DevOps Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

DevOps
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.58% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £305 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £315 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £528 £453 £550
% change year-on-year +16.45% -17.64% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 80 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 71.10% 74.07% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 38 76
10th Percentile £318 £405 £363
25th Percentile £400 £447 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £501 £496
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +0.93% -0.80%
75th Percentile £548 £553 £530
90th Percentile £700 £638 £652
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +10.38% -7.08% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £13.37 £25.20 £45.22
25th Percentile £17.17 £27.14 £48.60
Median hourly rate £40.99 £41.71 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -33.07% +18.70%
75th Percentile £64.04 £58.27 £70.90
90th Percentile £73.25 £62.44 £80.59
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.08% -40.82% +33.77%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Cumbria

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Carlisle - 1 - -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MS Access
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks