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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 17 25 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.67% 8.99% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 10.20% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 5
10th Percentile £458 £395 £375
25th Percentile £488 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -6.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £563
90th Percentile £716 £688 £690
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.37% -7.13%
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 £70.00 - £65.00

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 302 245 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.97% 88.13% 81.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 132 152
10th Percentile £168 £250 £201
25th Percentile £284 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £536 £575 £563
90th Percentile £668 £683 £698
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 52 190
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £15.92 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £32.77 £18.85 £21.44
90th Percentile £41.20 £41.47 £48.08
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -10.00% +81.82%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -8 13 £530 +8.77% 6
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) Route 53
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) MSTest
3 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) eBPF
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.76%) BYOD
2 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) AI
5 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Test Management
6 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) X++
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) GPFS
3 1 (5.88%) Lustre
3 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) HP ALM
5 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (5.88%) Consul
6 1 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) HP
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Siemens
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) TOWER Software