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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 46 27
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 +10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 9 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.88% 1.82% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 2.20% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 23
10th Percentile £399 £375 £413
25th Percentile £415 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £525
90th Percentile £650 £690 £600
East of England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year - +286.38% -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%

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 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +17 11 £430 -21.82% 104
Peterborough +13 2 £595 +98.33% 50
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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) LAN
1 4 (21.05%) NAS
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
1 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (21.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Hudson
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Head of IT
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IFS Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Release Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) LDAP
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) Visualforce
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Change Management
1 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
2 4 (21.05%) Resource Management
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
3 3 (15.79%) ERP
3 3 (15.79%) GitOps
3 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.53%) ETL
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Consul
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) NetApp
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) IFS
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) SnapLogic
2 1 (5.26%) Sybase
2 1 (5.26%) VMware