Developer Contracts in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer daily rate in England is £525 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 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5,149 8,492 13,451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.93% 16.80% 18.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.02% 17.76% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 6,447 10,485
10th Percentile £325 £388 £385
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 100 111
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £74.06 £65.46
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.23 £77.18
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +0.81% +15.35% +19.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London -1 3,030 £575 -4.17% 923
North of England +5 710 £453 -9.50% 529
South East 0 515 £490 -6.67% 299
North West +4 391 £470 -1.05% 344
Midlands +4 324 £419 -6.94% 301
South West -4 300 £438 -16.67% 188
Yorkshire +5 279 £463 -11.90% 143
West Midlands +5 226 £425 -15.00% 193
East of England +1 136 £430 -9.95% 143
East Midlands -1 96 £400 -5.88% 108
North East +3 53 £500 +0.05% 48
Developer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,338 (25.99%) Agile
2 1,224 (23.77%) SQL
3 1,105 (21.46%) C#
4 1,082 (21.01%) JavaScript
5 1,020 (19.81%) Finance
6 1,000 (19.42%) Java
7 947 (18.39%) Azure
8 937 (18.20%) Python
9 935 (18.16%) AWS
10 836 (16.24%) .NET
11 751 (14.59%) React
12 726 (14.10%) Social Skills
13 716 (13.91%) DevOps
14 689 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
15 664 (12.90%) Software Engineering
16 615 (11.94%) TypeScript
17 608 (11.81%) HTML
18 595 (11.56%) Security Cleared
19 583 (11.32%) CI/CD
20 515 (10.00%) SC Cleared
21 507 (9.85%) SQL Server
21 507 (9.85%) Microsoft
22 505 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
23 489 (9.50%) CSS
24 479 (9.30%) Banking
25 477 (9.26%) Degree
26 462 (8.97%) Microservices
27 430 (8.35%) Git
28 416 (8.08%) AngularJS
29 408 (7.92%) Front Office

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 120 (2.33%) Apache
2 116 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 101 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 81 (1.57%) CMS
5 63 (1.22%) Confluence
6 36 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 32 (0.62%) SAS
7 32 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 32 (0.62%) WordPress
8 24 (0.47%) Drupal
9 23 (0.45%) nginx
10 17 (0.33%) CICS
11 15 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 15 (0.29%) IIS
12 13 (0.25%) Anypoint
13 11 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (0.19%) ColdFusion
15 9 (0.17%) Mule
15 9 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
16 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 225 (4.37%) Chatbot
2 81 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.097%) Sketch
6 3 (0.058%) InVision
6 3 (0.058%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.039%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.039%) Simulink
7 2 (0.039%) Trello
8 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.019%) Avocode
8 1 (0.019%) Blender
8 1 (0.019%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.019%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.019%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.019%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 53 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.39%) Endur
3 14 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.23%) Shopify
5 11 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.17%) ION MarketView
7 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
8 7 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
8 7 (0.14%) Magento
9 6 (0.12%) Aareon QL
9 6 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.097%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.097%) Odoo
11 4 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.078%) LabWindows
11 4 (0.078%) Maximo
11 4 (0.078%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.078%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 947 (18.39%) Azure
2 935 (18.16%) AWS
3 317 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 305 (5.92%) GCP
5 302 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 214 (4.16%) Serverless
7 158 (3.07%) GitHub
8 134 (2.60%) Power Automate
9 126 (2.45%) PowerApps
10 101 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 98 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 94 (1.83%) Azure Functions
13 88 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 83 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 81 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
16 72 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
17 69 (1.34%) Entra ID
18 68 (1.32%) SaaS
19 66 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
20 60 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 49 (0.95%) HTTP
2 38 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.45%) Intranet
4 21 (0.41%) SAN
5 14 (0.27%) Internet
6 11 (0.21%) VPN
7 10 (0.19%) 5G
7 10 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (0.19%) SSL
8 9 (0.17%) DNS
9 8 (0.16%) Firewall
10 7 (0.14%) FTP
10 7 (0.14%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.12%) MQTT
11 6 (0.12%) SSH
12 5 (0.097%) 4G
12 5 (0.097%) DHCP
12 5 (0.097%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.097%) Tactical Data Link
12 5 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 290 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 215 (4.18%) Power BI
4 208 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 144 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 123 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 119 (2.31%) MySQL
9 99 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 96 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 92 (1.79%) Oracle Database
12 80 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
13 60 (1.17%) KDB
14 56 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
15 47 (0.91%) Redis
16 43 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
17 41 (0.80%) Data Lake
18 38 (0.74%) DynamoDB
19 37 (0.72%) Tableau
20 36 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 430 (8.35%) Git
2 216 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 184 (3.57%) JIRA
4 90 (1.75%) GitLab
5 87 (1.69%) JUnit
6 81 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 70 (1.36%) Mockito
8 63 (1.22%) Visual Studio
