Grafana
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (30.00%) Python
6 3 (30.00%) SaaS
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
7 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Bash
7 2 (20.00%) Change Management

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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) FTP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) SMTP
1 2 (20.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (20.00%) Fintech
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Runbook
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
3 1 (10.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (10.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware