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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 111 80 134
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.04% 8.41% 7.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.50% 9.59% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 93
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £413 £435 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £430
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £514 £613 £500
90th Percentile £595 £675 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 9
10th Percentile £35.43 - £56.55
25th Percentile £58.44 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81.94 - £80.00
90th Percentile £83.48 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £53.75 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.51% -9.62% +2.77%

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 2,018 834 1,681
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 87.70% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 437 748
10th Percentile £196 £200 £204
25th Percentile £350 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £651
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 165 597
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.70 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £30.51 £46.18 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% +7.40% +18.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £46.80 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.00% -20.00% -14.88%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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
Essex +4 29 £500 +4.66% 27
Bedfordshire +13 28 £500 - 8
Hertfordshire -34 20 £450 -23.40% 24
Cambridgeshire +11 19 £500 +11.11% 27
Suffolk +1 14 £501 +54.15% 14
Norfolk -32 1 £425 -5.56% 6
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 33 (29.73%) SQL
2 30 (27.03%) Java
3 27 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.42%) Agile
5 18 (16.22%) DevOps
5 18 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (16.22%) Software Engineering
6 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
7 16 (14.41%) Analytics
7 16 (14.41%) Spring Boot
8 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.51%) Spring
9 14 (12.61%) Git
9 14 (12.61%) React
10 13 (11.71%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
10 13 (11.71%) Microservices
10 13 (11.71%) TDD
11 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
11 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
12 11 (9.91%) C#
12 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
13 10 (9.01%) AWS
13 10 (9.01%) Containerisation
13 10 (9.01%) Customer Service
13 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (9.01%) Power BI
13 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
13 10 (9.01%) User Stories

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 (2.70%) CMS
1 3 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (5.41%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.70%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.80%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.01%) AWS
1 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.21%) Azure
2 8 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (6.31%) GCP
3 7 (6.31%) GitHub
4 6 (5.41%) Google Ads
5 5 (4.50%) SaaS
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.70%) Apple Pay
7 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.70%) Serverless
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.80%) Apigee
8 2 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.80%) Boomi
8 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.70%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.80%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (9.01%) Power BI
2 6 (5.41%) Power Query
2 6 (5.41%) ZAP BI
3 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.50%) QlikView
4 4 (3.60%) Metadata
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.70%) Tableau
6 2 (1.80%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.80%) DataStage
6 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Git
2 9 (8.11%) GitLab
3 7 (6.31%) Gradle
4 6 (5.41%) JIRA
5 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.70%) JUnit
6 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.80%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Hudson
8 1 (0.90%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.90%) JMeter
8 1 (0.90%) Selenium
8 1 (0.90%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 21 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Finance
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.41%) Publishing
5 5 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Aviation
6 3 (2.70%) Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Automotive
7 2 (1.80%) Local Government
7 2 (1.80%) Marketing
7 2 (1.80%) Military
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) Spring Boot
2 15 (13.51%) Spring
3 14 (12.61%) React
4 8 (7.21%) Node.js
5 7 (6.31%) CSS
5 7 (6.31%) HTML
6 6 (5.41%) .NET
7 5 (4.50%) JSON
7 5 (4.50%) RESTful
8 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.60%) Kafka
8 4 (3.60%) REST
8 4 (3.60%) Web Services
9 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.70%) Express.js
9 3 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.80%) OAuth
10 2 (1.80%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.80%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.70%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.80%) NHS
5 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.32%) CI/CD
2 26 (23.42%) Agile
3 18 (16.22%) DevOps
3 18 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (16.22%) Software Engineering
4 16 (14.41%) Analytics
5 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (11.71%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (11.71%) Microservices
6 13 (11.71%) TDD
7 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
9 10 (9.01%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.01%) Customer Service
9 10 (9.01%) User Stories
9 10 (9.01%) Visualisation
10 9 (8.11%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.11%) Validation
11 8 (7.21%) Data Validation
11 8 (7.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.73%) SQL
2 30 (27.03%) Java
3 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.91%) C#
5 7 (6.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.31%) Python
6 6 (5.41%) Perl
6 6 (5.41%) VBA
7 5 (4.50%) C++
8 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.70%) C
10 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) Degree
4 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Ansible
2 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.80%) Control-M
4 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.21%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) Sage
4 4 (3.60%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.70%) Adobe
5 3 (2.70%) Braze
5 3 (2.70%) Checkmarx
5 3 (2.70%) Databricks
5 3 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 3 (2.70%) Google
5 3 (2.70%) mParticle
6 2 (1.80%) BMC
6 2 (1.80%) Dell
6 2 (1.80%) IBM
6 2 (1.80%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.80%) Talend
7 1 (0.90%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.90%) New Relic
7 1 (0.90%) Splunk