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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 40 16 21
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.99% 4.02% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 4.86% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 13
10th Percentile £406 £454 £473
25th Percentile £443 £464 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -13.48% +2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £613
90th Percentile £705 £550 £695
East of England median daily rate £544 £525 £545
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.67% -3.11%
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 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% - -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 329 329 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.38% 82.66% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 115 180
10th Percentile £259 £266 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% +2.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £579 £560
90th Percentile £700 £638 £614
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 198
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.22 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £52.50 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 £550 +11.11% 21
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 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Slack
6 4 (10.00%) Datadog
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.00%) VLAN
2 2 (5.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.50%) InfiniBand
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) JMeter
2 3 (7.50%) Postman
2 3 (7.50%) Selenium
3 2 (5.00%) Hudson
4 1 (2.50%) Appium
4 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.50%) Gatling
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) JUnit
4 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.50%) TestNG
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (15.00%) Programme Manager
3 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) Architect
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) QA Leader
4 2 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Technical Programme Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.50%) Automation Tester
5 1 (2.50%) Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Test Automation Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Test Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) XML
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 2 (5.00%) Web Services
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) Playwright
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Grid Computing
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) SCADA
6 1 (2.50%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Observability
2 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (32.50%) Migration
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) AI
5 10 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (20.00%) RBAC
7 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.00%) API Testing
8 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.00%) OWASP
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) Security Testing
8 6 (15.00%) Validation
9 5 (12.50%) LLM
9 5 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) Bash
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) C#
3 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.00%) C++
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Perl
4 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) APMG
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) NIST
2 5 (12.50%) EU AI Act
2 5 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) GPFS
2 4 (10.00%) Lustre
2 4 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 15 (37.50%) Terraform
2 10 (25.00%) Grafana
2 10 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Puppet
4 3 (7.50%) Salt
5 1 (2.50%) Consul
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Dynatrace
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Splunk
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Dell
5 2 (5.00%) IFS
5 2 (5.00%) Intel
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.00%) Sybase
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) Clearswift
6 1 (2.50%) CloudEndure
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media