Development Engineer Contracts in England

Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 621 715
Rank change year-on-year +120 +94 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 35 33 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.066% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.069% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 28
10th Percentile £410 £498 £367
25th Percentile £422 £526 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +18.42% +2.15%
75th Percentile £511 £675 £550
90th Percentile £600 £681 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £475
% change year-on-year -15.56% +18.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £42.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £75.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.43% +206.12% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £75.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year -38.43% +132.56% -14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +93 19 £475 -15.56% 10
East of England - 8 £420 - 12
South East - 5 £450 - 23
West Midlands - 2 - - 17
Midlands - 2 - - 32
South West - 1 - - 15
North of England - 1 - - 10
North West - 1 - - 4
Development Engineer
UK

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Development Engineer 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 England region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 16 (45.71%) Software Engineering
3 13 (37.14%) C++
4 12 (34.29%) Agile
4 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
5 11 (31.43%) Kafka
5 11 (31.43%) Oracle
6 10 (28.57%) Azure
7 9 (25.71%) Software Testing
7 9 (25.71%) Python
7 9 (25.71%) SQL
7 9 (25.71%) Validation
8 8 (22.86%) Scrum
8 8 (22.86%) C#
9 7 (20.00%) Java
9 7 (20.00%) Linux
9 7 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
9 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (17.14%) Couchbase
10 6 (17.14%) Git
10 6 (17.14%) Product Management
10 6 (17.14%) RESTful
11 5 (14.29%) AWS
11 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
11 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (14.29%) Windows
11 5 (14.29%) Finance
11 5 (14.29%) Jenkins

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) npm
4 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) Wireless
3 1 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (2.86%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Couchbase
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) KDB
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
3 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) Babel
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Electronics
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Marketing
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Aviation
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) Kafka
2 6 (17.14%) RESTful
3 4 (11.43%) SOAP
3 4 (11.43%) XML
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) React
5 2 (5.71%) Redux
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) Akka
6 1 (2.86%) JSON
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) NumPy
6 1 (2.86%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) FPGA
3 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Software Engineering
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
3 9 (25.71%) Software Testing
3 9 (25.71%) Validation
4 8 (22.86%) Scrum
5 7 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
6 6 (17.14%) Product Management
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) SDET
7 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.43%) API Testing
8 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.43%) Clean Code
8 4 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Manual Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Open Source
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Management
9 3 (8.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) C++
2 9 (25.71%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) C#
4 7 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (8.57%) C
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) Perl
7 1 (2.86%) Rust
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.71%) PhD
6 1 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.86%) MiFID
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (11.43%) VirtualBox
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Server
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Consul
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Podman
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.86%) Typelevel
4 1 (2.86%) VMware