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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 30 24 23
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.33% 8.60% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 9.34% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 14
10th Percentile £402 £398 £484
25th Percentile £406 £415 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £454 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -21.04% +10.84%
75th Percentile £605 £556 £675
90th Percentile £628 £650 £713
East of England median daily rate £600 £508 £520
% change year-on-year +18.23% -2.45% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £66.38
25th Percentile - - £70.31
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
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 291 257 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.83% 92.11% 84.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 142 155
10th Percentile £211 £296 £225
25th Percentile £335 £402 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -2.04% +0.63%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £636 £683
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 187
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.48 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £31.48 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.69%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +1 28 £494 +14.83% 15
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 5 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Weka
2 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) MSTest
3 2 (6.67%) Postman
3 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) QA Leader
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) eBPF
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (3.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Grid Computing
2 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
3 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
3 7 (23.33%) Validation
4 6 (20.00%) AI
4 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.00%) LLM
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) API Testing
5 5 (16.67%) Data Science
5 5 (16.67%) Observability
5 5 (16.67%) OWASP
5 5 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 5 (16.67%) Scrum
5 5 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) C#
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Perl
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CCIE
3 1 (3.33%) CCNP
3 1 (3.33%) CCSP
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) NIST
2 6 (20.00%) QA
3 5 (16.67%) EU AI Act
4 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (3.33%) GAMP
5 1 (3.33%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (23.33%) GPFS
2 7 (23.33%) Lustre
2 7 (23.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Terraform
3 6 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
4 3 (10.00%) Salt
5 2 (6.67%) HP ALM
5 2 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (3.33%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) HP
2 2 (6.67%) Siemens
2 2 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) CloudEndure
3 1 (3.33%) Dell
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Intel
3 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (3.33%) VMware