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 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 76 111 118
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.81% 10.34% 6.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.36% 11.51% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 60 74
10th Percentile £409 £300 £300
25th Percentile £463 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £477
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -13.52% -13.27%
75th Percentile £571 £509 £600
90th Percentile £611 £664 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £65.00 - £16.98
25th Percentile £74.00 - £20.69
Median hourly rate £78.75 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +16.07% +60.00%
75th Percentile £82.69 - £90.31
90th Percentile £84.00 - £93.13
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +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 1,419 964 1,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.81% 89.76% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 437 839
10th Percentile £188 £225 £200
25th Percentile £325 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £579 £600 £575
90th Percentile £681 £690 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 146 325
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.24 £13.70
25th Percentile £16.04 £21.46 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +26.42% +92.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.77% +24.64%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -17 34 £528 -12.00% 48
Suffolk +1 15 £500 +33.33% 24
Cambridgeshire -23 10 £488 +35.42% 32
Essex -3 8 £500 +122.22% 35
Bedfordshire -6 8 £463 -7.50% 26
Norfolk -19 1 £475 - 31
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 24 (31.58%) Agile
2 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (23.68%) SQL
4 17 (22.37%) Azure
4 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
4 17 (22.37%) Security Cleared
5 16 (21.05%) .NET
6 15 (19.74%) React
7 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (17.11%) Java
8 12 (15.79%) C#
8 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 12 (15.79%) DevOps
8 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 12 (15.79%) RESTful
8 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
9 11 (14.47%) Python
9 11 (14.47%) Visualisation
10 9 (11.84%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (11.84%) Knowledge Transfer
10 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
10 9 (11.84%) System Testing
10 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
10 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 8 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (10.53%) Product Strategy
11 8 (10.53%) Unit Testing
12 7 (9.21%) AngularJS

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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Mendix
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Azure
2 7 (9.21%) Serverless
3 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.89%) Azure Functions
3 6 (7.89%) PaaS
4 5 (6.58%) Azure AKS
4 5 (6.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (5.26%) AWS
5 4 (5.26%) GitHub
6 3 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.63%) Apigee
7 2 (2.63%) Boomi
7 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Batch
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.63%) HTTP
1 2 (2.63%) MIMO
1 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.63%) Wireless
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Metadata
1 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.95%) DataStage
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.63%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Git
2 5 (6.58%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Hudson
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) Selenium
4 1 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Finance
3 6 (7.89%) Publishing
4 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Military
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) Aviation
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) .NET
2 15 (19.74%) React
3 12 (15.79%) RESTful
4 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.89%) CSS
6 5 (6.58%) .NET Core
6 5 (6.58%) HTML
7 4 (5.26%) Node.js
7 4 (5.26%) REST
7 4 (5.26%) Web Services
8 3 (3.95%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.95%) JSON
8 3 (3.95%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (3.95%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.63%) Blazor
9 2 (2.63%) FreeMarker
9 2 (2.63%) LINQ
9 2 (2.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.95%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.63%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) FPGA
4 2 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) VHDL
5 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Agile
2 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.79%) DevOps
4 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.47%) Visualisation
6 9 (11.84%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (11.84%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (11.84%) System Testing
6 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
6 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (10.53%) Product Strategy
7 8 (10.53%) Unit Testing
8 6 (7.89%) AI
8 6 (7.89%) Data Privacy
8 6 (7.89%) Machine Learning
8 6 (7.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 13 (17.11%) Java
3 12 (15.79%) C#
4 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.47%) Python
5 6 (7.89%) Perl
6 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.63%) C
7 2 (2.63%) C++
7 2 (2.63%) R
7 2 (2.63%) VB
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
1 17 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Degree
3 3 (3.95%) MCP
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Lustre
2 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Consul
3 2 (2.63%) Control-M
4 1 (1.32%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Kibana
4 1 (1.32%) logstash
4 1 (1.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) Cognos
4 3 (3.95%) Computacenter
4 3 (3.95%) Foundry
4 3 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) IFS
5 2 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (2.63%) BMC
5 2 (2.63%) Dell
5 2 (2.63%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.63%) mParticle
5 2 (2.63%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.63%) Talend
6 1 (1.32%) Databricks
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) Sybase