Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.43% 2.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 2.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
East of England median daily rate £671 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +34.25% -4.76% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £27.00 £18.86
% change year-on-year +159.26% +43.16% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership 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 203 140 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.12% 86.42% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 70 150
10th Percentile £313 £219 £348
25th Percentile £413 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £701 £600
East of England median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 5
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.98 £38.92
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.20 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £89.69 £59.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £91.50 £71.60 £60.80
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -40.71% +64.24% -3.14%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Bedford - 1 - - 8
Technical Leadership
East of England

Technical Leadership
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform