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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing DevOps 108 47 78
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.90% 6.56% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.48% 7.25% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 44 67
10th Percentile £452 £463 £388
25th Percentile £481 £506 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +9.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £725 £618 £595
90th Percentile £726 £650 £655
South East median daily rate £525 £555 £553
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.41% -3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £46.25 - £56.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £63.75
75th Percentile £48.75 - £71.56
90th Percentile £53.35 - £75.13
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £60.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.62% +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 1,274 648 1,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.41% 90.50% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 473 724
10th Percentile £325 £332 £372
25th Percentile £463 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -5.38% +10.71%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 39 131
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.09 £12.63
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.63 £18.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +5.24% +14.32%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.50 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -16.67%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -7 27 £600 +2.13% 7
Portsmouth +12 20 £480 +1.05% 3
Farnborough +1 15 £550 +7.32% 10
Havant -9 10 £588 -9.62%
Southampton - 7 £640 - 9
Hook - 4 £850 -
Romsey - 3 £755 - 2
Andover - 3 £500 -
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester -1 1 £550 - 1
Fleet -5 1 £465 -0.96%
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 (2.78%) Apache
1 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.85%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.81%) Azure
2 39 (36.11%) AWS
3 22 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (18.52%) GitHub
5 13 (12.04%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (6.48%) OCI
9 6 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.63%) GCP
10 5 (4.63%) Serverless
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.85%) PaaS
13 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) S/MIME
1 4 (3.70%) VPN
2 3 (2.78%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (9.26%) Redis
2 5 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) GitLab
2 14 (12.96%) Git
3 13 (12.04%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.26%) JIRA
5 7 (6.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.70%) Gradle
6 4 (3.70%) Maven
7 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.85%) Postman
8 2 (1.85%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.93%) Gatling
9 1 (0.93%) JUnit
9 1 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.70%) Finance
5 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Software Engineer
3 10 (9.26%) Lead
4 9 (8.33%) Developer
5 8 (7.41%) Senior
6 7 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (5.56%) Architect
7 6 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.19%) Kafka
2 11 (10.19%) Keycloak
3 8 (7.41%) SailPoint
3 8 (7.41%) YAML
4 6 (5.56%) JSON
4 6 (5.56%) React
4 6 (5.56%) XML
5 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.70%) Spring
7 3 (2.78%) .NET
7 3 (2.78%) REST
7 3 (2.78%) RESTful
8 2 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.85%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.85%) WPF
9 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.93%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.56%) CAN bus
1 6 (5.56%) PKI
2 4 (3.70%) Smartcard
3 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Mixed Reality
4 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) FPGA
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) PMI
5 1 (0.93%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.78%) Linux
2 26 (24.07%) Windows
3 7 (6.48%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.07%) Agile
2 49 (45.37%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 21 (19.44%) Containerisation
5 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (12.96%) Observability
9 13 (12.04%) DevSecOps
9 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.04%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.26%) Configuration Management
11 10 (9.26%) Scrum
12 9 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (8.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
12 9 (8.33%) Microservices
12 9 (8.33%) Project Management
12 9 (8.33%) RBAC
13 8 (7.41%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.22%) Python
2 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.04%) C#
4 12 (11.11%) Bash
4 12 (11.11%) C++
4 12 (11.11%) SQL
5 10 (9.26%) Java
6 6 (5.56%) Embedded C++
6 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) C
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (76.85%) Security Cleared
2 53 (49.07%) SC Cleared
3 30 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) Degree
5 4 (3.70%) CISM
5 4 (3.70%) CISSP
5 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.70%) GIAC
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.93%) OCP
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) NCSC
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) Def Stans
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Docker
2 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.78%) Firmware
5 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.70%) Terraform
3 23 (21.30%) Ansible
4 22 (20.37%) Grafana
5 21 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.41%) Argo
6 8 (7.41%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 8 (7.41%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 7 (6.48%) Sysdig
8 6 (5.56%) Istio
8 6 (5.56%) linkerd
9 3 (2.78%) Puppet
10 2 (1.85%) Packer
10 2 (1.85%) Podman
10 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.85%) Rancher
11 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.93%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.04%) Oracle
3 11 (10.19%) Splunk
3 11 (10.19%) VMware
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.41%) NetIQ
5 4 (3.70%) Thales
6 2 (1.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.93%) HP
7 1 (0.93%) Tenable