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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 18 36
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 81 69 83
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.37% 7.62% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 8.95% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 59 69
10th Percentile £477 £402 £388
25th Percentile £506 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £661 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £625 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 - £75.00
75th Percentile £52.28 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.54 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £60.75 £83.77
% change year-on-year +11.11% -27.48% +10.70%

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 1,474 771 1,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.46% 85.10% 81.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 527 825
10th Percentile £366 £325 £371
25th Percentile £475 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -7.23% +11.90%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £675
90th Percentile £729 £660 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 59 150
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.25 £25.15 £26.44
Median hourly rate £46.54 £45.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -21.53% +4.27%
75th Percentile £57.85 £61.25 £71.04
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £23.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year +136.56% -57.63% +9.75%

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 18 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Hampshire

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 18 July 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 -20 19 £600 - 6
Portsmouth -2 18 £549 +26.21% 7
Havant -6 13 £600 +6.90% 1
Andover - 8 £750 - 1
Farnborough -13 7 £494 -3.66% 4
Southampton 0 6 £575 -19.30% 10
Hook -4 2 £510 +59.38% 1
Aldershot +1 1 £775 +47.62%
Eastleigh -10 1 £500 - 1
Romsey - 1 - - 2
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 (12.35%) Confluence
2 6 (7.41%) Documentum
3 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 2 (2.47%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.23%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (70.37%) Azure
2 37 (45.68%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (37.04%) AWS
4 11 (13.58%) GitHub
5 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.17%) OCI
7 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.70%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.70%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.70%) Serverless
10 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.47%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.47%) PaaS
11 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Power BI
2 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.47%) Redis
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) GitLab
2 11 (13.58%) JIRA
3 10 (12.35%) Git
4 6 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.47%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (1.23%) MLflow
7 1 (1.23%) Mockito
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Back Office
5 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Architect
2 13 (16.05%) Developer
3 8 (9.88%) Analyst
4 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Documentum Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Java Architect
6 5 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Documentum Developer
6 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Java Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Lead
6 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) REST
2 10 (12.35%) .NET
3 7 (8.64%) ADO
3 7 (8.64%) Kafka
4 6 (7.41%) OAuth
4 6 (7.41%) React
5 5 (6.17%) SailPoint
5 5 (6.17%) SAML
6 4 (4.94%) Middleware
6 4 (4.94%) OpenID
7 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.70%) JSON
7 3 (3.70%) LDAP
7 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.47%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.47%) Web Services
9 1 (1.23%) CSS
9 1 (1.23%) HTML
9 1 (1.23%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) PMI
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.47%) CentOS
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 44 (54.32%) Agile
3 18 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 17 (20.99%) Software Delivery
4 17 (20.99%) Sprint Planning
5 16 (19.75%) Containerisation
5 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (18.52%) Scrum
7 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (16.05%) Software Engineering
8 13 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (14.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.35%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.11%) AI
12 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
12 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (9.88%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) Java
2 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.58%) Bash
4 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.11%) SQL
5 8 (9.88%) C#
6 4 (4.94%) C++
7 3 (3.70%) X++
8 2 (2.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Groovy
9 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (39.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (24.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (13.58%) Degree
5 6 (7.41%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CEH
9 1 (1.23%) CISM
9 1 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.23%) PMP
9 1 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) NCSC
2 4 (4.94%) PMO
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (23.46%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.99%) Terraform
3 11 (13.58%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) Grafana
5 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 5 (6.17%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.70%) Argo
8 2 (2.47%) Rancher
9 1 (1.23%) Nessus
9 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 5 (6.17%) Databricks
3 5 (6.17%) NetIQ
3 5 (6.17%) VMware
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.23%) Dell
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) Sparx