Development Engineer Contracts

Development Engineer
UK

The median Development Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 655 762
Rank change year-on-year +118 +107 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 47 42 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.076% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.080% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 42
10th Percentile £412 £470 £363
25th Percentile £444 £500 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £547 £631 £588
90th Percentile £646 £675 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £42.75 - £25.38
25th Percentile £45.00 £37.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +25.58% -18.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.25 £36.31
90th Percentile - - £38.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year +14.02% +65.31% -51.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +98 42 £475 -15.56% 93
London +76 23 £488 -13.33% 9
UK excluding London +45 21 £450 +5.88% 91
Work from Home +113 15 £475 -13.64% 14
East of England - 11 £420 - 17
South East - 5 £450 - 15
Scotland +47 2 £475 +11.76% 4
Midlands - 2 - - 21
West Midlands - 2 - - 11
North of England +17 1 - - 16
North West +15 1 - - 11
South West - 1 - - 12

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (48.94%) Software Engineering
2 21 (44.68%) Degree
3 16 (34.04%) C++
3 16 (34.04%) Agile
4 15 (31.91%) Oracle
4 15 (31.91%) Computer Science
4 15 (31.91%) Kafka
5 14 (29.79%) Python
6 13 (27.66%) Linux
6 13 (27.66%) Azure
7 12 (25.53%) SQL
7 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
8 11 (23.40%) Java
8 11 (23.40%) Scrum
9 10 (21.28%) Validation
10 9 (19.15%) Data Structures
11 8 (17.02%) Microservices
11 8 (17.02%) Feasibility Study
11 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (17.02%) Finance
11 8 (17.02%) RESTful
11 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
12 7 (14.89%) AWS
12 7 (14.89%) Git
12 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
12 7 (14.89%) Product Management
12 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
12 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
12 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
12 7 (14.89%) Couchbase

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.51%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) AWS
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.26%) GitHub
4 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.13%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.13%) GCP
5 1 (2.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.26%) RS-485
3 1 (2.13%) HTTP
3 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Couchbase
2 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.13%) Informix
6 1 (2.13%) KDB
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) Artifactory
3 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Babel
4 1 (2.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Electronics
4 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.38%) Marketing
4 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) Kafka
2 8 (17.02%) RESTful
3 4 (8.51%) SOAP
3 4 (8.51%) Spring
3 4 (8.51%) XML
4 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.26%) CSS
5 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) React
5 2 (4.26%) Redux
5 2 (4.26%) REST
5 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.13%) LangChain
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.13%) Playwright
6 1 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) FPGA
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Software Engineering
2 16 (34.04%) Agile
3 15 (31.91%) Computer Science
4 11 (23.40%) Scrum
5 10 (21.28%) Validation
6 8 (17.02%) Feasibility Study
6 8 (17.02%) Microservices
6 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
7 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.89%) Product Management
7 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.77%) SDET
9 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.51%) DevOps
10 4 (8.51%) Manual Testing
10 4 (8.51%) Migration
10 4 (8.51%) Open Source
10 4 (8.51%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) C++
2 14 (29.79%) Python
3 12 (25.53%) SQL
4 11 (23.40%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) C#
6 5 (10.64%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.38%) C
8 3 (6.38%) Go
8 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.26%) Perl
9 2 (4.26%) Rust
10 1 (2.13%) Groovy
10 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.38%) PhD
4 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.13%) MiFID
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.51%) VirtualBox
3 3 (6.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.26%) Docker
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Grafana
3 3 (6.38%) Consul
3 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) Podman
4 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Oracle
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
4 3 (6.38%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.13%) Commvault
5 1 (2.13%) Dell
5 1 (2.13%) Intel
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SimCorp
5 1 (2.13%) Splunk
5 1 (2.13%) Typelevel
5 1 (2.13%) VMware
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