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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 98 48 73
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.75% 6.38% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 7.12% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 45 60
10th Percentile £460 £468 £388
25th Percentile £500 £506 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -3.31%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £602
90th Percentile £729 £625 £650
South East median daily rate £505 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -8.18% -1.35% -4.21%
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 1,344 674 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.92% 89.63% 83.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 488 727
10th Percentile £363 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.46% +12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 164
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.70 £28.75 £27.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +9.24%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £67.79 £75.00 £79.25
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.86% -41.05% -3.06%

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 7 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 7 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 -14 26 £675 +17.39% 6
Portsmouth +13 22 £480 +0.42% 7
Havant 0 13 £600 -4.00% 1
Farnborough -3 13 £600 +17.07% 6
Hook - 5 £850 - 2
Southampton - 5 £640 - 11
Romsey - 3 £755 - 4
Andover - 2 £613 - 5
Winchester +4 1 £550 - 1
Eastleigh -4 1 £500 -
Gosport - 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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Apache
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) CMS
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.04%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.04%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.02%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.00%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) AWS
3 25 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.24%) GitHub
5 10 (10.20%) OpenShift
6 9 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (7.14%) OCI
9 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.10%) GCP
10 5 (5.10%) Serverless
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.04%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
13 2 (2.04%) PaaS
13 2 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) S/MIME
1 4 (4.08%) VPN
2 3 (3.06%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) DHCP
4 1 (1.02%) HTTP
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) SONET
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (10.20%) Redis
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.06%) Power BI
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) GitLab
2 9 (9.18%) Git
3 8 (8.16%) JIRA
4 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.04%) Gradle
5 2 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (2.04%) Postman
5 2 (2.04%) Robot Framework
5 2 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.04%) Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Finance
6 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.02%) Back Office
7 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.33%) Software Engineer
3 8 (8.16%) Analyst
3 8 (8.16%) Developer
3 8 (8.16%) Lead
4 7 (7.14%) Architect
5 6 (6.12%) Senior
6 5 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.08%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Test Leader
8 3 (3.06%) Windows DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) Keycloak
2 10 (10.20%) Kafka
2 10 (10.20%) SailPoint
3 7 (7.14%) JSON
3 7 (7.14%) YAML
4 6 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.12%) React
4 6 (6.12%) XML
5 4 (4.08%) .NET
5 4 (4.08%) REST
6 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.06%) WPF
7 2 (2.04%) Middleware
7 2 (2.04%) RESTful
7 2 (2.04%) Spring
7 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (2.04%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (2.04%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Algorithms
1 6 (6.12%) PKI
2 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.08%) Smartcard
3 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.04%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.02%) FPGA
4 1 (1.02%) IoT
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.02%) PMI
4 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.02%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.43%) Linux
2 20 (20.41%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) CentOS
5 1 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.98%) Agile
2 47 (47.96%) CI/CD
3 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (20.41%) Software Engineering
5 19 (19.39%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (15.31%) Observability
7 15 (15.31%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.27%) DevSecOps
9 12 (12.24%) Scrum
10 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.22%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (11.22%) RBAC
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.18%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (9.18%) GitOps
11 9 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.18%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (8.16%) Microservices
12 8 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) Python
2 20 (20.41%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.24%) Bash
4 11 (11.22%) SQL
5 8 (8.16%) C#
5 8 (8.16%) Java
6 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.12%) C++
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) C
9 1 (1.02%) Go
9 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) X++
Qualifications
1 72 (73.47%) Security Cleared
2 45 (45.92%) SC Cleared
3 28 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) Degree
5 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.08%) CISM
6 4 (4.08%) CISSP
6 4 (4.08%) GIAC
7 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.02%) OCP
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) NCSC
2 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.06%) Firmware
3 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 25 (25.51%) Terraform
3 21 (21.43%) Ansible
4 16 (16.33%) Grafana
5 15 (15.31%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.20%) Argo
6 10 (10.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 10 (10.20%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Istio
7 6 (6.12%) linkerd
8 3 (3.06%) Puppet
8 3 (3.06%) Rancher
9 2 (2.04%) Podman
9 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.04%) Sysdig
10 1 (1.02%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.02%) HP ALM
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.02%) Packer
10 1 (1.02%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.24%) Oracle
2 12 (12.24%) Splunk
2 12 (12.24%) VMware
3 10 (10.20%) NetIQ
4 9 (9.18%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.08%) Thales
6 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 2 (2.04%) Databricks
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.02%) Dell
8 1 (1.02%) HP
8 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Tenable