Developer Contracts in the East of England

Developer
England > East of England

The median Developer daily rate in the East of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 96 139 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.36% 7.32% 6.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 8.23% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 91 101
10th Percentile £393 £288 £325
25th Percentile £450 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £486 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £26.35 £60.78 £47.17
25th Percentile £32.79 £65.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £44.05 £66.25 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +5.58% +11.56%
75th Percentile £54.79 £75.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £60.92 £80.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £40.30 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -38.01% +4.00% +12.61%

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 997 1,688 1,826
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.85% 88.84% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 723 1,124
10th Percentile £190 £206 £200
25th Percentile £339 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 581 271
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.54 £18.00 £15.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.90 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +5.02% +114.36%
75th Percentile £65.81 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Developer 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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer 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 6 July 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 6 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
Hertfordshire +16 35 £575 +43.75% 65
Cambridgeshire +2 20 £503 +19.64% 87
Essex -2 14 £446 +3.24% 56
Norfolk +4 10 £450 +56.52% 26
Suffolk -2 10 £350 -3.45% 10
Bedfordshire -7 7 £500 +11.11% 21
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 40 (41.67%) Python
2 30 (31.25%) AWS
3 29 (30.21%) SQL
4 25 (26.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 22 (22.92%) Agile
6 20 (20.83%) Azure
7 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (19.79%) Degree
8 18 (18.75%) REST
8 18 (18.75%) Generative AI
9 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
10 16 (16.67%) C#
10 16 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 16 (16.67%) LLM
10 16 (16.67%) Data Science
11 15 (15.63%) PyTorch
11 15 (15.63%) Tableau
11 15 (15.63%) R
11 15 (15.63%) Matplotlib
11 15 (15.63%) Machine Learning
11 15 (15.63%) Data Munging
11 15 (15.63%) Algorithms
11 15 (15.63%) scikit-learn
11 15 (15.63%) TensorFlow
11 15 (15.63%) Seaborn
12 14 (14.58%) Pandas
12 14 (14.58%) Analytics
12 14 (14.58%) NumPy
12 14 (14.58%) Java
12 14 (14.58%) Data Analysis

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Simulink
2 1 (1.04%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (1.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.25%) AWS
2 20 (20.83%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) Serverless
4 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.21%) SaaS
7 4 (4.17%) GCP
7 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.08%) npm
10 1 (1.04%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Wireless
2 2 (2.08%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.08%) 4G
2 2 (2.08%) 5G
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) Tableau
2 12 (12.50%) Big Data
2 12 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 8 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.08%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.04%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.04%) Power Query
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) CANoe
4 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.04%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Finance
3 7 (7.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.08%) Automotive
6 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Electronics
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) REST
2 15 (15.63%) Matplotlib
2 15 (15.63%) PyTorch
2 15 (15.63%) scikit-learn
2 15 (15.63%) Seaborn
2 15 (15.63%) TensorFlow
3 14 (14.58%) NumPy
3 14 (14.58%) Pandas
4 13 (13.54%) HTML
5 8 (8.33%) .NET
5 8 (8.33%) CSS
5 8 (8.33%) React
6 7 (7.29%) RESTful
7 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.25%) Laravel
7 6 (6.25%) Node.js
7 6 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.21%) Alpine.js
9 4 (4.17%) POSIX
10 3 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.17%) Device Driver
3 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) STB
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (22.92%) Agile
3 18 (18.75%) Generative AI
4 16 (16.67%) Data Science
4 16 (16.67%) LLM
4 16 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 15 (15.63%) Data Munging
5 15 (15.63%) Machine Learning
6 14 (14.58%) Analytics
6 14 (14.58%) Data Analysis
7 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
7 13 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
7 13 (13.54%) Statistical Modelling
8 12 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
8 12 (12.50%) Reinforcement Learning
8 12 (12.50%) Time Series Forecasting
9 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) Python
2 29 (30.21%) SQL
3 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.67%) C#
5 15 (15.63%) R
6 14 (14.58%) Java
7 12 (12.50%) C++
8 6 (6.25%) PHP
9 4 (4.17%) C
9 4 (4.17%) Go
9 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.04%) Cypher
11 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Master's Degree
2 10 (10.42%) PhD
3 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.04%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 6 (6.25%) PayPal
2 4 (4.17%) IFS
2 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Workday
4 1 (1.04%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.04%) Cognos
4 1 (1.04%) Google
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.04%) SAP