DevOps Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 35 39 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.16% 10.54% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.90% 11.71% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 6
10th Percentile £435 £406 £454
25th Percentile £505 £443 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.55% -5.82%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £500
90th Percentile £576 £700 £550
East of England median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% +0.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 321 333 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.03% 90.00% 82.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 123 117
10th Percentile £185 £265 £249
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +13.44% -4.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £569
90th Percentile £638 £700 £630
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 99 108
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.70 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £29.86 £21.50 £18.06
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £49.88
East of England median hourly rate £47.00 £21.00 £29.17
% change year-on-year +123.81% -28.01% +45.85%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps

DevOps
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Cambridge -3 19 £513 -6.82% 8
Peterborough +13 11 £525 -22.22%
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.86%) CloudFront
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) RS-232
1 3 (8.57%) RS-485
2 2 (5.71%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.86%) SSL
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
1 7 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (5.71%) Gerrit
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) MSTest
4 1 (2.86%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Security Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.43%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.43%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.43%) C# WPF Developer
5 4 (11.43%) WPF Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Embedded Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Embedded Software Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Firmware Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Scrum Master
7 2 (5.71%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) RESTful
3 4 (11.43%) .NET Core
3 4 (11.43%) .NET Framework
3 4 (11.43%) Entity Framework
3 4 (11.43%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 4 (11.43%) Silverlight
3 4 (11.43%) WCF
3 4 (11.43%) Web Services
3 4 (11.43%) WPF
4 2 (5.71%) Jolokia
4 2 (5.71%) LDAP
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.86%) gRPC
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.86%) Playwright
5 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
1 2 (5.71%) BYOD
1 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Linux
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Rocky
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (37.14%) Software Delivery
3 12 (34.29%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) Computer Science
5 9 (25.71%) Integration Testing
6 8 (22.86%) Code Quality
7 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.00%) Migration
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.00%) Scrum
8 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
8 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.29%) Agile
9 5 (14.29%) Change Control
9 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 5 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) C#
2 6 (17.14%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) XAML
5 3 (8.57%) C
5 3 (8.57%) C++
6 2 (5.71%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) X++
7 1 (2.86%) Clojure
7 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.43%) PhD
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.86%) RHCE
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Firmware
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) NFS
3 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Puppet
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
4 1 (2.86%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.86%) Istio
4 1 (2.86%) linkerd
4 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) Cadence
3 1 (2.86%) Coverity
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Dell
3 1 (2.86%) HP
3 1 (2.86%) NetApp
3 1 (2.86%) Perforce
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) Siemens
3 1 (2.86%) Synopsys