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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 19 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.80% 8.76% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 9.64% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £523 £489 -
25th Percentile £556 £538 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £468
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +17.65% +14.72%
75th Percentile £706 £577 £469
90th Percentile £748 £600 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% - -
East of England median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £67.75
% change year-on-year +11.54% -4.06% +47.28%

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 132 197 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 79.04% 90.78% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 132 172
10th Percentile £203 £325 £254
25th Percentile £381 £463 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £550 £594
90th Percentile £675 £600 £666
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 25
10th Percentile £45.38 £53.00 £11.78
25th Percentile £53.53 £53.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £58.45 £55.00 £54.65
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +0.64% -2.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £67.75 £61.90 £74.20
East of England median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 -4 1 - - 6
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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JSON Schema
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VxWorks
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSight
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Wind River