DevOps Contract Job Trends in Bedford

DevOps
Bedfordshire > Bedford

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 13.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% - -
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 £483 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -22.80% +13.64% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 69.57% 76.47% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £113 - £186
25th Percentile £220 £325 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £414 £338
Median % change year-on-year +26.74% +22.74% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £513 £438
90th Percentile - £528 £655
Bedfordshire median daily rate £528 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.63% -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 £84.50 £58.45 £55.00
% change year-on-year +44.57% +6.27% +0.64%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Bedford

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing DevOps

DevOps
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%) CI/CD
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