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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 117 146
Rank change year-on-year -72 +29 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 55 154 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.82% 2.50% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 2.79% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48 92 99
10th Percentile £51,375 £52,875 £42,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £76,875 £89,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £100,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% -2.07% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,389 5,529 6,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.92% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,220 4,174
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -33 32 £60,000 -27.27% 10
Oxfordshire -9 15 £70,000 -6.98% 5
Buckinghamshire -43 8 £57,500 -17.86% 3
DevOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 42 (76.36%) CI/CD
4 41 (74.55%) Terraform
5 33 (60.00%) Linux
6 28 (50.91%) AWS
6 28 (50.91%) Docker
7 25 (45.45%) Ansible
7 25 (45.45%) Security Cleared
8 24 (43.64%) Azure
9 23 (41.82%) Jenkins
10 19 (34.55%) SC Cleared
10 19 (34.55%) Agile
10 19 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (29.09%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (29.09%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (27.27%) Rancher
12 15 (27.27%) Software Delivery
13 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
13 13 (23.64%) Git
14 12 (21.82%) Software Testing
14 12 (21.82%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (20.00%) Product Ownership
15 11 (20.00%) Groovy
15 11 (20.00%) SaaS
16 10 (18.18%) Migration
17 9 (16.36%) Elastic Stack
18 8 (14.55%) GitLab
18 8 (14.55%) Configuration Management

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 6 (10.91%) nginx
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) AWS
2 24 (43.64%) Azure
3 16 (29.09%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (20.00%) SaaS
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.82%) Route 53
8 1 (1.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.82%) Big Data
1 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.64%) Git
3 8 (14.55%) GitLab
4 4 (7.27%) JIRA
5 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.82%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.64%) JSON
2 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.82%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) CentOS
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Debian
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (76.36%) CI/CD
3 19 (34.55%) Agile
3 19 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (29.09%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (27.27%) Software Delivery
6 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 12 (21.82%) Deployment Automation
7 12 (21.82%) Software Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (18.18%) Migration
10 8 (14.55%) Configuration Management
11 7 (12.73%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (12.73%) Release Management
12 6 (10.91%) Analytics
13 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
13 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
13 5 (9.09%) Test Automation
14 4 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) Groovy
2 6 (10.91%) Go
3 5 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (5.45%) Bash
4 3 (5.45%) Java
5 2 (3.64%) Perl
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (34.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Degree
4 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (50.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 41 (74.55%) Terraform
3 25 (45.45%) Ansible
4 15 (27.27%) Rancher
5 6 (10.91%) Kibana
6 4 (7.27%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.64%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.82%) Grafana
8 1 (1.82%) Packer
8 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.82%) Puppet
8 1 (1.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) VMware
2 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.82%) Google
3 1 (1.82%) IBM
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft