Use Case Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Use Cases
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Use Case 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.70% 1.81% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 2.08% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £553 £528 £551
25th Percentile £613 £550 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +8.11% -
75th Percentile - £650 £558
90th Percentile - £673 £559
East of England median daily rate £563 £548 £475
% change year-on-year +2.74% +15.26% -9.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Use Case 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 189 144 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.50% 86.75% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 73 154
10th Percentile £313 £214 £354
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £51.63
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £90.38 £58.75 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.70 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Bedfordshire

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Use Case

Use Case
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 Use Case within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Luton +1 6 £650 +8.33% 1
Bedford - 1 £525 -
Use Case
East of England

Use Case
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:

Business Applications
1 7 (87.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) SAP HANA
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Biotechnology
2 5 (62.50%) Business Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) ERP
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (50.00%) Data Management
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) AI
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Design
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GxP
1 5 (62.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Ariba