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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 93 159 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.45% 15.96% 12.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.14% 16.79% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 143 156
10th Percentile £218 £300 £319
25th Percentile £325 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% +25.71%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £544
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £32.50
75th Percentile £28.13 - £33.75
90th Percentile £28.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +2.27%

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 766 947 1,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 95.08% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 739 987
10th Percentile £169 £217 £180
25th Percentile £269 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £515
90th Percentile £622 £700 £597
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 49 81
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.80 £9.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.60 £21.67 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +8.35% +36.94%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +1 36 £450 -10.00% 42
Northamptonshire 0 23 £425 +11.48% 29
Leicestershire -12 10 £300 -20.53% 29
Lincolnshire +7 9 £225 -61.92% 13
Derbyshire -3 8 £350 -17.65% 7
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 41 (44.09%) JavaScript
2 30 (32.26%) C#
3 28 (30.11%) HTML
4 24 (25.81%) SQL
5 22 (23.66%) Python
6 19 (20.43%) Agile
7 17 (18.28%) Software Engineering
8 16 (17.20%) CSS
8 16 (17.20%) .NET
9 15 (16.13%) Degree
10 14 (15.05%) TypeScript
11 13 (13.98%) React
11 13 (13.98%) Full Stack Development
11 13 (13.98%) Code Quality
11 13 (13.98%) AWS
12 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.90%) Conversational UI
12 12 (12.90%) PayPal
12 12 (12.90%) Chatbot
13 11 (11.83%) Azure
14 10 (10.75%) Node.js
14 10 (10.75%) SAP
15 9 (9.68%) Oracle
15 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
15 9 (9.68%) Finance
15 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
15 9 (9.68%) JIRA
15 9 (9.68%) SDLC
15 9 (9.68%) Front End Development

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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) WordPress
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) SAS
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) SAP CO
1 5 (5.38%) SAP FI
1 5 (5.38%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.98%) AWS
2 11 (11.83%) Azure
3 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.15%) GitHub
4 1 (1.08%) GCP
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) SAN
1 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.45%) Big Data
2 6 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.15%) MySQL
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) JIRA
2 7 (7.53%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (5.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.08%) Git
5 1 (1.08%) JUnit
General
1 9 (9.68%) Finance
2 8 (8.60%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.08%) Automotive
5 1 (1.08%) Law
5 1 (1.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.11%) HTML
2 16 (17.20%) .NET
2 16 (17.20%) CSS
3 13 (13.98%) React
4 10 (10.75%) Node.js
5 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.45%) RESTful
5 6 (6.45%) Vue
6 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.38%) Redux
7 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.30%) SAP PI
8 3 (3.23%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.23%) D3.js
8 3 (3.23%) Highcharts JS
8 3 (3.23%) Jest
8 3 (3.23%) Next.js
8 3 (3.23%) NgRx
8 3 (3.23%) RxJS
8 3 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.08%) Online Banking
2 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Debian
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
1 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.43%) Agile
2 17 (18.28%) Software Engineering
3 13 (13.98%) Code Quality
3 13 (13.98%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (12.90%) Conversational UI
4 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (9.68%) Front End Development
5 9 (9.68%) SDLC
6 8 (8.60%) Migration
7 7 (7.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (7.53%) Waterfall
8 6 (6.45%) E-Commerce
8 6 (6.45%) MVC
9 5 (5.38%) Analytics
9 5 (5.38%) Configuration Management
9 5 (5.38%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.30%) Data Engineering
10 4 (4.30%) DevOps
10 4 (4.30%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) JavaScript
2 30 (32.26%) C#
3 24 (25.81%) SQL
4 22 (23.66%) Python
5 14 (15.05%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.60%) ABAP
6 8 (8.60%) Java
6 8 (8.60%) PHP
7 6 (6.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.08%) C
8 1 (1.08%) C++
8 1 (1.08%) R
8 1 (1.08%) Rust
8 1 (1.08%) Scala
8 1 (1.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.13%) Degree
2 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
1 1 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) Grafana
1 1 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) PayPal
2 10 (10.75%) SAP
3 9 (9.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.30%) VMware
6 2 (2.15%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.15%) Teradata
7 1 (1.08%) Ariba
7 1 (1.08%) Denodo
7 1 (1.08%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.08%) Talend