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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 87 69 102
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.16% 6.66% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 8.06% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 62 84
10th Percentile £417 £463 £454
25th Percentile £456 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £526
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.26% -4.32%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £638 £688 £671
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.88
25th Percentile £56.75 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £60.25 - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £82.50 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +36.34%

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 1,038 856 1,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.43% 82.63% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 574 633
10th Percentile £308 £360 £311
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £640
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £524
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 62 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.10 £21.20
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +23.25% +12.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.69 £62.81
90th Percentile £49.00 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £53.00
% change year-on-year -61.23% +7.07% +21.84%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -6 19 £600 +2.56% 17
Havant -3 15 £500 -18.37%
Farnborough +1 14 £538 +22.86% 4
Portsmouth +9 13 £435 -8.42% 4
Southampton 0 6 £450 -20.88% 7
Gosport +3 2 - -
Fleet - 1 £465 -
Winchester - 1 £550 -
Andover - 1 £450 -
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 (10.34%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.45%) Documentum
4 3 (3.45%) IIS
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.30%) Confluence
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.30%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.30%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.63%) Azure
2 25 (28.74%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (22.99%) GitHub
4 17 (19.54%) AWS
5 13 (14.94%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.20%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (8.05%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (8.05%) OCI
8 6 (6.90%) Serverless
9 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.75%) SaaS
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.45%) Miro
11 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 3 (3.45%) SMTP
3 2 (2.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.15%) Firewall
4 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
4 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.05%) Redis
3 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.45%) Power BI
5 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Big Data
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.15%) Metadata
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) Parquet
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) JIRA
2 14 (16.09%) Git
3 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
4 12 (13.79%) GitLab
5 7 (8.05%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.60%) Gradle
6 4 (4.60%) Maven
6 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.45%) MSI
7 3 (3.45%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (2.30%) Poetry
8 2 (2.30%) Selenium
9 1 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.15%) Gatling
9 1 (1.15%) MLflow
9 1 (1.15%) Postman
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.79%) Developer
3 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 8 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Architect
6 5 (5.75%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
6 5 (5.75%) Test Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Java Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.39%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (10.34%) Kafka
2 9 (10.34%) RESTful
2 9 (10.34%) YAML
3 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.05%) Keycloak
4 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.60%) Spring
6 3 (3.45%) .NET
6 3 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.45%) ADO
6 3 (3.45%) Middleware
6 3 (3.45%) React
7 2 (2.30%) Node.js
7 2 (2.30%) REST
8 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.15%) NumPy
8 1 (1.15%) Swagger
8 1 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) CAN bus
1 6 (6.90%) PKI
2 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.15%) Life Science
4 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.18%) Linux
2 21 (24.14%) Windows
3 8 (9.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.45%) CentOS
6 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.30%) VMS
8 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.72%) Agile
2 35 (40.23%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
4 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (14.94%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 12 (13.79%) Scrum
8 11 (12.64%) Configuration Management
8 11 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (11.49%) Observability
9 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.20%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (8.05%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (8.05%) Microservices
12 7 (8.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (6.90%) Project Management
13 6 (6.90%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) Python
2 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 11 (12.64%) Bash
3 11 (12.64%) SQL
4 10 (11.49%) C#
4 10 (11.49%) Java
5 6 (6.90%) C++
5 6 (6.90%) Embedded C++
6 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.45%) PHP
7 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) Bicep
8 1 (1.15%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) Groovy
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
8 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (56.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 21 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) OCP
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.15%) GxP
2 1 (1.15%) NCSC
2 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Docker
2 8 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (35.63%) Kubernetes
2 30 (34.48%) Ansible
3 29 (33.33%) Terraform
4 17 (19.54%) Grafana
4 17 (19.54%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.05%) Sysdig
6 6 (6.90%) Packer
7 4 (4.60%) Rsyslog
7 4 (4.60%) SCOM
8 3 (3.45%) Cilium
8 3 (3.45%) HP ALM
8 3 (3.45%) Puppet
8 3 (3.45%) WMI
9 2 (2.30%) Argo
9 2 (2.30%) Istio
9 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.15%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.15%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Oracle
2 11 (12.64%) Red Hat
3 10 (11.49%) VMware
4 8 (9.20%) Splunk
5 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.45%) HP
6 3 (3.45%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.30%) SAP
8 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.15%) Databricks
8 1 (1.15%) Google
8 1 (1.15%) Micro Focus