DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Development Operations Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.85% 0.23% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.30% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £519 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -7.69%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 297 331 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.66% 76.09% 79.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 131 217
10th Percentile £213 £225 £201
25th Percentile £379 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £614 £556 £538
90th Percentile £700 £625 £597
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 78 100
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.84 £14.84 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £27.50 £20.56
90th Percentile £48.59 £53.75 £33.55
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -21.05% +13.64% +111.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Cambridgeshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -1 3 £550 -8.33% 2
DevOps Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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