Developer Contracts in Nottingham

Developer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Developer daily rate in Nottingham is £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 14 30 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 11.57% 25.86% 19.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.21% 27.27% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 43
10th Percentile £284 £340 £325
25th Percentile £350 £419 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £700
90th Percentile £517 £575 -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £413 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -10.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 106 110 240
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.60% 94.83% 99.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 60 190
10th Percentile £258 £205 £310
25th Percentile £405 £322 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £530 £556 £700
90th Percentile £583 £600 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £490 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 13
10th Percentile - £12.28 £11.80
25th Percentile £11.44 £12.75 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.12 £14.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -30.00% +71.53%
75th Percentile £17.87 £14.61 £26.48
90th Percentile - £16.00 £45.30
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £15.12 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -30.00% +47.28%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Nottingham

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Nottingham.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Nottingham

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Nottingham over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Nottingham

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Nottingham.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Nottingham

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 Nottingham region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Symfony
3 4 (28.57%) PHP
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Fintech
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) Unix
5 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
5 2 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
5 2 (14.29%) React
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Symfony
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (7.14%) Blazor
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Fintech
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Android Development
5 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Pair Programming
5 1 (7.14%) Product Management
5 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.14%) User Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PHP
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft