Developer Contracts in the East of England

Developer
England > East of England

The median Developer daily rate in the East of England is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 136 150 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.17% 7.22% 9.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.01% 7.89% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 101 151
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £338 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £554 £550
90th Percentile £600 £700 £599
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 13
10th Percentile £52.33 £35.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £44.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +16.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £82.19 £65.38 £65.42
90th Percentile £90.63 £73.75 £73.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,697 1,900 2,393
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 91.48% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,160 1,379
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £541
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 297 371
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hertfordshire +9 52 £430 -14.00% 50
Essex +8 42 £425 -15.00% 21
Cambridgeshire -15 23 £450 -5.26% 41
Bedfordshire +1 12 £385 +18.46% 9
Norfolk +3 4 £208 -36.00% 15
Suffolk -1 3 £600 -14.29% 5
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 27 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 East of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 33 (24.26%) SQL
2 25 (18.38%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.65%) Python
4 23 (16.91%) Social Skills
5 22 (16.18%) CSS
5 22 (16.18%) HTML
6 21 (15.44%) Java
7 20 (14.71%) C++
8 19 (13.97%) React
9 18 (13.24%) C
9 18 (13.24%) C#
9 18 (13.24%) Finance
9 18 (13.24%) Agile
10 16 (11.76%) TDD
10 16 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 16 (11.76%) .NET
10 16 (11.76%) Linux
10 16 (11.76%) Git
10 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
10 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.03%) REST
12 13 (9.56%) Web Development
12 13 (9.56%) Spring
12 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
12 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
12 13 (9.56%) Microservices
13 12 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
13 12 (8.82%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.82%) Migration
13 12 (8.82%) Microsoft

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (5.15%) ColdFusion
2 2 (1.47%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Camtasia
1 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 3 (2.21%) SAP FI-AP
2 2 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.47%) Shopify
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
2 10 (7.35%) Azure
3 7 (5.15%) AWS
3 7 (5.15%) GCP
4 5 (3.68%) GitHub
4 5 (3.68%) PowerApps
4 5 (3.68%) SaaS
5 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.21%) Boomi
7 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.74%) Serverless
7 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.35%) 5G
1 10 (7.35%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (3.68%) 4G
2 5 (3.68%) Firewall
2 5 (3.68%) NAS
2 5 (3.68%) VPN
3 4 (2.94%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.74%) 802.11
4 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.74%) RTMP
4 1 (0.74%) RTP
4 1 (0.74%) RTSP
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.88%) Power BI
3 6 (4.41%) QlikView
4 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.21%) MySQL
6 2 (1.47%) Big Data
6 2 (1.47%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Power Query
7 1 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
2 7 (5.15%) JUnit
2 7 (5.15%) Mockito
3 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.68%) JIRA
4 4 (2.94%) gcov
4 4 (2.94%) GDB
4 4 (2.94%) Gradle
4 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (2.94%) Subversion
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) CMake
5 1 (0.74%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Xcode
5 1 (0.74%) XCTest
General
1 23 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.24%) Finance
3 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.15%) Marketing
6 6 (4.41%) Multimedia
6 6 (4.41%) Retail
6 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.94%) Urdu Language
9 3 (2.21%) Automotive
10 2 (1.47%) Games
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Electronics
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.18%) CSS
1 22 (16.18%) HTML
2 19 (13.97%) React
3 16 (11.76%) .NET
4 15 (11.03%) REST
5 13 (9.56%) Spring
5 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.09%) RESTful
7 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.15%) Drools
8 7 (5.15%) Quarkus
8 7 (5.15%) Yocto
9 6 (4.41%) Angular 2
9 6 (4.41%) HTML5
9 6 (4.41%) Java Concurrency
9 6 (4.41%) Spring MVC
10 5 (3.68%) .NET Framework
11 4 (2.94%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.94%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.47%) CMDB
3 2 (1.47%) STB
4 1 (0.74%) Blog
4 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.74%) FMCG
4 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.74%) MPEG
4 1 (0.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (0.74%) PropTech
4 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.24%) Agile
2 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (11.76%) Software Engineering
2 16 (11.76%) TDD
3 13 (9.56%) Microservices
3 13 (9.56%) Web Development
4 12 (8.82%) Containerisation
4 12 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (8.82%) Migration
5 10 (7.35%) ERP
6 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (6.62%) DevOps
6 9 (6.62%) MVC
7 8 (5.88%) CI/CD
7 8 (5.88%) Workflow
8 7 (5.15%) Decision Table
8 7 (5.15%) E-Commerce
8 7 (5.15%) Mentoring
8 7 (5.15%) Release Management
8 7 (5.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.26%) SQL
2 25 (18.38%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.65%) Python
4 21 (15.44%) Java
5 20 (14.71%) C++
6 18 (13.24%) C
6 18 (13.24%) C#
7 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.62%) Bash
9 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.21%) ABAP
11 2 (1.47%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.47%) PHP
11 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.74%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.74%) R
12 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (5.15%) Degree
1 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.88%) IFS
3 6 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.68%) SAP
5 4 (2.94%) Google
5 4 (2.94%) Klocwork
5 4 (2.94%) Perforce
5 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) OpenText
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle
6 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) Avaya
8 1 (0.74%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.74%) Genesys
8 1 (0.74%) IBM
8 1 (0.74%) Roku