Development Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £665, 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 333 351 402
Rank change year-on-year +18 +51 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Development Manager 7 40 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 31
10th Percentile £483 £431 £363
25th Percentile £513 £492 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £600 £517
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% +16.05% +8.84%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £588
90th Percentile - £865 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +0.47% -6.52% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% -
UK median hourly rate - £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -26.67% -

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
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 Manager 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
South East +25 2 £475 -20.83% 220
Midlands +11 2 £800 - 216
West Midlands 0 2 £800 - 131
North West +11 1 - - 152
North of England +9 1 - - 266
Scotland +4 1 - - 47
Wales +2 1 £530 +5.47% 20
Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Development Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Line Management
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence

Development Manager 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Line Management
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Benchmarking
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft