Development Specialist Contracts

Development Specialist
UK

The median Development Specialist daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 690 -
Rank change year-on-year +117 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Development Specialist 6 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.017% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.018% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £415 £410 -
25th Percentile £438 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Development Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Specialist in the UK

Development Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Development Specialist in the UK

Development Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Specialist over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Development Specialist in the UK

Development Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Development Specialist in the UK

Development Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +112 5 £475 -26.92% 12
UK excluding London - 5 £475 - 9
South West - 3 - - 2
Work from Home +122 2 £400 - 4
North of England - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
North West - 1 £550 -

Development Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Development Specialist 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 featuring Development Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Adobe
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (50.00%) GMP
3 3 (50.00%) Life Science
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) LDAP
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) SAML
5 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements

Development Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GMP
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce