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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 39 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.03% 4.46% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 5.23% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 14
10th Percentile £406 £454 £476
25th Percentile £425 £464 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -13.48% +2.22%
75th Percentile £619 £500 £659
90th Percentile £671 £550 £693
East of England median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
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% -0.38%

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 338 306 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.89% 85.24% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 110 143
10th Percentile £288 £277 £214
25th Percentile £374 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £454 £479
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -5.22% +0.84%
75th Percentile £621 £550 £573
90th Percentile £685 £601 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 83 185
10th Percentile £13.38 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.74 £46.40 £29.65
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.31
% change year-on-year -24.11% +29.85% +1.48%

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 26 November 2025.

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 November 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 +11 39 £488 -1.52% 15
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 (12.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Weka
2 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
3 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (20.51%) GCP
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (12.82%) Slack
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.69%) Serverless
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.13%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) VLAN
3 2 (5.13%) Wireless
4 1 (2.56%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) JMeter
2 2 (5.13%) Postman
2 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) Hudson
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Consultant
2 4 (10.26%) Lead
3 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
4 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
4 2 (5.13%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Technical Programme Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Technical Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) CSS
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (2.56%) Playwright
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
3 1 (2.56%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 6 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Grid Computing
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) SCADA
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Observability
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (30.77%) Migration
4 11 (28.21%) AI
5 10 (25.64%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (20.51%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (20.51%) RBAC
7 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) Validation
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.38%) Data Protection
8 6 (15.38%) LLM
8 6 (15.38%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Security Testing
8 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.13%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) C++
5 2 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) Perl
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) EU AI Act
1 5 (12.82%) NIST
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) GAMP
2 1 (2.56%) GxP
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 7 (17.95%) GPFS
2 7 (17.95%) Lustre
2 7 (17.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (38.46%) Terraform
3 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (15.38%) Grafana
5 4 (10.26%) Ansible
6 3 (7.69%) Puppet
6 3 (7.69%) Salt
7 1 (2.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Dell
3 2 (5.13%) Intel
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) CloudEndure
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) IFS
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase
4 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media