Data Management Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Data Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Management 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.61% 3.17% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 3.90% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £448 £443 -
25th Percentile £481 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% +8.72% +21.88%
75th Percentile £641 £554 £500
90th Percentile £646 £558 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.32 £35.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -13.37% +97.18% -74.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Data Management 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 197 154 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.78% 81.48% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 82 111
10th Percentile £290 £213 £313
25th Percentile £450 £403 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £84.75 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% +8.00% -3.51%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.80 £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.36% +37.93% -4.76%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Management

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Bedfordshire

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Management

Data Management
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 Data Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 -1 10 £563 +3.69% 2
Data Management
East of England

Data Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Confluence
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (40.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
1 4 (40.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Validation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Life Science
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Biotechnology
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) ERP
2 4 (40.00%) PDM
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Use Case
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
2 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Security Management
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GxP
1 4 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Ariba
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft