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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 142 184
Rank change year-on-year -42 +42 +22
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 16 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.30% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.89% 4.00% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 3
10th Percentile £204 - £145
25th Percentile £204 £620 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £633 £500
Median % change year-on-year -67.22% +26.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £418 £660 £581
90th Percentile £566 - £615
England median daily rate £208 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -63.76% -4.58% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 10
10th Percentile - £45.02 £54.63
25th Percentile - £55.38 £61.44
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - £62.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 554 375 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.51% 12.64% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 213 351
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £363 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £561 £590 £610
90th Percentile £642 £650 £668
England median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 23 33
10th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £51.16 £55.00
Median hourly rate £85.79 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -7.60% +11.14%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £76.22
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 17 March 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 17 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
Surrey - 12 £208 -
Thames Valley -40 4 £600 -
Berkshire - 4 £600 -
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 10 (62.50%) SaaS
1 10 (62.50%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Wireless
2 2 (12.50%) NFC
2 2 (12.50%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) MySQL
1 10 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Android Studio
1 10 (62.50%) Browser DevTools
1 10 (62.50%) Xcode
2 4 (25.00%) Maven
2 4 (25.00%) Subversion
3 2 (12.50%) Valgrind
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Support Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Support
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Support Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) UX Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Development Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Ajax
1 10 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 10 (62.50%) CSS
1 10 (62.50%) GraphQL
1 10 (62.50%) React
2 6 (37.50%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Mobile App
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Android
2 10 (62.50%) Unix
2 10 (62.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) User Experience
2 10 (62.50%) Mobile Application Development
2 10 (62.50%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) Component Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Cryptography
5 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 2 (12.50%) Memory Management
5 2 (12.50%) Multithreaded Programming
5 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 10 (62.50%) Perl
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle
1 10 (62.50%) Splunk
2 7 (43.75%) ServiceNow
3 4 (25.00%) Atlassian