CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +15
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 10 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.50% 7.78% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 9.85% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £455 £426 £443
25th Percentile - £503 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -16.48%
75th Percentile £638 £581 -
90th Percentile - £639 £570
East of England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

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 201 132 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.54% 79.04% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 67 132
10th Percentile £232 £203 £325
25th Percentile £425 £381 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £45.38 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £53.53 £53.75
Median hourly rate £84.75 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% +6.27% +0.64%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.80 £67.75 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% +37.50% -4.76%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Bedfordshire

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing CI/CD

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 November 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 -19 4 £425 -21.30% 3
Bedford - 2 £625 - 2
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
CI/CD
East of England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (20.00%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft BI Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) JWT
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) MUnit
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) IDoc
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
4 1 (10.00%) RESTCONF
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) LIMS
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
1 1 (10.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) API Development
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) API Design
4 2 (20.00%) API Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Personalization
4 2 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) DataWeave
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (10.00%) GxP
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) CloudHub
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Foundry
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Talend