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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 94 77 76
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.79% 7.72% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.03% 8.95% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 64 65
10th Percentile £497 £402 £405
25th Percentile £513 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £661 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £625 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £599
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.49% -0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £37.24 - -
25th Percentile £37.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £94.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £60.75 £87.46
% change year-on-year +11.11% -30.54% +15.58%

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 1,559 860 1,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.38% 86.26% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 607 757
10th Percentile £373 £314 £363
25th Percentile £474 £451 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £602 £660
90th Percentile £730 £660 £730
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 65 123
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.33 £21.39 £51.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -40.92% +11.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +155.78% -62.51% +14.70%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -21 21 £585 -2.50% 14
Portsmouth -4 19 £554 +27.24% 6
Southampton +6 15 £575 -19.30% 23
Havant -6 12 £600 +14.29% 1
Farnborough -13 8 £488 -4.88% 15
Andover - 7 £750 - 1
Hook -2 2 £510 +59.38% 1
Aldershot +1 1 £775 +47.62% 1
Eastleigh -8 1 £500 - 1
Romsey - 1 - - 6
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 11 (11.70%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Documentum
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 2 (2.13%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (73.40%) Azure
2 45 (47.87%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (32.98%) AWS
4 11 (11.70%) GitHub
5 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.45%) OpenShift
9 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
9 6 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (6.38%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.38%) PowerApps
9 6 (6.38%) Serverless
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Batch
10 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.19%) GCP
11 3 (3.19%) OCI
12 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.13%) Redis
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) GitLab
2 13 (13.83%) JIRA
3 10 (10.64%) Git
4 7 (7.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.13%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.06%) JUnit
7 1 (1.06%) MLflow
7 1 (1.06%) Mockito
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.38%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Finance
7 1 (1.06%) Back Office
7 1 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Architect
2 15 (15.96%) Developer
3 7 (7.45%) Analyst
3 7 (7.45%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (7.45%) Lead
3 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (7.45%) Principal Architect
4 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Documentum Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Java Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Developer
5 5 (5.32%) Documentum Developer
5 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) .NET
2 11 (11.70%) REST
3 8 (8.51%) ADO
4 7 (7.45%) Kafka
4 7 (7.45%) Middleware
5 6 (6.38%) OAuth
6 5 (5.32%) React
6 5 (5.32%) SAML
7 4 (4.26%) OpenID
7 4 (4.26%) SailPoint
8 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.19%) JSON
8 3 (3.19%) LDAP
8 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.19%) SOAP
9 2 (2.13%) Keycloak
9 2 (2.13%) Web Services
10 1 (1.06%) CSS
10 1 (1.06%) HTML
10 1 (1.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.13%) PKI
7 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Linux
1 15 (15.96%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) CentOS
2 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) CI/CD
2 51 (54.26%) Agile
3 23 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (22.34%) DevSecOps
5 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (21.28%) Software Delivery
6 19 (20.21%) Scrum
7 18 (19.15%) Sprint Planning
8 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
8 16 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (14.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.64%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning
13 9 (9.57%) Microservices
13 9 (9.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) Python
2 18 (19.15%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.96%) Java
4 13 (13.83%) C#
5 12 (12.77%) SQL
6 11 (11.70%) Bash
6 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.32%) Bicep
8 4 (4.26%) C++
8 4 (4.26%) Scala
8 4 (4.26%) X++
9 3 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 59 (62.77%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (25.53%) DV Cleared
4 15 (15.96%) Degree
5 7 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.19%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) CISM
9 1 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) PMO
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.19%) NCSC
4 2 (2.13%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 19 (20.21%) Terraform
3 13 (13.83%) Ansible
4 6 (6.38%) Grafana
4 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.26%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 4 (4.26%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 3 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.19%) Argo
7 2 (2.13%) Rancher
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Databricks
3 6 (6.38%) VMware
4 5 (5.32%) Oracle
5 4 (4.26%) NetIQ
6 3 (3.19%) Google
6 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.19%) Splunk
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Sparx