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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 46
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 18 22 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.16% 7.38% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 8.43% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 5
10th Percentile £458 £395 £375
25th Percentile £488 £409 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% -21.82% +18.92%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £563
90th Percentile £716 £690 £690
East of England median daily rate £525 £494 £534
% change year-on-year +6.33% -7.54% -2.47%
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 £67.50 - £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 296 261 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.81% 87.58% 82.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 130 162
10th Percentile £168 £246 £220
25th Percentile £325 £376 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.83% -3.89%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £676 £673
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 53 190
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £15.39 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% - +11.93%
75th Percentile £27.50 £19.00 £24.12
90th Percentile £39.54 £43.50 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 15 £530 +15.59% 4
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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 2 (11.11%) Route 53
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) BGP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) Visual Studio
3 3 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) MSTest
4 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# WPF Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) WPF Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
2 2 (11.11%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) Silverlight
2 2 (11.11%) WCF
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
2 2 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
1 2 (11.11%) BYOD
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Low-Code
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Test Management
6 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) X++
4 2 (11.11%) XAML
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) PhD
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) GPFS
3 1 (5.56%) Lustre
3 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) HP ALM
4 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (5.56%) Consul
5 1 (5.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Siemens
3 1 (5.56%) TOWER Software