Developer Contracts in Bedfordshire

Developer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 21 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 12 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.94% 6.49% 3.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 6.67% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £263 £310 -
25th Percentile £278 £316 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 £313
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +4.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £494 £344 £400
90th Percentile £550 £366 £445
East of England median daily rate £430 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -9.47% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.63
25th Percentile - - £52.81
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £60.88
East of England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +16.07% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 216 180 278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 97.30% 97.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 130 149
10th Percentile £263 £174 £248
25th Percentile £359 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% +18.79%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £628
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 20
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -7.32%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 9 £450 +40.63% 2
Dunstable - 1 £395 -
Developer
East of England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedfordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Boomi
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) CMDB
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management

Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Boomi
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Power Query
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Angular 2
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Microservices
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (8.33%) API Integration
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (8.33%) MVC
3 1 (8.33%) Post-Production
3 1 (8.33%) Prescriptive Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce