Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Collaborative Working
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 6 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.95% 4.14% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 4.44% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £503 - £368
25th Percentile £519 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.84%
75th Percentile £574 - £425
90th Percentile £590 - £433
East of England median daily rate £498 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.78% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Collaborative Working 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 269 135 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.62% 93.10% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 78 164
10th Percentile £400 £500 £313
25th Percentile £413 £504 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +12.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 31
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £27.47 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £30.78 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.60% +43.16% -61.49%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.25 £32.90
90th Percentile £78.50 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.52%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in Bedfordshire

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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 £548 - 1
Bedford - 2 - - 1
Collaborative Working
East of England

Collaborative Working
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) Mechatronics
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware