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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 81 70 100
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.95% 5.89% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 7.38% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 60 82
10th Percentile £401 £424 £450
25th Percentile £450 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £625
90th Percentile £629 £688 £661
South East median daily rate £506 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -13.83% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £60.25 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +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 881 949 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.46% 79.81% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 620 664
10th Percentile £315 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.55% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 102
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £53.00 £78.75 £73.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +4 23 £600 +2.56% 27
Havant -5 16 £525 -10.64% 2
Portsmouth +13 11 £435 -8.42% 11
Southampton +3 7 £581 +3.33% 22
Farnborough -1 7 £531 +11.84% 7
Fleet - 4 £426 -
Andover - 1 £450 - 1
Hook - 1 £320 -
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 9 (11.11%) Apache
2 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (4.94%) IIS
5 3 (3.70%) Documentum
6 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (2.47%) Confluence
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.10%) Azure
2 19 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.05%) AWS
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.64%) OCI
6 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (7.41%) Serverless
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.17%) GCP
7 5 (6.17%) SaaS
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) DNS
2 5 (6.17%) SMTP
3 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) SSL
4 1 (1.23%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.23%) SSH
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.17%) Redis
3 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.94%) Power BI
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.47%) Big Data
5 2 (2.47%) MySQL
5 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.23%) Parquet
6 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) JIRA
2 14 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.35%) Git
4 6 (7.41%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) MSI
5 4 (4.94%) Robot Framework
5 4 (4.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.47%) Poetry
8 1 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.23%) Maven
8 1 (1.23%) MLflow
8 1 (1.23%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.23%) Pylint
8 1 (1.23%) Selenium
8 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.17%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Architect
2 9 (11.11%) Senior
3 8 (9.88%) Developer
3 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Lead
4 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (12.35%) Kafka
2 9 (11.11%) YAML
3 7 (8.64%) RESTful
4 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.17%) Keycloak
5 4 (4.94%) React
6 3 (3.70%) .NET
6 3 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.70%) ADO
6 3 (3.70%) Middleware
6 3 (3.70%) Node.js
6 3 (3.70%) REST
7 2 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.47%) SOAP
7 2 (2.47%) Vue
8 1 (1.23%) ONNX
8 1 (1.23%) PySpark
8 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) PKI
2 6 (7.41%) CAN bus
3 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (34.57%) Linux
2 24 (29.63%) Windows
3 8 (9.88%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.17%) CentOS
7 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.47%) VMS
9 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (59.26%) Agile
2 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 19 (23.46%) Containerisation
4 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (13.58%) Scrum
6 10 (12.35%) Configuration Management
7 9 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 8 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (9.88%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (9.88%) Prototyping
9 7 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.64%) Observability
10 6 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (7.41%) SysML
10 6 (7.41%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) PowerShell
1 14 (17.28%) Python
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 10 (12.35%) C#
4 9 (11.11%) Java
5 8 (9.88%) Bash
6 6 (7.41%) C++
6 6 (7.41%) Embedded C++
7 5 (6.17%) PHP
8 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.70%) Scala
10 2 (2.47%) Ruby
11 1 (1.23%) Bicep
11 1 (1.23%) Go
11 1 (1.23%) Groovy
11 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.86%) DV Cleared
3 19 (23.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) OCP
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.23%) GxP
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 11 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.23%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.23%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (33.33%) Ansible
2 26 (32.10%) Kubernetes
3 19 (23.46%) Terraform
4 10 (12.35%) Grafana
4 10 (12.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.17%) Packer
6 4 (4.94%) Rsyslog
6 4 (4.94%) SCOM
6 4 (4.94%) WMI
7 3 (3.70%) Cilium
7 3 (3.70%) HP ALM
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (3.70%) Sysdig
8 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.23%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.23%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.23%) Salt
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) VMware
2 11 (13.58%) Oracle
3 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.17%) Splunk
6 4 (4.94%) HP
7 3 (3.70%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.47%) Google
9 1 (1.23%) Citrix
9 1 (1.23%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.23%) Databricks
9 1 (1.23%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.23%) Symantec