ACCA Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for ACCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ACCA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.35% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - -
East of England median daily rate £580 - £900
% change year-on-year - - +125.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

ACCA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 82 63 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 36.77% 32.31% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 24
10th Percentile £92 £121 £415
25th Percentile £280 £325 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £638
90th Percentile £643 £579 £729
East of England median daily rate £529 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 3
10th Percentile £55.10 £54.00 £26.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +18.18% -16.03%
75th Percentile £91.50 - £56.25
90th Percentile £92.10 £70.40 £57.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +86.96% +9.52%

ACCA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ACCA in Bedfordshire

ACCA
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ACCA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ACCA

ACCA
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 ACCA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 £580 -
ACCA
East of England

ACCA
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP CO Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Finance Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CIMA
2 1 (33.33%) CIPFA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle