Electronic Design Automation Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Electronic Design Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Electronic Design Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - £850 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Electronic Design Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 132 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.15% 88.00% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 70 148
10th Percentile £394 £304 £325
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £553
90th Percentile £650 £700 £605
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 27
10th Percentile £25.15 £22.28 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £45.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% +112.79% -59.05%
75th Percentile £74.23 £63.08 £55.63
90th Percentile £87.20 £76.40 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

Electronic Design Automation
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 Electronic Design Automation within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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 - 1 - - 1
Electronic Design Automation
East of England

Electronic Design Automation
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 1 (100.00%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens