Developer Contracts in Staffordshire

Developer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Staffordshire is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.57% 2.05% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.57% 2.19% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £318 £430 -
25th Percentile £325 £438 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £363
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +31.03% -2.03%
75th Percentile £375 £513 £433
90th Percentile £390 £520 £447
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 94 137 170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.52% 93.84% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 100 126
10th Percentile £248 £162 £150
25th Percentile £325 £263 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £472 £566 £506
90th Percentile £529 £677 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 10
10th Percentile - £19.50 £13.43
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.58 £16.65
Median hourly rate £26.60 £22.41 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +18.71% +17.64% +31.38%
75th Percentile £42.50 £51.63 £19.77
90th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 £20.37
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +8.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Stoke-on-Trent +6 6 £350 -26.32% 18
Stafford +2 1 £300 - 3
Tamworth - 1 - - 2
Developer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 Staffordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 6 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Express.js
2 5 (55.56%) Apollo GraphQL
2 5 (55.56%) React
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Development
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) React Native
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Python

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

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 5 (55.56%) Apollo GraphQL
2 5 (55.56%) Express.js
2 5 (55.56%) React
3 1 (11.11%) React Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Development
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared