DevOps Job Trends in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 148 293 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.87% 7.41% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 8.42% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 81 177 213
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £66,644 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.47% +2.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,185 3,478 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.38% 87.96% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,709 2,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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 -26 80 £67,500 -10.00% 116
Buckinghamshire +4 55 £60,000 +14.29% 33
Oxfordshire -15 13 £67,500 +3.85% 43
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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 12 (8.11%) IIS
2 4 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Camunda
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (52.70%) Azure
2 52 (35.14%) AWS
3 46 (31.08%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (18.24%) GCP
5 21 (14.19%) GitHub
6 15 (10.14%) Vertex AI
7 13 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.78%) SaaS
8 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (8.11%) Serverless
9 9 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.73%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
2 2 (1.35%) FTP
2 2 (1.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.35%) LAN
2 2 (1.35%) SMTP
2 2 (1.35%) SSH
2 2 (1.35%) WAN
3 1 (0.68%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.14%) Data Mining
3 13 (8.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.76%) MySQL
5 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.35%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.35%) Looker
8 2 (1.35%) Power BI
8 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (25.00%) Git
2 17 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.38%) git-flow
3 5 (3.38%) JIRA
3 5 (3.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.70%) MLflow
4 4 (2.70%) MSBuild
4 4 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) JUnit
5 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.35%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.68%) Appium
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.05%) Law
3 32 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (18.92%) Retail
5 19 (12.84%) Marketing
6 8 (5.41%) Finance
7 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.03%) Games
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (35.14%) Senior
2 48 (32.43%) Lead
3 37 (25.00%) Developer
4 26 (17.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (13.51%) Senior Developer
6 19 (12.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (12.16%) Software Engineer
8 14 (9.46%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 14 (9.46%) Senior Web Developer
8 14 (9.46%) Web Developer
9 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) IT Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) IT Support
10 12 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) Software Support Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) Support Engineer
11 10 (6.76%) Architect
11 10 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.32%) .NET
2 27 (18.24%) React
3 25 (16.89%) CSS
4 24 (16.22%) HTML
5 21 (14.19%) Node.js
6 18 (12.16%) .NET Framework
6 18 (12.16%) ASP.NET
7 17 (11.49%) RESTful
8 15 (10.14%) REST
9 12 (8.11%) Entity Framework
9 12 (8.11%) WinForms
10 9 (6.08%) Middleware
11 8 (5.41%) gRPC
11 8 (5.41%) Kafka
12 6 (4.05%) ARM Templates
13 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.38%) AWS CDK
13 5 (3.38%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (3.38%) Material-UI
13 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.70%) Life Science
7 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.03%) Animation
7 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.03%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.35%) Clustering
8 2 (1.35%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.35%) Replication
8 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) PKI
9 1 (0.68%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Windows
2 10 (6.76%) Linux
3 8 (5.41%) VMS
4 2 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (54.05%) Agile
1 80 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 71 (47.97%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (22.97%) Machine Learning
4 32 (21.62%) AI
4 32 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (20.27%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (16.89%) MLOps
7 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
8 24 (16.22%) LLM
9 23 (15.54%) Data Science
9 23 (15.54%) Generative AI
9 23 (15.54%) Roadmaps
9 23 (15.54%) Use Case
10 22 (14.86%) Customer-Centricity
11 21 (14.19%) Data Engineering
11 21 (14.19%) Performance Monitoring
11 21 (14.19%) Visualisation
12 20 (13.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.65%) C#
1 35 (23.65%) JavaScript
2 29 (19.59%) SQL
3 27 (18.24%) Python
4 17 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.46%) Bash
6 13 (8.78%) T-SQL
7 12 (8.11%) Java
7 12 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.38%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.03%) C++
10 2 (1.35%) ABAP
10 2 (1.35%) C
10 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.35%) Groovy
10 2 (1.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) Bicep
11 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (20.27%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.35%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) CEH
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) GIAC
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.19%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) GDPR
3 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.68%) NCSC
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (29.73%) Docker
2 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.68%) vCloud
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.92%) Terraform
3 8 (5.41%) Ansible
4 5 (3.38%) Grafana
5 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.68%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.92%) Google
3 17 (11.49%) OpenAI
4 12 (8.11%) Sage
4 12 (8.11%) Xamarin
5 7 (4.73%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.73%) Zoho
6 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.70%) Telerik
8 3 (2.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.35%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.35%) SAP
9 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.35%) Talend
9 2 (1.35%) VMware
9 2 (1.35%) Workday
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle
10 1 (0.68%) Thales