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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 109 57 85
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.76% 7.77% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 8.96% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 50 75
10th Percentile £428 £486 £401
25th Percentile £475 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £713 £616 £588
90th Percentile £726 £653 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile £46.25 - £54.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £53.35 - £74.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.77
% change year-on-year - - +36.51%

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 1,164 636 1,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.91% 86.65% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 441 670
10th Percentile £313 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% +6.19%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £506
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.09% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 37 122
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.38 £27.00 £20.63
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +28.87%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.81 £72.75 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.93% -7.49% +5.56%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -2 30 £600 +2.56% 9
Portsmouth +13 19 £469 -1.26% 5
Farnborough +1 17 £550 +15.79% 4
Southampton -1 9 £640 +13.78% 4
Havant -12 8 £600 -
Hook - 3 £850 -
Romsey - 3 £755 - 2
Andover - 2 £475 - 3
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester -1 1 £550 -
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 4 (3.67%) Confluence
1 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Documentum
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.83%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.83%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (37.61%) Azure
2 35 (32.11%) AWS
3 24 (22.02%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (19.27%) GitHub
5 13 (11.93%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (10.09%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.50%) GCP
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.59%) Serverless
11 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.67%) OCI
12 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.75%) SaaS
13 2 (1.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.67%) VPN
2 3 (2.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.26%) Redis
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata
5 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) GitLab
2 16 (14.68%) Git
3 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
4 12 (11.01%) JIRA
5 7 (6.42%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.67%) Gradle
6 4 (3.67%) Maven
7 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.83%) Postman
8 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.92%) Poetry
9 1 (0.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.92%) TestNG
9 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.50%) Finance
4 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 39 (35.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.51%) Software Engineer
3 11 (10.09%) Developer
4 9 (8.26%) Senior
5 8 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.42%) Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Test Analyst
10 3 (2.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Windows DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.09%) Kafka
3 10 (9.17%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.34%) RESTful
4 8 (7.34%) YAML
5 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.50%) JSON
5 6 (5.50%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.50%) XML
6 5 (4.59%) REST
6 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.67%) Spring
8 2 (1.83%) .NET
8 2 (1.83%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.83%) React
8 2 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.83%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.83%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.83%) WPF
9 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.50%) CAN bus
2 4 (3.67%) PKI
2 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.67%) Smartcard
3 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.83%) Mixed Reality
4 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.92%) FPGA
5 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.92%) Life Science
5 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.92%) PMI
5 1 (0.92%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.52%) Linux
1 30 (27.52%) Windows
2 11 (10.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.46%) Agile
2 46 (42.20%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.02%) Containerisation
4 21 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.35%) Software Engineering
6 14 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (11.93%) Configuration Management
7 13 (11.93%) Observability
7 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.09%) Project Management
9 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.17%) DevSecOps
9 10 (9.17%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.26%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 9 (8.26%) RBAC
11 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (7.34%) Scrum
12 7 (6.42%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (6.42%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Python
2 13 (11.93%) Bash
2 13 (11.93%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.01%) C#
4 11 (10.09%) Java
4 11 (10.09%) SQL
5 9 (8.26%) C++
6 6 (5.50%) Embedded C++
7 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.83%) Go
8 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) C
9 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 82 (75.23%) Security Cleared
2 50 (45.87%) SC Cleared
3 33 (30.28%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.67%) CISM
5 4 (3.67%) CISSP
5 4 (3.67%) GIAC
6 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.92%) OCP
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) NCSC
3 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.92%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) GxP
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.75%) Firmware
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (32.11%) Kubernetes
2 33 (30.28%) Terraform
3 25 (22.94%) Ansible
4 21 (19.27%) Grafana
5 20 (18.35%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.42%) Argo
6 7 (6.42%) Sysdig
7 6 (5.50%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 6 (5.50%) Istio
7 6 (5.50%) linkerd
7 6 (5.50%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 5 (4.59%) Puppet
9 3 (2.75%) Podman
9 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.83%) Packer
11 1 (0.92%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.92%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.92%) Salt
11 1 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) Red Hat
2 11 (10.09%) Oracle
3 10 (9.17%) Splunk
3 10 (9.17%) VMware
4 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.50%) NetIQ
5 4 (3.67%) Thales
6 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) Google
7 1 (0.92%) HP
7 1 (0.92%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.92%) Tenable