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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 90 81 74
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.62% 8.34% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 9.67% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 67 64
10th Percentile £500 £402 £413
25th Percentile £513 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £670 £600 £652
90th Percentile £750 £625 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £598
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.32% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £37.24 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
75th Percentile £94.84 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 - £87.46
% change year-on-year - - +15.58%

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 1,543 838 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.29% 86.30% 79.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 584 690
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £471 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -8.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £655
90th Percentile £730 £654 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 75 115
10th Percentile £13.45 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.55 £18.87 £52.95
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +4.27%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £73.25 £64.50 £77.99
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.73% -61.81% +9.24%

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 5 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 September 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
Portsmouth -3 19 £554 +27.24% 6
Basingstoke -24 19 £580 -3.33% 8
Southampton +6 14 £575 -19.30% 20
Farnborough -10 11 £488 -4.88% 15
Havant -8 9 £638 +21.43% 2
Andover - 7 £750 - 1
Hook -2 1 £510 +59.38%
Eastleigh -7 1 £500 -
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Romsey - 1 - - 4
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 14 (15.56%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) Documentum
3 2 (2.22%) CMS
3 2 (2.22%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.11%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (72.22%) Azure
2 41 (45.56%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (33.33%) AWS
4 10 (11.11%) GitHub
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 6 (6.67%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Batch
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
10 2 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (17.78%) GitLab
1 16 (17.78%) JIRA
2 10 (11.11%) Git
3 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.11%) JUnit
6 1 (1.11%) MLflow
6 1 (1.11%) Mockito
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Architect
2 15 (16.67%) Developer
3 7 (7.78%) Analyst
3 7 (7.78%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (7.78%) Principal Architect
4 6 (6.67%) Documentum Architect
4 6 (6.67%) Java Architect
4 6 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.67%) Lead
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
5 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Documentum Developer
5 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (5.56%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 4 (4.44%) DevOps Architect
6 4 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) Terraform
2 15 (16.67%) .NET
3 11 (12.22%) REST
4 8 (8.89%) ADO
5 7 (7.78%) Middleware
6 6 (6.67%) Kafka
6 6 (6.67%) OAuth
7 5 (5.56%) SAML
8 4 (4.44%) OpenID
8 4 (4.44%) React
9 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.33%) JSON
9 3 (3.33%) LDAP
9 3 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.33%) SailPoint
9 3 (3.33%) SOAP
10 2 (2.22%) Web Services
11 1 (1.11%) CSS
11 1 (1.11%) HTML
11 1 (1.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Linux
1 13 (14.44%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) CentOS
2 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 49 (54.44%) Agile
3 23 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (24.44%) Software Delivery
5 21 (23.33%) DevSecOps
5 21 (23.33%) Scrum
6 19 (21.11%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (21.11%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (11.11%) Security Architecture
12 9 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 9 (10.00%) Microservices
12 9 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) Java
3 13 (14.44%) C#
3 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.33%) SQL
5 10 (11.11%) Bash
5 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.56%) Bicep
7 4 (4.44%) C++
7 4 (4.44%) Scala
7 4 (4.44%) X++
8 3 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 59 (65.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 25 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 15 (16.67%) Degree
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.11%) CEH
9 1 (1.11%) CISM
9 1 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) PMO
2 4 (4.44%) GDPR
3 3 (3.33%) NCSC
4 2 (2.22%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) Grafana
3 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.33%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 3 (3.33%) NetIQ Identity Manager
5 2 (2.22%) Argo
6 1 (1.11%) Rancher
6 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Databricks
3 6 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (3.33%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) NetIQ
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Sparx