Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £400 -
% change year-on-year +37.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Generative AI 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 208 155 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.23% 81.15% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 84 83
10th Percentile £198 £215 £305
25th Percentile £450 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% - -
75th Percentile £625 £577 £600
90th Percentile £654 £650 £635
East of England median daily rate £514 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.50 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.38 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.68% +8.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £22.57 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -43.58% +101.92% -5.67%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Generative AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Bedfordshire

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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 - 3 £525 -
Luton - 2 £575 - 1
Generative AI
East of England

Generative AI
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 3 (60.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aviation
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (60.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared