Development Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 381 459
Rank change year-on-year +58 +78 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 13 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.087% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.094% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £230 £404 £365
25th Percentile £376 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £463
90th Percentile £746 - £485
UK median daily rate £600 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +26.32% -15.56% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £75.00
% change year-on-year +62.41% -38.43% +132.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +23 5 £450 - 28
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 10
South West +48 3 £230 - 25
Scotland +14 3 - - 22
South East +43 2 £575 +27.78% 36
Development Engineer
UK

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Development Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Mentor Graphics
4 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
4 3 (23.08%) LabVIEW
4 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Selenium
4 3 (23.08%) Electronics
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) COBOL
4 3 (23.08%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Analogue Electronics
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Schematic Capture
4 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 2 (15.38%) Confluence
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) SDET

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Tuxedo
2 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) MS Access
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) LabVIEW
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Electronics
2 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) JAXB
2 1 (7.69%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.69%) JAX-WS
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) XSD
2 1 (7.69%) XSL
2 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Schematic Capture
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) SDET
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (7.69%) BPEL
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Release Management
6 1 (7.69%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) COBOL
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (15.38%) Perforce
4 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) VMware