Technical Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 376 426
Rank change year-on-year +20 +50 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 6 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.064% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.069% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £593 £253
25th Percentile £513 £688 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £712 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.26% +89.87% -28.57%
75th Percentile £538 - £513
90th Percentile - £732 £532
UK median daily rate £500 £712 £581
% change year-on-year -29.78% +22.49% +1.09%

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 13,470 18,782 21,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.25% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,291 11,391 14,922
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,137 2,202 1,192
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.72 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +4.34% +85.83%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Developer in the UK excluding London

Technical Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Developer in the UK excluding London

Technical Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Developer in the UK excluding London

Technical Developer
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 Technical Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 West - 3 - -
Midlands -4 2 - - 1
West Midlands +1 1 - -
North of England - 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Technical Developer
UK

Technical Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Technical Developer 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 Technical Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) ERP
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) IFS
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) Akka
4 1 (16.67%) Play Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) FMCG
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) .NET

Technical Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) Akka
1 1 (16.67%) Play Framework
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
3 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IFS