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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 129 174
Rank change year-on-year -71 +45 +21
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 10 13 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.43% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 3.66% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile - £526 -
25th Percentile £204 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £626 £63
Median % change year-on-year -66.85% +901.60% -85.12%
75th Percentile £308 £660 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £450 £545 £533
% change year-on-year -17.43% +2.35% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - £35.96 £61.25
25th Percentile - £52.14 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £59.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.40% +257.14%
75th Percentile - £62.25 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.13 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 515 355 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.68% 11.88% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 218 328
10th Percentile £280 £350 £311
25th Percentile £367 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 35
10th Percentile £58.00 £47.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £52.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -12.00% +10.68%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

Eclipse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Eclipse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Eclipse job vacancy trend 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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
Surrey -6 6 £207 -56.37%
Thames Valley -50 4 £600 - 1
Berkshire - 4 £600 - 1
Eclipse
England

Eclipse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (60.00%) SaaS
1 6 (60.00%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Android Studio
1 6 (60.00%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (60.00%) Xcode
2 4 (40.00%) Maven
2 4 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Support
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) UX Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Ajax
1 6 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (60.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Android
2 6 (60.00%) Unix
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) OO
1 6 (60.00%) User Experience
2 4 (40.00%) Component Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (30.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 4 (40.00%) Atlassian