Development Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Development Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Development Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £553 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 171 -
Rank change year-on-year +49 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% 0.082% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.086% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £476 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% - -
75th Percentile £631 £800 -
90th Percentile £669 - -
Central London median daily rate £553 £750 -
% change year-on-year -26.33% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,101 3,476 4,018
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.21% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,351 3,034
10th Percentile £350 £350 £367
25th Percentile £450 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the City of London

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in the City of London

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in the City of London

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in the City of London

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 City of London region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Consul
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack