Developer Contracts in the City of London

Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Developer daily rate in the City of London is £557 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 303 829 1,003
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 13.76% 22.79% 23.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.49% 23.95% 25.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 594 804
10th Percentile £400 £425 £427
25th Percentile £456 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £713
90th Percentile £838 £875 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £68.75 -
Central London median hourly rate - £68.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 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 City of London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 89 (29.37%) Azure
2 88 (29.04%) Agile
3 84 (27.72%) SQL
4 74 (24.42%) Finance
5 73 (24.09%) C#
5 73 (24.09%) Java
6 72 (23.76%) Python
7 62 (20.46%) JavaScript
7 62 (20.46%) AWS
8 54 (17.82%) .NET
9 53 (17.49%) Banking
10 52 (17.16%) DevOps
11 48 (15.84%) Full Stack Development
11 48 (15.84%) CI/CD
12 47 (15.51%) Social Skills
12 47 (15.51%) SQL Server
13 40 (13.20%) HTML
14 39 (12.87%) React
14 39 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (12.54%) Front End Development
15 38 (12.54%) CSS
16 35 (11.55%) Microsoft
16 35 (11.55%) Microservices
17 33 (10.89%) AngularJS
18 30 (9.90%) Investment Banking
19 29 (9.57%) SDLC
20 28 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
20 28 (9.24%) Security Cleared
20 28 (9.24%) Oracle
21 27 (8.91%) Software Engineering

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 10 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.98%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) Gunicorn
5 2 (0.66%) Site Server
5 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Tornado
6 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.32%) Endur
3 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 89 (29.37%) Azure
2 62 (20.46%) AWS
3 25 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 16 (5.28%) Serverless
6 11 (3.63%) Azure Functions
6 11 (3.63%) GCP
6 11 (3.63%) GitHub
7 9 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 9 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.98%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.66%) WAN
2 1 (0.33%) DHCP
2 1 (0.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) MQTT
2 1 (0.33%) VLAN
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.51%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.61%) Power BI
6 8 (2.64%) KDB
7 7 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.31%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.98%) Siebel EIM
9 5 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.65%) MySQL
10 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.32%) Redis
11 3 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.99%) Power Query
12 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (6.27%) Git
2 10 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.64%) GitLab
3 8 (2.64%) Mockito
4 7 (2.31%) Selenium
5 6 (1.98%) JIRA
5 6 (1.98%) JUnit
5 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.65%) Mercurial
6 5 (1.65%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.99%) Maven
8 3 (0.99%) Postman
8 3 (0.99%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.99%) Subversion
9 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 74 (24.42%) Finance
2 53 (17.49%) Banking
3 47 (15.51%) Social Skills
4 30 (9.90%) Investment Banking
5 28 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (8.58%) Front Office
7 18 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.98%) Retail
8 6 (1.98%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.99%) Back Office
10 3 (0.99%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.66%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Automotive
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.82%) .NET
2 40 (13.20%) HTML
3 39 (12.87%) React
4 38 (12.54%) CSS
5 33 (10.89%) AngularJS
6 21 (6.93%) Kafka
7 20 (6.60%) Web Services
8 19 (6.27%) .NET Core
9 18 (5.94%) REST
10 17 (5.61%) Spring
11 16 (5.28%) ASP.NET
12 15 (4.95%) Node.js
12 15 (4.95%) Spring Boot
12 15 (4.95%) XML
13 14 (4.62%) RESTful
14 12 (3.96%) jQuery
15 9 (2.97%) .NET Framework
16 8 (2.64%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (2.64%) Blazor
16 8 (2.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.96%) Market Risk
2 11 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.30%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.64%) Derivative
5 8 (2.64%) Equities
5 8 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.98%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.66%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.66%) PKI
10 2 (0.66%) Social Media
10 2 (0.66%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.29%) Linux
2 12 (3.96%) Windows
3 9 (2.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.32%) Android
4 4 (1.32%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.04%) Agile
2 52 (17.16%) DevOps
3 48 (15.84%) CI/CD
3 48 (15.84%) Full Stack Development
4 39 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (12.54%) Front End Development
6 35 (11.55%) Microservices
7 29 (9.57%) SDLC
8 27 (8.91%) Software Engineering
9 25 (8.25%) Test Automation
10 21 (6.93%) Computer Science
10 21 (6.93%) Scrum
10 21 (6.93%) TDD
11 19 (6.27%) User Experience
11 19 (6.27%) Web Development
12 18 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (5.94%) OO
13 17 (5.61%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (5.61%) Unit Testing
14 15 (4.95%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.72%) SQL
2 73 (24.09%) C#
2 73 (24.09%) Java
3 72 (23.76%) Python
4 62 (20.46%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.26%) TypeScript
6 18 (5.94%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.28%) C++
8 10 (3.30%) Go
8 10 (3.30%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.97%) PHP
9 9 (2.97%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.98%) Bicep
12 5 (1.65%) Scala
13 4 (1.32%) Rust
14 3 (0.99%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.99%) Perl
15 2 (0.66%) ABAP
15 2 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.25%) Degree
3 23 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PhD
8 1 (0.33%) SANS
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.29%) QA
2 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (7.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.66%) IAG
4 1 (0.33%) ACF2
4 1 (0.33%) RACF
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.65%) Terraform
3 4 (1.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.66%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.33%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) logstash
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.24%) Oracle
3 9 (2.97%) Databricks
3 9 (2.97%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.31%) MuleSoft
5 6 (1.98%) Google
5 6 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.98%) Siebel
6 4 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (0.99%) OpenLink
7 3 (0.99%) Proofpoint
7 3 (0.99%) Sybase
7 3 (0.99%) Symantec
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco
8 2 (0.66%) Citrix
8 2 (0.66%) IBM
8 2 (0.66%) Informatica
8 2 (0.66%) Murex
8 2 (0.66%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.66%) SAP