DevOps Engineer Contracts in Portsmouth

Development Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Portsmouth is £477, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 3.25% - 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.48% - 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.15
25th Percentile - - £52.38
Median hourly rate - - £53.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.45
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £53.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Portsmouth with a recognized job title 115 275 234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 91.97% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 115 145
10th Percentile £200 £400 £202
25th Percentile £400 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% +12.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £570
90th Percentile £626 £840 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 103 20
10th Percentile £25.19 £48.61 £43.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.40 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £57.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +3.14% +36.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.86 £70.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Portsmouth region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (25.00%) Packer

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk