DevOps Contracts in Portsmouth

DevOps
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 45 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 4.07% 0.33% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 0.38% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £436 - £366
25th Percentile £463 £506 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £478
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +7.33% -23.60%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £524
90th Percentile £650 - £591
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
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 - £75.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +52.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Portsmouth

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Portsmouth

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Portsmouth

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Portsmouth

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk