Data Science Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Data Science
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.25% 1.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £620 £517 -
25th Percentile £631 £524 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £543 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% - -
75th Percentile - £554 -
90th Percentile - £558 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -27.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Data Science 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 201 161 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.54% 81.31% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 88 76
10th Percentile £185 £325 £281
25th Percentile £450 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £573 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £37.88 £53.00
25th Percentile £61.19 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £82.25 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.72% +6.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.60 £69.73 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Bedfordshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

Data Science
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 Science within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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 -4 5 £650 +19.82% 6
Data Science
East of England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
1 5 (100.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 5 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) ERP
1 5 (100.00%) Use Case
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GxP
1 5 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba