Developer Contracts in the East Midlands

Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 96 156 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.47% 15.43% 12.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.26% 16.32% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 141 152
10th Percentile £213 £300 £319
25th Percentile £350 £330 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £435
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.57% +24.29%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £563
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £34.38
25th Percentile £22.50 £66.25 £39.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.96% +49.99% +153.54%
75th Percentile £28.13 £68.75 £46.67
90th Percentile £28.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 724 956 1,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 94.56% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 742 954
10th Percentile £167 £205 £180
25th Percentile £263 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £507
90th Percentile £625 £700 £595
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 53 89
10th Percentile £11.82 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.60 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +11.35% +25.85%
75th Percentile £26.15 £32.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Nottinghamshire +2 45 £438 -12.50% 44
Northamptonshire +2 18 £425 +41.67% 31
Leicestershire -13 10 £300 -24.05% 28
Lincolnshire +7 9 £225 -62.21% 9
Derbyshire -7 5 £418 -7.22% 21
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 40 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 28 (29.17%) HTML
3 27 (28.13%) C#
4 24 (25.00%) Degree
5 23 (23.96%) SQL
5 23 (23.96%) Python
6 22 (22.92%) Code Quality
7 21 (21.88%) Conversational UI
7 21 (21.88%) PayPal
7 21 (21.88%) Chatbot
7 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (18.75%) Agile
9 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.67%) .NET
11 15 (15.63%) CSS
11 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
12 14 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
13 12 (12.50%) Azure
14 10 (10.42%) AWS
14 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
14 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.42%) Node.js
14 10 (10.42%) React
15 9 (9.38%) Front End Development
16 8 (8.33%) Finance
16 8 (8.33%) MVC
16 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
16 8 (8.33%) PHP
17 7 (7.29%) Java
17 7 (7.29%) SAP

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) WordPress
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (21.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SAP CO
1 3 (3.13%) SAP FI
1 3 (3.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.50%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) AWS
3 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.04%) GCP
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) SAN
1 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.25%) Big Data
2 6 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.08%) MySQL
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.04%) Metadata
4 1 (1.04%) QlikView
4 1 (1.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
2 5 (5.21%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) JUnit
4 1 (1.04%) NUnit
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (8.33%) Finance
2 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.13%) Banking
4 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Advertising
6 1 (1.04%) Automotive
6 1 (1.04%) Law
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.17%) HTML
2 16 (16.67%) .NET
3 15 (15.63%) CSS
4 10 (10.42%) Node.js
4 10 (10.42%) React
5 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.25%) Vue
6 5 (5.21%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.17%) RESTful
8 3 (3.13%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.13%) Jest
8 3 (3.13%) jQuery
8 3 (3.13%) NgRx
8 3 (3.13%) RxJS
8 3 (3.13%) SAP PI
9 2 (2.08%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.08%) Next.js
9 2 (2.08%) Redux
9 2 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.04%) e-Health
1 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (1.04%) LIMS
1 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
1 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.04%) NHS
1 1 (1.04%) Online Banking
1 1 (1.04%) PACS
1 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Debian
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
1 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.92%) Code Quality
2 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
2 21 (21.88%) Conversational UI
3 18 (18.75%) Agile
4 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
5 14 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.38%) Front End Development
8 8 (8.33%) MVC
9 7 (7.29%) Migration
9 7 (7.29%) SDLC
10 6 (6.25%) Analytics
10 6 (6.25%) Configuration Management
10 6 (6.25%) E-Commerce
10 6 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.25%) Waterfall
11 5 (5.21%) Data Modelling
11 5 (5.21%) DevOps
11 5 (5.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 27 (28.13%) C#
3 23 (23.96%) Python
3 23 (23.96%) SQL
4 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.33%) PHP
6 7 (7.29%) Java
7 6 (6.25%) ABAP
8 5 (5.21%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) R
9 1 (1.04%) Rust
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.04%) HL7
1 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) Docker
1 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Grafana
1 1 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (21.88%) PayPal
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
2 7 (7.29%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.21%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.21%) VMware
5 2 (2.08%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.08%) Teradata
6 1 (1.04%) Ariba
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Denodo
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) Talend