Firebug Contract Job Trends in the South East

Firebug
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Firebug skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 165 205
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 -
Contract jobs citing Firebug 9 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.24% 0.057%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.96% 1.88% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile - £163 £227
25th Percentile £163 £203 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £205 £310
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -33.87% -
75th Percentile £211 £208 £315
90th Percentile - £211 -
England median daily rate £175 £205 £310
% change year-on-year -14.63% -33.87% -

All Development Application Skills
South East

Firebug 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 459 533 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.10% 12.99% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 316 453
10th Percentile £260 £350 £396
25th Percentile £363 £396 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.05%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 32
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.23 £50.13
25th Percentile £51.00 £55.87 £54.47
Median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Firebug
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Firebug job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Firebug
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 Firebug within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 0 6 £175 -14.63% 1
Thames Valley - 3 £208 -
Berkshire - 3 £208 -
Firebug
England

Firebug
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 9 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle