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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 120 98 111
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.51% 7.85% 6.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.06% 9.07% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 67 76
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% -6.67%
75th Percentile £570 £547 £488
90th Percentile £613 £645 £569
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £26.50 £33.96 -
25th Percentile £41.38 £51.83 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.40 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.32% -21.15% +8.33%

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 1,980 1,081 1,453
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 86.55% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 503 624
10th Percentile £200 £189 £200
25th Percentile £375 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year - +15.94% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £569
90th Percentile £694 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 239 494
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.11 £19.13 £21.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.19% +12.49%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +1 41 £505 +5.70% 22
Cambridgeshire +13 24 £500 -0.50% 18
Bedfordshire +12 22 £550 +10.00% 8
Suffolk -3 16 £495 +16.47% 8
Hertfordshire -37 16 £475 -13.64% 30
Norfolk -24 1 £425 -5.56% 9
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 44 (36.67%) Java
2 42 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 41 (34.17%) CI/CD
4 33 (27.50%) DevOps
5 28 (23.33%) Agile
6 25 (20.83%) SQL
7 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.50%) Git
8 21 (17.50%) Microservices
9 20 (16.67%) Azure
10 19 (15.83%) Spring Boot
11 18 (15.00%) Analytics
11 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
11 18 (15.00%) TDD
12 16 (13.33%) Spring
13 15 (12.50%) Customer Service
13 15 (12.50%) GCP
14 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (10.83%) Mentoring
15 12 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (10.00%) ETL
15 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
15 12 (10.00%) Oracle
15 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
15 12 (10.00%) Python
15 12 (10.00%) Relational Database
16 11 (9.17%) 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:

Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (5.00%) Sage X3
3 4 (3.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (1.67%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.67%) Azure
2 15 (12.50%) GCP
3 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.17%) AWS
6 10 (8.33%) Google Ads
7 6 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (3.33%) Apple Pay
8 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.50%) SaaS
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.67%) OCI
10 2 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (6.67%) Firewall
2 8 (6.67%) VPN
3 3 (2.50%) RS-232
3 3 (2.50%) RS-485
4 2 (1.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) Power Query
3 6 (5.00%) ZAP BI
4 4 (3.33%) MySQL
4 4 (3.33%) QlikView
5 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.67%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Git
2 10 (8.33%) GitLab
3 9 (7.50%) Gradle
4 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.50%) JUnit
5 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.67%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.83%) Hudson
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) JIRA
7 1 (0.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 33 (27.50%) Finance
2 25 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.50%) Manufacturing
4 15 (12.50%) Banking
5 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.33%) Retail
7 3 (2.50%) Electronics
8 2 (1.67%) Automotive
8 2 (1.67%) Local Government
8 2 (1.67%) Military
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) Spring Boot
2 16 (13.33%) Spring
3 9 (7.50%) .NET
3 9 (7.50%) RESTful
4 7 (5.83%) Web Services
5 6 (5.00%) REST
6 5 (4.17%) Kafka
6 5 (4.17%) OAuth
7 4 (3.33%) CSS
7 4 (3.33%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.33%) HTML
7 4 (3.33%) Node.js
7 4 (3.33%) OpenID
7 4 (3.33%) React
7 4 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.50%) JSON
8 3 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.33%) Life Science
2 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.67%) CMDB
3 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.83%) Genomics
4 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (34.17%) CI/CD
3 33 (27.50%) DevOps
4 28 (23.33%) Agile
5 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.50%) Microservices
7 18 (15.00%) Analytics
7 18 (15.00%) TDD
8 15 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (10.83%) Mentoring
10 12 (10.00%) ETL
11 11 (9.17%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.17%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (8.33%) Migration
13 9 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (7.50%) CRM
13 9 (7.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.67%) Java
2 25 (20.83%) SQL
3 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.00%) Python
4 11 (9.17%) C#
5 8 (6.67%) C++
6 7 (5.83%) VBA
7 6 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.33%) C
8 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (5.00%) Degree
1 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) PhD
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (7.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Ansible
2 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) Oracle
3 7 (5.83%) Sage
4 4 (3.33%) IBM
5 3 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 3 (2.50%) Google
6 2 (1.67%) Databricks
6 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.83%) Genesys
7 1 (0.83%) JDA
7 1 (0.83%) New Relic
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk