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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 109 63 93
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 8.24% 7.25% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 8.51% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 56 79
10th Percentile £416 £500 £432
25th Percentile £466 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.59%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £628
90th Percentile £725 £688 £664
South East median daily rate £516 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -14.00% +6.67% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - £60.31
90th Percentile £53.35 - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - £76.10
% change year-on-year - - +37.12%

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 1,097 740 1,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.92% 85.16% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 516 602
10th Percentile £311 £356 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.06% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -37.16% +29.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -4 27 £600 +2.56% 15
Portsmouth +9 19 £435 -8.42% 9
Farnborough +1 15 £550 +15.79% 4
Havant -6 13 £550 -8.33% 1
Southampton +2 8 £450 -20.88% 9
Gosport +3 2 - -
Romsey -4 2 £755 -3.21% 1
Andover - 2 £475 - 2
Hook - 2 £850 - 2
Winchester -1 1 £550 - 3
Fleet - 1 £465 - 1
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 7 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Documentum
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.83%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.83%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.83%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.53%) Azure
2 32 (29.36%) AWS
3 27 (24.77%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (20.18%) GitHub
5 14 (12.84%) OpenShift
6 13 (11.93%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (6.42%) GCP
9 7 (6.42%) OCI
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.59%) SaaS
10 5 (4.59%) Serverless
11 4 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) S/MIME
1 3 (2.75%) VPN
2 2 (1.83%) DNS
2 2 (1.83%) SSL
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.26%) Redis
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.67%) Power BI
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.92%) Big Data
7 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.92%) Metadata
7 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Parquet
7 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) GitLab
2 16 (14.68%) Jenkins
3 15 (13.76%) Git
4 14 (12.84%) JIRA
5 7 (6.42%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.67%) Gradle
6 4 (3.67%) Maven
6 4 (3.67%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.83%) Poetry
8 2 (1.83%) Postman
8 2 (1.83%) Selenium
8 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.92%) Gatling
9 1 (0.92%) MLflow
9 1 (0.92%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.92%) Pylint
9 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.59%) Finance
4 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Software Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) Developer
4 9 (8.26%) Lead
5 8 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.42%) Senior
7 6 (5.50%) Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Java Architect
9 3 (2.75%) Windows DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.84%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.09%) Kafka
3 10 (9.17%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.34%) RESTful
4 8 (7.34%) YAML
5 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.50%) JSON
5 6 (5.50%) XML
6 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.67%) SailPoint
7 4 (3.67%) Spring
8 3 (2.75%) REST
9 2 (1.83%) .NET
9 2 (1.83%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.83%) ADO
10 1 (0.92%) ONNX
10 1 (0.92%) PySpark
10 1 (0.92%) SOAP
10 1 (0.92%) Swagger
10 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) CAN bus
2 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.75%) PKI
2 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.75%) Smartcard
3 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Life Science
4 1 (0.92%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.44%) Linux
2 27 (24.77%) Windows
3 11 (10.09%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.83%) VMS
5 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.87%) Agile
2 42 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.77%) Containerisation
4 20 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (16.51%) Software Engineering
6 14 (12.84%) Observability
6 14 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.01%) Configuration Management
7 12 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (10.09%) DevSecOps
8 11 (10.09%) Project Management
9 9 (8.26%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (8.26%) Scrum
10 8 (7.34%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (7.34%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.34%) Test Automation
11 7 (6.42%) GitOps
11 7 (6.42%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Python
2 13 (11.93%) Bash
3 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.17%) C#
4 10 (9.17%) Java
4 10 (9.17%) SQL
5 6 (5.50%) C++
5 6 (5.50%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.92%) Bicep
7 1 (0.92%) Go
7 1 (0.92%) Groovy
7 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (70.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (44.04%) SC Cleared
3 31 (28.44%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.75%) CISM
5 3 (2.75%) CISSP
5 3 (2.75%) GIAC
6 2 (1.83%) OCP
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) NCSC
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.92%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) GxP
4 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (18.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (30.28%) Terraform
3 30 (27.52%) Ansible
4 21 (19.27%) Grafana
4 21 (19.27%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.34%) Argo
6 7 (6.42%) Istio
6 7 (6.42%) Sysdig
7 6 (5.50%) linkerd
8 5 (4.59%) Puppet
9 4 (3.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 4 (3.67%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Rsyslog
9 4 (3.67%) SCOM
10 3 (2.75%) Cilium
10 3 (2.75%) Podman
10 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.83%) HP ALM
11 2 (1.83%) Packer
12 1 (0.92%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (17.43%) Red Hat
2 13 (11.93%) Oracle
3 10 (9.17%) Splunk
3 10 (9.17%) VMware
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.67%) NetIQ
6 3 (2.75%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.75%) Thales
7 2 (1.83%) HP
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
8 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.92%) Databricks
8 1 (0.92%) Google
8 1 (0.92%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.92%) Tenable