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 £509, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 146 86 128
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.06% 6.65% 8.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.69% 7.89% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 72
10th Percentile £379 £385 £281
25th Percentile £438 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £388
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £475
90th Percentile £638 £618 £536
England median daily rate £520 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +2.51% -3.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £40.55 £33.96 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.83 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £70.20 - £65.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%

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 2,181 1,090 1,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 84.23% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 482 536
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £713 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 266 338
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.31 £21.37
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +6.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 £68.23
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +2.62%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +9 46 £544 +11.53% 36
Bedfordshire +21 28 £570 +14.00% 5
Hertfordshire -28 27 £470 -13.04% 46
Suffolk -1 24 £495 +16.47% 15
Cambridgeshire 0 21 £517 +2.89% 77
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 60 (41.10%) Software Engineering
2 51 (34.93%) Java
3 48 (32.88%) CI/CD
4 45 (30.82%) DevOps
5 39 (26.71%) Agile
6 33 (22.60%) Azure
7 27 (18.49%) Git
7 27 (18.49%) Microservices
8 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.44%) GCP
9 24 (16.44%) TDD
10 22 (15.07%) SQL
11 21 (14.38%) Oracle
12 18 (12.33%) Identity Access Management
12 18 (12.33%) Microsoft
13 17 (11.64%) Analytics
13 17 (11.64%) C#
14 16 (10.96%) AWS
14 16 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (10.96%) Python
15 15 (10.27%) Docker
15 15 (10.27%) Relational Database
16 14 (9.59%) Customer Service
16 14 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (9.59%) Power Platform
16 14 (9.59%) SDLC
16 14 (9.59%) Spring Boot
16 14 (9.59%) Test Automation
17 13 (8.90%) .NET

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 4 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (6.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.60%) Azure
2 24 (16.44%) GCP
3 16 (10.96%) AWS
3 16 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.48%) Google Ads
5 8 (5.48%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.42%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.74%) Apple Pay
7 4 (2.74%) GitHub
7 4 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.05%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.37%) npm
9 2 (1.37%) OCI
9 2 (1.37%) SaaS
9 2 (1.37%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.53%) Firewall
1 11 (7.53%) VPN
1 11 (7.53%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (4.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.74%) 5G
3 4 (2.74%) DNS
3 4 (2.74%) HTTP
3 4 (2.74%) SSH
3 4 (2.74%) VoIP
4 3 (2.05%) 4G
4 3 (2.05%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (2.05%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.05%) RS-232
4 3 (2.05%) RS-485
4 3 (2.05%) RTCP
4 3 (2.05%) RTP
5 2 (1.37%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.68%) FTP
6 1 (0.68%) IPsec
6 1 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.27%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.16%) Power BI
4 8 (5.48%) MySQL
5 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.42%) Redis
6 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.05%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.68%) Looker
9 1 (0.68%) QlikView
9 1 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (18.49%) Git
2 12 (8.22%) GitLab
3 9 (6.16%) Gradle
3 9 (6.16%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.05%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) Selenium
4 3 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (24.66%) Finance
2 24 (16.44%) Banking
3 22 (15.07%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.48%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.11%) Retail
8 5 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.05%) Electronics
10 3 (2.05%) Military
10 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.37%) Local Government
11 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) Spring Boot
2 13 (8.90%) .NET
2 13 (8.90%) RESTful
3 11 (7.53%) OAuth
3 11 (7.53%) Spring
4 10 (6.85%) OpenID
4 10 (6.85%) REST
5 9 (6.16%) Web Services
6 8 (5.48%) CSS
6 8 (5.48%) HTML
7 7 (4.79%) Kafka
8 5 (3.42%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.42%) Node.js
8 5 (3.42%) WPF
9 4 (2.74%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.74%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.74%) Flask
9 4 (2.74%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.74%) React
9 4 (2.74%) Silverlight
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.74%) Life Science
3 3 (2.05%) CMDB
3 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.68%) Genomics
5 1 (0.68%) Lidar
5 1 (0.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Robotics
5 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.10%) Software Engineering
2 48 (32.88%) CI/CD
3 45 (30.82%) DevOps
4 39 (26.71%) Agile
5 27 (18.49%) Microservices
6 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.44%) TDD
8 18 (12.33%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (11.64%) Analytics
10 14 (9.59%) Customer Service
10 14 (9.59%) SDLC
10 14 (9.59%) Test Automation
11 13 (8.90%) Migration
12 12 (8.22%) Customer Experience
13 11 (7.53%) Computer Science
14 10 (6.85%) Containerisation
14 10 (6.85%) Identity Management
14 10 (6.85%) Load Balancing
14 10 (6.85%) Validation
14 10 (6.85%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.93%) Java
2 22 (15.07%) SQL
3 17 (11.64%) C#
4 16 (10.96%) Python
5 12 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.53%) C++
7 5 (3.42%) C
8 4 (2.74%) Bash
8 4 (2.74%) XAML
9 3 (2.05%) Clojure
9 3 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (7.53%) Degree
2 7 (4.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.74%) PhD
3 4 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.74%) PCI DSS
1 4 (2.74%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (10.27%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (6.16%) Ansible
3 7 (4.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
4 3 (2.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Oracle
2 18 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.79%) IBM
4 3 (2.05%) Databricks
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) Metaswitch
4 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.68%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.68%) Genesys
6 1 (0.68%) JDA
6 1 (0.68%) New Relic
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk