DevOps Engineer Contracts in Basingstoke

Development Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Basingstoke is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 1.83% 1.35% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.44% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £477 -
25th Percentile £513 £518 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -2.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £625
90th Percentile - £597 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -12.39% +6.36% -8.33%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Basingstoke with a recognized job title 210 347 172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.89% 93.53% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 259 77
10th Percentile £475 £425 £228
25th Percentile £538 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £613 £678 £650
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £21.77 £34.20 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £34.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £23.27 £35.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +118.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £24.21 £46.75 £19.13
90th Percentile £24.77 £53.20 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +9.24% +40.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Basingstoke

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Basingstoke

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, DevOps Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Rancher
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Rancher
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) VMware