DevOps Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer - DevOps
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 291 276 345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.61% 83.89% 79.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 115 120
10th Percentile £302 £228 £206
25th Percentile £413 £370 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £420
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 124
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.75
Median hourly rate £15.28 £16.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% -21.06% +33.56%
75th Percentile £33.69 £31.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £48.00 £64.50 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £46.56
% change year-on-year -6.98% -7.64% +30.04%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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
Peterborough - 1 £510 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
East of England

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, DevOps Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management