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 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 102 83 140
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.99% 8.76% 7.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.38% 9.78% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 62 96
10th Percentile £363 £338 £275
25th Percentile £413 £431 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +12.18% -13.00%
75th Percentile £517 £588 £528
90th Percentile £578 £675 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 7
10th Percentile £38.40 - £48.10
25th Percentile £60.63 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -18.75% +36.75%
75th Percentile £81.63 - £84.38
90th Percentile £83.30 - £91.25
England median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.95% -1.83%

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 1,897 849 1,686
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 89.65% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 458 827
10th Percentile £193 £213 £207
25th Percentile £335 £373 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +11.06% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £689 £656
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 162 512
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +42.77% +15.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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
Hertfordshire -26 27 £513 -14.58% 25
Cambridgeshire +9 22 £500 +11.11% 18
Essex +2 21 £500 +2.46% 45
Bedfordshire +7 20 £500 - 9
Suffolk -5 10 £700 +75.00% 7
Norfolk -32 2 £450 - 13
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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 29 (28.43%) SQL
2 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (23.53%) Agile
4 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 21 (20.59%) Java
4 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
5 18 (17.65%) DevOps
6 16 (15.69%) .NET
6 16 (15.69%) React
7 15 (14.71%) Analytics
7 15 (14.71%) C#
8 14 (13.73%) Azure
8 14 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
9 13 (12.75%) RESTful
10 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
10 12 (11.76%) Python
10 12 (11.76%) Visualisation
11 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
11 11 (10.78%) Power BI
11 11 (10.78%) Power Platform
11 11 (10.78%) User Experience
11 11 (10.78%) Validation
12 10 (9.80%) Node.js
12 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
12 10 (9.80%) Spring
13 9 (8.82%) AWS
13 9 (8.82%) Data Modelling
13 9 (8.82%) 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 (2.94%) CMS
1 3 (2.94%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.94%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.96%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.73%) Azure
2 11 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.82%) AWS
4 7 (6.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.86%) GitHub
5 6 (5.88%) Serverless
6 5 (4.90%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.92%) GCP
7 4 (3.92%) PaaS
7 4 (3.92%) SaaS
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.96%) Apigee
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.96%) Boomi
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.96%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) DSL
3 1 (0.98%) MIMO
3 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) Power BI
2 9 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.84%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.88%) Power Query
4 6 (5.88%) ZAP BI
5 4 (3.92%) Metadata
5 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.92%) QlikView
5 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.94%) Tableau
7 2 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.96%) DataStage
7 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.96%) MySQL
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.94%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.94%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.96%) GitLab
5 2 (1.96%) JUnit
5 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.98%) Hudson
6 1 (0.98%) JMeter
6 1 (0.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.98%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.98%) Snyk
General
1 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.75%) Finance
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.88%) Publishing
5 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.94%) Aviation
7 3 (2.94%) Military
8 2 (1.96%) Automotive
8 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Marketing
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) .NET
1 16 (15.69%) React
2 13 (12.75%) RESTful
3 10 (9.80%) Node.js
3 10 (9.80%) Spring
4 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.88%) CSS
7 5 (4.90%) HTML
7 5 (4.90%) JSON
7 5 (4.90%) REST
8 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (3.92%) Kafka
8 4 (3.92%) Web Services
9 3 (2.94%) Express.js
9 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.96%) jQuery
10 2 (1.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.96%) NHS
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.98%) FPGA
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (23.53%) Agile
3 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.65%) DevOps
5 15 (14.71%) Analytics
6 14 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 11 (10.78%) User Experience
8 11 (10.78%) Validation
9 9 (8.82%) Data Modelling
9 9 (8.82%) Microservices
10 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.84%) Data Validation
10 8 (7.84%) ETL
10 8 (7.84%) Scrum
10 8 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (6.86%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (6.86%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (28.43%) SQL
2 21 (20.59%) Java
3 15 (14.71%) C#
4 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.76%) Python
5 7 (6.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (5.88%) C++
6 6 (5.88%) Perl
6 6 (5.88%) VBA
7 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.94%) C
9 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.94%) Consul
3 2 (1.96%) Control-M
4 1 (0.98%) Kibana
4 1 (0.98%) logstash
4 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Sage
3 6 (5.88%) Oracle
4 4 (3.92%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.94%) Adobe
5 3 (2.94%) Braze
5 3 (2.94%) ForgeRock
5 3 (2.94%) mParticle
6 2 (1.96%) BMC
6 2 (1.96%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) Dell
6 2 (1.96%) Google
6 2 (1.96%) IBM
6 2 (1.96%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.96%) Talend
7 1 (0.98%) Foundry
7 1 (0.98%) New Relic
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk