Developer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 11 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.95% 7.59% 8.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.21% 8.26% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 25
10th Percentile £375 £205 £330
25th Percentile £381 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £433
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.64% +24.64%
75th Percentile £431 £394 £450
90th Percentile £488 £495 £507
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £434 £440
% change year-on-year -7.78% -1.42% +25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 177 218 366
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.68% 91.98% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 172 283
10th Percentile £282 £205 £185
25th Percentile £356 £300 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £394 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £519
90th Percentile £621 £575 £587
East Midlands median daily rate £416 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -7.56% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 31
10th Percentile £10.90 £14.19 £10.50
25th Percentile - £17.82 £15.53
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.02 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% -17.33% -48.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £35.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.60 £20.36 £17.29
% change year-on-year -13.56% +17.74% +16.45%

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
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 24 April 2024. 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 5 £413 +37.50% 11
Daventry - 4 £388 - 2
Kettering -1 1 £400 +90.48% 8
Developer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Waterfall
3 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (36.36%) Big Data
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
3 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Apache
5 2 (18.18%) Python
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Node.js
5 2 (18.18%) React
5 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Redux
6 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Web Design
6 1 (9.09%) Jest
6 1 (9.09%) Data Science
6 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) Anaconda
6 1 (9.09%) Next.js
6 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 1 (9.09%) Public Sector

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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Big Data
1 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Anaconda
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Express.js
2 1 (9.09%) Jest
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) NestJS
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Online Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Waterfall
3 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Web Design
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) API Development
5 1 (9.09%) BDD
5 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) MapReduce
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Open Source
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) R
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Ariba
2 1 (9.09%) SAP