DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Development Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Portsmouth is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 11 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.79% 2.16% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.08% 2.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £416 £427 -
25th Percentile £417 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - -
75th Percentile £453 £594 -
90th Percentile £519 £658 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £521
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.36% -7.38%

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 181 136 246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 97.84% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 72 142
10th Percentile £200 £312 £385
25th Percentile £300 £397 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.83% +8.84%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £647
90th Percentile £588 £700 £700
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 32 26
10th Percentile £23.65 £31.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £36.72
Median hourly rate £42.35 £65.85 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% +9.75% -
75th Percentile £50.38 £70.43 £65.00
90th Percentile £54.13 £75.00 £69.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £65.85 £49.00
% change year-on-year -62.03% +34.39% +8.89%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Portsmouth region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (81.82%) Bash
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) GitHub
3 9 (81.82%) Grafana
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (81.82%) Kafka
3 9 (81.82%) Keycloak
3 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 9 (81.82%) Observability
3 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
3 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
3 9 (81.82%) Redis
3 9 (81.82%) Splunk
3 9 (81.82%) Terraform
4 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
5 7 (63.64%) Agile
5 7 (63.64%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (54.55%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 6 (54.55%) Packer
6 6 (54.55%) Scrum
6 6 (54.55%) YAML
7 4 (36.36%) Argo
7 4 (36.36%) Python

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GitHub
2 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (81.82%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) MLflow
3 1 (9.09%) Poetry
3 1 (9.09%) PyCharm
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Kafka
1 9 (81.82%) Keycloak
2 7 (63.64%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (54.55%) YAML
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Avro
4 1 (9.09%) Flask
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (81.82%) Observability
3 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (54.55%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (54.55%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) GitOps
7 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 2 (18.18%) SBOM
8 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Dependency Management
8 1 (9.09%) ETL
8 1 (9.09%) Memory Management
8 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Groovy
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Ansible
3 9 (81.82%) Grafana
3 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
3 9 (81.82%) Terraform
4 6 (54.55%) Packer
5 4 (36.36%) Argo
6 3 (27.27%) Istio
7 2 (18.18%) linkerd
8 1 (9.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
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