Developer Contracts in East London

Developer
London > East London

The median Developer daily rate in East London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 29 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 13.06% 20.34% 20.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.57% 22.09% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 45
10th Percentile £413 £400 £303
25th Percentile £425 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £769 £705 £650
90th Percentile £838 £950 £900
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% +5.88%
London median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.52% +4.55% -14.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 199 163 246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 92.09% 96.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 135 202
10th Percentile £320 £188 £240
25th Percentile £420 £324 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -14.53% +23.16%
75th Percentile £629 £694 £700
90th Percentile £770 £775 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.64 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £23.20 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.91 £27.47 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +61.56% -36.21%
75th Percentile £28.37 £31.73 £25.48
90th Percentile £38.28 £34.29 £40.48
London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in East London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in East London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Greenwich +1 12 £450 -18.18%
Tower Hamlets -12 10 £645 -0.77% 5
Docklands, London -2 3 £850 +112.50% 1
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) C#
3 13 (44.83%) SQL
4 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
5 11 (37.93%) Java
6 9 (31.03%) Finance
6 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
6 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
7 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
7 8 (27.59%) Azure
7 8 (27.59%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) Design Patterns
8 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
8 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
8 7 (24.14%) Degree
8 7 (24.14%) XML
8 7 (24.14%) .NET
8 7 (24.14%) TDD
9 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
9 6 (20.69%) Scrum
9 6 (20.69%) .NET Framework
10 5 (17.24%) SDLC
10 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
10 5 (17.24%) Content Management
10 5 (17.24%) Database Optimisation
10 5 (17.24%) PCI DSS
10 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 2 (6.90%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) Appian
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) FTP
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.90%) KDB
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Gradle
2 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
2 2 (6.90%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
1 7 (24.14%) XML
2 6 (20.69%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) JMS
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) Spring
4 2 (6.90%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.45%) J2EE
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) Sass
5 1 (3.45%) WCF
5 1 (3.45%) WinForms
5 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Derivative
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) Design Patterns
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
3 7 (24.14%) TDD
4 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Content Management
5 5 (17.24%) Database Optimisation
5 5 (17.24%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) B2C
6 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.34%) OO
6 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.90%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.90%) Knowledge Management
7 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
7 2 (6.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) C#
2 13 (44.83%) SQL
3 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
4 11 (37.93%) Java
5 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (13.79%) Scala
7 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.45%) Bicep
8 1 (3.45%) Python
8 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) VB
8 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) ION Trading
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Workday
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk