Developer Contracts in Bedfordshire

Developer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £423 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 17 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 12 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.06% 7.60% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.83% 7.78% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £263 £310 £275
25th Percentile £334 £316 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £519 £344 £425
90th Percentile £550 £366 £455
East of England median daily rate £420 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -11.58% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.63
25th Percentile - - £52.81
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £60.88
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +7.28% +16.00% +19.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 206 167 266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.92% 97.66% 97.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 111 156
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £361 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -5.10% +17.01%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £535
90th Percentile £625 £625 £613
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 20
10th Percentile - £17.10 £14.10
25th Percentile £15.39 £20.25 £36.06
Median hourly rate £60.00 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -7.62% +238.71%
75th Percentile £65.75 £82.50 £62.44
90th Percentile £67.50 £87.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.32 £16.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +170.72% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Bedfordshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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 9 £500 +56.25% 3
Dunstable - 1 £395 - 1
Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) CMDB
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems

Developer 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Boomi
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Power Query
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Angular 2
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SPFx
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce