Ariba Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Ariba
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Ariba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ariba over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP Ariba.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 18 7
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 -
Contract jobs citing Ariba 4 9 46
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.85% 5.42% 18.70%
As % of the Vendors category 3.01% 8.18% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 45
10th Percentile £590 - £505
25th Percentile £604 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £659 £688 £538
90th Percentile £676 £708 £652
East of England median daily rate £625 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -11.47%

All Vendors
Bedfordshire

Ariba falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 133 110 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 61.57% 66.27% 63.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 60 110
10th Percentile £209 £361 £325
25th Percentile £406 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £560
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 1
10th Percentile £37.90 £30.08 -
25th Percentile £49.74 £30.78 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% - +144.19%
75th Percentile - £57.76 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.61 -
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £41.06
% change year-on-year -0.45% -51.28% +60.87%

Ariba
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ariba relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Ariba job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Ariba
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Ariba

Ariba
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 Ariba within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -8 4 £638 +27.50% 1
Ariba
East of England

Ariba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (25.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Financial Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (25.00%) Record to Report
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Anaplan
2 1 (25.00%) Hyperion