DevOps Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 67 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 15 28 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.01% 1.74% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.93% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 30
10th Percentile £463 £388 £463
25th Percentile £497 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £640
90th Percentile £648 £668 £676
South East median daily rate £550 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +4.27% -12.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.15
25th Percentile - - £52.38
Median hourly rate - - £53.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.45
South East median hourly rate - - £53.50
% change year-on-year - - -2.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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.

Contract vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 712 1,451 1,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 90.12% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 824 865
10th Percentile £280 £363 £232
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £620
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 173 106
10th Percentile £20.03 £13.40 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £33.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Hampshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke +27 5 £575 -4.17% 4
Portsmouth - 4 £477 - 3
Farnborough 0 2 £513 -6.82%
Aldershot +2 1 £525 -
Havant - 1 £675 -
DevOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Hampshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (46.67%) Terraform
5 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (40.00%) Ansible
7 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
7 5 (33.33%) AWS
7 5 (33.33%) Bash
7 5 (33.33%) Agile
8 4 (26.67%) Linux
8 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (26.67%) Azure
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
9 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (20.00%) GitLab
9 3 (20.00%) Python
10 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 2 (13.33%) Scrum
10 2 (13.33%) Release Management
10 2 (13.33%) PaaS
10 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 2 (13.33%) Release Management
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Packer
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware