Developer Contracts in Northampton

Developer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Developer daily rate in Northampton is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 June 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
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 23 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 11.98% 7.53% 8.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.78% 7.73% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 9
10th Percentile £292 £390 £283
25th Percentile £323 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £514 £300
Median % change year-on-year -30.32% +71.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £373 £588 £400
90th Percentile £402 £599 £415
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £425 £381
% change year-on-year -15.76% +11.48% -15.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 180 181 112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 97.31% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 144 86
10th Percentile £256 £355 £198
25th Percentile £340 £375 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +12.50% -12.81%
75th Percentile £474 £575 £500
90th Percentile £525 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £400 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -10.11% +11.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £21.38
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.50% -24.84%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Northampton

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Northampton

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northampton over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Northampton

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Northampton

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 4 June 2025, Developer 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 Northampton region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 15 (65.22%) Java
2 12 (52.17%) CSS
2 12 (52.17%) HTML
2 12 (52.17%) Spring
3 11 (47.83%) Agile
3 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 11 (47.83%) AngularJS
4 10 (43.48%) Spring Boot
4 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 9 (39.13%) Microservices
6 8 (34.78%) RESTful
6 8 (34.78%) SQL
6 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
7 7 (30.43%) Oracle
7 7 (30.43%) Git
7 7 (30.43%) REST
8 6 (26.09%) Kafka
8 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
8 6 (26.09%) Web Services
8 6 (26.09%) Finance
8 6 (26.09%) API Development
8 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
9 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
9 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
9 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
9 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
9 5 (21.74%) Scrum
9 5 (21.74%) JUnit
9 5 (21.74%) Docker

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
1 3 (13.04%) Confluence
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (4.35%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
1 3 (13.04%) HTTPS
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Big Data
2 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Flink
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Parquet
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) HBase
4 1 (4.35%) Impala
4 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) JUnit
2 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
3 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
3 3 (13.04%) Mockito
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.70%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Gradle
4 2 (8.70%) HP UFT
4 2 (8.70%) IntelliJ
4 2 (8.70%) Jasmine
4 2 (8.70%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (8.70%) Mocha
4 2 (8.70%) NetBeans
4 2 (8.70%) Protractor
4 2 (8.70%) Subversion
4 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) CSS
1 12 (52.17%) HTML
1 12 (52.17%) Spring
2 11 (47.83%) AngularJS
3 10 (43.48%) Spring Boot
4 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
4 8 (34.78%) RESTful
5 7 (30.43%) REST
6 6 (26.09%) Kafka
6 6 (26.09%) Web Services
7 5 (21.74%) HTML5
8 4 (17.39%) J2EE
8 4 (17.39%) JPA
8 4 (17.39%) JSON
8 4 (17.39%) Node.js
8 4 (17.39%) RAML
8 4 (17.39%) React
8 4 (17.39%) Spring Batch
9 3 (13.04%) Ajax
9 3 (13.04%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) State Machine
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) APACS
3 1 (4.35%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) API Development
5 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
5 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
6 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) Open Source
6 4 (17.39%) Responsive Web Design
6 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) ETL
7 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Code Coverage
8 2 (8.70%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.04%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) COBOL
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.35%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.35%) HP
3 1 (4.35%) Perforce
3 1 (4.35%) Solace
3 1 (4.35%) Teradata
3 1 (4.35%) Veracode