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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 88 65 102
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.95% 6.63% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 7.94% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 58 84
10th Percentile £416 £471 £454
25th Percentile £461 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% -3.18%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £626
90th Percentile £674 £688 £669
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £47.30 - £51.88
25th Percentile £48.88 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £53.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £57.38 - £60.31
90th Percentile £59.10 - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +36.34%

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 1,063 819 1,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.90% 83.49% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 559 639
10th Percentile £311 £356 £323
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £649
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 60 83
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.91 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.38 £21.15
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £71.88 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.38 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 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 -5 20 £575 -1.71% 29
Farnborough +4 14 £538 +13.16% 7
Havant -6 14 £538 -12.24% 1
Portsmouth +9 12 £435 -8.42% 14
Southampton +3 7 £438 -23.08% 15
Gosport +4 2 - -
Romsey -4 2 £755 -3.21% 4
Winchester - 1 £550 - 3
Fleet - 1 £465 -
Andover - 1 £450 -
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 8 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.95%) Apache
3 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.41%) Documentum
5 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.27%) Confluence
5 2 (2.27%) IIS
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.27%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.27%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) Azure
2 26 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (25.00%) AWS
4 19 (21.59%) GitHub
5 12 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.95%) OCI
7 7 (7.95%) SaaS
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.68%) Serverless
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.55%) GCP
10 4 (4.55%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (2.27%) SMTP
2 2 (2.27%) SSL
2 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.14%) Firewall
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.14%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) S/MIME
3 1 (1.14%) SSH
3 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.95%) Redis
3 5 (5.68%) Power BI
4 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Git
1 15 (17.05%) GitLab
1 15 (17.05%) Jenkins
1 15 (17.05%) JIRA
2 7 (7.95%) Artifactory
3 4 (4.55%) Gradle
3 4 (4.55%) Maven
3 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.27%) MSI
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.27%) Poetry
5 2 (2.27%) Postman
5 2 (2.27%) Robot Framework
5 2 (2.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.14%) JUnit
6 1 (1.14%) TestNG
6 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.68%) Finance
4 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (11.36%) Developer
3 9 (10.23%) Lead
4 8 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Senior
6 5 (5.68%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Java Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle Project Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (10.23%) Kafka
3 8 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 8 (9.09%) RESTful
4 7 (7.95%) YAML
5 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.55%) Spring
7 2 (2.27%) .NET
7 2 (2.27%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.27%) ADO
7 2 (2.27%) REST
8 1 (1.14%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.14%) JSON
8 1 (1.14%) NumPy
8 1 (1.14%) ONNX
8 1 (1.14%) PySpark
8 1 (1.14%) React
8 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) CAN bus
2 5 (5.68%) PKI
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.95%) Linux
2 22 (25.00%) Windows
3 8 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.27%) CentOS
6 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.27%) VMS
6 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.00%) Agile
2 33 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 23 (26.14%) Containerisation
4 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 11 (12.50%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Scrum
6 11 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (11.36%) Observability
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.95%) Microservices
10 7 (7.95%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.82%) Project Management
11 6 (6.82%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.05%) Python
2 12 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.36%) Bash
3 10 (11.36%) C#
3 10 (11.36%) Java
3 10 (11.36%) SQL
4 6 (6.82%) C++
4 6 (6.82%) Embedded C++
5 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) PHP
5 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.14%) Bicep
6 1 (1.14%) Go
6 1 (1.14%) Groovy
6 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 33 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (26.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) CISM
5 1 (1.14%) CISSP
5 1 (1.14%) GIAC
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.14%) OCP
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.14%) GxP
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (21.59%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 30 (34.09%) Ansible
2 30 (34.09%) Terraform
3 18 (20.45%) Grafana
3 18 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.95%) Sysdig
5 5 (5.68%) Puppet
6 4 (4.55%) Argo
6 4 (4.55%) Packer
6 4 (4.55%) Rsyslog
6 4 (4.55%) SCOM
7 3 (3.41%) Cilium
7 3 (3.41%) HP ALM
7 3 (3.41%) Istio
7 3 (3.41%) Podman
7 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.27%) linkerd
8 2 (2.27%) WMI
9 1 (1.14%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Oracle
2 12 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 10 (11.36%) VMware
4 8 (9.09%) Splunk
5 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.41%) HP
6 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.27%) SAP
8 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.14%) Databricks
8 1 (1.14%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.14%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.14%) Tenable
8 1 (1.14%) Thales