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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 13 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.60% - 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% - 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £410 - £476
25th Percentile £418 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £613
90th Percentile £509 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 189 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.13% 90.87% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 80 145
10th Percentile £335 £400 £273
25th Percentile £450 £448 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £588
90th Percentile £657 £850 £674
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 81 27
10th Percentile £25.15 £51.06 £19.55
25th Percentile £32.94 £53.40 £37.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% -
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £63.98
90th Percentile £59.00 £76.86 £69.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +16.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Portsmouth

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing DevOps

DevOps
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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Redis
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data
4 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) MLflow
1 1 (7.69%) Poetry
1 1 (7.69%) PyCharm
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (46.15%) Kafka
2 6 (46.15%) Keycloak
2 6 (46.15%) YAML
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 6 (46.15%) Observability
4 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) Web Development
7 1 (7.69%) Change Control
7 1 (7.69%) Data Management
7 1 (7.69%) Memory Management
7 1 (7.69%) Migration
7 1 (7.69%) MVC
7 1 (7.69%) PDM
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Ruby
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GxP
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
3 6 (46.15%) Grafana
3 6 (46.15%) Packer
3 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 6 (46.15%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 6 (46.15%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.69%) Micro Focus
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft