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 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 372 440
Rank change year-on-year +46 +68 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 14 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.094% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £230 £403 £365
25th Percentile £413 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £463
90th Percentile £525 - £485
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £556
% change year-on-year - -14.61% +17.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £42.75 -
25th Percentile - £45.00 £37.75
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.02% +65.31%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £57.75
% change year-on-year +62.41% -20.03% +79.07%

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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

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 20 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 20 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 +19 5 £450 - 20
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 1
South West +44 3 £230 - 23
South East +41 3 £475 +5.56% 34
Scotland +7 3 - - 20
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Mentor Graphics
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) COBOL
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (21.43%) Electronics
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (21.43%) LabVIEW
3 3 (21.43%) Analogue Electronics
3 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (21.43%) SDET
3 3 (21.43%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 2 (14.29%) REST

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 1 (7.14%) Apache Solr
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (7.14%) SAS
1 1 (7.14%) Tuxedo
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) NFC
1 1 (7.14%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Hub
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) MS Access
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) LabVIEW
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Valgrind
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
1 2 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) Ajax
2 1 (7.14%) JAXB
2 1 (7.14%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.14%) JAX-WS
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XSD
2 1 (7.14%) XSL
2 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (21.43%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (21.43%) SDET
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.14%) Multithreaded Programming
5 1 (7.14%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) COBOL
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (14.29%) Perforce
4 1 (7.14%) Ab Initio