Developer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Developer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £511 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 69 71 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.44% 8.11% 6.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.33% 8.65% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 65 34
10th Percentile £420 £400 £350
25th Percentile £475 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £575
90th Percentile £613 £675 £615
South East median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +35.92% -4.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 450 821 802
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.83% 97.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 663 599
10th Percentile £225 £252 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £555
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 41
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.75 £13.16 £12.05
Median % change year-on-year +80.47% +9.21% -13.77%
75th Percentile £29.38 £28.46 £21.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.63 £27.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Milton Keynes +17 66 £511 -7.09% 22
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 26 (37.68%) Python
2 24 (34.78%) SC Cleared
2 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 23 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 23 (33.33%) VMware
4 22 (31.88%) Agile
5 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
5 20 (28.99%) Data Modelling
6 18 (26.09%) Linux
6 18 (26.09%) Red Hat
6 18 (26.09%) Debian
6 18 (26.09%) Ubuntu
7 16 (23.19%) SAN
8 15 (21.74%) ITIL
9 14 (20.29%) SQL
9 14 (20.29%) Data Engineering
10 13 (18.84%) Prototyping
10 13 (18.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 13 (18.84%) Configuration Management
11 11 (15.94%) C#
11 11 (15.94%) Customer Service
11 11 (15.94%) Matrix Organization
12 10 (14.49%) DV Cleared
13 9 (13.04%) Java
14 8 (11.59%) Oracle
14 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
14 8 (11.59%) Scala
14 8 (11.59%) Azure
14 8 (11.59%) Kafka
14 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (2.90%) CMS
1 2 (2.90%) Headless CMS
1 2 (2.90%) Kentico
1 2 (2.90%) SAS
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) Azure
2 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (10.14%) GitHub
3 6 (8.70%) AWS
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.90%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.90%) PaaS
5 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.45%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 16 (23.19%) SAN
3 4 (5.80%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.35%) Tableau
4 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.90%) Impala
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) OLTP
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) Subversion
2 5 (7.25%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.90%) Postman
5 1 (1.45%) Maven
General
1 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.80%) Finance
3 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Retail
4 1 (1.45%) Back Office
4 1 (1.45%) Banking
4 1 (1.45%) Marketing
4 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) Kafka
1 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (8.70%) HTML
3 5 (7.25%) CSS
3 5 (7.25%) React
4 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.35%) DOM
4 3 (4.35%) GatsbyJS
4 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.35%) Spring
5 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.90%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.90%) Swagger
6 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (1.45%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.90%) Credit Risk
1 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.09%) Debian
1 18 (26.09%) Linux
1 18 (26.09%) Ubuntu
2 4 (5.80%) Windows
2 4 (5.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) Agile
2 20 (28.99%) Data Modelling
3 15 (21.74%) ITIL
4 14 (20.29%) Data Engineering
5 13 (18.84%) Configuration Management
5 13 (18.84%) Prototyping
5 13 (18.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 11 (15.94%) Customer Service
6 11 (15.94%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (10.14%) DevOps
7 7 (10.14%) TDD
8 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 4 (5.80%) Analytics
9 4 (5.80%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.80%) Data Acquisition
9 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis
10 3 (4.35%) API Management
10 3 (4.35%) Clean Code
10 3 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (4.35%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.68%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 11 (15.94%) C#
4 9 (13.04%) Java
5 8 (11.59%) Scala
6 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.25%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.80%) C
8 1 (1.45%) Bicep
8 1 (1.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) IFRS
2 2 (2.90%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) VMware
2 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
3 18 (26.09%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.59%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Remedy
6 1 (1.45%) Facebook
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Twitter