DO-254 Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DO-254 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.23% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60 - -
25th Percentile £61 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £62 - -
75th Percentile £62 - -
90th Percentile £63 - -
East of England median daily rate £62 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

DO-254 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 50 37 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 22.32% 22.16% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 40
10th Percentile £160 £136 £463
25th Percentile £427 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £795 -
East of England median daily rate £505 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.68% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £44.46 £29.06 £52.75
25th Percentile £80.00 £33.53 £53.13
Median hourly rate £90.00 £45.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.72% -16.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £91.50 £57.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £94.30 £76.25 £57.25
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.85% -41.57% +151.13%

DO-254
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DO-254 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

DO-254 job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

DO-254
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DO-254.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DO-254

DO-254
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 DO-254 within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 December 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 - 5 £62 -
DO-254
East of England

DO-254
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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
1 5 (100.00%) PCIe
1 5 (100.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Physics
1 5 (100.00%) UVM
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 5 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 5 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) HNC
1 5 (100.00%) HND
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Actel
1 5 (100.00%) Altera
1 5 (100.00%) Intel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 5 (100.00%) Xilinx