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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 24 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -21
Contract jobs citing DevOps 17 21 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.52% 7.61% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 8.57% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 5
10th Percentile - £399 £375
25th Percentile £463 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -8.86% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £563
90th Percentile £573 £650 £690
East of England median daily rate £525 £508 £534
% change year-on-year +3.45% -4.96% -2.91%
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 313 245 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.24% 88.77% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 133 149
10th Percentile £168 £259 £200
25th Percentile £269 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £535 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 49 193
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.94 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £27.81 £18.85 £21.46
90th Percentile £36.27 £27.85 £48.60
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.14
% change year-on-year -40.44% -0.34% +82.44%

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
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 May 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 -2 15 £513 +19.19% 8
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) Route 53
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) MSTest
3 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
4 2 (11.76%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (17.65%) Test Management
6 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) CCIE
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) GPFS
3 1 (5.88%) Lustre
3 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Puppet
4 2 (11.76%) HP ALM
4 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (5.88%) Consul
5 1 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) HP
2 2 (11.76%) Siemens
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) TOWER Software