DevOps Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

DevOps
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 106 58 84
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.40% 7.93% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.98% 8.96% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 51 72
10th Percentile £450 £463 £400
25th Percentile £479 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £517
Median % change year-on-year - +11.22% -6.00%
75th Percentile £725 £615 £590
90th Percentile £727 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile £46.25 - £54.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £53.35 - £74.50
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £90.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -25.00% +17.60% +16.62%

All Process & 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 1,180 647 1,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.34% 88.51% 86.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 458 692
10th Percentile £325 £354 £371
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.44% +7.38%
75th Percentile £650 £616 £670
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 34 119
10th Percentile £14.50 £20.01 £13.04
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.13 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.23% -27.27% +26.44%
75th Percentile £37.00 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £53.17 £75.00 £75.63
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £45.21
% change year-on-year -41.09% -5.57% +0.47%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Hampshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DevOps

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 27 February 2026. 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 -7 26 £600 +3.45% 7
Portsmouth +13 17 £452 -4.84% 3
Farnborough +2 15 £575 +21.05% 9
Havant -10 10 £588 -6.00%
Southampton +3 9 £640 +13.78% 8
Hook - 4 £850 -
Romsey - 3 £755 -
Andover - 3 £500 - 2
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester -1 1 £550 -
Fleet -6 1 £465 -13.41%
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.83%) Apache
1 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Documentum
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.89%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.68%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) AWS
3 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (19.81%) GitHub
5 13 (12.26%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (11.32%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (6.60%) OCI
10 6 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.72%) GCP
11 5 (4.72%) Serverless
12 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (1.89%) PaaS
14 2 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.77%) VPN
2 3 (2.83%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) Internet
3 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.49%) Redis
2 5 (4.72%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.83%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.89%) Power BI
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) GitLab
2 14 (13.21%) Git
3 13 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.43%) JIRA
5 7 (6.60%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.77%) Gradle
6 4 (3.77%) Maven
7 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.89%) Postman
8 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.94%) Gatling
9 1 (0.94%) JUnit
9 1 (0.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.94%) TestNG
9 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.77%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.77%) Finance
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Automotive
7 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (33.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.49%) Developer
4 8 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (7.55%) Lead
4 8 (7.55%) Senior
5 7 (6.60%) Architect
6 6 (5.66%) C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.72%) Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Test Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.83%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.43%) Kafka
2 10 (9.43%) Keycloak
3 8 (7.55%) YAML
4 6 (5.66%) JSON
4 6 (5.66%) SailPoint
4 6 (5.66%) XML
5 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.77%) RESTful
6 4 (3.77%) Spring
7 3 (2.83%) React
7 3 (2.83%) REST
8 2 (1.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.89%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.89%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.89%) WPF
9 1 (0.94%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.94%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.66%) CAN bus
2 5 (4.72%) PKI
3 4 (3.77%) Smartcard
4 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.89%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.94%) FPGA
6 1 (0.94%) IoT
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) PMI
6 1 (0.94%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.30%) Linux
2 26 (24.53%) Windows
3 8 (7.55%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.94%) CentOS
5 1 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.28%) Agile
1 48 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 24 (22.64%) Containerisation
3 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (19.81%) Software Engineering
4 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (12.26%) Configuration Management
7 12 (11.32%) Observability
7 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.38%) DevSecOps
9 10 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.43%) Project Management
9 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.49%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 8 (7.55%) RBAC
11 8 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (6.60%) GitOps
12 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (6.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) Python
2 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.26%) Bash
4 10 (9.43%) C#
5 9 (8.49%) C++
5 9 (8.49%) SQL
6 8 (7.55%) Java
7 6 (5.66%) Embedded C++
8 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) C
10 1 (0.94%) Go
10 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (75.47%) Security Cleared
2 51 (48.11%) SC Cleared
3 30 (28.30%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 4 (3.77%) CISM
5 4 (3.77%) CISSP
5 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.77%) GIAC
6 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) OCP
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) NCSC
2 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.77%) NIST
3 3 (2.83%) QA
4 2 (1.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) Def Stans
System Software
1 19 (17.92%) Docker
2 7 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Firmware
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (33.02%) Kubernetes
2 33 (31.13%) Terraform
3 25 (23.58%) Ansible
4 21 (19.81%) Grafana
5 20 (18.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.60%) Argo
6 7 (6.60%) Sysdig
7 6 (5.66%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 6 (5.66%) Istio
7 6 (5.66%) linkerd
7 6 (5.66%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 5 (4.72%) Puppet
9 3 (2.83%) Podman
9 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.89%) Packer
11 1 (0.94%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.94%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.94%) Rancher
11 1 (0.94%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (15.09%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.26%) Oracle
3 10 (9.43%) Splunk
3 10 (9.43%) VMware
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.66%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.77%) Thales
7 2 (1.89%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.94%) HP
8 1 (0.94%) Tenable