DevOps Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 38 44 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.34% 5.03% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.81% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 15 22
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £40,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £86,500 £81,250
East of England median annual salary £67,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.36% -18.46% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 665 757 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 75.91% 86.51% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 472 325 410
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £82,500 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Cambridgeshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +11 33 £67,500 - 13
Peterborough -4 2 - - 12
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) AWS
2 13 (34.21%) SaaS
3 9 (23.68%) Azure
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (10.53%) CloudFront
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.63%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) Looker
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) MSTest
2 2 (5.26%) NUnit
2 2 (5.26%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.26%) TestNG
3 1 (2.63%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Finance
2 2 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (2.63%) Electronics
3 1 (2.63%) Law
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Senior
2 10 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Support Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Development Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Development Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Development Manager
6 2 (5.26%) IT Support
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Development Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) .NET
2 4 (10.53%) Loki
3 3 (7.89%) Kafka
3 3 (7.89%) Playwright
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) Spring
3 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.63%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.63%) Jest
5 1 (2.63%) Material-UI
5 1 (2.63%) Micronaut
5 1 (2.63%) NumPy
5 1 (2.63%) Pandas
5 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
3 6 (15.79%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (15.79%) Microservices
3 6 (15.79%) Physics
3 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Engineering
4 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
4 5 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (13.16%) Mathematics
4 5 (13.16%) Presales
5 4 (10.53%) Canary Deployment
5 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (10.53%) High Availability
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (10.53%) Observability
5 4 (10.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) C#
3 7 (18.42%) C++
4 5 (13.16%) Bash
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Firmware
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 5 (13.16%) Grafana
4 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.26%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (2.63%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Talend
3 1 (2.63%) Zoho