Junior Contracts in the East Midlands

Junior
England > East Midlands

The median Junior daily rate in the East Midlands is £311, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.26% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.28% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £220 £155 -
25th Percentile £250 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £175 £243
Median % change year-on-year +77.71% -27.84% -10.19%
75th Percentile £322 £188 £350
90th Percentile £356 £195 -
England median daily rate £275 £325 £270
% change year-on-year -15.38% +20.37% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £19.71 £10.42 £13.48
% change year-on-year +89.11% -22.67% -35.83%

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 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the East Midlands

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in the East Midlands

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the East Midlands

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the East Midlands

Junior
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 Junior within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 4 £281 - 3
Leicestershire +7 1 £373 +148.33%
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) DOM
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design

Junior 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospike
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) DOM
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Veracode