DevOps Contract Job Trends in Oxford

DevOps
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.98% 3.03% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.17% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £725 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +16.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £775 £538 £475
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £775 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +65.33% +4.17% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 63 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 73.27% 95.45% 80.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 24 64
10th Percentile £284 £211 £180
25th Percentile £400 £243 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.37% -18.06% -
75th Percentile £625 £556 £500
90th Percentile £775 £661 £563
Oxfordshire median daily rate £484 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile £17.81 £13.08 £12.70
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.93 £13.00
Median hourly rate £29.97 £46.30 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +189.38% -36.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £73.83 £47.75
90th Percentile £57.38 £89.63 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £46.64 £27.76 £19.50
% change year-on-year +68.01% +42.36% -35.49%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Oxford

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform