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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 36 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.78% 7.62% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.08% 8.33% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 15
10th Percentile £406 £406 £474
25th Percentile £420 £415 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -21.04% +10.84%
75th Percentile £605 £567 £675
90th Percentile £625 £650 £711
East of England median daily rate £575 £515 £534
% change year-on-year +11.65% -3.56% -2.91%
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 £67.50 £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 298 276 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.98% 91.39% 84.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 145 153
10th Percentile £210 £296 £235
25th Percentile £335 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.67% +0.63%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £633 £685
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 44 184
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.00 £14.00
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 £24.49 £21.46 £20.14
90th Percentile £34.92 £37.78 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.69 £50.00 £38.06
% change year-on-year -58.62% +31.37% +23.95%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +5 34 £500 +16.28% 11
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 (13.89%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Weka
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) AWS
3 12 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (13.89%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (13.89%) Serverless
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.56%) Slack
7 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) VLAN
3 2 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) GitLab
2 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) JMeter
3 2 (5.56%) MSTest
3 2 (5.56%) Postman
3 2 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.78%) Hudson
4 1 (2.78%) MLflow
General
1 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (13.89%) Lead
2 3 (8.33%) Consultant
2 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Test Leader
3 2 (5.56%) Administrator
3 2 (5.56%) Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (5.56%) QA Leader
3 2 (5.56%) Senior
3 2 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
4 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) eBPF
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) React
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Grid Computing
2 5 (13.89%) Private Cloud
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.22%) AI
5 7 (19.44%) Observability
5 7 (19.44%) Software Testing
5 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
5 7 (19.44%) Validation
6 6 (16.67%) LLM
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) API Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (13.89%) Data Science
7 5 (13.89%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) OWASP
7 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Bash
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) C++
5 2 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) Perl
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) CCIE
3 1 (2.78%) CCSP
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) NIST
2 6 (16.67%) QA
3 5 (13.89%) EU AI Act
4 2 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.78%) GAMP
5 1 (2.78%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (19.44%) GPFS
2 7 (19.44%) Lustre
2 7 (19.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) Firmware
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (30.56%) Terraform
3 6 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
4 3 (8.33%) Salt
5 2 (5.56%) HP ALM
5 2 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (2.78%) Consul
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco
3 2 (5.56%) Dell
3 2 (5.56%) HP
3 2 (5.56%) Intel
3 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.56%) Siemens
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.78%) CloudEndure
4 1 (2.78%) IFS
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Sybase
4 1 (2.78%) Virgin Media