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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 21 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.41% 6.61% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.69% 7.46% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 7
10th Percentile £402 £398 £413
25th Percentile £406 £414 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £473 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -14.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £511 £594 £633
90th Percentile £554 £650 £715
East of England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £73.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.47% +13.46% -

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 314 228 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.93% 88.72% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 126 152
10th Percentile £168 £296 £208
25th Percentile £300 £402 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -0.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £553
90th Percentile £623 £650 £699
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 47 189
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £27.50 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £24.50 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -54.74% +26.58% +58.00%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +4 19 £463 +7.56% 10
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 4 (19.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Weka
2 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) AWS
3 10 (47.62%) GCP
4 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) Route 53
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) BGP
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (9.52%) MSTest
4 2 (9.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.76%) Git
5 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Author
6 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Author
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) eBPF
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) Grid Computing
1 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (14.29%) Test Management
6 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
7 2 (9.52%) MLOps
7 2 (9.52%) Product Vision
7 2 (9.52%) SOAR
7 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE
3 2 (9.52%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCSP
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) GAMP
2 1 (4.76%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) GPFS
2 4 (19.05%) Lustre
2 4 (19.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) HP ALM
4 2 (9.52%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (9.52%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Consul
5 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) HP
2 2 (9.52%) Siemens
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) TOWER Software