DevOps Contract Job Trends in Southampton

DevOps
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 4.61% 5.33% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 7.77% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £476 £509 £463
25th Percentile £514 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +12.50% -12.47%
75th Percentile £652 £588 £517
90th Percentile £692 £694 £525
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £58.50 - £60.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 103 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.21% 68.67% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 70 127
10th Percentile £170 £200 £259
25th Percentile £342 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £614
90th Percentile £678 £639 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £566 £530
% change year-on-year -7.28% +6.84% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £22.50 - £19.25
25th Percentile £25.00 - £24.13
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £34.13
90th Percentile £82.70 - £36.20
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -70.41% +34.72% +15.47%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Southampton

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Southampton over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Southampton

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CAN bus
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) SysML
3 2 (28.57%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded C++
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Rsyslog
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat