DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Development Operations Engineer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.43% - 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £550
75th Percentile £511 - £563
90th Percentile - - £585
East of England median daily rate £483 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -19.58% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 218 162 223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 91.01% 97.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 69 155
10th Percentile £179 £180 £313
25th Percentile £411 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £504 £508
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -0.79% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £615
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 5
10th Percentile £32.56 £28.40 £32.50
25th Percentile £53.13 £38.34 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% +6.27% +0.64%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £67.50 £60.80
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -36.84% +17.94% +103.31%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bedfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bedfordshire

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedfordshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica
1 1 (100.00%) VPN

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica