Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Senior Development Operations Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £513 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -24.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 338 277 358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.34% 78.69% 78.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 119 155
10th Percentile £186 £279 £191
25th Percentile £335 £340 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -4.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £594 £556 £566
90th Percentile £675 £640 £650
East of England median daily rate £493 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.25% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 38 113
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £18.69 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +29.20% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.25 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.88 £37.40
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -31.58% +17.94% +94.10%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 December 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 - 1 £513 - 6
Senior DevOps Engineer
East of England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform