DO-254 Contracts in Bedfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DO-254 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DO-254 over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.35% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
East of England median daily rate £60 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £70.38 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £88.00 £70.50 -
% change year-on-year +24.82% - -

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 69 28 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 28.87% 13.27% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 23
10th Percentile £256 £146 £310
25th Percentile £506 £356 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £647 £555 £600
90th Percentile £650 £576 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 1
10th Percentile £44.46 £36.19 -
25th Percentile £81.25 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% +4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £93.20 £73.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.50 £17.84
% change year-on-year +29.14% +37.37% +1.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing DO-254 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for DO-254 in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DO-254 in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for DO-254 in Bedfordshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DO-254 in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DO-254 in Bedfordshire

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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 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton - 8 £60 - 8
DO-254
East of England

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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 8 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 8 (100.00%) Electronics
1 8 (100.00%) Games
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 8 (100.00%) FPGA
1 8 (100.00%) PCIe
1 8 (100.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 8 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Physics
1 8 (100.00%) UVM
2 6 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 8 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 8 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) HNC
1 8 (100.00%) HND
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Actel
1 8 (100.00%) Altera
1 8 (100.00%) Intel
1 8 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 8 (100.00%) Xilinx