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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 116 78 134
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.19% 8.24% 7.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.70% 9.48% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 63 95
10th Percentile £363 £403 £275
25th Percentile £413 £448 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £494
90th Percentile £590 £675 £597
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 7
10th Percentile £35.43 - £48.10
25th Percentile £58.44 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -7.14% +7.28%
75th Percentile £81.94 - £77.50
90th Percentile £83.48 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £53.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.54% -17.69% -

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 2,034 823 1,687
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 86.91% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 432 747
10th Percentile £200 £200 £202
25th Percentile £356 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £650
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 163 599
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.77 £16.63 £16.30
Median hourly rate £31.47 £43.20 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.16% +0.47% -1.44%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £84.80 £75.05
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +1 31 £500 +4.66% 18
Bedfordshire +14 29 £500 - 3
Cambridgeshire +9 20 £500 - 19
Hertfordshire -35 18 £450 -21.74% 22
Suffolk +2 17 £495 +41.43% 11
Norfolk -23 1 £425 -5.56% 6
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 33 (28.45%) Java
1 33 (28.45%) SQL
2 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 28 (24.14%) Agile
4 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.10%) DevOps
6 18 (15.52%) Analytics
6 18 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (15.52%) Spring Boot
7 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
7 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (13.79%) Git
8 16 (13.79%) Spring
9 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
9 15 (12.93%) Microservices
9 15 (12.93%) TDD
10 14 (12.07%) React
10 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.21%) C#
11 13 (11.21%) Power BI
11 13 (11.21%) Power Platform
12 12 (10.34%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.34%) Customer Service
12 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
12 12 (10.34%) User Stories
13 11 (9.48%) GitLab
13 11 (9.48%) Mentoring
13 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
14 10 (8.62%) 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 (2.59%) CMS
1 3 (2.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (5.17%) Sage X3
3 3 (2.59%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.72%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.21%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.62%) AWS
2 10 (8.62%) Azure
2 10 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (6.90%) GCP
3 8 (6.90%) Google Ads
4 7 (6.03%) GitHub
5 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.31%) SaaS
7 4 (3.45%) Apple Pay
7 4 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.59%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.59%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.59%) Serverless
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (3.45%) Firewall
2 4 (3.45%) VPN
3 2 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.21%) Power BI
2 10 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.17%) Power Query
3 6 (5.17%) ZAP BI
4 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.31%) QlikView
5 4 (3.45%) Metadata
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.59%) Tableau
7 2 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (13.79%) Git
2 11 (9.48%) GitLab
3 9 (7.76%) Gradle
4 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.45%) JIRA
5 3 (2.59%) JUnit
5 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.72%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.86%) Hudson
7 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.86%) JMeter
7 1 (0.86%) Selenium
7 1 (0.86%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.86%) Snyk
General
1 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.10%) Finance
3 12 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Publishing
6 5 (4.31%) Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Aviation
9 2 (1.72%) Automotive
9 2 (1.72%) Local Government
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Military
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) Spring Boot
2 16 (13.79%) Spring
3 14 (12.07%) React
4 8 (6.90%) .NET
4 8 (6.90%) Node.js
5 7 (6.03%) CSS
5 7 (6.03%) HTML
6 5 (4.31%) JSON
6 5 (4.31%) RESTful
7 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.45%) Kafka
7 4 (3.45%) REST
7 4 (3.45%) Web Services
8 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.59%) Express.js
8 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.72%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.59%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.72%) NHS
4 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Windows
2 2 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 28 (24.14%) Agile
3 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
4 21 (18.10%) DevOps
5 18 (15.52%) Analytics
5 18 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (12.93%) Microservices
8 15 (12.93%) TDD
9 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.34%) Customer Service
10 12 (10.34%) User Stories
11 11 (9.48%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.62%) Visualisation
13 9 (7.76%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.76%) Validation
14 8 (6.90%) CRM
14 8 (6.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.45%) Java
1 33 (28.45%) SQL
2 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.21%) C#
4 8 (6.90%) Python
5 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (5.17%) Perl
6 6 (5.17%) VBA
7 5 (4.31%) C++
8 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.59%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Ansible
2 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) Oracle
2 7 (6.03%) Sage
3 4 (3.45%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.59%) Adobe
4 3 (2.59%) Braze
4 3 (2.59%) Checkmarx
4 3 (2.59%) Databricks
4 3 (2.59%) ForgeRock
4 3 (2.59%) Google
4 3 (2.59%) mParticle
5 2 (1.72%) IBM
5 2 (1.72%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.86%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.86%) New Relic
6 1 (0.86%) Splunk