Developer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.04% 7.76% 8.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.37% 8.48% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 24
10th Percentile £379 £205 £278
25th Percentile £383 £234 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £433
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -24.86% +23.57%
75th Percentile £553 £400 £450
90th Percentile £591 £548 £507
East Midlands median daily rate £419 £431 £438
% change year-on-year -2.90% -1.43% +25.00%

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 215 224 350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 91.43% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 176 276
10th Percentile £310 £198 £179
25th Percentile £356 £308 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £501 £513
90th Percentile £620 £588 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.22% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 33
10th Percentile £10.90 £14.19 £11.05
25th Percentile £11.83 £17.82 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.02 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% -30.85% -38.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £35.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.50 £20.65 £19.25
% change year-on-year -15.26% +7.29% +30.95%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 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 -5 11 £468 +55.83% 22
Daventry - 5 £388 - 3
Kettering -2 1 £400 +90.48% 3
Developer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) SAP
3 6 (33.33%) ABAP
3 6 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 5 (27.78%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) Oracle
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Hadoop
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
5 4 (22.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (16.67%) SAP PI
6 3 (16.67%) SAP CO
6 3 (16.67%) Banking
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (16.67%) SAP FI
7 2 (11.11%) Apache
7 2 (11.11%) Python
7 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 2 (11.11%) Node.js
7 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills

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 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP CO
1 3 (16.67%) SAP FI
1 3 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) QlikView
2 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SAP PI
2 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (5.56%) Anaconda
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) Express.js
3 1 (5.56%) Jest
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) NestJS
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) Redux
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Online Banking
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 5 (27.78%) SDLC
3 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (5.56%) Adaptive Web Design
7 1 (5.56%) API Development
7 1 (5.56%) Code Quality
7 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (5.56%) Data Science
7 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps
7 1 (5.56%) Open Source
7 1 (5.56%) Scrum
7 1 (5.56%) TDD
7 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
7 1 (5.56%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) ABAP
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) R
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) SAP
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba