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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing DevOps 77 79 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 8.10% 5.80% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 7.33% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 68 63
10th Percentile £402 £421 £463
25th Percentile £463 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £87.46 £75.67
% change year-on-year - +15.58% +11.48%

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 820 1,078 1,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.23% 79.15% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 671 628
10th Percentile £313 £363 £270
25th Percentile £453 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £723 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 104 115
10th Percentile - £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.18 £21.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £62.55 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +9 29 £600 +2.13% 14
Havant -2 16 £525 -6.67%
Portsmouth - 12 £435 - 4
Farnborough +3 8 £513 - 5
Fleet - 3 £402 - 1
Southampton -8 2 £713 +29.55% 21
Eastleigh - 2 £500 - 1
Hook - 1 £320 -
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 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (12.99%) Apache
3 6 (7.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.19%) Confluence
4 4 (5.19%) IIS
5 3 (3.90%) Documentum
6 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (22.08%) AWS
3 17 (22.08%) OpenShift
4 12 (15.58%) GCP
5 8 (10.39%) IaaS
5 8 (10.39%) PaaS
6 7 (9.09%) GitHub
6 7 (9.09%) OCI
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.79%) Serverless
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.49%) SaaS
9 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.90%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) DNS
2 12 (15.58%) SMTP
3 11 (14.29%) Firewall
4 8 (10.39%) DHCP
4 8 (10.39%) VPN
5 2 (2.60%) SSL
6 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.30%) Network Security
6 1 (1.30%) SSH
6 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (11.69%) Big Data
3 8 (10.39%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.49%) Redis
5 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.19%) Power BI
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) JIRA
2 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) MSI
3 4 (5.19%) Robot Framework
3 4 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.60%) Poetry
6 1 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.30%) MLflow
6 1 (1.30%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.30%) Pylint
6 1 (1.30%) Selenium
6 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) Architect
5 8 (10.39%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (10.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Lead
5 8 (10.39%) Support Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.09%) Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Test Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) Kafka
1 9 (11.69%) YAML
2 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (9.09%) RESTful
3 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.49%) Keycloak
4 4 (5.19%) React
5 3 (3.90%) .NET
5 3 (3.90%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.90%) ADO
5 3 (3.90%) Middleware
5 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 3 (3.90%) REST
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (2.60%) SOAP
6 2 (2.60%) Vue
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.30%) Flask
7 1 (1.30%) Pandas
7 1 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) PKI
2 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.39%) Clustering
4 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.36%) Linux
2 25 (32.47%) Windows
3 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.79%) CentOS
6 4 (5.19%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.60%) VMS
9 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.25%) Agile
2 22 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
5 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
7 11 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (12.99%) Scrum
9 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (10.39%) Prototyping
10 8 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (10.39%) Software Deployment
11 7 (9.09%) Observability
12 6 (7.79%) Batch Scripting
12 6 (7.79%) Change Management
12 6 (7.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.58%) Python
3 11 (14.29%) SQL
4 8 (10.39%) Java
5 7 (9.09%) Bash
6 6 (7.79%) PHP
7 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.90%) C#
8 3 (3.90%) Scala
9 2 (2.60%) Go
9 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
10 1 (1.30%) Bicep
10 1 (1.30%) Groovy
10 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.96%) DV Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) Degree
4 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.60%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) OCP
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) GxP
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (24.68%) Active Directory
1 19 (24.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (22.08%) Docker
3 8 (10.39%) BitLocker
3 8 (10.39%) Hyper-V
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (10.39%) Terminal Services
3 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (42.86%) Ansible
2 29 (37.66%) Kubernetes
3 14 (18.18%) Terraform
4 8 (10.39%) Nagios
4 8 (10.39%) Puppet
4 8 (10.39%) vCenter Server
4 8 (10.39%) vMotion
5 6 (7.79%) Grafana
5 6 (7.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.49%) Packer
7 4 (5.19%) Rsyslog
7 4 (5.19%) SCOM
7 4 (5.19%) WMI
8 3 (3.90%) Cilium
8 3 (3.90%) HP ALM
9 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.30%) Istio
10 1 (1.30%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.30%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) VMware
2 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.58%) Oracle
4 11 (14.29%) HP
5 9 (11.69%) Google
6 8 (10.39%) Citrix
6 8 (10.39%) Red Hat
6 8 (10.39%) Symantec
7 5 (6.49%) Splunk
8 3 (3.90%) NVIDIA
9 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
10 1 (1.30%) Databricks
10 1 (1.30%) Informatica
10 1 (1.30%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow