Firebug Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Firebug
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Firebug skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 355 406
Rank change year-on-year -45 +51 -
Contract jobs citing Firebug 9 13 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.079% 0.015%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% 0.62% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile - £171 £227
25th Percentile £163 £203 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £205 £310
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -33.87% -
75th Percentile £211 £238 £315
90th Percentile - £389 -
UK median daily rate £175 £205 £310
% change year-on-year -14.63% -33.87% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Firebug 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 2,636 2,090 2,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.86% 12.69% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 1,219 1,710
10th Percentile £314 £331 £362
25th Percentile £400 £399 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
75th Percentile £559 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 113 194
10th Percentile £36.30 £44.83 £46.18
25th Percentile £56.31 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.89 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Firebug
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Firebug 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 Firebug.

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

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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 Firebug.

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

Firebug
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 Firebug within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 -7 9 £175 -14.63% 1
Firebug
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 9 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle