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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 96 48 81
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.69% 6.43% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 7.17% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 45 68
10th Percentile £460 £421 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £607
90th Percentile £731 £625 £671
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £43.05 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.73 £60.75 £83.77
% change year-on-year +4.91% -27.48% +5.78%

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 1,325 669 1,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.54% 89.68% 81.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 485 751
10th Percentile £363 £323 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £735 £675 £743
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 38 169
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.96 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £43.13 £26.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.21 £73.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.40 £75.00 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +103.35% -45.65% -5.00%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -5 25 £700 +21.74% 4
Portsmouth +10 21 £496 +3.82% 2
Havant +4 14 £600 -4.00% 1
Farnborough -7 9 £550 +7.32% 7
Andover - 8 £725 - 4
Hook 0 5 £850 +165.63% 1
Southampton -3 5 £640 -10.18% 8
Romsey - 3 £755 - 3
Eastleigh -5 1 £500 -
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.04%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) Azure
2 33 (34.38%) AWS
3 24 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 11 (11.46%) GitHub
6 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.29%) OCI
8 6 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.21%) GCP
10 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.08%) PaaS
11 2 (2.08%) SaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Serverless
12 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) S/MIME
1 4 (4.17%) VPN
2 3 (3.13%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) Firewall
4 1 (1.04%) DHCP
4 1 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.04%) SONET
4 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (9.38%) Redis
2 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) GitLab
2 9 (9.38%) JIRA
3 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.25%) Git
5 4 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.08%) Postman
7 2 (2.08%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.08%) Finance
5 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Automotive
6 1 (1.04%) Back Office
6 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Architect
4 9 (9.38%) Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) Lead
5 6 (6.25%) Senior
6 5 (5.21%) Developer
6 5 (5.21%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Test Leader
8 3 (3.13%) Windows DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Keycloak
1 10 (10.42%) SailPoint
2 9 (9.38%) Kafka
3 8 (8.33%) JSON
4 7 (7.29%) .NET
4 7 (7.29%) YAML
5 6 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (6.25%) React
5 6 (6.25%) REST
5 6 (6.25%) XML
6 4 (4.17%) OAuth
7 3 (3.13%) SAML
7 3 (3.13%) WPF
8 2 (2.08%) LDAP
8 2 (2.08%) Middleware
8 2 (2.08%) OpenID
8 2 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (2.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (2.08%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (2.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 6 (6.25%) PKI
2 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Smartcard
3 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.08%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.04%) FPGA
4 1 (1.04%) IoT
4 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.04%) PMI
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 18 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.96%) Agile
1 47 (48.96%) CI/CD
2 21 (21.88%) Software Engineering
3 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 15 (15.63%) DevSecOps
5 15 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
7 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.54%) Observability
7 13 (13.54%) Scrum
8 11 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (10.42%) RBAC
9 10 (10.42%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (8.33%) GitOps
12 7 (7.29%) Cloud Security
12 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.00%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
3 10 (10.42%) Bash
4 9 (9.38%) Java
5 8 (8.33%) C#
5 8 (8.33%) SQL
6 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.25%) C++
8 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.04%) X++
Qualifications
1 73 (76.04%) Security Cleared
2 46 (47.92%) SC Cleared
3 27 (28.13%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.33%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) CISM
5 5 (5.21%) CISSP
5 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.17%) GIAC
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CEH
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) OCP
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) NCSC
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.17%) NIST
4 3 (3.13%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.13%) Firmware
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (22.92%) Terraform
3 20 (20.83%) Ansible
4 15 (15.63%) Grafana
5 14 (14.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.42%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 10 (10.42%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 9 (9.38%) Argo
8 5 (5.21%) Istio
8 5 (5.21%) linkerd
9 3 (3.13%) Rancher
10 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.08%) Podman
10 2 (2.08%) Puppet
11 1 (1.04%) Data Guard
11 1 (1.04%) Nessus
11 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.04%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) Oracle
2 11 (11.46%) VMware
3 10 (10.42%) NetIQ
3 10 (10.42%) Splunk
4 4 (4.17%) Thales
5 3 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.04%) Dell
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Sparx
6 1 (1.04%) Tenable