Senior Contracts in Bedfordshire

Senior
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Senior daily rate in Bedfordshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 6 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.44% 5.43% 7.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 5.59% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 15
10th Percentile £453 £511 £440
25th Percentile £513 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% - +9.47%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £530
90th Percentile £551 £600 £553
East of England median daily rate £542 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -9.67% +20.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £36.05 £43.00 £59.31
% change year-on-year -16.17% -27.50% +155.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 218 179 276
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.62% 97.28% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 128 147
10th Percentile £263 £175 £234
25th Percentile £359 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £538
90th Percentile £625 £627 £630
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 20
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -11.68%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Bedfordshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Bedfordshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Bedfordshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Bedfordshire

Senior
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 within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 -8 5 £525 +0.96% 6
Senior
East of England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 4 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
3 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (50.00%) Expense Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Ariba
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Power BI
4 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) Collibra
5 1 (16.67%) Ataccama
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Dataiku
5 1 (16.67%) SAP BPC
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Collibra
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Ataccama
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Expense Management
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Biotechnology
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GxP
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Ariba
3 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (16.67%) Dataiku
3 1 (16.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (16.67%) Trillium