Software Developer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Software Developer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Software Developer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.74% 0.70% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £400 £550
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -7.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 251 129 159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 90.85% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 100 119
10th Percentile £321 £311 £292
25th Percentile £381 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £401 £443
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -9.48% +13.95%
75th Percentile £520 £488 £506
90th Percentile £575 £575 £584
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 19
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -17.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £30.09
90th Percentile - - £45.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.50 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.35% +36.46% -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Software Developer job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Software 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 Software Developer within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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 - 1 £400 - 4
Software Developer
East Midlands

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 13 March 2026, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks