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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 124 96 110
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.70% 7.61% 6.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.28% 8.81% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 75
10th Percentile £363 £389 £288
25th Percentile £413 £450 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -6.67%
75th Percentile £559 £545 £488
90th Percentile £604 £616 £570
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £38.40 £33.96 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.83 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.00 £67.81
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +4.84%

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 1,975 1,090 1,409
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 86.37% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 505 607
10th Percentile £200 £187 £200
25th Percentile £375 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £564
90th Percentile £694 £668 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 245 468
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.11 £20.00 £21.37
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £47.03
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -8.56% +31.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

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 5 August 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 August 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 August 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 +2 41 £505 +3.48% 19
Bedfordshire +16 22 £560 +12.00% 8
Cambridgeshire +14 21 £500 -0.50% 27
Hertfordshire -34 20 £475 -13.64% 31
Suffolk +1 19 £495 +23.75% 6
Norfolk -18 1 £425 -5.56% 10
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 44 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.68%) Java
2 43 (34.68%) Software Engineering
3 37 (29.84%) DevOps
4 30 (24.19%) Agile
5 26 (20.97%) SQL
6 24 (19.35%) Git
7 22 (17.74%) Microservices
7 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (16.13%) Azure
8 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
9 18 (14.52%) Analytics
9 18 (14.52%) Spring Boot
9 18 (14.52%) TDD
10 16 (12.90%) Power Platform
11 15 (12.10%) Customer Service
11 15 (12.10%) GCP
11 15 (12.10%) Python
11 15 (12.10%) Spring
12 14 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (10.48%) Docker
13 13 (10.48%) GitLab
13 13 (10.48%) Oracle
13 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
14 12 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (9.68%) ETL
14 12 (9.68%) Mentoring

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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.84%) Sage X3
3 4 (3.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.81%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.13%) Azure
2 16 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.10%) GCP
4 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (7.26%) AWS
6 9 (7.26%) Google Ads
7 8 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.84%) GitHub
9 5 (4.03%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.23%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.42%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.42%) SaaS
12 2 (1.61%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (6.45%) Firewall
2 8 (6.45%) VPN
3 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.42%) 5G
4 3 (2.42%) DNS
4 3 (2.42%) HTTP
4 3 (2.42%) RS-232
4 3 (2.42%) RS-485
4 3 (2.42%) SSH
5 2 (1.61%) 4G
5 2 (1.61%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.87%) Power BI
4 7 (5.65%) MySQL
5 6 (4.84%) Power Query
5 6 (4.84%) ZAP BI
6 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.23%) Redis
7 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.42%) QlikView
8 2 (1.61%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.61%) Tableau
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (19.35%) Git
2 13 (10.48%) GitLab
3 9 (7.26%) Gradle
4 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.42%) JUnit
6 3 (2.42%) Selenium
6 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.61%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.81%) Hudson
8 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.81%) JIRA
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (26.61%) Finance
2 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.94%) Manufacturing
4 15 (12.10%) Banking
5 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Retail
7 4 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.42%) Electronics
8 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.61%) Automotive
9 2 (1.61%) Local Government
9 2 (1.61%) Military
9 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) Spring Boot
2 15 (12.10%) Spring
3 12 (9.68%) RESTful
4 9 (7.26%) .NET
4 9 (7.26%) REST
5 8 (6.45%) Kafka
6 7 (5.65%) CSS
6 7 (5.65%) HTML
6 7 (5.65%) Web Services
7 5 (4.03%) OAuth
7 5 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.23%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.23%) Node.js
8 4 (3.23%) OpenID
8 4 (3.23%) React
8 4 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (2.42%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.42%) Jinja
9 3 (2.42%) JSON
9 3 (2.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Life Science
3 4 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.61%) CMDB
4 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.81%) Genomics
5 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.68%) Software Engineering
3 37 (29.84%) DevOps
4 30 (24.19%) Agile
5 22 (17.74%) Microservices
5 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.52%) Analytics
6 18 (14.52%) TDD
7 15 (12.10%) Customer Service
8 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
9 12 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (9.68%) ETL
9 12 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.87%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (8.06%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (8.06%) Migration
11 10 (8.06%) Validation
12 9 (7.26%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.26%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.68%) Java
2 26 (20.97%) SQL
3 15 (12.10%) Python
4 11 (8.87%) C#
4 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.45%) C++
6 7 (5.65%) VBA
7 6 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.23%) C
9 3 (2.42%) Bash
9 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.42%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.61%) XAML
11 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) Degree
2 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.42%) QA
4 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (7.26%) Ansible
2 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.61%) Grafana
4 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.48%) Oracle
3 7 (5.65%) Sage
4 4 (3.23%) IBM
5 3 (2.42%) Checkmarx
5 3 (2.42%) Google
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.81%) Genesys
7 1 (0.81%) JDA