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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Developer 6 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.68% 7.73% 4.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 8.21% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £320
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +40.63% -43.96%
75th Percentile £550 £513 -
90th Percentile £595 £550 -
East of England median daily rate £503 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +25.63% -13.51% -11.90%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 202 195 142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.20% 97.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 100 84
10th Percentile £185 £262 £181
25th Percentile £425 £363 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £562 £550
90th Percentile £650 £625 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 32 3
10th Percentile £27.94 £42.13 £27.00
25th Percentile £56.63 £55.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £84.50 £63.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.60% +15.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £61.40
East of England median hourly rate £41.50 £47.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -12.63% +66.67% +43.87%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Bedfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Bedfordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Bedfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Bedfordshire

Developer
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dunstable +2 4 £500 +34.23%
Luton -13 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
3 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving

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 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cognos Report Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) DataStage
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Understanding
2 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cognos
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle