Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Customer Requirements
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.31% - 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54 - -
25th Percentile £56 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
75th Percentile £62 - -
90th Percentile £62 - -
East of England median daily rate £528 £374 £475
% change year-on-year +41.18% -21.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £75.00 £46.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +62.16% -28.85% +23.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Customer Requirements 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 207 134 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.39% 87.58% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 69 149
10th Percentile £346 £216 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £703 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 6
10th Percentile £25.15 £22.96 £24.35
25th Percentile £28.24 £29.89 £30.70
Median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £42.15
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +18.62% -26.05%
75th Percentile £86.56 £62.05 £56.56
90th Percentile £91.05 £75.20 £60.25
East of England median hourly rate £20.33 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -45.80% +70.45% -

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 - 3 £60 - 4
Customer Requirements
East of England

Customer Requirements
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Games
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) FPGA
1 2 (66.67%) PCIe
1 2 (66.67%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Physics
1 2 (66.67%) UVM
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Success Factor
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
1 2 (66.67%) SystemVerilog
1 2 (66.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) HND
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Actel
1 2 (66.67%) Altera
1 2 (66.67%) Intel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsemi
1 2 (66.67%) Xilinx