Intel Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Intel
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Intel products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intel over the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Intel Corporation.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intel 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.73% - -
As % of the Vendors category 4.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
East of England median daily rate £445 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +1.71% -5.41% +74.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.00 £97.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% +39.29% +22.81%

All Vendors
Bedfordshire

Intel falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 139 101 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 63.18% 54.30% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 57 64
10th Percentile £209 £363 £313
25th Percentile £411 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £513
90th Percentile £650 £675 £557
East of England median daily rate £523 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 0
10th Percentile £37.90 £39.68 -
25th Percentile £49.74 £51.18 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.33 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.01 -
90th Percentile £98.80 £69.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +31.12% -63.53% +106.98%

Intel
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Intel job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Intel
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Intel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Intel

Intel
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Intel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Intel

Intel
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 Intel within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Luton - 6 £60 - 3
Intel
East of England

Intel
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 6 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (100.00%) Electronics
1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) PCIe
1 6 (100.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Physics
1 6 (100.00%) UVM
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 6 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) HNC
1 6 (100.00%) HND
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Actel
1 6 (100.00%) Altera
1 6 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 6 (100.00%) Xilinx