DevOps Contracts in Hampshire

DevOps
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 37 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 -19
Contract jobs citing DevOps 61 85 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.18% 4.82% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 5.89% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 71
10th Percentile £418 £388 £425
25th Percentile £481 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £568 £590
% change year-on-year -11.89% -3.81% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
South East median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £75.67
% change year-on-year -27.48% +10.70% +116.20%

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 736 1,442 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.69% 81.79% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 814 707
10th Percentile £325 £377 £241
25th Percentile £463 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £661 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 168 104
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.78 £15.50
25th Percentile £32.10 £26.19 £21.18
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +89.62%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 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 +20 23 £600 - 64
Havant -1 10 £575 -1.12% 6
Portsmouth - 10 £435 - 87
Fleet - 5 £402 - 7
Farnborough +2 4 £513 -6.82% 20
Eastleigh -1 2 £500 +11.11% 4
Hook +2 1 £320 -44.83% 1
Southampton +1 1 £713 +58.33% 105
Aldershot +1 1 £525 - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (16.39%) Apache
3 4 (6.56%) IIS
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 2 (3.28%) JBoss
5 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) AWS
3 16 (26.23%) OpenShift
4 11 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.75%) GCP
6 8 (13.11%) IaaS
6 8 (13.11%) PaaS
7 6 (9.84%) GitHub
7 6 (9.84%) Serverless
8 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.92%) SaaS
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
1 12 (19.67%) SMTP
2 10 (16.39%) Firewall
3 8 (13.11%) DHCP
3 8 (13.11%) VPN
4 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (16.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (13.11%) Big Data
3 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.20%) Redis
6 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.28%) MySQL
8 2 (3.28%) Power BI
8 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) JIRA
2 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (6.56%) MSI
4 4 (6.56%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.28%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (3.28%) Git
5 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (1.64%) Snyk
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Automotive
5 1 (1.64%) Police
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Lead
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior
8 4 (6.56%) Active Directory Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) YAML
2 8 (13.11%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (13.11%) Kafka
3 5 (8.20%) Keycloak
4 4 (6.56%) React
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) Middleware
5 3 (4.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.28%) Vue
7 1 (1.64%) .NET
7 1 (1.64%) ADO
7 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.64%) OAuth
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.64%) REST
7 1 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) PKI
2 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.11%) Clustering
4 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (44.26%) Linux
2 20 (32.79%) Windows
3 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
4 9 (14.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.84%) CentOS
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Agile
2 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
3 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
4 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (19.67%) Test Automation
5 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (14.75%) Scrum
6 8 (13.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (13.11%) Machine Learning
6 8 (13.11%) Prototyping
6 8 (13.11%) Software Deployment
7 7 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (9.84%) Batch Scripting
8 6 (9.84%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (9.84%) Web Development
9 5 (8.20%) Change Management
9 5 (8.20%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) PowerShell
2 12 (19.67%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) Bash
4 8 (13.11%) SQL
5 6 (9.84%) PHP
6 4 (6.56%) Java
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) Ruby
7 3 (4.92%) Scala
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
8 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (54.10%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.70%) DV Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) Degree
4 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.28%) CISSP
8 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 22 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 18 (29.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (26.23%) Docker
4 8 (13.11%) BitLocker
4 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
4 8 (13.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (13.11%) Terminal Services
4 8 (13.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (45.90%) Ansible
2 24 (39.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (22.95%) Terraform
4 9 (14.75%) Puppet
5 8 (13.11%) Nagios
5 8 (13.11%) vCenter Server
5 8 (13.11%) vMotion
6 5 (8.20%) Grafana
6 5 (8.20%) Packer
6 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
7 4 (6.56%) WMI
8 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.28%) HP ALM
9 2 (3.28%) Kibana
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
1 18 (29.51%) VMware
2 10 (16.39%) HP
3 8 (13.11%) Citrix
3 8 (13.11%) Google
3 8 (13.11%) Red Hat
3 8 (13.11%) Symantec
4 7 (11.48%) Splunk
5 6 (9.84%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow