DevOps Contracts in Bedfordshire

DevOps
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps 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 29 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.56% 2.85% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 3.29% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £530 £455 -
25th Percentile £575 £456 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £466 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.41% -15.23% -
75th Percentile - £481 £600
90th Percentile - £485 £634
East of England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 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%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Bedfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Bedfordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Bedfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Bedfordshire

DevOps
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 DevOps 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 -3 1 - - 50
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Supply Chain Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VxWorks
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Wind River