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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing DevOps 102 51 71
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.13% 7.00% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.75% 7.75% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 48 59
10th Percentile £461 £472 £388
25th Percentile £493 £520 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £725 £600 £608
90th Percentile £726 £625 £659
South East median daily rate £510 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -7.27% -3.08% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £43.05 - £53.38
25th Percentile £46.25 - £56.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £63.75
75th Percentile £48.75 - £71.56
90th Percentile - - £75.13
South East median hourly rate £63.73 £60.75 £83.77
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.48% +50.93%

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 1,316 658 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.09% 90.26% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 474 705
10th Percentile £339 £322 £388
25th Percentile £463 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £582
Median % change year-on-year - -5.50% +10.86%
75th Percentile £671 £616 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 40 160
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.10 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £30.94 £25.84
Median hourly rate £35.50 £58.88 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -39.70% +2.66% +9.24%
75th Percentile £50.81 £74.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £48.02 £28.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year +71.50% -37.92% -9.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -13 25 £700 +21.74% 4
Portsmouth +15 21 £476 -0.52% 6
Farnborough -1 16 £550 +7.32% 7
Havant -4 13 £600 -4.00% 1
Southampton - 5 £640 - 9
Hook - 5 £850 - 2
Romsey - 3 £755 - 3
Andover - 2 £613 - 2
Winchester +2 1 £550 -
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 -
Gosport - 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 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.96%) CMS
3 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.96%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) Azure
2 38 (37.25%) AWS
3 26 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (14.71%) GitHub
5 10 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (9.80%) OpenShift
6 9 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.86%) OCI
8 6 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.88%) Serverless
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.90%) GCP
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.96%) PaaS
12 2 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.92%) VPN
2 3 (2.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 2 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) DHCP
4 1 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) SONET
4 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (9.80%) Redis
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.94%) Power BI
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (18.63%) GitLab
2 8 (7.84%) Git
3 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.86%) JIRA
4 4 (3.92%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.92%) Gradle
5 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.94%) Maven
6 2 (1.96%) Postman
6 2 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.98%) Gatling
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.98%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.98%) TestNG
7 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.94%) Finance
6 2 (1.96%) Banking
6 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Automotive
7 1 (0.98%) Back Office
7 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.69%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.82%) Developer
3 9 (8.82%) Lead
4 8 (7.84%) Analyst
5 6 (5.88%) Architect
5 6 (5.88%) Senior
6 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (3.92%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.94%) Windows DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) Keycloak
2 10 (9.80%) Kafka
2 10 (9.80%) SailPoint
3 8 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.86%) YAML
5 6 (5.88%) JSON
5 6 (5.88%) React
5 6 (5.88%) XML
6 4 (3.92%) .NET
6 4 (3.92%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.92%) Spring
6 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.94%) REST
7 3 (2.94%) RESTful
7 3 (2.94%) WPF
8 2 (1.96%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.96%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.96%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.98%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.98%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.88%) PKI
2 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.92%) Smartcard
3 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.98%) FPGA
4 1 (0.98%) IoT
4 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.98%) PMI
4 1 (0.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.57%) Linux
2 20 (19.61%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) CI/CD
2 47 (46.08%) Agile
3 21 (20.59%) Containerisation
4 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (18.63%) Software Engineering
6 16 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (14.71%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.73%) Observability
9 13 (12.75%) DevSecOps
10 12 (11.76%) Scrum
11 11 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.78%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (10.78%) RBAC
12 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (8.82%) GitOps
13 9 (8.82%) Microservices
13 9 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
14 8 (7.84%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.49%) Python
2 20 (19.61%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.76%) Bash
3 12 (11.76%) SQL
4 9 (8.82%) Java
5 8 (7.84%) C#
6 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.88%) C++
8 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) C
9 1 (0.98%) Go
9 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.98%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 48 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 28 (27.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.92%) CISM
6 4 (3.92%) CISSP
6 4 (3.92%) GIAC
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) OCP
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.98%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) NCSC
2 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.92%) NIST
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) Firmware
3 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 28 (27.45%) Terraform
3 23 (22.55%) Ansible
4 18 (17.65%) Grafana
5 17 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.80%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 10 (9.80%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 9 (8.82%) Argo
8 6 (5.88%) Istio
8 6 (5.88%) linkerd
9 4 (3.92%) Sysdig
10 3 (2.94%) Puppet
10 3 (2.94%) Rancher
11 2 (1.96%) Podman
11 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.98%) Packer
12 1 (0.98%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Red Hat
2 12 (11.76%) Oracle
3 11 (10.78%) Splunk
3 11 (10.78%) VMware
4 10 (9.80%) NetIQ
5 9 (8.82%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.92%) Thales
7 2 (1.96%) Databricks
7 2 (1.96%) SAP
8 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.98%) HP
8 1 (0.98%) Tenable