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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 91 67 103
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.98% 6.10% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 7.55% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 59 86
10th Percentile £408 £454 £456
25th Percentile £450 £523 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% -3.18%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £625
90th Percentile £615 £688 £669
South East median daily rate £513 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -12.77% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.88
25th Percentile £56.75 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £60.25 - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £61.63
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +33.34%

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 986 887 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.49% 80.78% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 590 646
10th Percentile £311 £360 £300
25th Percentile £418 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.61% +2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 61 87
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £15.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.15
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.52 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.00% +9.56% +20.03%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 +4 22 £600 +4.35% 11
Havant -5 16 £525 -10.64% 2
Portsmouth +11 14 £435 -8.42% 6
Farnborough -2 10 £525 -21.88% 6
Southampton -1 6 £450 -20.88% 8
Fleet - 4 £426 -
Gosport +4 2 - -
Winchester - 1 £550 - 4
Andover - 1 £450 - 1
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 10 (10.99%) Apache
2 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.40%) IIS
3 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.30%) Documentum
5 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.20%) Confluence
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) Azure
2 24 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.88%) GitHub
4 18 (19.78%) AWS
5 13 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 10 (10.99%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.69%) OCI
8 7 (7.69%) Serverless
9 6 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.49%) SaaS
11 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.30%) GCP
12 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) SMTP
3 2 (2.20%) SSL
4 1 (1.10%) Firewall
4 1 (1.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.10%) SSH
4 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.69%) Redis
3 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.30%) Power BI
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.10%) Big Data
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
1 15 (16.48%) JIRA
2 11 (12.09%) Git
2 11 (12.09%) GitLab
3 7 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.40%) MSI
5 4 (4.40%) Robot Framework
5 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.20%) Gradle
6 2 (2.20%) Maven
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.20%) Poetry
6 2 (2.20%) Selenium
7 1 (1.10%) Gatling
7 1 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (1.10%) Postman
7 1 (1.10%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Finance
4 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.09%) Developer
3 10 (10.99%) Lead
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
4 8 (8.79%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (13.19%) Kafka
3 10 (10.99%) YAML
4 8 (8.79%) RESTful
5 7 (7.69%) Keycloak
6 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.40%) React
8 3 (3.30%) .NET
8 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.30%) ADO
8 3 (3.30%) Middleware
8 3 (3.30%) Node.js
8 3 (3.30%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.20%) REST
9 2 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (2.20%) Spring
9 2 (2.20%) Vue
10 1 (1.10%) ONNX
10 1 (1.10%) PySpark
10 1 (1.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) PKI
2 6 (6.59%) CAN bus
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Life Science
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.16%) Linux
2 23 (25.27%) Windows
3 8 (8.79%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.49%) CentOS
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.20%) VMS
8 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.27%) Containerisation
4 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.29%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (13.19%) Scrum
7 10 (10.99%) Configuration Management
7 10 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
8 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.89%) Observability
8 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
9 8 (8.79%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.79%) Prototyping
10 7 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.59%) Project Management
11 6 (6.59%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.59%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) Python
2 14 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.29%) SQL
4 11 (12.09%) Java
5 10 (10.99%) Bash
5 10 (10.99%) C#
6 6 (6.59%) C++
6 6 (6.59%) Embedded C++
7 5 (5.49%) PHP
8 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.30%) Scala
10 2 (2.20%) Ruby
11 1 (1.10%) Bicep
11 1 (1.10%) Go
11 1 (1.10%) Groovy
11 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 24 (26.37%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Degree
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) OCP
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.10%) GxP
3 1 (1.10%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (19.78%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.89%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (35.16%) Kubernetes
2 30 (32.97%) Ansible
3 27 (29.67%) Terraform
4 16 (17.58%) Grafana
4 16 (17.58%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.69%) Sysdig
6 6 (6.59%) Packer
7 4 (4.40%) Rsyslog
7 4 (4.40%) SCOM
7 4 (4.40%) WMI
8 3 (3.30%) Cilium
8 3 (3.30%) HP ALM
9 2 (2.20%) Argo
9 2 (2.20%) Istio
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.20%) Puppet
10 1 (1.10%) Podman
10 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Oracle
2 12 (13.19%) VMware
3 11 (12.09%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.69%) Splunk
5 3 (3.30%) HP
5 3 (3.30%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Micro Focus