Developer Contracts in the East Midlands

Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 92 86 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.28% 10.45% 15.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.83% 11.05% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 133
10th Percentile £270 £276 £300
25th Percentile £355 £329 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £469 £523 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £625
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.25 -
England median hourly rate £48.56 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +8.33% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 665 778 905
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.79% 94.53% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 511 679
10th Percentile £200 £200 £213
25th Percentile £326 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 78 44
10th Percentile £15.11 £11.83 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £18.22
Median hourly rate £23.21 £18.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.92% -19.10% +3.49%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £32.32 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.17 £42.50 £44.11
% change year-on-year -36.08% -3.65% +72.98%

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 22 July 2025.

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 22 July 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -2 38 £360 -15.29% 32
Nottinghamshire -2 21 £413 -17.50% 56
Leicestershire +4 16 £463 +42.31% 39
Lincolnshire +2 7 £450 +100.00% 23
Derbyshire -1 5 £700 +93.10% 20
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 2025, 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 34 (36.96%) Agile
2 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.26%) Java
4 25 (27.17%) Git
5 24 (26.09%) SQL
6 23 (25.00%) RESTful
7 22 (23.91%) HTML
8 21 (22.83%) JavaScript
8 21 (22.83%) CSS
9 20 (21.74%) DevOps
10 18 (19.57%) Finance
11 17 (18.48%) Microservices
11 17 (18.48%) Spring Boot
12 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
12 16 (17.39%) Azure
12 16 (17.39%) Spring
13 15 (16.30%) Scrum
13 15 (16.30%) TDD
13 15 (16.30%) Oracle
13 15 (16.30%) Unit Testing
13 15 (16.30%) AngularJS
14 14 (15.22%) TypeScript
14 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
15 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
16 12 (13.04%) AWS
16 12 (13.04%) REST
16 12 (13.04%) .NET
16 12 (13.04%) Hibernate
17 11 (11.96%) Python

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 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.43%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (1.09%) Camunda
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
5 1 (1.09%) Mule
5 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.09%) BASE24
3 1 (1.09%) Endur
3 1 (1.09%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.39%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.26%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.17%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.17%) SaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTP
1 3 (3.26%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.26%) SSL
2 2 (2.17%) SAN
2 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.09%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.52%) Big Data
3 6 (6.52%) Hadoop
3 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.43%) MySQL
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.35%) Power BI
5 4 (4.35%) Power Query
6 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.26%) Tableau
7 2 (2.17%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.17%) Flink
7 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Parquet
7 2 (2.17%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 25 (27.17%) Git
2 8 (8.70%) JIRA
2 8 (8.70%) JUnit
2 8 (8.70%) SonarQube
3 7 (7.61%) Maven
4 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.43%) Mockito
5 5 (5.43%) Selenium
5 5 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.35%) Subversion
7 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.26%) GitLab
7 3 (3.26%) Gradle
7 3 (3.26%) Grunt
7 3 (3.26%) gulp
7 3 (3.26%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.17%) CA Release Automation
General
1 18 (19.57%) Finance
2 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Banking
3 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Automotive
5 3 (3.26%) Marketing
5 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.09%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.00%) RESTful
2 22 (23.91%) HTML
3 21 (22.83%) CSS
4 17 (18.48%) Spring Boot
5 16 (17.39%) Spring
6 15 (16.30%) AngularJS
7 12 (13.04%) .NET
7 12 (13.04%) Hibernate
7 12 (13.04%) REST
8 10 (10.87%) Android Jetpack
8 10 (10.87%) Jetpack Compose
9 9 (9.78%) HTML5
9 9 (9.78%) React
10 8 (8.70%) Kafka
11 7 (7.61%) Node.js
11 7 (7.61%) Web Services
12 6 (6.52%) J2EE
12 6 (6.52%) JPA
13 5 (5.43%) CSS3
13 5 (5.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.43%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.26%) State Machine
4 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) APACS
5 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Life Science
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Android
2 4 (4.35%) Unix
3 3 (3.26%) Linux
4 2 (2.17%) Debian
4 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Agile
2 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 20 (21.74%) DevOps
4 17 (18.48%) Microservices
5 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 15 (16.30%) Scrum
6 15 (16.30%) TDD
6 15 (16.30%) Unit Testing
7 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.87%) Android Development
8 10 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.78%) API Development
9 9 (9.78%) API Integration
10 8 (8.70%) Front End Development
11 7 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (7.61%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.61%) Design Patterns
11 7 (7.61%) ETL
12 6 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.26%) Java
2 24 (26.09%) SQL
3 21 (22.83%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.22%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.96%) Kotlin
5 11 (11.96%) Python
6 9 (9.78%) C#
7 7 (7.61%) PL/SQL
8 6 (6.52%) PHP
9 5 (5.43%) Scala
10 4 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
11 3 (3.26%) Apex Code
12 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.17%) X++
13 1 (1.09%) C++
13 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.09%) R
13 1 (1.09%) VB
13 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.35%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.17%) Puppet
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle
2 11 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.26%) Databricks
3 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.26%) Siemens
3 3 (3.26%) Veracode
4 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.17%) Google
4 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.09%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.09%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.09%) HP
5 1 (1.09%) Perforce
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) Solace
5 1 (1.09%) Teradata