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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 22 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 77 57 84
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.51% 7.26% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 8.18% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 51 70
10th Percentile £461 £418 £388
25th Percentile £500 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £725 £600 £630
90th Percentile £775 £625 £672
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.25 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £42.88 - £75.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £71.56 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.73 £60.75 £83.77
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.48% +8.18%

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 1,365 697 1,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.01% 88.79% 81.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 489 805
10th Percentile £363 £323 £389
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £592
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -7.90% +12.71%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £730 £667 £738
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.15% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 47 179
10th Percentile £12.79 £18.87 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.67 £32.94 £26.88
Median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% -12.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.21 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £77.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -18 16 £688 +14.58% 7
Portsmouth +3 15 £496 +4.47% 1
Havant -5 12 £600 -4.00%
Farnborough -12 10 £550 +7.32% 16
Andover - 9 £738 - 3
Hook 0 5 £850 +165.63%
Southampton -4 3 £718 +0.70% 10
Aldershot -1 1 £775 +47.62%
Eastleigh -8 1 £500 -
Romsey - 1 - - 3
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 6 (7.79%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Documentum
3 2 (2.60%) CMS
3 2 (2.60%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (59.74%) Azure
2 26 (33.77%) AWS
3 25 (32.47%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 10 (12.99%) GitHub
6 9 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.49%) OCI
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.90%) GCP
9 3 (3.90%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.90%) Serverless
10 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.30%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) S/MIME
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) DHCP
3 1 (1.30%) DNS
3 1 (1.30%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (9.09%) Redis
2 4 (5.19%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) GitLab
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 7 (9.09%) JIRA
4 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.60%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Back Office
6 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (16.88%) Architect
2 12 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Documentum Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Java Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Java Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) .NET
2 9 (11.69%) REST
3 7 (9.09%) Kafka
3 7 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 7 (9.09%) SailPoint
4 6 (7.79%) OAuth
5 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (6.49%) JSON
5 5 (6.49%) React
5 5 (6.49%) SAML
6 4 (5.19%) ADO
6 4 (5.19%) Middleware
6 4 (5.19%) OpenID
7 3 (3.90%) LDAP
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.90%) SOAP
7 3 (3.90%) WPF
7 3 (3.90%) YAML
8 2 (2.60%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (2.60%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
1 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
1 4 (5.19%) PKI
2 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Mixed Reality
2 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.60%) Smartcard
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.30%) FPGA
3 1 (1.30%) IoT
3 1 (1.30%) PMI
3 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.30%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Windows
2 10 (12.99%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) CentOS
3 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 36 (46.75%) Agile
3 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
4 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.88%) DevSecOps
6 12 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (14.29%) Scrum
7 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.99%) Observability
8 10 (12.99%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (11.69%) Software Delivery
10 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (9.09%) Microservices
11 7 (9.09%) RBAC
11 7 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (7.79%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.58%) Java
4 9 (11.69%) Bash
4 9 (11.69%) C#
4 9 (11.69%) SQL
5 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.79%) C++
7 3 (3.90%) X++
8 1 (1.30%) C
8 1 (1.30%) Go
8 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (48.05%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
4 9 (11.69%) Degree
5 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.90%) CISM
7 3 (3.90%) CISSP
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.60%) GIAC
9 1 (1.30%) CEH
9 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) NCSC
2 5 (6.49%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.90%) Firmware
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.38%) Terraform
3 15 (19.48%) Ansible
4 12 (15.58%) Grafana
5 11 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.09%) Argo
6 7 (9.09%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 7 (9.09%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Istio
7 4 (5.19%) linkerd
8 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.60%) Rancher
10 1 (1.30%) Nessus
10 1 (1.30%) Packer
10 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.69%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.69%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Splunk
4 7 (9.09%) NetIQ
5 3 (3.90%) Databricks
6 2 (2.60%) Thales
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) Dell
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Sparx