DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Development Operations Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.69% 0.56% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 0.61% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 156 165 203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.64% 91.67% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 83 123
10th Percentile £270 £235 £203
25th Percentile £425 £340 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £463
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.19% -2.63%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £585
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £501 £442 £463
% change year-on-year +13.40% -4.43% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 19
10th Percentile £38.33 £22.50 £17.48
25th Percentile £56.78 £25.32 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -55.14%
75th Percentile £71.25 £59.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £65.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Cambridge

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Docker

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware