Developer Contracts in the East Midlands

Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £400 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 8 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 96 157 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.53% 15.04% 12.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.35% 15.99% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 141 159
10th Percentile £213 £300 £313
25th Percentile £325 £335 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £488
90th Percentile £550 £625 £570
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £60.63 £42.67
25th Percentile £22.50 £61.56 £44.17
Median hourly rate £25.00 £63.75 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -60.78% +36.60% +162.93%
75th Percentile £28.13 £66.56 -
90th Percentile £28.50 £67.88 -
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 Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 719 982 1,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.06% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 754 986
10th Percentile £166 £213 £179
25th Percentile £260 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £504
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +17.64%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +1 51 £425 -12.82% 32
Leicestershire -11 13 £338 -14.56% 30
Northamptonshire +4 11 £400 +33.33% 21
Lincolnshire +8 9 £225 -62.21% 8
Derbyshire -1 4 £410 -8.89% 16
Developer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 37 (38.54%) JavaScript
2 28 (29.17%) HTML
3 27 (28.13%) C#
4 25 (26.04%) Degree
4 25 (26.04%) Code Quality
5 24 (25.00%) Chatbot
5 24 (25.00%) Conversational UI
5 24 (25.00%) PayPal
5 24 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (23.96%) Python
7 22 (22.92%) SQL
8 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 17 (17.71%) TypeScript
10 16 (16.67%) .NET
11 15 (15.63%) CSS
11 15 (15.63%) Agile
12 14 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (13.54%) Azure
14 12 (12.50%) AWS
15 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
16 10 (10.42%) PHP
16 10 (10.42%) Node.js
17 9 (9.38%) React
17 9 (9.38%) Front End Development
17 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
18 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
18 7 (7.29%) MVC
18 7 (7.29%) AngularJS
19 6 (6.25%) Analytics
19 6 (6.25%) Big Data

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) WordPress
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.54%) Azure
2 12 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.13%) GCP
4 2 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) SAN
1 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.25%) Big Data
2 6 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.17%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) Metadata
5 1 (1.04%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.04%) NUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (4.17%) Finance
1 4 (4.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.08%) Banking
3 2 (2.08%) Law
3 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.04%) Advertising
4 1 (1.04%) Automotive
4 1 (1.04%) Marketing
4 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.17%) HTML
2 16 (16.67%) .NET
3 15 (15.63%) CSS
4 10 (10.42%) Node.js
5 9 (9.38%) React
6 7 (7.29%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.25%) Vue
8 4 (4.17%) NgRx
8 4 (4.17%) RxJS
9 3 (3.13%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.13%) CSS3
9 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.13%) Jest
9 3 (3.13%) Next.js
10 2 (2.08%) Laravel
10 2 (2.08%) Redux
10 2 (2.08%) REST
10 2 (2.08%) RESTful
10 2 (2.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 2 (2.08%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.08%) IoT
2 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.04%) e-Health
2 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.04%) LIMS
2 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.04%) NHS
2 1 (1.04%) Online Banking
2 1 (1.04%) PACS
2 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Debian
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
1 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Code Quality
2 24 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 15 (15.63%) Agile
5 14 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (9.38%) Front End Development
7 7 (7.29%) MVC
8 6 (6.25%) Analytics
8 6 (6.25%) Configuration Management
8 6 (6.25%) E-Commerce
8 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.21%) Customer Service
9 5 (5.21%) Data Engineering
9 5 (5.21%) Data Modelling
9 5 (5.21%) ITIL
9 5 (5.21%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (5.21%) Prototyping
9 5 (5.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (5.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.54%) JavaScript
2 27 (28.13%) C#
3 23 (23.96%) Python
4 22 (22.92%) SQL
5 17 (17.71%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.42%) PHP
7 5 (5.21%) Java
8 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) R
9 1 (1.04%) Rust
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.04%) HL7
1 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Grafana
1 1 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) PayPal
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.25%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.21%) VMware
4 2 (2.08%) Ab Initio
4 2 (2.08%) Teradata
5 1 (1.04%) Ariba
5 1 (1.04%) Databricks
5 1 (1.04%) Denodo
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.04%) SAP
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk
5 1 (1.04%) Talend