CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Bedford

CI/CD
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 11.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 £555 £550
% change year-on-year +12.61% +0.91% -16.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedford

CI/CD 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 Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 81.48% 78.95% 68.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £166 £325 £256
25th Percentile £411 £413 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +35.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £513
90th Percentile £649 £683 £725
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.75% - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £71.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +42.00% -9.09% -3.51%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Bedford

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
3 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
3 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) B2C
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI