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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 90 50 82
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.39% 6.54% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 7.32% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 44 68
10th Percentile £461 £416 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £607
90th Percentile £726 £625 £661
South East median daily rate £523 £500 £558
% change year-on-year +4.50% -10.31% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £43.05 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.73 £60.75 £83.77
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.48% +8.18%

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 1,321 683 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.15% 89.40% 81.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 486 767
10th Percentile £363 £315 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £592
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -7.48% +12.71%
75th Percentile £648 £624 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £740
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 38 168
10th Percentile £12.74 £20.96 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £44.38 £25.84
Median hourly rate £39.13 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.96% +0.26% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.21 £73.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £78.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year +88.31% -41.31% -9.18%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -9 24 £650 +8.33% 3
Portsmouth +11 19 £496 +3.82% 2
Havant +3 12 £588 -6.00% 1
Farnborough -8 9 £550 +7.32% 9
Andover - 9 £738 - 2
Hook 0 5 £850 +165.63% 1
Southampton -3 5 £640 -10.18% 8
Eastleigh -5 1 £500 -
Romsey - 1 - - 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 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.11%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.11%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.22%) Azure
2 30 (33.33%) AWS
3 22 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) OpenShift
5 10 (11.11%) GitHub
6 9 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.78%) OCI
8 6 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.44%) GCP
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.22%) PaaS
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.11%) Boomi
12 1 (1.11%) IaaS
12 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) S/MIME
1 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 3 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.22%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) DNS
4 1 (1.11%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (7.78%) Redis
2 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) GitLab
2 9 (10.00%) JIRA
3 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.56%) Git
5 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.22%) Postman
7 2 (2.22%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.22%) Finance
6 1 (1.11%) Automotive
6 1 (1.11%) Back Office
6 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) Architect
4 9 (10.00%) Analyst
5 6 (6.67%) Lead
6 5 (5.56%) Developer
6 5 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Senior
6 5 (5.56%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Test Leader
8 3 (3.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) JSON
1 9 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 8 (8.89%) .NET
3 7 (7.78%) Kafka
3 7 (7.78%) Keycloak
3 7 (7.78%) REST
3 7 (7.78%) YAML
4 6 (6.67%) React
4 6 (6.67%) XML
5 5 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.56%) OAuth
6 4 (4.44%) SAML
7 3 (3.33%) LDAP
7 3 (3.33%) OpenID
7 3 (3.33%) SOAP
7 3 (3.33%) WPF
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (2.22%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 6 (6.67%) PKI
2 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.44%) Smartcard
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Mixed Reality
4 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) FPGA
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) PMI
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Windows
2 16 (17.78%) Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.22%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 44 (48.89%) Agile
3 21 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (14.44%) DevSecOps
6 13 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.22%) Observability
7 11 (12.22%) Scrum
8 10 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (10.00%) RBAC
10 7 (7.78%) Cloud Security
10 7 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) Python
2 17 (18.89%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.11%) Java
4 9 (10.00%) Bash
5 8 (8.89%) C#
5 8 (8.89%) SQL
6 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.67%) C++
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 69 (76.67%) Security Cleared
2 43 (47.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) Degree
5 5 (5.56%) CISM
5 5 (5.56%) CISSP
5 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.44%) GIAC
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CEH
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.11%) OCP
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) NCSC
2 6 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) Firmware
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.00%) Terraform
3 16 (17.78%) Ansible
4 12 (13.33%) Grafana
5 11 (12.22%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 9 (10.00%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 7 (7.78%) Argo
8 4 (4.44%) Istio
8 4 (4.44%) linkerd
9 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.22%) Rancher
11 1 (1.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (1.11%) Nessus
11 1 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (1.11%) Packer
11 1 (1.11%) Podman
11 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Red Hat
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.00%) NetIQ
3 9 (10.00%) Oracle
3 9 (10.00%) VMware
4 8 (8.89%) Splunk
5 4 (4.44%) Thales
6 3 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.11%) Dell
7 1 (1.11%) HP
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) Sparx