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 £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 130 91 131
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.87% 7.15% 8.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.52% 8.36% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 64 83
10th Percentile £374 £374 £288
25th Percentile £416 £462 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £503 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +25.63% -13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £554 £475
90th Percentile £615 £609 £548
England median daily rate £518 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -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% -
75th Percentile £60.31 £67.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £63.13 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +10.94%

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 1,994 1,089 1,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 85.61% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 487 583
10th Percentile £200 £186 £200
25th Percentile £370 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £561
90th Percentile £688 £680 £622
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 257 413
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.88 £17.79 £21.37
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -12.63% +66.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.81 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +3 42 £530 +8.61% 14
Bedfordshire +24 27 £570 +14.00%
Hertfordshire -32 21 £463 -14.43% 15
Suffolk +2 20 £495 +23.75% 3
Cambridgeshire +1 19 £509 +1.29% 22
Norfolk -18 1 £425 -19.05% 4
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 49 (37.69%) Software Engineering
2 46 (35.38%) CI/CD
2 46 (35.38%) Java
3 40 (30.77%) DevOps
4 33 (25.38%) Agile
5 26 (20.00%) Git
6 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (19.23%) SQL
7 22 (16.92%) Azure
7 22 (16.92%) Microservices
8 19 (14.62%) GCP
8 19 (14.62%) Oracle
8 19 (14.62%) TDD
9 18 (13.85%) Analytics
10 17 (13.08%) Python
11 16 (12.31%) Spring Boot
12 15 (11.54%) Customer Service
12 15 (11.54%) Relational Database
13 14 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (10.77%) Test Automation
14 13 (10.00%) GitLab
14 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 13 (10.00%) Migration
14 13 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (10.00%) Power Platform
14 13 (10.00%) Spring
15 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (9.23%) C#
15 12 (9.23%) Docker
15 12 (9.23%) Dynamics 365

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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.54%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.77%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.92%) Azure
2 19 (14.62%) GCP
3 13 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (8.46%) AWS
6 9 (6.92%) Google Ads
7 8 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.38%) GitHub
9 5 (3.85%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.08%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.31%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.31%) SaaS
12 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.54%) npm
12 2 (1.54%) OCI
12 2 (1.54%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) Firewall
1 10 (7.69%) VPN
1 10 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.08%) 5G
3 4 (3.08%) DNS
3 4 (3.08%) HTTP
3 4 (3.08%) SSH
4 3 (2.31%) 4G
4 3 (2.31%) RS-232
4 3 (2.31%) RS-485
5 1 (0.77%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 13 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.15%) MySQL
3 8 (6.15%) Power BI
4 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.85%) Redis
5 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.31%) QlikView
6 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.54%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.54%) Power Query
7 2 (1.54%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (20.00%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) GitLab
3 9 (6.92%) Gradle
4 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.08%) Selenium
5 4 (3.08%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.31%) JUnit
6 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.77%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.77%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.77%) Hudson
7 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.77%) JIRA
7 1 (0.77%) JMeter
7 1 (0.77%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (28.46%) Finance
2 20 (15.38%) Banking
2 20 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 20 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.85%) Retail
4 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.31%) Electronics
6 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Automotive
7 2 (1.54%) Local Government
7 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.77%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.77%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) Spring Boot
2 13 (10.00%) Spring
3 11 (8.46%) RESTful
4 10 (7.69%) .NET
4 10 (7.69%) REST
5 8 (6.15%) CSS
5 8 (6.15%) HTML
6 7 (5.38%) Kafka
6 7 (5.38%) OAuth
7 6 (4.62%) OpenID
7 6 (4.62%) Web Services
8 4 (3.08%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.08%) Flask
8 4 (3.08%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.08%) Jinja
8 4 (3.08%) Pandas
8 4 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.08%) React
8 4 (3.08%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (2.31%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.08%) Life Science
3 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.54%) CMDB
5 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.77%) Genomics
6 1 (0.77%) Lidar
6 1 (0.77%) NHS
6 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.62%) Linux
2 4 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.69%) Software Engineering
2 46 (35.38%) CI/CD
3 40 (30.77%) DevOps
4 33 (25.38%) Agile
5 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (16.92%) Microservices
7 19 (14.62%) TDD
8 18 (13.85%) Analytics
9 15 (11.54%) Customer Service
10 14 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (10.77%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.00%) Migration
12 11 (8.46%) Mentoring
13 10 (7.69%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.69%) Identity Management
13 10 (7.69%) Load Balancing
13 10 (7.69%) SDLC
13 10 (7.69%) Web Development
14 9 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (6.92%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.38%) Java
2 25 (19.23%) SQL
3 17 (13.08%) Python
4 12 (9.23%) C#
5 10 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.15%) C++
7 4 (3.08%) Bash
7 4 (3.08%) C
7 4 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.31%) VBA
9 2 (1.54%) XAML
10 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.92%) Degree
2 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.08%) PCI DSS
1 4 (3.08%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Ansible
2 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.31%) Grafana
4 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (14.62%) Oracle
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.38%) IBM
4 3 (2.31%) Checkmarx
4 3 (2.31%) Databricks
4 3 (2.31%) Google
5 2 (1.54%) Sage
5 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.77%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.77%) Genesys
6 1 (0.77%) JDA