Development Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Development Engineer
England > London

The median Development Engineer daily rate in London is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 355 396
Rank change year-on-year -18 +41 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 8 22 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.14% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.15% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 9
10th Percentile £560 £425 £275
25th Percentile £631 £500 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £850 - £550
90th Percentile - £680 £576
England median daily rate £475 £581 £425
% change year-on-year -18.24% +36.71% -19.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Development Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Development Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Development Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Development Engineer job vacancies in London

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in London

Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Development Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Development Engineer job vacancies in London

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Development Engineer 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 London region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) SDET
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) AI Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Confluence
4 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Jest
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 2 (25.00%) Locust
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
2 1 (12.50%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Locust
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Mercurial
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Jest
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
1 2 (25.00%) pytest
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) Bazel
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blog
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Equities
1 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) SDET
1 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) AI Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Content Development
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Instructional Design
4 1 (12.50%) SOLID
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) JSX
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Charles River
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) VMware