DevOps Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 85 77
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 +19
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 14 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.47% 1.05% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.14% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 18
10th Percentile - £441 £471
25th Percentile £418 £493 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.63% +6.14% -8.37%
75th Percentile £519 £644 £625
90th Percentile £544 £684 £661
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +1.48%

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 897 1,405 1,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 91.77% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 883 706
10th Percentile £203 £363 £243
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £612
90th Percentile £660 £717 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 138 104
10th Percentile £20.43 £21.47 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £46.25 £19.74
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +110.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.43 £67.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.05 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +133.75%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Portsmouth - 8 £435 -
Farnborough +7 2 £513 -6.82% 1
Basingstoke +13 1 £550 -
Aldershot +8 1 £525 -11.76%
Southampton - 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Hampshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Ansible
2 11 (78.57%) Bash
2 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 10 (71.43%) Linux
3 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (57.14%) GitHub
4 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
4 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (50.00%) Scrum
6 6 (42.86%) YAML
6 6 (42.86%) Splunk
6 6 (42.86%) Redis
6 6 (42.86%) Kafka
6 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
6 6 (42.86%) Packer
6 6 (42.86%) Observability
6 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (42.86%) Keycloak
6 6 (42.86%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 6 (42.86%) Grafana

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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) GitHub
2 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (42.86%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Poetry
2 1 (7.14%) PyCharm
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 6 (42.86%) Keycloak
2 6 (42.86%) YAML
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 10 (71.43%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (50.00%) Scrum
6 6 (42.86%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 6 (42.86%) Observability
6 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (7.14%) Dependency Management
9 1 (7.14%) ETL
9 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
9 1 (7.14%) ITIL
9 1 (7.14%) Memory Management
9 1 (7.14%) Migration
9 1 (7.14%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Ansible
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (42.86%) Grafana
3 6 (42.86%) Packer
3 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Istio
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Rancher
4 1 (7.14%) Rsyslog
4 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 6 (42.86%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) VMware