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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -23
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 2.36% 6.63% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 9.48% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £476 £420 £484
25th Percentile £514 £453 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £652 £578 £572
90th Percentile £692 £659 £581
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +8.57%

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 108 116 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.04% 69.88% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 77 104
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £320 £356 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £634 £620
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £36.90 £46.00 £18.75
25th Percentile £58.50 - £22.69
Median hourly rate £71.50 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +196.30% +47.38%
75th Percentile £73.50 - £32.63
90th Percentile £74.40 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 18 September 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 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat