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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 41 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.26% 6.51% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 7.60% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 13
10th Percentile £406 £415 £482
25th Percentile £438 £444 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -13.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £614 £613 £675
90th Percentile £664 £650 £695
East of England median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £73.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.15% +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 308 263 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.62% 85.67% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 117 140
10th Percentile £213 £313 £200
25th Percentile £335 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 172
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.68 £21.46 £15.13
90th Percentile £39.50 £28.93 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.30 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.00% +59.09% -

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +9 40 £531 +17.02% 12
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 (12.20%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Weka
2 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 18 (43.90%) AWS
3 10 (24.39%) GCP
4 9 (21.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (21.95%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (12.20%) Serverless
5 5 (12.20%) Slack
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.44%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.44%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) VLAN
3 2 (4.88%) Wireless
4 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.44%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) JMeter
2 2 (4.88%) Postman
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.44%) Hudson
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Consultant
2 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 2 (4.88%) Administrator
4 2 (4.88%) Analyst
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (4.88%) Programme Manager
4 2 (4.88%) QA Leader
4 2 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Programme Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.44%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.44%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) XML
3 1 (2.44%) CSS
3 1 (2.44%) eBPF
3 1 (2.44%) HTML
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) Node.js
3 1 (2.44%) React
3 1 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
3 1 (2.44%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.07%) Onboarding
3 6 (14.63%) Private Cloud
3 6 (14.63%) Public Cloud
4 5 (12.20%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (12.20%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
1 15 (36.59%) Observability
2 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (31.71%) Agile
4 11 (26.83%) AI
4 11 (26.83%) Migration
5 10 (24.39%) Dashboard Development
5 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) RBAC
7 7 (17.07%) Validation
8 6 (14.63%) LLM
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (12.20%) API Testing
9 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 5 (12.20%) Scrum
9 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) Bash
3 5 (12.20%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) Perl
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) CCIE
3 1 (2.44%) CCSP
3 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) NIST
2 5 (12.20%) EU AI Act
3 4 (9.76%) QA
4 2 (4.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.44%) GAMP
5 1 (2.44%) GxP
5 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
2 7 (17.07%) GPFS
2 7 (17.07%) Lustre
2 7 (17.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 16 (39.02%) Terraform
3 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.63%) Ansible
4 6 (14.63%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Puppet
5 3 (7.32%) Salt
6 1 (2.44%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Dynatrace
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Cisco
2 2 (4.88%) Dell
2 2 (4.88%) Intel
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.88%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.44%) CloudEndure
3 1 (2.44%) IFS
3 1 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) Sybase
3 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media