Development Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Development Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 177 205
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.023% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +13.16% -15.56% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.75
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.02% +65.31%
75th Percentile - - £43.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £57.75
% change year-on-year +62.41% -20.03% +135.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,088 4,355 5,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 92.98% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,716 3,730
10th Percentile £241 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £595
90th Percentile £638 £670 £684
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 421 160
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.07 £14.23
25th Percentile £14.34 £12.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.36 £21.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% -28.33% +55.88%
75th Percentile £46.89 £46.91 £49.08
90th Percentile £74.38 £65.00 £66.07
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the North of England

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in the North of England

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in the North of England

Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 5 £450 -
North West +5 1 £385 - 10
Development Engineer
England

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Development Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) COBOL
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Perforce
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) SDET
3 1 (16.67%) SEPA
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Component Testing
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) API Testing
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Component Testing
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) SDET
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) COBOL
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Perforce