Developer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £359, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 37 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.86% 9.79% 11.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.45% 10.14% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £269 £376 £213
25th Percentile £313 £385 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £398 £542 £538
90th Percentile £416 £588 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.41% -5.56% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 256 276 210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 96.50% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 201 166
10th Percentile £263 £325 £213
25th Percentile £346 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £415
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +7.23% -10.27%
75th Percentile £451 £550 £538
90th Percentile £525 £620 £594
East Midlands median daily rate £414 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -2.65% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 4
10th Percentile £17.57 £10.90 £16.76
25th Percentile - £11.83 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £24.83
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -43.62% -23.60%
75th Percentile - £26.94 £36.08
90th Percentile £38.20 £44.13 £53.43
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £18.00 £21.84
% change year-on-year +18.83% -17.56% +9.18%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Northamptonshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Northamptonshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Northamptonshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Northamptonshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Northampton +3 35 £358 -23.42% 40
Daventry +2 2 £425 - 2
Developer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 24 (64.86%) Java
2 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
2 18 (48.65%) CSS
2 18 (48.65%) HTML
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) Spring Boot
4 16 (43.24%) Spring
5 15 (40.54%) AngularJS
5 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
6 14 (37.84%) Git
6 14 (37.84%) RESTful
7 13 (35.14%) SQL
7 13 (35.14%) Microservices
8 12 (32.43%) Hibernate
9 10 (27.03%) Oracle
9 10 (27.03%) REST
10 9 (24.32%) HTML5
10 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
11 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
11 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
11 8 (21.62%) API Development
11 8 (21.62%) Front End Development
11 8 (21.62%) JUnit
11 8 (21.62%) Finance
12 7 (18.92%) Maven
12 7 (18.92%) Web Services
12 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
12 7 (18.92%) Kafka
12 7 (18.92%) React

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 5 (13.51%) Confluence
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (5.41%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Camunda
4 1 (2.70%) JBoss
4 1 (2.70%) Mule
4 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.70%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) npm
2 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
1 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
1 3 (8.11%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.11%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.41%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.41%) Flink
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.70%) HBase
5 1 (2.70%) Impala
5 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) JUnit
2 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
3 7 (18.92%) Maven
4 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (16.22%) JIRA
5 5 (13.51%) Mockito
5 5 (13.51%) Selenium
5 5 (13.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
6 4 (10.81%) Subversion
7 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.11%) GitLab
7 3 (8.11%) Gradle
7 3 (8.11%) Grunt
7 3 (8.11%) gulp
7 3 (8.11%) IntelliJ
7 3 (8.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) CSS
1 18 (48.65%) HTML
2 17 (45.95%) Spring Boot
3 16 (43.24%) Spring
4 15 (40.54%) AngularJS
5 14 (37.84%) RESTful
6 12 (32.43%) Hibernate
7 10 (27.03%) REST
8 9 (24.32%) HTML5
9 7 (18.92%) Kafka
9 7 (18.92%) React
9 7 (18.92%) Web Services
10 6 (16.22%) J2EE
10 6 (16.22%) JPA
10 6 (16.22%) Node.js
11 5 (13.51%) CSS3
11 5 (13.51%) jQuery
12 4 (10.81%) Bootstrap
12 4 (10.81%) JSON
12 4 (10.81%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (8.11%) State Machine
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) APACS
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 13 (35.14%) Microservices
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.62%) API Development
5 8 (21.62%) Front End Development
6 7 (18.92%) Clean Code
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
7 6 (16.22%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 6 (16.22%) TDD
8 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.51%) Open Source
8 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
9 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.81%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
9 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Java
2 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
3 13 (35.14%) SQL
4 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.11%) Python
6 3 (8.11%) Scala
7 2 (5.41%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.70%) C++
8 1 (2.70%) COBOL
8 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Veracode
3 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.70%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.70%) HP
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Perforce
4 1 (2.70%) Solace
4 1 (2.70%) Teradata