Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Onboarding
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.76% 1.02% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.60% 3.92% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £455 - £508
25th Percentile £456 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £325 £538
Median % change year-on-year +70.38% -39.53% +258.33%
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +93.77%

All Generic Skills
Bedfordshire

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 87 51 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 38.33% 26.02% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 26
10th Percentile £153 £325 £172
25th Percentile £365 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £616 £579 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 2
10th Percentile £58.28 £30.67 £52.75
25th Percentile £65.63 £42.91 £53.13
Median hourly rate £77.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +13.64% +214.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £90.75 £80.50 £57.25
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +50.00%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in Bedfordshire

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Bedfordshire

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 - 1 £625 - 1
Onboarding
East of England

Onboarding
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP EWM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Salt
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Vertica