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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.99% 0.87% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 1.08% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £458 - £416
25th Percentile £506 £706 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £713 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +58.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £726 £719 £480
90th Percentile - - £488
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £555 £538
% change year-on-year +8.11% +3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 - £75.00

All Process & 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 139 93 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 83.23% 80.87% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 59 73
10th Percentile £171 £200 £300
25th Percentile £340 £367 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £666 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £591
% change year-on-year +0.92% -7.76% +12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 10
10th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
25th Percentile £12.29 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +277.00%
75th Percentile £62.23 - -
90th Percentile £73.80 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £39.13 £57.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -31.96% +0.26% +4.27%

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 30 May 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GUI Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Market Research
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Rancher
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware