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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 30 30 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.06% 8.65% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 9.77% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 3
10th Percentile £418 £438 £490
25th Percentile £505 £452 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £671 £531
90th Percentile £585 £700 £550
East of England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -

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 319 307 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.75% 88.47% 80.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 111 110
10th Percentile £168 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £446
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +17.71% -0.89%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £550
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 90 138
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.36 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.88 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.97 £16.85
90th Percentile £38.38 £43.75 £40.53
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 18 £428 -22.27% 21
Peterborough +17 7 £525 -22.22% 9
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 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) RS-232
1 3 (10.00%) RS-485
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) GitLab
1 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.67%) Ranorex
5 1 (3.33%) MSTest
5 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.00%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Security Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Embedded Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Embedded Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Firmware Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.67%) C# WPF Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Scrum Master
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 2 (6.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (6.67%) Silverlight
4 2 (6.67%) WCF
4 2 (6.67%) Web Services
4 2 (6.67%) WPF
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.33%) gRPC
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (6.67%) BYOD
1 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (30.00%) Software Delivery
5 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 8 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Integration Testing
6 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 6 (20.00%) Migration
7 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Scrum
7 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Observability
8 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) C#
1 7 (23.33%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) C++
5 3 (10.00%) C
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) X++
6 2 (6.67%) XAML
7 1 (3.33%) Clojure
7 1 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
7 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Firmware
2 3 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) GPFS
4 1 (3.33%) Lustre
4 1 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Consul
3 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
3 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.33%) Istio
3 1 (3.33%) linkerd
3 1 (3.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) HP
3 1 (3.33%) Siemens
3 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software