Developer Contracts in Bedfordshire

Developer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 4 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.56% 5.28% 6.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 5.96% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £483 £263 £310
25th Percentile £494 £278 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £385 £325
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +18.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £541 £494 £344
90th Percentile £569 £550 £366
East of England median daily rate £495 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +15.12% -9.47% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 133 218 180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.26% 88.62% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 127 130
10th Percentile £266 £263 £174
25th Percentile £500 £359 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £684 £560 £594
90th Percentile £700 £625 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.71 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £31.80 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +91.04% -50.12% +15.91%
75th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

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
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 1 May 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
Dunstable +4 1 £500 +26.58%
Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring

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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) MDX
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP