Developer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Developer
England > East of England

The median Developer daily rate in the East of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 10 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 89 125 118
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.28% 9.34% 6.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.31% 10.50% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 60 79
10th Percentile £396 £277 £363
25th Percentile £463 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £398 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -16.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £571 £432 £600
90th Percentile £602 £500 £678
England median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £33.96 - £19.87
25th Percentile £51.83 - £27.93
Median hourly rate £65.25 £65.00 £46.20
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +40.69% +32.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £66.13 £68.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,218 1,191 1,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.96% 88.95% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 512 999
10th Percentile £185 £220 £190
25th Percentile £350 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 210 283
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.23 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £79.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Developer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the East of England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the East of England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Hertfordshire -9 36 £528 +28.00% 36
Cambridgeshire -13 21 £503 +19.64% 21
Suffolk -2 12 £463 +23.33% 7
Essex +1 8 £450 +100.00% 21
Bedfordshire -9 6 £550 +46.67% 15
Norfolk -11 6 £525 - 12
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 27 (30.34%) Agile
2 26 (29.21%) Azure
3 23 (25.84%) .NET
4 22 (24.72%) Python
5 21 (23.60%) DevOps
5 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (22.47%) CI/CD
6 20 (22.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (22.47%) SQL
7 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
8 17 (19.10%) React
9 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
9 15 (16.85%) Security Cleared
10 14 (15.73%) AI
10 14 (15.73%) AWS
10 14 (15.73%) RESTful
10 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
11 13 (14.61%) Serverless
11 13 (14.61%) ServiceNow
12 12 (13.48%) AngularJS
12 12 (13.48%) C#
13 11 (12.36%) .NET Framework
13 11 (12.36%) Git
13 11 (12.36%) HTML
13 11 (12.36%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
14 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
14 10 (11.24%) Customer Requirements
14 10 (11.24%) Docker
14 10 (11.24%) Machine Learning

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
3 1 (1.12%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.12%) Simulink
3 1 (1.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) Azure
2 14 (15.73%) AWS
3 13 (14.61%) Serverless
4 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.74%) PaaS
7 5 (5.62%) Azure AKS
7 5 (5.62%) npm
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.37%) GitHub
9 3 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) HTTP
2 2 (2.25%) MIMO
2 2 (2.25%) Wireless
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.49%) Tableau
4 3 (3.37%) Big Data
4 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.37%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.37%) MySQL
4 3 (3.37%) Redis
4 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.25%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.12%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.12%) Metadata
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Git
2 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.49%) Artifactory
3 4 (4.49%) GitLab
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 2 (2.25%) webpack
5 1 (1.12%) CANoe
5 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.12%) Hudson
General
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Finance
4 7 (7.87%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.84%) .NET
2 17 (19.10%) React
3 14 (15.73%) RESTful
4 12 (13.48%) AngularJS
5 11 (12.36%) .NET Framework
5 11 (12.36%) HTML
6 9 (10.11%) CSS
7 7 (7.87%) .NET Core
7 7 (7.87%) Node.js
7 7 (7.87%) PyTorch
7 7 (7.87%) TensorFlow
7 7 (7.87%) Vue
8 5 (5.62%) REST
9 4 (4.49%) Django
9 4 (4.49%) Matplotlib
9 4 (4.49%) scikit-learn
9 4 (4.49%) Seaborn
9 4 (4.49%) Svelte
10 3 (3.37%) JSON
10 3 (3.37%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Algorithms
2 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.25%) FPGA
5 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.25%) VHDL
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Agile
2 21 (23.60%) DevOps
2 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (22.47%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (15.73%) AI
5 11 (12.36%) Knowledge Transfer
5 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
6 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
6 10 (11.24%) Customer Requirements
6 10 (11.24%) Machine Learning
6 10 (11.24%) Microservices
6 10 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
7 9 (10.11%) Design Patterns
7 9 (10.11%) Product Strategy
7 9 (10.11%) System Testing
8 8 (8.99%) API Management
8 8 (8.99%) LLM
8 8 (8.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) Python
2 20 (22.47%) SQL
3 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.48%) C#
5 7 (7.87%) Java
5 7 (7.87%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.74%) R
7 4 (4.49%) C++
7 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.25%) Bicep
8 2 (2.25%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.25%) VB
9 1 (1.12%) Cypher
9 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.37%) MCP
4 3 (3.37%) PhD
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Lustre
2 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Consul
3 2 (2.25%) Ansible
4 1 (1.12%) Kibana
4 1 (1.12%) logstash
4 1 (1.12%) Packer
4 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.62%) IFS
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.37%) Cognos
5 3 (3.37%) Computacenter
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) Workday
7 1 (1.12%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.12%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase