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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -16 +23
Contract jobs citing DevOps 5 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.65% 2.68% 11.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 3.14% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile £468 - £470
25th Percentile £488 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -8.65% -
75th Percentile £650 £488 £600
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.80%

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 172 191 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.01% 85.27% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 104 103
10th Percentile £185 £300 £213
25th Percentile £500 £372 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £616 £581 £600
90th Percentile £700 £650 £620
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 39 3
10th Percentile £26.82 £15.37 £26.00
25th Percentile £61.63 £15.39 £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £21.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +272.09% -71.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £91.90 £67.50 £88.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

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 July 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 July 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
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Supply Chain Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Vertica