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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 93 80 81
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.79% 8.26% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 9.55% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 63 70
10th Percentile £502 £402 £424
25th Percentile £521 £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £655
90th Percentile £750 £625 £688
South East median daily rate £537 £500 £585
% change year-on-year +7.40% -14.53% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £37.24 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
75th Percentile £94.84 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £68.11 - £87.46
% change year-on-year - - +15.58%

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 1,533 838 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.94% 86.48% 78.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 566 667
10th Percentile £363 £313 £362
25th Percentile £473 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £650 £718
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 85 98
10th Percentile £13.45 - £25.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.87 £52.73
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +4.27%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.02 £61.35 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £20.73 £57.35
% change year-on-year +148.43% -63.85% +8.21%

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 20 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

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 20 September 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 -20 23 £593 -1.25% 23
Southampton +8 16 £575 -1.08% 18
Portsmouth -5 16 £549 +26.21% 8
Farnborough -14 10 - - 19
Havant -8 9 £638 +21.43% 5
Andover - 7 £750 - 1
Hook -2 1 £510 +59.38%
Eastleigh -8 1 £500 -
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Romsey - 1 - - 9
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 14 (15.05%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) Documentum
3 2 (2.15%) CMS
3 2 (2.15%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.08%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (72.04%) Azure
2 44 (47.31%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (30.11%) AWS
4 11 (11.83%) GitHub
5 10 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.45%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.45%) Serverless
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Batch
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.23%) GCP
11 2 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) DHCP
2 1 (1.08%) DNS
2 1 (1.08%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (21.51%) GitLab
2 16 (17.20%) JIRA
3 14 (15.05%) Git
4 10 (10.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.08%) JUnit
7 1 (1.08%) MLflow
7 1 (1.08%) Mockito
7 1 (1.08%) Postman
7 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.15%) Finance
5 1 (1.08%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Architect
2 14 (15.05%) Developer
3 7 (7.53%) Analyst
3 7 (7.53%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (7.53%) Principal Architect
4 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 6 (6.45%) Documentum Architect
4 6 (6.45%) Java Architect
4 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Developer
4 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Documentum Developer
5 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (5.38%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.38%) Lead
5 5 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.30%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) DevOps Architect
6 4 (4.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.58%) Terraform
2 12 (12.90%) .NET
3 11 (11.83%) REST
4 8 (8.60%) ADO
5 7 (7.53%) Middleware
6 6 (6.45%) Kafka
6 6 (6.45%) OAuth
7 5 (5.38%) SAML
8 4 (4.30%) OpenID
9 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.23%) JSON
9 3 (3.23%) LDAP
9 3 (3.23%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.23%) SOAP
10 2 (2.15%) SailPoint
10 2 (2.15%) Web Services
11 1 (1.08%) CSS3
11 1 (1.08%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.08%) HTML5
11 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.60%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Linux
2 15 (16.13%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.30%) CentOS
4 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (63.44%) CI/CD
2 47 (50.54%) Agile
3 28 (30.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (23.66%) DevSecOps
5 22 (23.66%) Software Delivery
6 20 (21.51%) Scrum
7 19 (20.43%) Containerisation
7 19 (20.43%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (20.43%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (16.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
8 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.90%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (10.75%) Configuration Management
12 10 (10.75%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.75%) Security Architecture
13 9 (9.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) Python
2 14 (15.05%) Bash
3 12 (12.90%) Java
3 12 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.75%) C#
5 9 (9.68%) SQL
6 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.38%) Bicep
8 4 (4.30%) Scala
8 4 (4.30%) X++
9 3 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 62 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.26%) DV Cleared
2 30 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.13%) Degree
4 7 (7.53%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.23%) CISM
6 3 (3.23%) CISSP
6 3 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.15%) GIAC
7 2 (2.15%) OSCP
8 1 (1.08%) CEH
8 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) PMO
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) NCSC
4 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.15%) NIST
4 2 (2.15%) QA
5 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (22.58%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (27.96%) Kubernetes
2 18 (19.35%) Ansible
3 5 (5.38%) Grafana
3 5 (5.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.15%) Argo
5 2 (2.15%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 2 (2.15%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 1 (1.08%) Rancher
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.60%) Databricks
3 6 (6.45%) VMware
4 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.23%) Google
6 2 (2.15%) NetIQ
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle
6 2 (2.15%) Qualys
6 2 (2.15%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 2 (2.15%) Tenable
7 1 (1.08%) Dell
7 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Sparx