DevOps Contracts in Hampshire

DevOps
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 35 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 49 72 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.57% 4.47% 9.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 5.34% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 107
10th Percentile £470 £388 £436
25th Percentile £511 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £646
90th Percentile £625 £651 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £52.15
25th Percentile - £72.50 £52.38
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.45
South East median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £67.35
% change year-on-year -27.48% +24.38% +92.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
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 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 19 £575 -4.17% 48
Portsmouth +22 5 £478 -6.73% 49
Farnborough +2 5 £513 -14.41% 14
Havant 0 4 £625 +25.00%
Eastleigh -2 3 £500 +11.11% 6
Fleet - 2 £470 - 1
Aldershot +1 1 £525 - 1
Winchester - 1 - - 5
DevOps
South East

DevOps
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 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
3 2 (4.08%) JBoss
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) AWS
2 17 (34.69%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (22.45%) OpenShift
4 10 (20.41%) GCP
4 10 (20.41%) PaaS
5 8 (16.33%) IaaS
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) Firewall
2 8 (16.33%) DHCP
2 8 (16.33%) DNS
2 8 (16.33%) SMTP
2 8 (16.33%) VPN
3 3 (6.12%) 4G
3 3 (6.12%) 5G
3 3 (6.12%) 5G NR
3 3 (6.12%) LTE
3 3 (6.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (4.08%) Network Security
5 1 (2.04%) NGFW
5 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.33%) Big Data
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) GitLab
2 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (4.08%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.04%) Snyk
5 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Automotive
5 1 (2.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Applications Packager
4 6 (12.24%) DV Cleared Application Packager
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Subject Matter Expert
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.04%) React
3 1 (2.04%) SAML
3 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Clustering
1 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (16.33%) PKI
2 6 (12.24%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.90%) Windows
2 21 (42.86%) Linux
3 15 (30.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Agile
2 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
3 10 (20.41%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
4 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.33%) Software Deployment
6 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.24%) Application Packaging
7 6 (12.24%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.20%) Change Management
8 5 (10.20%) High Availability
8 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.16%) Software Delivery
10 3 (6.12%) Microservices
10 3 (6.12%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (6.12%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) PowerShell
2 16 (32.65%) Python
3 6 (12.24%) Bash
3 6 (12.24%) VBScript
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Perl
4 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.08%) SQL
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) C++
5 1 (2.04%) Delphi
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) PHP
5 1 (2.04%) Ruby
5 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 23 (46.94%) DV Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) Degree
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CISSP
5 2 (4.08%) CISM
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) CEH
6 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (26.53%) Docker
4 8 (16.33%) BitLocker
4 8 (16.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (16.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (16.33%) Terminal Services
4 8 (16.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Ansible
1 18 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.37%) Puppet
2 9 (18.37%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Nagios
3 8 (16.33%) vCenter Server
3 8 (16.33%) vMotion
4 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.08%) Kibana
6 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.04%) Grafana
6 1 (2.04%) NSN NetAct
6 1 (2.04%) Packer
6 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Rancher
6 1 (2.04%) SCCM
6 1 (2.04%) SCOM
6 1 (2.04%) SCSM
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
1 15 (30.61%) VMware
2 8 (16.33%) Citrix
2 8 (16.33%) Google
2 8 (16.33%) HP
2 8 (16.33%) Symantec
3 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.08%) Ericsson
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (2.04%) Nokia
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow