Development Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 464 588
Rank change year-on-year +132 +124 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 13 13 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.085% 0.050% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 21
10th Percentile - £490 £315
25th Percentile £425 £516 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +22.58%
75th Percentile - £644 £613
90th Percentile £581 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £475
% change year-on-year -15.56% +18.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £75.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year -38.43% +132.56% -14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Development Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Development Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Development Engineer.

Development Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Development Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Development Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) C++
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
1 7 (53.85%) Computer Science
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) Kafka
4 4 (30.77%) SDET
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Windows
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (23.08%) SOAP
5 3 (23.08%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 3 (23.08%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Product Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Management

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Couchbase
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
3 1 (7.69%) Informix
3 1 (7.69%) MS Access
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
1 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) Akka
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Computer Science
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) SDET
3 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) API Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Feasibility Study
4 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Management
4 3 (23.08%) Product Management
4 3 (23.08%) Validation
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C++
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) VB
5 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (23.08%) VirtualBox
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Server
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Consul
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Typelevel
3 1 (7.69%) VMware