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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 95 77 73
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.97% 7.81% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 9.04% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 57 62
10th Percentile £503 £401 £414
25th Percentile £519 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £678 £600 £655
90th Percentile £750 £630 £688
South East median daily rate £535 £500 £585
% change year-on-year +7.00% -14.53% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £37.24 - -
25th Percentile - £56.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £58.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £60.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £58.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year +19.66% -33.11% +14.93%

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 1,507 852 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.90% 86.41% 78.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 568 627
10th Percentile £352 £307 £360
25th Percentile £463 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £652 £715
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 93 77
10th Percentile £13.45 - £26.25
25th Percentile £15.86 £18.87 £51.06
Median hourly rate £48.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.85% -62.74% +22.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.75 £79.25
South East median hourly rate £48.36 £22.35 £58.49
% change year-on-year +116.42% -61.80% +7.56%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -18 24 £600 - 16
Southampton +6 17 £575 -1.08% 25
Portsmouth -6 16 £549 +26.21% 8
Havant -7 9 £638 +21.43% 4
Farnborough -9 9 - - 19
Andover - 7 £750 -
Romsey - 3 £550 - 5
Hook -3 1 £510 +59.38% 1
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 6 (6.32%) Documentum
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) CMS
3 2 (2.11%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (69.47%) Azure
2 44 (46.32%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (31.58%) AWS
4 11 (11.58%) GitHub
5 10 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.47%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (7.37%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Batch
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.26%) PowerApps
9 5 (5.26%) Serverless
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Databricks
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.16%) GCP
12 2 (2.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) DHCP
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) Power BI
2 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) GitLab
2 16 (16.84%) JIRA
3 14 (14.74%) Git
4 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.05%) JUnit
7 1 (1.05%) MLflow
7 1 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (1.05%) Postman
7 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 2 (2.11%) Finance
5 1 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Architect
2 13 (13.68%) Developer
3 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (7.37%) Principal Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Documentum Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Java Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Lead
6 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Documentum Developer
7 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.21%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.26%) Terraform
2 11 (11.58%) .NET
2 11 (11.58%) REST
3 8 (8.42%) ADO
4 6 (6.32%) Kafka
4 6 (6.32%) Middleware
4 6 (6.32%) OAuth
5 5 (5.26%) SAML
6 4 (4.21%) OpenID
7 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.16%) JSON
7 3 (3.16%) LDAP
7 3 (3.16%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.16%) SOAP
8 2 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.11%) Web Services
9 1 (1.05%) BAPI
9 1 (1.05%) CSS
9 1 (1.05%) HTML
9 1 (1.05%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.11%) Linux
2 14 (14.74%) Windows
3 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.21%) CentOS
4 4 (4.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 47 (49.47%) Agile
3 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (25.26%) DevSecOps
6 23 (24.21%) Software Delivery
7 21 (22.11%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (22.11%) Scrum
8 20 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (16.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
13 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
15 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
16 10 (10.53%) Configuration Management
16 10 (10.53%) Security Architecture
17 9 (9.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) Python
2 14 (14.74%) Bash
3 12 (12.63%) Java
3 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.42%) C#
5 7 (7.37%) SQL
6 6 (6.32%) Bicep
6 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.26%) Scala
8 3 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.16%) X++
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (67.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (33.68%) DV Cleared
3 31 (32.63%) SC Cleared
4 15 (15.79%) Degree
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.16%) CISM
8 3 (3.16%) CISSP
8 3 (3.16%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.11%) GIAC
9 2 (2.11%) OSCP
10 1 (1.05%) CEH
10 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) PMO
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) NCSC
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) NIST
4 2 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (20.00%) Ansible
3 7 (7.37%) Grafana
3 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.21%) Argo
5 3 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.16%) Rancher
6 2 (2.11%) Packer
7 1 (1.05%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.05%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.42%) Databricks
3 6 (6.32%) VMware
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.16%) Google
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle
6 2 (2.11%) Qualys
6 2 (2.11%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.11%) Splunk
6 2 (2.11%) Tenable
7 1 (1.05%) Dell
7 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.05%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.05%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Sparx