Eclipse Contract Job Trends in the South East

Eclipse
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Eclipse skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 164 182
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +82
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 19 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.88% 3.09% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 15
10th Percentile - - £232
25th Percentile £204 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £588
90th Percentile - - £669
England median daily rate £453 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -20.26% -1.30% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 8
10th Percentile - £63.00 £16.25
25th Percentile - - £45.31
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile - - £67.19
90th Percentile - £72.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Development Application Skills
South East

Eclipse falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 389 551 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.15% 11.96% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 349 456
10th Percentile £274 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £613 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 40
10th Percentile - £45.74 £47.66
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -9.16%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Eclipse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Eclipse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Eclipse in the South East

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Eclipse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Eclipse

Eclipse
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Eclipse in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Eclipse in the South East

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Eclipse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Eclipse

Eclipse
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Surrey +24 18 £208 -
Berkshire +17 1 - -
Thames Valley +12 1 - - 2
Eclipse
England

Eclipse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) SaaS
1 11 (57.89%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Wireless
2 7 (36.84%) NFC
2 7 (36.84%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) MySQL
2 11 (57.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Android Studio
1 11 (57.89%) Browser DevTools
1 11 (57.89%) Xcode
2 7 (36.84%) Valgrind
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 11 (57.89%) Support Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Technical Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Technical Support
1 11 (57.89%) Technical Support Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) UX Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Development Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Development Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Software Development Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Software Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Software Development Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (5.26%) JSP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) Ajax
1 12 (63.16%) CSS
2 11 (57.89%) AngularJS
2 11 (57.89%) GraphQL
2 11 (57.89%) React
3 8 (42.11%) JSON
4 7 (36.84%) REST
4 7 (36.84%) Web Services
4 7 (36.84%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) DWR
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) JDBC
5 1 (5.26%) jQuery
5 1 (5.26%) JSP
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Mobile App
2 7 (36.84%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Linux
2 11 (57.89%) Android
2 11 (57.89%) Unix
2 11 (57.89%) Windows
3 7 (36.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) User Experience
2 11 (57.89%) Mobile Application Development
2 11 (57.89%) OO
3 7 (36.84%) Cryptography
3 7 (36.84%) Front End Development
3 7 (36.84%) Memory Management
3 7 (36.84%) Multithreaded Programming
3 7 (36.84%) Multithreading
3 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.26%) Application Security
4 1 (5.26%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (5.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (94.74%) Python
3 11 (57.89%) Perl
4 7 (36.84%) C#
4 7 (36.84%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) ServiceNow
2 11 (57.89%) Splunk