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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 89 67 104
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 8.24% 5.97% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 7.43% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 59 86
10th Percentile £402 £425 £456
25th Percentile £450 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £661 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £669
South East median daily rate £513 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.87% - +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 - - +26.12%

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 933 902 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.39% 80.32% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 595 649
10th Percentile £311 £360 £280
25th Percentile £443 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.42% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £638
90th Percentile £653 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 90
10th Percentile £16.17 £25.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £66.68 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -68.94% +28.32% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.59
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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 6 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 6 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 +7 22 £600 +3.45% 17
Havant -4 16 £525 -10.64% 2
Portsmouth +14 13 £435 -8.42% 14
Farnborough +1 10 £525 -8.46% 9
Southampton -2 7 £581 +3.33% 22
Fleet - 4 £426 -
Gosport +5 1 - -
Andover - 1 £450 - 1
Hook - 1 £320 -
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 (11.24%) Apache
2 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.49%) IIS
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.37%) Documentum
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.25%) Confluence
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.71%) Azure
2 23 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.98%) AWS
3 16 (17.98%) GitHub
4 12 (13.48%) OpenShift
5 8 (8.99%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.87%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.87%) OCI
6 7 (7.87%) Serverless
7 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.62%) SaaS
9 4 (4.49%) GCP
9 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.37%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) SMTP
3 2 (2.25%) SSL
4 1 (1.12%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.12%) SSH
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.74%) Redis
3 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.49%) Power BI
5 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.25%) MySQL
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.12%) Big Data
7 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.12%) Parquet
7 1 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Jenkins
1 15 (16.85%) JIRA
2 11 (12.36%) Git
3 8 (8.99%) GitLab
4 5 (5.62%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.49%) MSI
5 4 (4.49%) Robot Framework
5 4 (4.49%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.25%) Gradle
6 2 (2.25%) Maven
6 2 (2.25%) Poetry
6 2 (2.25%) Selenium
7 1 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.12%) Gatling
7 1 (1.12%) MLflow
7 1 (1.12%) Postman
7 1 (1.12%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.12%) Pylint
7 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.87%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) Developer
2 10 (11.24%) Lead
3 9 (10.11%) Architect
3 9 (10.11%) Senior
4 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (6.74%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (12.36%) Kafka
3 10 (11.24%) YAML
4 8 (8.99%) RESTful
5 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.74%) Keycloak
6 4 (4.49%) React
7 3 (3.37%) .NET
7 3 (3.37%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.37%) ADO
7 3 (3.37%) Middleware
7 3 (3.37%) Node.js
7 3 (3.37%) REST
7 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.25%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.25%) SOAP
8 2 (2.25%) Spring
8 2 (2.25%) Vue
9 1 (1.12%) PySpark
9 1 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) PKI
2 6 (6.74%) CAN bus
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Life Science
6 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (33.71%) Linux
2 23 (25.84%) Windows
3 8 (8.99%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.62%) CentOS
5 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.25%) VMS
8 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.30%) Agile
2 33 (37.08%) CI/CD
3 22 (24.72%) Containerisation
4 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (13.48%) Scrum
6 11 (12.36%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 10 (11.24%) Configuration Management
7 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
8 9 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Software Engineering
9 8 (8.99%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.99%) Observability
9 8 (8.99%) Prototyping
10 7 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.74%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.74%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) Python
2 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.61%) SQL
4 11 (12.36%) Java
5 10 (11.24%) C#
6 9 (10.11%) Bash
7 6 (6.74%) C++
7 6 (6.74%) Embedded C++
8 5 (5.62%) PHP
9 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.37%) Scala
11 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.25%) Ruby
12 1 (1.12%) Bicep
12 1 (1.12%) Go
12 1 (1.12%) Groovy
12 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (55.06%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.97%) DV Cleared
2 24 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) OCP
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.12%) GxP
3 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (20.22%) Docker
2 10 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.11%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (32.58%) Ansible
1 29 (32.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (26.97%) Terraform
3 13 (14.61%) Grafana
3 13 (14.61%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.74%) Packer
5 5 (5.62%) Sysdig
6 4 (4.49%) Rsyslog
6 4 (4.49%) SCOM
6 4 (4.49%) WMI
7 3 (3.37%) Cilium
7 3 (3.37%) HP ALM
8 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.12%) Argo
9 1 (1.12%) Istio
9 1 (1.12%) Podman
9 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.12%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.12%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Oracle
2 11 (12.36%) VMware
3 10 (11.24%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.74%) Splunk
6 3 (3.37%) HP
6 3 (3.37%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.12%) Databricks
8 1 (1.12%) Google
8 1 (1.12%) Micro Focus