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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 108 63 99
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 8.18% 6.93% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.85% 8.20% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 56 82
10th Percentile £416 £500 £434
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £526
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.26% -4.32%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £629
90th Percentile £725 £688 £670
South East median daily rate £516 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.00% +4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 £54.50 - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £53.00 - £76.10
% change year-on-year - - +37.12%

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 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -2 26 £600 +2.56% 40
Portsmouth +8 19 £435 -8.42% 27
Havant -5 16 £556 -8.25%
Farnborough +1 15 £538 +13.16% 3
Southampton +3 8 £450 -20.88% 33
Gosport +4 2 - -
Romsey -4 2 £755 -3.21% 1
Winchester - 1 £550 - 3
Andover - 1 £450 -
Fleet - 1 £465 -
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 8 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.78%) Documentum
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.85%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.85%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.74%) Azure
2 31 (28.70%) AWS
3 29 (26.85%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (21.30%) GitHub
5 15 (13.89%) OpenShift
6 12 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.33%) OCI
9 8 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (6.48%) GCP
10 7 (6.48%) SaaS
11 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.63%) Serverless
13 4 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) DNS
1 2 (1.85%) S/MIME
1 2 (1.85%) SSL
1 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.85%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.26%) Redis
3 5 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (4.63%) Power BI
4 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) Parquet
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.52%) GitLab
2 16 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.81%) JIRA
3 15 (13.89%) Git
4 7 (6.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.70%) Gradle
5 4 (3.70%) Maven
5 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.85%) Poetry
7 2 (1.85%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) Selenium
7 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) Gatling
8 1 (0.93%) MLflow
8 1 (0.93%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.93%) Pylint
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.63%) Finance
4 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Banking
5 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 11 (10.19%) Lead
4 10 (9.26%) Developer
5 8 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Senior
7 5 (4.63%) Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Architect
7 5 (4.63%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Test Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.78%) Java Architect
9 3 (2.78%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (11.11%) Kafka
3 11 (10.19%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.41%) RESTful
4 8 (7.41%) YAML
5 6 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.63%) JSON
6 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.63%) XML
7 4 (3.70%) Spring
8 3 (2.78%) REST
8 3 (2.78%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.85%) .NET
9 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.85%) ADO
9 2 (1.85%) React
10 1 (0.93%) ONNX
10 1 (0.93%) PySpark
10 1 (0.93%) Swagger
10 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) CAN bus
2 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.78%) PKI
2 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.85%) Smartcard
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.63%) Linux
2 27 (25.00%) Windows
3 11 (10.19%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.85%) VMS
7 1 (0.93%) CentOS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.30%) Agile
2 41 (37.96%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 22 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 15 (13.89%) Observability
7 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.11%) Configuration Management
9 11 (10.19%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.19%) Project Management
9 11 (10.19%) Scrum
10 10 (9.26%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 9 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (7.41%) DevSecOps
12 8 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (7.41%) Test Automation
13 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (6.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.30%) Python
2 14 (12.96%) Bash
3 12 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.19%) C#
4 11 (10.19%) Java
4 11 (10.19%) SQL
5 6 (5.56%) C++
5 6 (5.56%) Embedded C++
6 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (68.52%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.59%) SC Cleared
3 30 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Degree
5 2 (1.85%) CISM
5 2 (1.85%) CISSP
5 2 (1.85%) GIAC
5 2 (1.85%) OCP
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) NCSC
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) GxP
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (18.52%) Docker
2 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (32.41%) Terraform
3 33 (30.56%) Ansible
4 21 (19.44%) Grafana
4 21 (19.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.41%) Argo
6 7 (6.48%) Istio
6 7 (6.48%) Sysdig
7 6 (5.56%) linkerd
8 5 (4.63%) Puppet
9 4 (3.70%) HP ALM
9 4 (3.70%) Rsyslog
9 4 (3.70%) SCOM
10 3 (2.78%) Cilium
10 3 (2.78%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 3 (2.78%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 3 (2.78%) Packer
10 3 (2.78%) Podman
10 3 (2.78%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Red Hat
2 16 (14.81%) Oracle
3 11 (10.19%) Splunk
3 11 (10.19%) VMware
4 5 (4.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.70%) HP
6 3 (2.78%) NetIQ
6 3 (2.78%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.85%) SAP
7 2 (1.85%) Thales
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) Databricks
8 1 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.93%) Tenable