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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 24 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -26
Contract jobs citing DevOps 108 51 72
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.63% 7.07% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 7.85% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 48 61
10th Percentile £463 £464 £388
25th Percentile £485 £520 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £595
90th Percentile £726 £650 £656
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.66%
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 £83.63
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.36% +50.69%

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 1,314 650 1,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.66% 90.15% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 475 711
10th Percentile £350 £332 £388
25th Percentile £469 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £670 £619 £675
90th Percentile £752 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +1.99% +0.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 37 157
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £25.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -56.45% +0.70% +14.70%
75th Percentile £48.88 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £60.90 - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £45.59 £28.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +59.95% -36.67% -5.26%

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 9 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 9 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 -8 27 £650 +13.04% 4
Portsmouth +12 21 £496 +3.82% 3
Farnborough -2 16 £550 +7.32% 10
Havant -5 13 £600 -7.69%
Southampton - 5 £640 - 7
Hook - 4 £850 -
Romsey - 3 £755 - 1
Andover - 2 £613 -
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester +2 1 £550 - 1
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 -13.04% 7
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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) Apache
2 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.85%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.44%) Azure
2 41 (37.96%) AWS
3 26 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (17.59%) GitHub
5 13 (12.04%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (10.19%) OpenShift
7 9 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (6.48%) OCI
9 6 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.56%) Serverless
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.63%) GCP
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.85%) PaaS
13 2 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.70%) VPN
2 3 (2.78%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) SONET
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (10.19%) Redis
2 5 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) GitLab
2 9 (8.33%) Git
3 8 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.41%) JIRA
4 7 (6.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.70%) Gradle
6 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.78%) Maven
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.85%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.93%) Gatling
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.93%) TestNG
8 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Finance
6 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (28.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.74%) Software Engineer
3 10 (9.26%) Lead
4 8 (7.41%) Analyst
4 8 (7.41%) Developer
5 7 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (5.56%) Architect
6 6 (5.56%) Senior
7 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Test Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.78%) Windows DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
10 2 (1.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 12 (11.11%) Keycloak
2 11 (10.19%) Kafka
3 10 (9.26%) SailPoint
4 8 (7.41%) YAML
5 6 (5.56%) JSON
5 6 (5.56%) React
5 6 (5.56%) XML
6 4 (3.70%) .NET
6 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.70%) Spring
6 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.78%) REST
7 3 (2.78%) RESTful
7 3 (2.78%) WPF
8 2 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.85%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.93%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.56%) PKI
2 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.70%) Smartcard
3 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.85%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (0.93%) CAN bus
4 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.93%) FPGA
4 1 (0.93%) IoT
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) PMI
4 1 (0.93%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.00%) Linux
2 23 (21.30%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 52 (48.15%) Agile
3 22 (20.37%) Containerisation
4 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (13.89%) Observability
7 15 (13.89%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.04%) DevSecOps
8 13 (12.04%) Scrum
9 12 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.19%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (10.19%) RBAC
11 10 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (8.33%) GitOps
12 9 (8.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
12 9 (8.33%) Microservices
12 9 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
13 8 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) Python
2 19 (17.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.04%) SQL
4 12 (11.11%) Bash
5 9 (8.33%) C#
5 9 (8.33%) Java
6 7 (6.48%) C++
6 7 (6.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) C
8 1 (0.93%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 79 (73.15%) Security Cleared
2 50 (46.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) Degree
5 4 (3.70%) CISM
5 4 (3.70%) CISSP
5 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.70%) GIAC
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) OCP
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) NCSC
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (14.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.78%) Firmware
4 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (29.63%) Terraform
3 24 (22.22%) Ansible
4 22 (20.37%) Grafana
5 21 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.26%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 10 (9.26%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 9 (8.33%) Argo
8 7 (6.48%) Sysdig
9 6 (5.56%) Istio
9 6 (5.56%) linkerd
10 3 (2.78%) Puppet
10 3 (2.78%) Rancher
11 2 (1.85%) Packer
11 2 (1.85%) Podman
11 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.93%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.04%) Oracle
3 12 (11.11%) Splunk
4 11 (10.19%) VMware
5 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.26%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.70%) Thales
7 2 (1.85%) Databricks
7 2 (1.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) Tenable