Senior Developer Contracts in Bedfordshire

Senior Developer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £600 £547
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.69% -0.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 133 218 180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.26% 88.62% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 127 130
10th Percentile £266 £263 £174
25th Percentile £500 £359 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £684 £560 £594
90th Percentile £700 £625 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.71 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £31.80 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +91.04% -50.12% +15.91%
75th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Bedfordshire

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Bedfordshire

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Bedfordshire

Senior Developer
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 Senior Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 1 £500 -
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedfordshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3

Senior Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform