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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 278 467 694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.18% 6.98% 11.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 8.24% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 126 312 374
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,625 £44,525
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -15.11% +6.92%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £105,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -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 3,193 5,670 5,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.99% 84.73% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 3,891 3,075
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +8 174 £80,000 +33.33% 134
Buckinghamshire -4 66 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Oxfordshire -18 38 £53,000 -9.46% 74
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 13 (4.68%) JBoss
1 13 (4.68%) Red Hat Fuse
2 9 (3.24%) Confluence
3 7 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.44%) IBM Domino
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 125 (44.96%) Azure
2 71 (25.54%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (22.66%) AWS
4 32 (11.51%) Serverless
5 31 (11.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 31 (11.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 28 (10.07%) GCP
7 26 (9.35%) SonarCloud
8 22 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 22 (7.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 17 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (6.12%) SaaS
10 15 (5.40%) Vertex AI
11 14 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.32%) GitHub
13 11 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (3.60%) Amazon S3
14 10 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.95%) VPN
2 34 (12.23%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.16%) Firewall
4 4 (1.44%) SSL
5 3 (1.08%) Internet
6 2 (0.72%) DNS
6 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.72%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) Broadband
7 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.67%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.35%) Elasticsearch
3 25 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.63%) Data Mining
5 21 (7.55%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.32%) Power BI
7 9 (3.24%) MySQL
7 9 (3.24%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.16%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.44%) Big Data
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.72%) Redis
13 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (20.50%) Git
2 41 (14.75%) Cucumber
3 40 (14.39%) Visual Studio
4 34 (12.23%) Robot Framework
5 29 (10.43%) Jenkins
6 26 (9.35%) MSBuild
6 26 (9.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 26 (9.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 20 (7.19%) JIRA
8 18 (6.47%) JUnit
9 12 (4.32%) GitLab
10 9 (3.24%) Selenium
10 9 (3.24%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.88%) Maven
12 6 (2.16%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.80%) Mockito
14 2 (0.72%) Mocha
14 2 (0.72%) Moq
General
1 113 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 80 (28.78%) Law
3 59 (21.22%) Retail
4 45 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (15.83%) Finance
6 43 (15.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (12.59%) Telecoms
8 22 (7.91%) Marketing
9 21 (7.55%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.52%) Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (20.14%) Developer
2 53 (19.06%) Architect
3 41 (14.75%) Lead
3 41 (14.75%) Senior
4 35 (12.59%) Test Engineer
5 34 (12.23%) Test Automation Engineer
6 28 (10.07%) Software Engineer
6 28 (10.07%) Technical Architect
7 22 (7.91%) Salesforce Architect
8 21 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
8 21 (7.55%) Java Developer
9 17 (6.12%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.52%) Azure Developer
12 7 (2.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 5 (1.80%) C# Software Engineer
13 5 (1.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.18%) REST
2 64 (23.02%) .NET
3 48 (17.27%) CSS
4 47 (16.91%) HTML
5 44 (15.83%) ASP.NET
6 41 (14.75%) React
7 39 (14.03%) SOAP
8 36 (12.95%) XML
9 33 (11.87%) JSON
10 28 (10.07%) Bootstrap
11 26 (9.35%) gRPC
12 25 (8.99%) Spring
12 25 (8.99%) Spring Boot
13 22 (7.91%) Lightning Web Components
14 21 (7.55%) Middleware
15 19 (6.83%) RESTful
16 17 (6.12%) Web Services
17 16 (5.76%) AngularJS
18 14 (5.04%) .NET Framework
19 13 (4.68%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.59%) Product Ownership
2 34 (12.23%) Linux Command Line
3 32 (11.51%) Algorithms
4 29 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (6.12%) FMCG
5 17 (6.12%) PMI
6 16 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (5.40%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.72%) IoT
13 2 (0.72%) NHS
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing Technology
14 1 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.06%) Linux
2 48 (17.27%) Windows
3 5 (1.80%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (55.40%) Agile
2 104 (37.41%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (32.37%) Microservices
4 78 (28.06%) CI/CD
5 56 (20.14%) Coaching
6 55 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (19.06%) Design Patterns
8 50 (17.99%) Customer-Centricity
8 50 (17.99%) Technical Leadership
9 49 (17.63%) Product Management
10 48 (17.27%) Test Automation
11 46 (16.55%) Mentoring
12 43 (15.47%) Scrum
13 41 (14.75%) Analytics
13 41 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 40 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (14.03%) Business Strategy
15 39 (14.03%) Computer Science
15 39 (14.03%) Roadmaps
16 38 (13.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.33%) JavaScript
2 75 (26.98%) SQL
3 69 (24.82%) Python
4 63 (22.66%) C#
5 50 (17.99%) PowerShell
6 39 (14.03%) Java
7 38 (13.67%) Bash
8 22 (7.91%) Apex Code
9 17 (6.12%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.16%) X++
11 5 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.08%) Go
13 2 (0.72%) Bicep
13 2 (0.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (26.26%) Degree
2 35 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (8.99%) Master's Degree
6 17 (6.12%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.52%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.99%) QA
2 28 (10.07%) GDPR
3 25 (8.99%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.40%) SLA
5 2 (0.72%) 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 69 (24.82%) Docker
2 10 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.36%) Postfix
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.71%) Terraform
3 24 (8.63%) Ansible
4 4 (1.44%) Grafana
4 4 (1.44%) Nessus
4 4 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.44%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.08%) Puppet
6 2 (0.72%) Kubespray
6 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
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 72 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.91%) Salesforce
3 21 (7.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 17 (6.12%) Google
5 15 (5.40%) Databricks
5 15 (5.40%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.16%) Solace
7 5 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.44%) Juniper
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.08%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) Apple
10 2 (0.72%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.72%) Meraki
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Informatica
11 1 (0.36%) Jaspersoft