DevOps Contracts in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 43 31
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 20 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.47% 2.30% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 2.77% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 15
10th Percentile £395 £394 £413
25th Percentile £406 £491 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +19.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £506
90th Percentile £693 £669 £620
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.80%

All Process and 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 272 433 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.03% 82.95% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 153 248
10th Percentile £246 £209 £225
25th Percentile £376 £325 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £536
90th Percentile £684 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 182 168
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £23.58
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

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 3 July 2025. 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 +16 16 £506 -7.95% 38
Peterborough +10 1 £675 +125.00% 3
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Datadog
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Route 53
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) NAS
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Appium
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) Gatling
2 1 (5.00%) Hudson
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IFS Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Release Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Change Management
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
3 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 4 (20.00%) AIOps
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.00%) GitOps
5 3 (15.00%) Proactive Management
5 3 (15.00%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) APMG
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SANS
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Consul
4 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.00%) NetApp
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Clearswift
3 1 (5.00%) IFS
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.00%) Sybase
3 1 (5.00%) VMware