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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 94 78 80
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.85% 8.15% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 9.44% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 63 69
10th Percentile £500 £402 £423
25th Percentile £513 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £669 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £625 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% -2.08%
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 £67.50 - £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 1,536 826 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.18% 86.31% 79.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 569 678
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £475 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £651 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 79 108
10th Percentile £13.45 - £25.05
25th Percentile £16.38 £18.87 £53.18
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 £73.25 £64.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £20.40 £57.35
% change year-on-year +156.99% -64.43% +9.24%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 21 £583 -2.92% 21
Portsmouth -3 19 £554 +27.24% 7
Southampton +9 15 £575 -19.30% 31
Farnborough -14 11 £488 -4.88% 20
Havant -9 9 £638 +21.43% 4
Andover - 7 £750 - 1
Hook -2 1 £510 +59.38%
Eastleigh -7 1 £500 - 1
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Romsey - 1 - - 6
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 (14.89%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Documentum
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 2 (2.13%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (71.28%) Azure
2 42 (44.68%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (32.98%) AWS
4 11 (11.70%) GitHub
5 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.38%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.38%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.38%) Serverless
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Batch
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.19%) GCP
11 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) GitLab
2 16 (17.02%) JIRA
3 12 (12.77%) Git
4 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.06%) JUnit
7 1 (1.06%) MLflow
7 1 (1.06%) Mockito
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.38%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (1.06%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Architect
2 15 (15.96%) Developer
3 7 (7.45%) Analyst
3 7 (7.45%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (7.45%) Lead
3 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (7.45%) Principal Architect
4 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Documentum Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Java Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Developer
4 6 (6.38%) Technical Leader
5 5 (5.32%) Documentum Developer
5 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (5.32%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.26%) DevOps Architect
6 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) Terraform
2 15 (15.96%) .NET
3 11 (11.70%) REST
4 8 (8.51%) ADO
5 7 (7.45%) Middleware
6 6 (6.38%) Kafka
6 6 (6.38%) OAuth
7 5 (5.32%) SAML
8 4 (4.26%) OpenID
8 4 (4.26%) React
9 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.19%) JSON
9 3 (3.19%) LDAP
9 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.19%) SOAP
10 2 (2.13%) SailPoint
10 2 (2.13%) Web Services
11 1 (1.06%) CSS3
11 1 (1.06%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Windows
3 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.13%) CentOS
4 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 50 (53.19%) Agile
3 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (24.47%) DevSecOps
5 23 (24.47%) Scrum
6 22 (23.40%) Software Delivery
7 21 (22.34%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (19.15%) Sprint Planning
10 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
11 15 (15.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
11 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
14 10 (10.64%) Security Architecture
15 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning
15 9 (9.57%) Microservices
15 9 (9.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.47%) Python
2 15 (15.96%) Java
3 13 (13.83%) C#
4 12 (12.77%) Bash
4 12 (12.77%) PowerShell
4 12 (12.77%) SQL
5 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) Bicep
7 4 (4.26%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) Scala
7 4 (4.26%) X++
8 3 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 63 (67.02%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 28 (29.79%) DV Cleared
4 15 (15.96%) Degree
5 7 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.19%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.13%) CISM
8 2 (2.13%) CISSP
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) GIAC
9 1 (1.06%) OSCP
9 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) PMO
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.19%) NCSC
4 2 (2.13%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.02%) Ansible
3 5 (5.32%) Grafana
3 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.13%) Argo
5 2 (2.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 2 (2.13%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 1 (1.06%) Rancher
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Databricks
3 6 (6.38%) VMware
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.19%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) NetIQ
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle
6 2 (2.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.06%) Qualys
7 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Sparx
7 1 (1.06%) Tenable