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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 112 89 142
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.99% 8.17% 7.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.49% 9.45% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 94
10th Percentile £363 £400 £288
25th Percentile £413 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -11.58%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £488
90th Percentile £600 £675 £575
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £26.35 £60.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £32.79 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.05 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.56% -33.51% +5.58%
75th Percentile £77.00 £54.79 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £60.92 £80.00
England median hourly rate £46.80 £40.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.14% -38.01% +4.00%

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 2,041 942 1,712
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 86.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 466 736
10th Percentile £191 £194 £206
25th Percentile £354 £338 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £442
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +10.41% -6.95%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £641
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 186 593
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.33 £16.65
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -12.21% +10.19%
75th Percentile £65.88 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £74.85 £84.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
% change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 0 31 £488 +4.28% 21
Bedfordshire +13 27 £513 +2.50% 3
Cambridgeshire +11 21 £500 -0.50% 25
Suffolk +2 17 £495 +41.43% 11
Hertfordshire -38 15 £475 -17.39% 37
Norfolk -27 1 £425 -5.56% 7
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 35 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 34 (30.36%) Java
3 29 (25.89%) Agile
3 29 (25.89%) SQL
4 28 (25.00%) DevOps
4 28 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 20 (17.86%) Git
6 19 (16.96%) Spring Boot
7 18 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (16.07%) Microservices
7 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
8 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (14.29%) Analytics
9 16 (14.29%) Spring
10 15 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (13.39%) Customer Service
10 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
10 15 (13.39%) TDD
11 14 (12.50%) Azure
12 13 (11.61%) .NET
12 13 (11.61%) C#
12 13 (11.61%) Power Platform
13 12 (10.71%) Power BI
13 12 (10.71%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.71%) User Stories
14 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
14 11 (9.82%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (9.82%) Mentoring
14 11 (9.82%) React
15 10 (8.93%) AWS

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 (2.68%) CMS
1 3 (2.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (5.36%) Sage X3
3 3 (2.68%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.50%) Azure
2 13 (11.61%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.82%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (8.93%) AWS
4 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.93%) Google Ads
5 9 (8.04%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) GitHub
7 5 (4.46%) SaaS
8 4 (3.57%) Apple Pay
8 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.68%) Serverless
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.79%) npm
10 2 (1.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.46%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) Power BI
2 10 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.36%) Power Query
3 6 (5.36%) ZAP BI
4 5 (4.46%) QlikView
4 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.79%) Tableau
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Git
2 10 (8.93%) GitLab
3 9 (8.04%) Gradle
4 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.68%) JIRA
5 3 (2.68%) JUnit
5 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.79%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.89%) Hudson
7 1 (0.89%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) Selenium
7 1 (0.89%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 24 (21.43%) Finance
2 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.14%) Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Automotive
8 2 (1.79%) Aviation
8 2 (1.79%) Local Government
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
8 2 (1.79%) Military
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.96%) Spring Boot
2 16 (14.29%) Spring
3 13 (11.61%) .NET
4 11 (9.82%) React
5 8 (7.14%) CSS
5 8 (7.14%) HTML
5 8 (7.14%) Node.js
6 7 (6.25%) RESTful
7 6 (5.36%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.36%) Web Services
8 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.46%) JSON
8 5 (4.46%) REST
9 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (3.57%) Kafka
10 3 (2.68%) OAuth
10 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.68%) XML
11 2 (1.79%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.79%) NHS
3 2 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.89%) CMDB
4 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.89%) Genomics
4 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.46%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 29 (25.89%) Agile
3 28 (25.00%) DevOps
3 28 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 18 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (16.07%) Microservices
5 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.29%) Analytics
7 15 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (13.39%) Customer Service
7 15 (13.39%) TDD
8 12 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 12 (10.71%) User Stories
9 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
9 11 (9.82%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.04%) CRM
10 9 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (8.04%) User Experience
11 8 (7.14%) ETL
11 8 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.36%) Java
2 29 (25.89%) SQL
3 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.61%) C#
5 8 (7.14%) Python
6 7 (6.25%) VBA
7 6 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.46%) C++
8 5 (4.46%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.57%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.79%) C
10 2 (1.79%) XAML
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.79%) PhD
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Ansible
2 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.14%) Oracle
3 7 (6.25%) Sage
4 4 (3.57%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.68%) Checkmarx
5 3 (2.68%) Google
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe
6 2 (1.79%) Braze
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
6 2 (1.79%) mParticle
7 1 (0.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.89%) Genesys
7 1 (0.89%) New Relic
7 1 (0.89%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) Splunk