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 £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 86 108 109
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.41% 9.48% 6.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.07% 10.69% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 68
10th Percentile £363 £300 £334
25th Percentile £463 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £400 £477
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -16.14% -13.27%
75th Percentile £547 £501 £600
90th Percentile £583 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £63.05 - £19.87
25th Percentile - - £27.93
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
Median % change year-on-year - +8.42% +71.29%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £90.31
90th Percentile - - £93.13
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year -15.38% +6.70% +2.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,416 1,010 1,555
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 88.67% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 449 888
10th Percentile £185 £213 £200
25th Percentile £335 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 160 289
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.11 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +6.74% +111.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.73 £84.49
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

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 15 December 2025.

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
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 15 December 2025. 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 -16 37 £527 -12.25% 68
Cambridgeshire -20 14 £488 +34.48% 45
Suffolk -1 12 £438 +16.67% 17
Essex -2 11 £500 +122.22% 61
Bedfordshire 0 6 £325 -23.53% 35
Norfolk -13 6 £525 - 20
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 (33.72%) Agile
2 23 (26.74%) Azure
3 22 (25.58%) .NET
3 22 (25.58%) DevOps
4 21 (24.42%) CI/CD
5 20 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (23.26%) JavaScript
6 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
7 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
8 17 (19.77%) Python
8 17 (19.77%) React
9 16 (18.60%) SQL
10 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
11 13 (15.12%) C#
12 12 (13.95%) RESTful
13 11 (12.79%) AI
13 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
13 11 (12.79%) Docker
13 11 (12.79%) Java
13 11 (12.79%) Microservices
13 11 (12.79%) Visualisation
14 10 (11.63%) Containerisation
14 10 (11.63%) HTML
14 10 (11.63%) Knowledge Transfer
14 10 (11.63%) Linux
14 10 (11.63%) TDD
15 9 (10.47%) .NET Framework
15 9 (10.47%) Computer Science
15 9 (10.47%) CSS

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 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Mendix
2 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (1.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.74%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (9.30%) Serverless
3 7 (8.14%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) PaaS
5 5 (5.81%) Azure AKS
5 5 (5.81%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (4.65%) npm
6 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.49%) GitHub
7 3 (3.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.33%) Apigee
8 2 (2.33%) Boomi
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
1 2 (2.33%) MIMO
1 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.33%) Wireless
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.65%) Tableau
3 3 (3.49%) DataStage
3 3 (3.49%) MySQL
3 3 (3.49%) Redis
3 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.33%) Big Data
4 2 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Power BI
4 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.16%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (1.16%) Cognos Report Studio
5 1 (1.16%) Metadata
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.81%) GitLab
4 4 (4.65%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.33%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.33%) Selenium
5 2 (2.33%) webpack
6 1 (1.16%) Hudson
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.14%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Military
7 2 (2.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.16%) Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Local Government
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.58%) .NET
2 17 (19.77%) React
3 12 (13.95%) RESTful
4 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
5 10 (11.63%) HTML
6 9 (10.47%) .NET Framework
6 9 (10.47%) CSS
6 9 (10.47%) Node.js
7 7 (8.14%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.14%) Vue
8 6 (6.98%) PyTorch
8 6 (6.98%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.81%) Web Services
10 4 (4.65%) Django
10 4 (4.65%) REST
10 4 (4.65%) Svelte
11 3 (3.49%) Matplotlib
11 3 (3.49%) scikit-learn
11 3 (3.49%) Seaborn
11 3 (3.49%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Algorithms
1 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.81%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.33%) FPGA
4 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.33%) VHDL
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Agile
2 22 (25.58%) DevOps
3 21 (24.42%) CI/CD
4 20 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.79%) AI
6 11 (12.79%) Microservices
6 11 (12.79%) Visualisation
7 10 (11.63%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.63%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (11.63%) TDD
8 9 (10.47%) Computer Science
8 9 (10.47%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (10.47%) Design Patterns
8 9 (10.47%) Machine Learning
8 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.47%) System Testing
8 9 (10.47%) Unit Testing
8 9 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) JavaScript
2 17 (19.77%) Python
3 16 (18.60%) SQL
4 13 (15.12%) C#
5 11 (12.79%) Java
6 6 (6.98%) C++
6 6 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.81%) R
8 2 (2.33%) Bicep
8 2 (2.33%) VB
9 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.49%) MCP
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) PhD
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Lustre
2 1 (1.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Consul
3 2 (2.33%) Ansible
3 2 (2.33%) Control-M
4 1 (1.16%) Kibana
4 1 (1.16%) logstash
4 1 (1.16%) Packer
4 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.47%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.81%) IFS
4 3 (3.49%) Cognos
4 3 (3.49%) Computacenter
4 3 (3.49%) Foundry
4 3 (3.49%) IBM
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle
5 2 (2.33%) BMC
5 2 (2.33%) Dell
5 2 (2.33%) Talend
5 2 (2.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.16%) Databricks
6 1 (1.16%) Informatica
6 1 (1.16%) SAP
6 1 (1.16%) Sybase