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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 111 59 87
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 8.28% 7.41% 6.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 8.58% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 52 75
10th Percentile £416 £490 £431
25th Percentile £475 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £674 £618 £610
90th Percentile £726 £686 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - £60.31
90th Percentile £53.35 - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +26.12%

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 1,121 688 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.66% 86.43% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 491 609
10th Percentile £311 £356 £357
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £665
90th Percentile £726 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 38 97
10th Percentile £15.65 £20.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £27.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £59.44
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -41.12% +40.14%
75th Percentile £25.15 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £49.75 £69.50 £77.70
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.88% -22.73% +22.22%

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 January 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 January 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 -4 29 £600 +2.56% 13
Portsmouth +11 18 £458 -3.68% 12
Farnborough +4 17 £550 +15.79% 9
Havant -9 11 £525 -12.50%
Southampton +2 9 £640 +12.53% 6
Romsey -5 3 £755 -3.21% 3
Hook - 3 £850 -
Gosport +4 2 - -
Andover - 2 £475 - 2
Winchester -2 1 £550 - 1
Fleet - 1 £465 -
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 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Documentum
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.80%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.80%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.74%) Azure
2 34 (30.63%) AWS
3 26 (23.42%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (18.92%) GitHub
5 13 (11.71%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (10.81%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (6.31%) GCP
10 6 (5.41%) OCI
11 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.50%) Serverless
12 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.70%) SaaS
14 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.60%) VPN
2 3 (2.70%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.90%) Internet
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.11%) Redis
2 5 (4.50%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.70%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.90%) Metadata
5 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) GitLab
2 16 (14.41%) Git
3 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.91%) JIRA
5 7 (6.31%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.60%) Gradle
6 4 (3.60%) Maven
7 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.80%) Postman
8 2 (1.80%) Selenium
8 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.90%) Gatling
9 1 (0.90%) JUnit
9 1 (0.90%) Poetry
9 1 (0.90%) Pylint
General
1 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.50%) Aerospace
3 5 (4.50%) Finance
4 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Banking
5 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.22%) Software Engineer
3 10 (9.01%) Developer
4 9 (8.11%) Senior
5 8 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (7.21%) Lead
6 7 (6.31%) Architect
7 6 (5.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.70%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (2.70%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (9.91%) Kafka
3 10 (9.01%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.21%) RESTful
4 8 (7.21%) YAML
5 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.41%) JSON
5 6 (5.41%) XML
6 5 (4.50%) REST
6 5 (4.50%) SailPoint
6 5 (4.50%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.60%) Spring
8 2 (1.80%) .NET
8 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.80%) ADO
8 2 (1.80%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.80%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.80%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.80%) WPF
9 1 (0.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) CAN bus
2 5 (4.50%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.60%) PKI
3 4 (3.60%) Smartcard
4 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.90%) FPGA
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.03%) Linux
2 29 (26.13%) Windows
3 11 (9.91%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) Agile
2 45 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 24 (21.62%) Containerisation
4 21 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.02%) Software Engineering
6 14 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (12.61%) Observability
6 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.81%) Configuration Management
9 11 (9.91%) Project Management
10 10 (9.01%) DevSecOps
11 9 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (8.11%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 9 (8.11%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (7.21%) RBAC
12 8 (7.21%) Root Cause Analysis
13 7 (6.31%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) Python
2 12 (10.81%) Bash
2 12 (10.81%) C#
2 12 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.91%) SQL
4 10 (9.01%) Java
5 9 (8.11%) C++
6 6 (5.41%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (73.87%) Security Cleared
2 50 (45.05%) SC Cleared
3 33 (29.73%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) CISM
5 4 (3.60%) CISSP
5 4 (3.60%) GIAC
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) OCP
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) QA
2 5 (4.50%) NCSC
3 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.90%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (16.22%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.70%) Firmware
3 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 32 (28.83%) Terraform
3 27 (24.32%) Ansible
4 21 (18.92%) Grafana
4 21 (18.92%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.31%) Argo
5 7 (6.31%) Sysdig
6 6 (5.41%) Istio
6 6 (5.41%) linkerd
7 5 (4.50%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 5 (4.50%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Puppet
8 3 (2.70%) Podman
8 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.80%) Packer
10 1 (0.90%) Cilium
10 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.90%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.90%) Rancher
10 1 (0.90%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
3 10 (9.01%) Splunk
3 10 (9.01%) VMware
4 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.50%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.60%) Thales
7 2 (1.80%) SAP
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) Google
8 1 (0.90%) HP
8 1 (0.90%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.90%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.90%) Tenable