Technical Leadership Contracts in Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 11 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.21% 1.30% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 1.59% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £158 - -
25th Percentile £185 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £309 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £85.00 £87.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.30% +390.97% -

All Process and 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 166 189 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 93.79% 81.82% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 104 101
10th Percentile £420 £300 £208
25th Percentile £500 £363 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £650 £586 £600
90th Percentile £711 £650 £631
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £480
% change year-on-year +13.70% -8.39% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 39 4
10th Percentile £26.82 £15.37 £17.10
25th Percentile £61.63 £15.39 £20.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £21.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +272.09% -55.67% -7.62%
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.75 £82.50
90th Percentile £91.90 £66.30 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -11.25% +90.48% +20.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Bedfordshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Bedfordshire

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 17 June 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 -1 6 £190 - 69
Bedford - 1 £190 - 61
Technical Leadership
East of England

Technical Leadership
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 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Team Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Inventory Management
3 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
3 5 (45.45%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
1 3 (27.27%) VCAP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) VMware