Development Engineer Contracts in England

Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 610 707
Rank change year-on-year +106 +97 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 39 28 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.062% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 33
10th Percentile £410 £490 £364
25th Percentile £425 £530 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £550
90th Percentile £646 - £725
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £475
% change year-on-year -15.56% +18.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £42.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £37.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +65.31% -37.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.25 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +14.02% +25.58% -18.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +83 23 £488 -13.33% 9
East of England - 8 £420 - 24
South East - 5 £450 - 30
Midlands - 2 - - 25
West Midlands - 2 - - 15
North of England +26 1 - - 10
North West +19 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 20
Development Engineer
UK

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (48.72%) Software Engineering
2 18 (46.15%) Degree
3 16 (41.03%) C++
4 15 (38.46%) Kafka
5 13 (33.33%) Oracle
6 12 (30.77%) Agile
6 12 (30.77%) Computer Science
6 12 (30.77%) Azure
7 11 (28.21%) Python
7 11 (28.21%) SQL
8 10 (25.64%) Linux
8 10 (25.64%) Validation
9 9 (23.08%) Scrum
9 9 (23.08%) Java
9 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
10 8 (20.51%) Feasibility Study
10 8 (20.51%) RESTful
10 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
11 7 (17.95%) Product Management
11 7 (17.95%) Finance
11 7 (17.95%) Couchbase
11 7 (17.95%) Microservices
11 7 (17.95%) Data Structures
12 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
12 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
12 6 (15.38%) C#
12 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
12 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 6 (15.38%) Git

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) npm
4 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) Wireless
3 1 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Couchbase
2 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.56%) KDB
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
3 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Babel
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Electronics
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Marketing
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Aviation
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) Kafka
2 8 (20.51%) RESTful
3 4 (10.26%) SOAP
3 4 (10.26%) XML
4 3 (7.69%) .NET
4 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) CSS
5 2 (5.13%) React
5 2 (5.13%) Redux
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) Akka
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.56%) Middleware
6 1 (2.56%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) NumPy
6 1 (2.56%) Playwright
6 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.82%) Algorithms
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) FPGA
3 1 (2.56%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Software Engineering
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 10 (25.64%) Validation
4 9 (23.08%) Scrum
5 8 (20.51%) Feasibility Study
5 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
6 7 (17.95%) Product Management
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) SDET
9 4 (10.26%) API Testing
9 4 (10.26%) DevOps
9 4 (10.26%) Inventory Management
9 4 (10.26%) Manual Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Open Source
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) C++
2 11 (28.21%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.69%) C
6 3 (7.69%) Go
6 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) Perl
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) Rust
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.13%) PhD
6 1 (2.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.56%) MiFID
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (10.26%) VirtualBox
3 3 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Server
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Consul
2 3 (7.69%) Grafana
2 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) SimCorp
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Typelevel
5 1 (2.56%) VMware
139 Development Engineer jobs Nationwide