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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 24 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing DevOps 104 50 72
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.31% 6.81% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% 7.54% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 47 61
10th Percentile £461 £463 £388
25th Percentile £496 £516 £438
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 £635 £656
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -4.80%
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 £83.77
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.48% +50.93%

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 1,313 663 1,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.72% 90.33% 84.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 480 721
10th Percentile £350 £325 £388
25th Percentile £468 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £618 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +0.10% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 39 157
10th Percentile £12.91 £20.09 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.06 £30.63 £25.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +0.70% +14.70%
75th Percentile £49.16 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £60.90 - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -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 16 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 16 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 -9 26 £675 +17.39% 3
Portsmouth +13 21 £496 +3.82% 6
Farnborough -5 16 £550 +7.32% 12
Havant -4 13 £600 -7.69%
Southampton - 5 £640 - 3
Hook - 4 £850 - 1
Romsey - 3 £755 - 4
Andover - 2 £613 - 2
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester +2 1 £550 - 1
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 -13.04% 2
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 (4.81%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.92%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.15%) Azure
2 39 (37.50%) AWS
3 26 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (16.35%) GitHub
5 11 (10.58%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (10.58%) OpenShift
6 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.73%) OCI
8 6 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.77%) Serverless
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.81%) GCP
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.92%) PaaS
12 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.85%) VPN
2 3 (2.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) Internet
3 1 (0.96%) SONET
3 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (10.58%) Redis
2 5 (4.81%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.88%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) GitLab
2 8 (7.69%) Git
3 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.73%) JIRA
4 5 (4.81%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.85%) Gradle
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.88%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.92%) Postman
7 2 (1.92%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.96%) Gatling
8 1 (0.96%) Selenium
8 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.96%) TestNG
8 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Finance
6 3 (2.88%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Automotive
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (28.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Lead
4 8 (7.69%) Analyst
4 8 (7.69%) Developer
5 6 (5.77%) Architect
5 6 (5.77%) Senior
6 5 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.88%) Windows DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) Keycloak
2 11 (10.58%) Kafka
3 10 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (9.62%) SailPoint
4 8 (7.69%) YAML
5 6 (5.77%) JSON
5 6 (5.77%) React
5 6 (5.77%) XML
6 4 (3.85%) .NET
6 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.85%) Spring
6 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.88%) REST
7 3 (2.88%) RESTful
7 3 (2.88%) WPF
8 2 (1.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.92%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.92%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.96%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.96%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.77%) PKI
2 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.85%) Smartcard
3 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.92%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.96%) FPGA
4 1 (0.96%) IoT
4 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.96%) PMI
4 1 (0.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.08%) Linux
2 21 (20.19%) Windows
3 4 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.92%) CentOS
6 1 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.04%) CI/CD
2 50 (48.08%) Agile
3 22 (21.15%) Containerisation
4 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (18.27%) Software Engineering
6 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (14.42%) Observability
7 15 (14.42%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 13 (12.50%) Scrum
9 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.58%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (10.58%) RBAC
11 9 (8.65%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.65%) GitOps
11 9 (8.65%) Microservices
11 9 (8.65%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.04%) Python
2 19 (18.27%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.50%) SQL
4 12 (11.54%) Bash
5 9 (8.65%) Java
6 8 (7.69%) C#
7 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.77%) C++
9 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) Go
10 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (72.12%) Security Cleared
2 47 (45.19%) SC Cleared
3 29 (27.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) Degree
5 4 (3.85%) CISM
5 4 (3.85%) CISSP
5 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) GIAC
6 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) OCP
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) NCSC
2 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (2.88%) QA
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Docker
2 5 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.88%) Firmware
4 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 30 (28.85%) Terraform
3 24 (23.08%) Ansible
4 20 (19.23%) Grafana
5 19 (18.27%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.62%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 10 (9.62%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 9 (8.65%) Argo
8 6 (5.77%) Istio
8 6 (5.77%) linkerd
9 5 (4.81%) Sysdig
10 3 (2.88%) Puppet
10 3 (2.88%) Rancher
11 2 (1.92%) Packer
11 2 (1.92%) Podman
11 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.96%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.96%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.96%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.50%) Oracle
3 12 (11.54%) Splunk
4 11 (10.58%) VMware
5 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.62%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.85%) Thales
7 2 (1.92%) Databricks
7 2 (1.92%) SAP
8 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.96%) HP
8 1 (0.96%) Tenable