Developer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 6 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 33 29 14
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 12.64% 16.57% 8.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.20% 18.47% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 13
10th Percentile £268 £306 £384
25th Percentile £354 £340 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £360 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £440 £538
90th Percentile - £538 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £459
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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% -81.44%

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 250 157 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 89.71% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 113 111
10th Percentile £309 £309 £220
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -18.20% +9.27%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £585 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £11.46
25th Percentile - £23.10 £11.83
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +38.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £23.73
90th Percentile - - £24.60
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.92 £24.09 £17.95
% change year-on-year -13.18% +34.24% +5.56%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Developer job vacancy trend 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 11 December 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 11 December 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 33 £420 +18.31% 5
Developer
East Midlands

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 11 December 2025, Developer 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) Git
4 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
5 8 (24.24%) DevOps
5 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 8 (24.24%) PowerApps
5 8 (24.24%) SharePoint
5 8 (24.24%) Unit Testing
6 7 (21.21%) Apache Spark
6 7 (21.21%) Big Data
6 7 (21.21%) Hadoop
6 7 (21.21%) TDD
7 6 (18.18%) Kafka
7 6 (18.18%) Microservices
7 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
7 6 (18.18%) REST
7 6 (18.18%) RESTful
7 6 (18.18%) Spring
7 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 5 (15.15%) Apache Hive
8 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
8 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
8 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (15.15%) Scala

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 8 (24.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (21.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.06%) Confluence
4 2 (6.06%) Mule
5 1 (3.03%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
1 8 (24.24%) PowerApps
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) Azure
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Big Data
1 7 (21.21%) Hadoop
2 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 5 (15.15%) Apache Hive
4 4 (12.12%) Metadata
4 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.09%) HBase
6 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.06%) QlikView
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.06%) Tableau
7 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
3 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.09%) Maven
4 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Grunt
5 2 (6.06%) gulp
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Mockito
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) webpack
6 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
6 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 6 (18.18%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) RESTful
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) CSS
3 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
3 4 (12.12%) HTML
3 4 (12.12%) J2EE
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) CSS3
5 2 (6.06%) HTML5
5 2 (6.06%) Jest
5 2 (6.06%) JPA
5 2 (6.06%) Node.js
5 2 (6.06%) Redux
5 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 2 (6.06%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) Unit Testing
5 7 (21.21%) TDD
6 6 (18.18%) Microservices
6 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.12%) ETL
8 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.12%) Scrum
8 4 (12.12%) User Experience
9 3 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (9.09%) Data Science
9 3 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
9 3 (9.09%) Integration Testing
9 3 (9.09%) MapReduce
9 3 (9.09%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 11 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) Scala
4 2 (6.06%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) Swift
5 1 (3.03%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) HDFS
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (9.09%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.06%) Checkmarx
3 2 (6.06%) Veracode
4 1 (3.03%) Pardot
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce