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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 109 83 138
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.86% 8.76% 7.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.31% 9.93% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 68 95
10th Percentile £363 £338 £275
25th Percentile £413 £434 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £430
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +15.12% -9.47%
75th Percentile £518 £613 £500
90th Percentile £596 £675 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 9
10th Percentile £38.40 - £56.55
25th Percentile £60.63 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81.63 - £80.00
90th Percentile £83.30 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £59.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.14% -7.88% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,053 836 1,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 88.28% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 441 764
10th Percentile £198 £200 £205
25th Percentile £350 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £675 £652
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 167 595
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £30.43 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +16.28% +20.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%

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 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 2026.

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 May 2026. 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
Bedfordshire +14 28 £500 - 12
Essex +2 27 £500 +2.46% 28
Hertfordshire -34 24 £475 -20.83% 26
Cambridgeshire +9 19 £500 +11.11% 29
Suffolk -4 10 £507 +56.00% 15
Norfolk -30 1 £425 -5.56% 9
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, 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 32 (29.36%) SQL
2 25 (22.94%) Java
3 23 (21.10%) Agile
3 23 (21.10%) CI/CD
4 20 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
6 16 (14.68%) Analytics
6 16 (14.68%) DevOps
7 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
8 14 (12.84%) React
9 13 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (11.93%) Spring
9 13 (11.93%) Spring Boot
10 12 (11.01%) C#
10 12 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
10 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
10 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.01%) Visualisation
11 11 (10.09%) Git
11 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.09%) TDD
11 11 (10.09%) Validation
12 10 (9.17%) AWS
12 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
12 10 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (9.17%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.17%) Microservices
12 10 (9.17%) Power BI
12 10 (9.17%) Power Platform
13 9 (8.26%) Data Quality

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 (2.75%) CMS
1 3 (2.75%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (5.50%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.75%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.83%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.17%) AWS
1 10 (9.17%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.34%) Azure
2 8 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (6.42%) GitHub
4 5 (4.59%) GCP
4 5 (4.59%) SaaS
5 4 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.67%) Google Ads
6 3 (2.75%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.75%) Serverless
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.83%) Apigee
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.83%) Boomi
7 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.75%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (9.17%) Power BI
2 6 (5.50%) Power Query
2 6 (5.50%) ZAP BI
3 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.59%) QlikView
4 4 (3.67%) Metadata
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.75%) Tableau
6 2 (1.83%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.83%) DataStage
6 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) GitLab
2 6 (5.50%) JIRA
3 4 (3.67%) Gradle
3 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.75%) JUnit
4 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.92%) Hudson
5 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.92%) JMeter
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.92%) Snyk
General
1 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.60%) Finance
3 9 (8.26%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Publishing
6 3 (2.75%) Aviation
6 3 (2.75%) Military
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Automotive
7 2 (1.83%) Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Local Government
7 2 (1.83%) Marketing
7 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.84%) React
2 13 (11.93%) Spring
2 13 (11.93%) Spring Boot
3 9 (8.26%) Node.js
4 8 (7.34%) CSS
5 7 (6.42%) HTML
6 6 (5.50%) .NET
7 5 (4.59%) JSON
7 5 (4.59%) REST
7 5 (4.59%) RESTful
8 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.67%) Kafka
8 4 (3.67%) Web Services
9 3 (2.75%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.75%) Express.js
9 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.83%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.83%) jQuery
10 2 (1.83%) NestJS
10 2 (1.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.75%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) NHS
5 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
2 3 (2.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.10%) Agile
1 23 (21.10%) CI/CD
2 20 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (14.68%) Analytics
3 16 (14.68%) DevOps
4 13 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
5 12 (11.01%) Visualisation
6 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (10.09%) TDD
6 11 (10.09%) Validation
7 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
7 10 (9.17%) Mentoring
7 10 (9.17%) Microservices
8 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
8 9 (8.26%) Test Automation
8 9 (8.26%) User Experience
9 8 (7.34%) Data Validation
9 8 (7.34%) ETL
9 8 (7.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.36%) SQL
2 25 (22.94%) Java
3 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.01%) C#
5 7 (6.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.42%) Python
6 6 (5.50%) C++
6 6 (5.50%) Perl
6 6 (5.50%) VBA
7 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.75%) C
9 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Ansible
2 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Control-M
4 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle
3 7 (6.42%) Sage
4 4 (3.67%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.75%) Adobe
5 3 (2.75%) Braze
5 3 (2.75%) Checkmarx
5 3 (2.75%) Databricks
5 3 (2.75%) ForgeRock
5 3 (2.75%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) mParticle
6 2 (1.83%) BMC
6 2 (1.83%) Dell
6 2 (1.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.83%) Talend
7 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.92%) New Relic
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk