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 £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 144 172
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 19 67 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.56% 1.40% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.47% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 41 56
10th Percentile £55,125 £56,250 £49,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,675 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -16.92% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £80,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%

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 2,903 4,573 5,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.19% 95.53% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 3,164 3,234
10th Percentile £34,925 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,002 £66,778 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -2 16 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Oxfordshire 0 3 £75,000 +11.11% 1
DevOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Terraform
3 12 (63.16%) AWS
4 11 (57.89%) Linux
4 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
5 10 (52.63%) Continuous Deployment
5 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
5 10 (52.63%) Python
6 9 (47.37%) Azure
6 9 (47.37%) Ansible
7 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
7 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
7 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
7 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
7 8 (42.11%) Java
7 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
7 8 (42.11%) Agile
7 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (42.11%) Serverless
7 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (36.84%) Microservices
8 7 (36.84%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (36.84%) JIRA
8 7 (36.84%) Atlassian
8 7 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (36.84%) Git
8 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
8 7 (36.84%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (31.58%) REST

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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Serverless
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Git
2 7 (36.84%) JIRA
3 6 (31.58%) Artifactory
3 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
3 6 (31.58%) GitLab
3 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.26%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Continuous Deployment
2 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (36.84%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Auto-Scaling
5 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (31.58%) Issue Tracking
5 6 (31.58%) Security Hardening
5 6 (31.58%) Static Code Analysis
5 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
3 6 (31.58%) Groovy
3 6 (31.58%) Perl
4 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Bicep
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
1 6 (31.58%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (47.37%) Ansible
4 6 (31.58%) Packer
5 2 (10.53%) Grafana
5 2 (10.53%) Nessus
5 2 (10.53%) Proxmox
6 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Atlassian
2 6 (31.58%) AppDynamics
2 6 (31.58%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper