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 15 June 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 425 479
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 21 5 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.022% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.023% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £399 £365 £372
25th Percentile £414 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £475 £463 £538
90th Percentile - £485 £547
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £42.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £37.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +65.31% -51.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.25 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +14.02% +25.58% -18.20%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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
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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 15 June 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
East of England - 11 £420 - 11
South East - 5 £450 - 13
Scotland +47 2 £475 +11.76% 6
West Midlands - 2 - - 10
Midlands - 2 - - 18
North of England +17 1 - - 14
North West +15 1 - - 11
South West - 1 - - 15
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2024, 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 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Degree
3 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 8 (38.10%) Linux
4 8 (38.10%) Python
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
6 5 (23.81%) C++
6 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 5 (23.81%) Oracle
6 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Git
6 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 4 (19.05%) VirtualBox
7 4 (19.05%) Open Source
7 4 (19.05%) Confluence
7 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
7 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
7 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
7 4 (19.05%) API Testing
7 4 (19.05%) SDET
7 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (19.05%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (19.05%) Windows
7 4 (19.05%) JIRA
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing

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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) RS-485
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.76%) Informix
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
2 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 3 (14.29%) Electronics
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 3 (14.29%) Marketing
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) RESTful
1 4 (19.05%) SOAP
1 4 (19.05%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) Guice
2 1 (4.76%) NumPy
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) FPGA
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (19.05%) API Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
6 4 (19.05%) SDET
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (14.29%) Programme Management
7 3 (14.29%) Validation
7 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
8 2 (9.52%) Migration
8 2 (9.52%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) C++
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) C
5 2 (9.52%) Rust
6 1 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) Perl
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 3 (14.29%) PhD
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (19.05%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Commvault
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat