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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 7.05% 1.57% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.73% 1.89% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £474 - £416
25th Percentile £548 £706 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £713 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +58.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £719 £480
90th Percentile - - £488
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 - £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 126 106 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 80.77% 83.46% 72.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 79
10th Percentile £166 £180 £210
25th Percentile £394 £414 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.65%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £634
90th Percentile £689 £708 £652
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £581
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.49% +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £29.13 £70.95 £13.00
25th Percentile £37.24 £71.63 £72.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £73.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% -8.75% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.13 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £74.65 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.00 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +17.07% -28.51% +9.24%

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 29 July 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Batch
4 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Principal Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 2 (18.18%) High Availability
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
7 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) VMware