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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 17 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 12.41% 5.07% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.66% 5.93% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £400 £476 £447
25th Percentile £563 £514 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £581 £556
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% +4.49% +11.25%
75th Percentile £588 £652 £583
90th Percentile - £692 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 £58.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £58.50 -
% change year-on-year -34.62% - -

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 116 118 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.67% 85.51% 66.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 75 73
10th Percentile £163 £170 £200
25th Percentile £250 £329 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £588
90th Percentile £714 £665 £648
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 4
10th Percentile £14.32 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.06 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £64.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% -19.06% +196.30%
75th Percentile £49.38 £72.63 -
90th Percentile £62.23 £74.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.36 £25.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year +92.29% -59.76% +13.64%

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 September 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Batch
4 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (11.76%) Cloudflare
6 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
7 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Cloud Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Principal Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (47.06%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (17.65%) Security Management
8 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 2 (11.76%) High Availability
8 2 (11.76%) Refactoring
8 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) SIEM
8 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Bicep
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Scala
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CISM
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) GIAC
2 2 (11.76%) OSCP
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Qualys
2 2 (11.76%) Rapid7
2 2 (11.76%) Tenable
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft