Developer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £364, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 36 40 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.08% 13.99% 11.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.54% 14.98% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 24
10th Percentile £268 £340 £313
25th Percentile £310 £360 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £409 £565 £545
90th Percentile £430 £600 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £425 £459
% change year-on-year -3.53% -7.40% +1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.83
East Midlands median hourly rate - £57.50 £11.83
% change year-on-year - +386.05% -63.60%

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 287 267 190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.31% 93.36% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 191 142
10th Percentile £270 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -9.00% +5.23%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £542
90th Percentile £525 £600 £605
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile - - £11.46
25th Percentile - £11.83 £11.83
Median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +75.04% -15.84% -56.98%
75th Percentile - £22.13 £18.75
90th Percentile £41.56 £42.03 £46.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.32 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.25% +7.95% +13.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Northamptonshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Northamptonshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies 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 20 September 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 -7 36 £364 -16.80% 13
Developer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 (66.67%) Java
2 18 (50.00%) Git
3 16 (44.44%) Spring Boot
4 15 (41.67%) Spring
4 15 (41.67%) HTML
4 15 (41.67%) CSS
5 14 (38.89%) SQL
5 14 (38.89%) RESTful
5 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
6 12 (33.33%) Microservices
6 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 11 (30.56%) Agile
7 11 (30.56%) REST
8 10 (27.78%) Hibernate
8 10 (27.78%) Finance
8 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
9 9 (25.00%) SonarQube
9 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Kafka
10 8 (22.22%) Oracle
10 8 (22.22%) Design Patterns
11 7 (19.44%) Clean Code
11 7 (19.44%) DevOps
11 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
11 7 (19.44%) React
11 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
11 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
12 6 (16.67%) HTML5

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 (13.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Mule
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (2.78%) Camunda
3 1 (2.78%) JBoss
3 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) HTTP
1 3 (8.33%) HTTPS
1 3 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Big Data
2 5 (13.89%) Hadoop
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 3 (8.33%) HBase
4 3 (8.33%) MariaDB
4 3 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.56%) QlikView
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.56%) Tableau
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (50.00%) Git
2 9 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 6 (16.67%) JUnit
4 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (13.89%) Maven
4 5 (13.89%) Mockito
4 5 (13.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.11%) JIRA
6 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 3 (8.33%) GitLab
6 3 (8.33%) Selenium
6 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.56%) Grunt
7 2 (5.56%) Jasmine
7 2 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (5.56%) Mocha
7 2 (5.56%) Subversion
7 2 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 15 (41.67%) CSS
2 15 (41.67%) HTML
2 15 (41.67%) Spring
3 14 (38.89%) RESTful
4 12 (33.33%) AngularJS
5 11 (30.56%) REST
6 10 (27.78%) Hibernate
7 8 (22.22%) Kafka
8 7 (19.44%) React
9 6 (16.67%) HTML5
9 6 (16.67%) J2EE
9 6 (16.67%) JPA
9 6 (16.67%) RAML
9 6 (16.67%) Spring Batch
10 5 (13.89%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (13.89%) Web Services
11 4 (11.11%) CSS3
11 4 (11.11%) RxJS
12 3 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (8.33%) State Machine
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) Microservices
2 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 7 (19.44%) Clean Code
6 7 (19.44%) DevOps
6 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
7 6 (16.67%) API Development
7 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.89%) Scrum
8 5 (13.89%) TDD
9 4 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 4 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 4 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
9 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Java
2 14 (38.89%) SQL
3 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.89%) Scala
6 4 (11.11%) Python
7 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.56%) C#
8 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Checkmarx
2 3 (8.33%) Veracode
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Pardot
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) Solace
3 1 (2.78%) Teradata