DevOps Contracts in Cambridge

DevOps
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 9.65% 3.09% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.89% 3.39% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £413 £540 £425
25th Percentile £415 £544 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £547 £669 £541
90th Percentile £575 £733 £631
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £501 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -8.86% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year - +286.38% -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £67.50 £17.47
% change year-on-year - +286.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cambridge

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cambridge

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cambridge

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Cambridge

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) NAS
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Hudson
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
2 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Release Coordinator
2 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Change Management
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
1 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
1 4 (36.36%) Resource Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Security
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Consul
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) NetApp
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) IFS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) VMware