DevOps Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

DevOps
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Peterborough requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 26 29
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 2.86% 1.05% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.23% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% - -
75th Percentile £515 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +0.74% -3.57% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 81 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 82.86% 85.26% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 17
10th Percentile £163 £176 £175
25th Percentile £419 £195 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £200 £220
Median % change year-on-year +181.25% -9.09% -46.67%
75th Percentile £594 £450 £419
90th Percentile £629 £465 £616
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 51 126
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - +11.93%
75th Percentile - £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £15.84 £32.23 £21.46
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Peterborough

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree