Firebug Contracts

Firebug
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Firebug skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firebug over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 592 693
Rank change year-on-year +48 +101 -
Contract jobs citing Firebug 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.043% 0.074% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £175 -
25th Percentile £163 £193 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £205 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -48.75% -
75th Percentile £188 £215 £425
90th Percentile - £229 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £175 £205 -
% change year-on-year -14.63% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,657 5,387 8,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.55% 12.49% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,120 3,566 5,629
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £690 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 251 239
10th Percentile £21.34 £31.25 £44.93
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +10.81%

Firebug
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Firebug as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Firebug in the UK

Firebug
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firebug.

Daily rate trend for Firebug in the UK

Firebug
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firebug.

Hourly rate trend for Firebug in the UK

Firebug
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +49 2 £175 -14.63% 2
UK excluding London +45 2 £175 -14.63% 2
South East +40 2 £175 -14.63% 2

Firebug
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

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