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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing DevOps 108 51 70
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.83% 7.08% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 7.85% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 48 58
10th Percentile £453 £464 £388
25th Percentile £481 £525 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £725 £618 £595
90th Percentile £726 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £555 £555
% change year-on-year -5.41% - -3.48%
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 £65.62 £60.75 £78.90
% change year-on-year +8.01% -23.00% +42.80%

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 1,287 650 1,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.35% 90.28% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 481 713
10th Percentile £340 £333 £378
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £754 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £505 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 40 137
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.10 £12.85
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.94 £18.32
Median hourly rate £23.58 £59.13 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -60.13% +3.10% +19.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.00 - £75.84
South East median hourly rate £36.86 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% -23.53% -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 26 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 26 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 -9 28 £600 +2.13% 4
Portsmouth +13 20 £480 +0.42% 3
Farnborough -1 15 £550 +7.32% 10
Havant -9 10 £588 -9.62%
Southampton - 6 £640 - 7
Hook - 4 £850 -
Andover - 3 £500 -
Romsey - 3 £755 - 1
Gosport - 2 - -
Winchester +2 1 £550 - 1
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 -23.08% 7
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 44 (40.74%) 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%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) GitLab
2 12 (11.11%) Git
3 11 (10.19%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.41%) 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%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.70%) Finance
6 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.59%) 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
8 5 (4.63%) Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.19%) Kafka
2 11 (10.19%) Keycloak
3 9 (8.33%) SailPoint
4 8 (7.41%) YAML
5 6 (5.56%) JSON
5 6 (5.56%) React
5 6 (5.56%) XML
6 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.70%) Spring
8 3 (2.78%) .NET
8 3 (2.78%) REST
8 3 (2.78%) RESTful
9 2 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
9 2 (1.85%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.85%) WPF
10 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.93%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 6 (5.56%) PKI
2 4 (3.70%) CAN bus
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 29 (26.85%) 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 52 (48.15%) Agile
2 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 22 (20.37%) Containerisation
3 22 (20.37%) Software Engineering
4 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (12.96%) Observability
6 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
7 13 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (12.04%) DevSecOps
7 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.26%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (9.26%) RBAC
9 10 (9.26%) Scrum
10 9 (8.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 9 (8.33%) Microservices
10 9 (8.33%) Project Management
11 8 (7.41%) Configuration Management
11 8 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) Python
2 18 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.04%) SQL
4 12 (11.11%) Bash
5 11 (10.19%) C#
6 10 (9.26%) C++
6 10 (9.26%) Java
7 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.70%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) Go
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 82 (75.93%) Security Cleared
2 52 (48.15%) SC Cleared
3 31 (28.70%) 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%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.93%) Def Stans
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.78%) Firmware
5 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.70%) Terraform
3 23 (21.30%) Ansible
4 22 (20.37%) Grafana
5 21 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.33%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 9 (8.33%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 8 (7.41%) Argo
8 7 (6.48%) Sysdig
9 6 (5.56%) Istio
9 6 (5.56%) linkerd
10 3 (2.78%) Puppet
11 2 (1.85%) Packer
11 2 (1.85%) Podman
11 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.85%) Rancher
12 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 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 9 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.33%) NetIQ
5 4 (3.70%) Thales
6 2 (1.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) HP
7 1 (0.93%) Tenable