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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 105 59 82
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 7.47% 7.95% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 9.02% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 52 71
10th Percentile £448 £476 £400
25th Percentile £475 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £517
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.22% -6.00%
75th Percentile £725 £614 £588
90th Percentile £727 £650 £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 £67.50 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +37.89%

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 1,163 654 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.72% 88.14% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 455 654
10th Percentile £320 £356 £376
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +6.53%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 36 120
10th Percentile £15.01 £19.24 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £26.38 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -34.88% +26.72%
75th Percentile £36.25 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £52.21 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +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 20 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 20 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 28 £600 +2.56% 21
Portsmouth +12 18 £469 -1.26% 9
Farnborough +2 15 £575 +21.05% 6
Southampton +1 9 £640 +13.78% 23
Havant -10 8 £600 -
Andover - 3 £500 - 2
Romsey - 3 £755 -
Hook - 3 £850 -
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 3 (2.86%) Apache
1 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Documentum
3 1 (0.95%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.90%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.90%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.14%) Azure
2 36 (34.29%) AWS
3 21 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (12.38%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (10.48%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.71%) GCP
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.76%) Serverless
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.81%) OCI
11 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.86%) SaaS
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.81%) VPN
2 3 (2.86%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) Internet
3 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.57%) Redis
2 5 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.86%) Power BI
4 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (18.10%) GitLab
2 15 (14.29%) Git
3 13 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.52%) JIRA
5 7 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.81%) Gradle
6 4 (3.81%) Maven
7 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.90%) Postman
8 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.95%) Gatling
9 1 (0.95%) JUnit
9 1 (0.95%) Poetry
9 1 (0.95%) Pylint
9 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.81%) Finance
4 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (17.14%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.57%) Developer
4 8 (7.62%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (7.62%) Senior
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
6 6 (5.71%) Architect
6 6 (5.71%) C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Oracle Project Manager
9 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.48%) Kafka
3 10 (9.52%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.62%) YAML
5 6 (5.71%) JSON
5 6 (5.71%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.71%) XML
6 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.81%) RESTful
7 4 (3.81%) Spring
8 3 (2.86%) REST
9 2 (1.90%) React
9 2 (1.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (1.90%) Unreal Engine
9 2 (1.90%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.90%) WPF
10 1 (0.95%) PySpark
10 1 (0.95%) Vue
10 1 (0.95%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.71%) CAN bus
2 4 (3.81%) PKI
2 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.81%) Smartcard
3 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Mixed Reality
4 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.95%) FPGA
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) PMI
5 1 (0.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.57%) Linux
2 27 (25.71%) Windows
3 10 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.62%) Agile
2 47 (44.76%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.86%) Containerisation
4 20 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 15 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (12.38%) Configuration Management
8 12 (11.43%) Observability
8 12 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.52%) DevSecOps
9 10 (9.52%) Project Management
10 9 (8.57%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 9 (8.57%) RBAC
10 9 (8.57%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.62%) Scrum
12 7 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (6.67%) GitOps
12 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.00%) Python
2 12 (11.43%) Bash
2 12 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.52%) C#
3 10 (9.52%) SQL
4 9 (8.57%) C++
5 8 (7.62%) Java
6 6 (5.71%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.95%) Bicep
8 1 (0.95%) C
8 1 (0.95%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (77.14%) Security Cleared
2 51 (48.57%) SC Cleared
3 30 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) Degree
5 4 (3.81%) CISM
5 4 (3.81%) CISSP
5 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) GIAC
6 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.95%) OCP
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) NCSC
2 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.81%) NIST
2 4 (3.81%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) Def Stans
System Software
1 19 (18.10%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.86%) Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (30.48%) Terraform
3 24 (22.86%) Ansible
4 21 (20.00%) Grafana
5 20 (19.05%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.67%) Argo
6 7 (6.67%) Sysdig
7 6 (5.71%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Istio
7 6 (5.71%) linkerd
7 6 (5.71%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Puppet
9 3 (2.86%) Podman
9 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.90%) Packer
11 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.95%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.95%) Rancher
11 1 (0.95%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Red Hat
2 11 (10.48%) Oracle
3 10 (9.52%) Splunk
4 9 (8.57%) VMware
5 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.71%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.81%) Thales
7 2 (1.90%) SAP
8 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) Google
8 1 (0.95%) HP
8 1 (0.95%) Tenable