CFA Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for CFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CFA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.87% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £525 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

CFA 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 67 52 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 29.26% 32.10% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 39
10th Percentile £198 £121 £363
25th Percentile £444 £260 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.36% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £628 £503 £590
90th Percentile £663 £608 £662
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 3
10th Percentile £25.15 £29.00 £26.50
25th Percentile £38.83 £30.78 £36.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £90.75 £56.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £68.00 £57.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.71 £63.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -63.95% +129.09% +30.95%

CFA
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 CFA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 - 2 £525 - 3
CFA
East of England

CFA
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ariba
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SAP