CI/CD Contracts in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.28% 2.03% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.35% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £510 £452 £500
25th Percentile £525 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +8.65% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £575
90th Percentile £590 - £600
East of England median daily rate £467 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -6.70% -3.85% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton -2 1 £600 +6.19% 56
CI/CD
East of England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk