Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Technical Debt
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.87% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £675 -
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Technical Debt falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 149 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 81.40% 94.30% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 81 124
10th Percentile £405 £475 £304
25th Percentile £413 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £458
% change year-on-year -1.00% +9.29% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 34
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 £15.32
25th Percentile £53.97 £28.21 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +182.56% -66.27%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.25 £32.90
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.66 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.08% +3.13% +81.82%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Technical Debt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
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 Technical Debt within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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 - 3 £600 -
Technical Debt
East of England

Technical Debt
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Supply Chain Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SABSA
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft