DevOps Jobs in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 279 482 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.95% 7.20% 11.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 8.46% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 136 319 377
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £44,525
25th Percentile £49,688 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £59,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -14.49% +6.15%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £83,750 £105,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% -

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 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 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 5 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 +13 177 £75,000 +25.00% 95
Buckinghamshire -1 68 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Oxfordshire -16 34 £52,500 -11.02% 56
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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 12 (4.30%) JBoss
1 12 (4.30%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.43%) IBM Domino
4 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 125 (44.80%) Azure
2 75 (26.88%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (19.35%) AWS
4 31 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 31 (11.11%) Serverless
5 29 (10.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (9.32%) SonarCloud
7 22 (7.89%) GCP
7 22 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 19 (6.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (6.45%) SaaS
10 16 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (5.38%) Vertex AI
12 13 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (4.30%) GitHub
14 11 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.19%) TCP/IP
1 34 (12.19%) VPN
2 4 (1.43%) Firewall
2 4 (1.43%) SSL
3 3 (1.08%) Internet
4 2 (0.72%) Broadband
4 2 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (8.60%) Data Mining
4 21 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.81%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.58%) Power BI
8 7 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.51%) MySQL
8 7 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.43%) Big Data
12 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.72%) Redis
13 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 54 (19.35%) Git
2 40 (14.34%) Visual Studio
3 35 (12.54%) Cucumber
4 34 (12.19%) Robot Framework
5 26 (9.32%) Jenkins
5 26 (9.32%) MSBuild
5 26 (9.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 26 (9.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (5.38%) JUnit
7 14 (5.02%) JIRA
8 6 (2.15%) GitLab
9 4 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.08%) Mockito
10 3 (1.08%) Selenium
11 2 (0.72%) Mocha
11 2 (0.72%) Moq
11 2 (0.72%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 79 (28.32%) Law
3 59 (21.15%) Retail
4 43 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (14.34%) Finance
6 37 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (12.90%) Telecoms
8 22 (7.89%) Marketing
9 18 (6.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.08%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (20.07%) Developer
2 53 (19.00%) Architect
3 42 (15.05%) Lead
3 42 (15.05%) Senior
4 36 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 34 (12.19%) Test Automation Engineer
6 28 (10.04%) Technical Architect
7 22 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Salesforce Architect
7 22 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 21 (7.53%) Enterprise Architect
9 18 (6.45%) Java Developer
10 17 (6.09%) Product Manager
11 10 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.87%) Azure Developer
13 7 (2.51%) SharePoint Developer
14 6 (2.15%) Python Engineer
14 6 (2.15%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.01%) .NET
2 66 (23.66%) REST
3 47 (16.85%) ASP.NET
4 45 (16.13%) CSS
5 44 (15.77%) HTML
6 38 (13.62%) React
6 38 (13.62%) XML
7 36 (12.90%) SOAP
8 33 (11.83%) JSON
9 27 (9.68%) Bootstrap
10 26 (9.32%) gRPC
11 22 (7.89%) Lightning Web Components
12 21 (7.53%) Middleware
13 17 (6.09%) RESTful
14 16 (5.73%) Spring
14 16 (5.73%) Spring Boot
15 15 (5.38%) .NET Framework
15 15 (5.38%) AngularJS
15 15 (5.38%) Web Services
16 14 (5.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.19%) Linux Command Line
2 32 (11.47%) Algorithms
3 28 (10.04%) Product Ownership
4 23 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (6.09%) FMCG
5 17 (6.09%) PMI
6 15 (5.38%) Cloud Native
7 14 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.79%) IoT
10 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.72%) Online Games
14 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.36%) Learning Management System
14 1 (0.36%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.00%) Linux
2 51 (18.28%) Windows
3 7 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.72%) Android
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (52.33%) Agile
2 105 (37.63%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (28.67%) Microservices
4 71 (25.45%) CI/CD
5 56 (20.07%) Coaching
6 53 (19.00%) Design Patterns
7 51 (18.28%) Technical Leadership
8 50 (17.92%) Customer-Centricity
9 48 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (17.20%) Mentoring
9 48 (17.20%) Product Management
10 43 (15.41%) Artificial Intelligence
11 42 (15.05%) Machine Learning
11 42 (15.05%) Test Automation
12 41 (14.70%) Analytics
13 40 (14.34%) Scrum
14 39 (13.98%) Business Strategy
15 38 (13.62%) Computer Science
15 38 (13.62%) Roadmaps
16 37 (13.26%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.20%) JavaScript
2 73 (26.16%) Python
3 69 (24.73%) SQL
4 66 (23.66%) C#
5 52 (18.64%) PowerShell
6 38 (13.62%) Bash
7 31 (11.11%) Java
8 22 (7.89%) Apex Code
9 20 (7.17%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.79%) X++
11 3 (1.08%) Go
12 2 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (25.81%) Degree
2 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (8.96%) Master's Degree
6 17 (6.09%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.51%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.41%) QA
2 28 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 28 (10.04%) GDPR
3 14 (5.02%) SLA
4 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) CDISC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (21.86%) Docker
2 10 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (12.19%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.04%) Terraform
3 23 (8.24%) Ansible
4 4 (1.43%) Nessus
4 4 (1.43%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.08%) Puppet
6 2 (0.72%) Grafana
6 2 (0.72%) Kubespray
6 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (26.52%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 21 (7.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 17 (6.09%) Google
5 16 (5.73%) OpenAI
6 12 (4.30%) Databricks
7 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.43%) Juniper
9 3 (1.08%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) Apple
10 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.72%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.36%) HP
11 1 (0.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Informatica
11 1 (0.36%) Veeam