DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Development Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Southampton is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 3.08% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £585 £531
% change year-on-year -23.08% +10.12% -11.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 117 154 169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 93.90% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 101 116
10th Percentile £126 £200 £263
25th Percentile £327 £249 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £623
90th Percentile £668 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £36.90 - -
25th Percentile £58.50 £21.89 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £65.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +306.25% +54.55%
75th Percentile £73.50 £80.00 £27.00
90th Percentile £74.40 - £39.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £33.47 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.64% +4.27% +69.02%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Southampton

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Southampton region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Rsyslog
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Rsyslog
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat