Developer Contracts in Chelmsford

Developer
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Developer daily rate in Chelmsford is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chelmsford 7.14% 3.33% 10.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 3.33% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +260.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +3.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford with a recognized job title 12 30 18
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 100.00% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 9
10th Percentile £218 £105 £125
25th Percentile £291 £136 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £316 £400
Median % change year-on-year +42.41% -21.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £438
90th Percentile £569 £603 £505
Essex median daily rate £450 £450 £490
% change year-on-year - -8.16% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.04 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.59 £20.85 £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.63 £23.31 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.66% +1.35% -28.13%
75th Percentile £19.88 £24.62 £25.50
90th Percentile £20.25 - -
Essex median hourly rate £40.31 £43.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.94% +73.26% +19.05%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Chelmsford

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chelmsford

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Chelmsford

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chelmsford

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Chelmsford

Developer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Chelmsford region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP