Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Technical Leadership
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 2.70% 5.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 9.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 £185 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £190 -
Median % change year-on-year +168.42% - -
75th Percentile £515 £195 -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £190 -
% change year-on-year +215.79% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedford

Technical Leadership 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 Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 70.27% 57.89% 73.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 6
10th Percentile £220 £222 £313
25th Percentile £346 £276 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £370 £325
Median % change year-on-year +32.43% +13.85% +73.33%
75th Percentile £603 £461 £450
90th Percentile £691 £515 £619
Bedfordshire median daily rate £505 £553 £500
% change year-on-year -8.60% +10.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £38.29 £13.02
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.48 £15.29
Median hourly rate £70.00 £41.45 £22.65
Median % change year-on-year +68.88% +83.04% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.00 £32.18
90th Percentile - £54.50 £32.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £71.75 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.31% +45.45% -19.71%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Bedford

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware