eggPlant Contract Job Trends in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring eggPlant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 499 529
Rank change year-on-year -129 +30 +65
Contract jobs citing eggPlant 14 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.007% 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.048% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £360 £300
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £360 £300
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -45.45%

All Development Application Skills
England

eggPlant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,263 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 96 168
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing eggPlant relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

eggPlant job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing eggPlant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing eggPlant

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing eggPlant in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for eggPlant in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing eggPlant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing eggPlant

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing eggPlant within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -80 11 £500 +38.89% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2
South East - 1 £450 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 £350 - 2
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GitHub
1 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Tableau
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JMeter
1 7 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) SoapUI
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 4 (28.57%) SOAtest
4 3 (21.43%) Git
4 3 (21.43%) HP UFT
4 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) SilkTest
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) Rational Functional Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Test Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Programme Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Programme Test Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Programme Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 8 (57.14%) XML
3 7 (50.00%) Kafka
3 7 (50.00%) SOAP
4 5 (35.71%) HTML
4 5 (35.71%) XBRL
5 4 (28.57%) Middleware
6 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Test Strategy
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (50.00%) SOA
5 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
6 5 (35.71%) API Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
6 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (28.57%) Defect Management
7 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Regression Testing
7 4 (28.57%) SDLC
7 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Test Management
7 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (35.71%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) ISEB
4 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) HP Fortify
2 4 (28.57%) Control-M
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 8 (57.14%) SAP
3 7 (50.00%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) New Relic
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Parasoft
5 1 (7.14%) SOASTA