eggPlant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring eggPlant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing eggPlant 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £440 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £360 £300
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -45.45%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

eggPlant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,926 2,263 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.45% 14.63% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 1,548 1,331
10th Percentile £327 £306 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £627 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 91 152
10th Percentile £36.25 £46.25 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.68 £55.00 £55.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing eggPlant relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

eggPlant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing eggPlant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing eggPlant

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing eggPlant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing eggPlant

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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 eggPlant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2
South East - 1 £450 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 £350 - 2
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) HP UFT
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk