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 £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 131 90 133
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.88% 7.05% 8.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.53% 8.26% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 63 83
10th Percentile £382 £370 £288
25th Percentile £422 £463 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £503 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +25.63% -13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £475
90th Percentile £620 £613 £548
England median daily rate £520 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £35.43 £33.96 -
25th Percentile £48.81 £51.83 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +0.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.31 £67.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £63.13 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +9.92%

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 2,005 1,089 1,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 85.28% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 485 562
10th Percentile £198 £186 £200
25th Percentile £370 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £571
90th Percentile £688 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 255 381
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.84 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.11 £17.65 £21.37
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.45 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -12.74% +43.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.88 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.78 £81.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +4 42 £530 +8.61% 35
Bedfordshire +23 27 £570 +14.00% 2
Suffolk +2 22 £495 +23.75% 9
Hertfordshire -30 20 £450 -16.74% 31
Cambridgeshire +6 19 £517 +2.89% 42
Norfolk -17 1 £425 -19.05% 13
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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 51 (38.93%) Software Engineering
2 49 (37.40%) Java
3 46 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 42 (32.06%) DevOps
5 35 (26.72%) Agile
6 26 (19.85%) Git
7 25 (19.08%) Azure
7 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.56%) Microservices
9 22 (16.79%) GCP
9 22 (16.79%) SQL
10 20 (15.27%) Oracle
10 20 (15.27%) TDD
11 17 (12.98%) Python
12 16 (12.21%) Analytics
12 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
13 15 (11.45%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (11.45%) Relational Database
14 14 (10.69%) AWS
14 14 (10.69%) Customer Service
14 14 (10.69%) Docker
14 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
15 13 (9.92%) GitLab
15 13 (9.92%) Migration
15 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (9.92%) Spring
16 12 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (9.16%) C#
16 12 (9.16%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (9.16%) RESTful

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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.76%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.08%) Azure
2 22 (16.79%) GCP
3 14 (10.69%) AWS
4 12 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.16%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.87%) Google Ads
7 8 (6.11%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub
9 5 (3.82%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.05%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.29%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.29%) SaaS
12 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.53%) npm
12 2 (1.53%) OCI
12 2 (1.53%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Firewall
1 10 (7.63%) VPN
1 10 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.05%) 5G
3 4 (3.05%) DNS
3 4 (3.05%) HTTP
3 4 (3.05%) SSH
4 3 (2.29%) 4G
4 3 (2.29%) RS-232
4 3 (2.29%) RS-485
5 2 (1.53%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (1.53%) RTCP
5 2 (1.53%) RTP
5 2 (1.53%) VoIP
6 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) Relational Database
2 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.11%) MySQL
4 6 (4.58%) Power BI
5 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.82%) Redis
6 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.53%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.53%) QlikView
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Git
2 13 (9.92%) GitLab
3 9 (6.87%) Gradle
4 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.05%) Selenium
5 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.29%) JUnit
6 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.76%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.76%) Hudson
7 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.76%) JIRA
7 1 (0.76%) JMeter
7 1 (0.76%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (26.72%) Finance
2 21 (16.03%) Banking
3 19 (14.50%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Manufacturing
5 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.82%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.29%) Electronics
9 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.53%) Automotive
10 2 (1.53%) Local Government
10 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
2 13 (9.92%) Spring
3 12 (9.16%) RESTful
4 10 (7.63%) .NET
4 10 (7.63%) REST
5 8 (6.11%) CSS
5 8 (6.11%) HTML
5 8 (6.11%) OAuth
6 7 (5.34%) Kafka
6 7 (5.34%) OpenID
7 6 (4.58%) Web Services
8 4 (3.05%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.05%) Flask
8 4 (3.05%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.05%) Jinja
8 4 (3.05%) Pandas
8 4 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.05%) React
8 4 (3.05%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (2.29%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.05%) Life Science
4 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.53%) CMDB
5 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.76%) Genomics
6 1 (0.76%) Lidar
6 1 (0.76%) NHS
6 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.58%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.93%) Software Engineering
2 46 (35.11%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.06%) DevOps
4 35 (26.72%) Agile
5 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.56%) Microservices
7 20 (15.27%) TDD
8 16 (12.21%) Analytics
9 15 (11.45%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (10.69%) Customer Service
10 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
11 13 (9.92%) Migration
12 11 (8.40%) SDLC
13 10 (7.63%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.63%) Identity Management
13 10 (7.63%) Load Balancing
13 10 (7.63%) Mentoring
13 10 (7.63%) Web Development
14 9 (6.87%) CRM
14 9 (6.87%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) Java
2 22 (16.79%) SQL
3 17 (12.98%) Python
4 12 (9.16%) C#
5 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.11%) C++
7 4 (3.05%) Bash
7 4 (3.05%) C
8 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.53%) XAML
10 1 (0.76%) Clojure
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
2 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
1 4 (3.05%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (10.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (6.87%) Ansible
2 7 (5.34%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.29%) Grafana
4 3 (2.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Oracle
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.34%) IBM
4 3 (2.29%) Checkmarx
4 3 (2.29%) Databricks
4 3 (2.29%) Google
5 2 (1.53%) Metaswitch
5 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.76%) Genesys
6 1 (0.76%) JDA