Senior Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Senior
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Senior daily rate in Bedfordshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 11 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.89% 6.22% 8.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.42% 6.59% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 8
10th Percentile £495 £468 £492
25th Percentile £500 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +51.72%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £556
90th Percentile £715 £719 £590
East of England median daily rate £588 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +17.50% -12.28% +3.64%

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 203 182 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.30% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 83 93
10th Percentile £185 £182 £172
25th Percentile £450 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £570 £575
90th Percentile £670 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 4
10th Percentile £37.50 £50.00 £29.75
25th Percentile £65.63 £55.00 £44.38
Median hourly rate £82.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.54% +18.18% -6.38%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.50 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.60 £68.00 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% +120.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bedfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bedfordshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Bedfordshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bedfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies 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 25 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 -13 5 £613 +11.36% 9
Dunstable +2 1 £500 +25.00% 1
Shefford - 1 - -
Senior
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 2025, 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 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) JWT
4 2 (18.18%) DataWeave
4 2 (18.18%) MUnit
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
4 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (18.18%) Anypoint
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
4 2 (18.18%) CloudHub
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation

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 2 (18.18%) Anypoint
1 2 (18.18%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
1 2 (18.18%) JWT
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) MUnit
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) SOAP
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Life Science
1 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) API Design
3 2 (18.18%) API Development
3 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) OOD
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) DataWeave
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ACCA
1 1 (9.09%) CIMA
1 1 (9.09%) CIPFA
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GxP
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) CloudHub
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle