DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Cambridge

Development Operations Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Cambridge is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 7 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.58% 0.84% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.86% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,250 £41,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -34.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £43,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -34.62% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 1,124 347 611
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.47% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 883 236 392
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,875 £28,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% +8.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 25 September 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Nuxt
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) WordPress
2 3 (42.86%) ZABBIX

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (42.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Nuxt
1 3 (42.86%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
1 3 (42.86%) ZABBIX
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