Developer Contracts in Staffordshire

Developer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Staffordshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 9 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 7.50% 6.82% 5.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.83% 7.41% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £306 £371 £342
25th Percentile £328 £375 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £388
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +19.35% +6.16%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £419
90th Percentile £575 £650 £447
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +13.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 115 162 190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 92.05% 97.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 118 155
10th Percentile £110 £355 £163
25th Percentile £208 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £488 £584 £517
90th Percentile £595 £745 £581
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £18.76 £22.90 £15.27
25th Percentile £28.51 - -
Median hourly rate £34.47 £23.00 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +49.85% +30.53% +25.86%
75th Percentile £37.19 £28.75 £26.38
90th Percentile £41.13 - £36.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £22.20 £17.72
% change year-on-year +3.85% +25.25% +14.32%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Lichfield - 4 £550 - 1
Burton-upon-Trent +1 2 £313 -26.47% 1
Stoke-on-Trent +4 1 £400 -8.57% 17
Stafford -4 1 £450 -30.77% 2
Developer
West Midlands

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Staffordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Regression Testing
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (44.44%) REST
3 4 (44.44%) Load Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Git
3 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
3 4 (44.44%) Trello
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (44.44%) OpenAPI
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Swagger
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) C#

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (11.11%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Czech Language
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) OpenAPI
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) Swagger
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) D3.js
2 2 (22.22%) Highcharts JS
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Redux
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Matplotlib
3 1 (11.11%) OpenCV
3 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 1 (11.11%) scikit-image
3 1 (11.11%) Seaborn
3 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) Load Testing
2 4 (44.44%) OO
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Regression Testing
2 4 (44.44%) SOA
2 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Deep Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Image Processing
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AVEVA