9 58 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 55 (1.07%) Cucumber
11 53 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 53 (1.03%) Selenium
12 46 (0.89%) webpack
13 45 (0.87%) Maven
14 33 (0.64%) SpecFlow
15 30 (0.58%) NUnit
16 27 (0.52%) Postman
17 25 (0.49%) Android Studio
18 23 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 22 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,020 (19.81%) Finance
2 726 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 479 (9.30%) Banking
4 408 (7.92%) Front Office
5 357 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 350 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 191 (3.71%) Investment Banking
8 86 (1.67%) Marketing
9 65 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 65 (1.26%) Retail
10 58 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 43 (0.84%) Back Office
12 42 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 40 (0.78%) Law
14 39 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 32 (0.62%) Local Government
16 28 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (0.49%) Aerospace
18 24 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.39%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 836 (16.24%) .NET
2 751 (14.59%) React
3 608 (11.81%) HTML
4 489 (9.50%) CSS
5 416 (8.08%) AngularJS
6 371 (7.21%) REST
7 341 (6.62%) Node.js
8 288 (5.59%) Spring
9 248 (4.82%) .NET Core
10 244 (4.74%) RESTful
11 225 (4.37%) Spring Boot
12 200 (3.88%) Kafka
13 185 (3.59%) Web Services
14 177 (3.44%) .NET Framework
15 174 (3.38%) ASP.NET
16 166 (3.22%) Redux
17 162 (3.15%) XML
18 124 (2.41%) Vue
19 123 (2.39%) GraphQL
20 95 (1.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 255 (4.95%) Fixed Income
2 203 (3.94%) Derivative
3 174 (3.38%) Hedge funds
4 137 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 134 (2.60%) Equities
6 117 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 115 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 105 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 84 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
9 84 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 64 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 60 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 60 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 51 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 49 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 43 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
15 42 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 40 (0.78%) Cloud Native
17 36 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
18 27 (0.52%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 248 (4.82%) Linux
2 154 (2.99%) Unix
3 116 (2.25%) Android
4 91 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 89 (1.73%) Windows
6 26 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.47%) Debian
8 20 (0.39%) Mac OS X
9 19 (0.37%) zOS
10 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) VMS
11 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.078%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.039%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.019%) CentOS
14 1 (0.019%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.019%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.019%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,338 (25.99%) Agile
2 716 (13.91%) DevOps
3 689 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
4 664 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 583 (11.32%) CI/CD
6 505 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
7 462 (8.97%) Microservices
8 407 (7.90%) TDD
9 395 (7.67%) Front End Development
10 341 (6.62%) Scrum
11 337 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 312 (6.06%) Code Quality
13 283 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
14 266 (5.17%) Test Automation
15 265 (5.15%) Unit Testing
16 256 (4.97%) Analytics
17 240 (4.66%) Continuous Integration
17 240 (4.66%) SDLC
18 229 (4.45%) Conversational UI
19 223 (4.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,224 (23.77%) SQL
2 1,105 (21.46%) C#
3 1,082 (21.01%) JavaScript
4 1,000 (19.42%) Java
5 937 (18.20%) Python
6 615 (11.94%) TypeScript
7 189 (3.67%) PowerShell
8 181 (3.52%) C++
9 180 (3.50%) PL/SQL
10 176 (3.42%) PHP
11 125 (2.43%) Scala
12 111 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 96 (1.86%) C
14 95 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 75 (1.46%) Go
16 69 (1.34%) Ruby
17 66 (1.28%) Bicep
18 47 (0.91%) Bash
19 45 (0.87%) VBA
20 44 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 595 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 515 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 477 (9.26%) Degree
4 111 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 49 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 43 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.23%) PhD
11 11 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.12%) CCNA
13 6 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.078%) PMP
15 3 (0.058%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.058%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
16 2 (0.039%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (3.05%) QA
2 93 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 45 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 40 (0.78%) WCAG
5 20 (0.39%) HL7
6 19 (0.37%) MiFID
7 13 (0.25%) GDPR
8 12 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
10 7 (0.14%) SLA
11 5 (0.097%) EMIR
11 5 (0.097%) IFRS
11 5 (0.097%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.078%) GRC
12 4 (0.078%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.078%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.078%) SEPA
13 3 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 282 (5.48%) Docker
2 109 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.25%) Firmware
5 12 (0.23%) IAG
6 9 (0.17%) ACF2
6 9 (0.17%) RACF
7 5 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.078%) zsh
9 2 (0.039%) HDFS
9 2 (0.039%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.019%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.019%) GridGain
10 1 (0.019%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 319 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 157 (3.05%) Terraform
3 84 (1.63%) Ansible
4 33 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.49%) Grafana
6 19 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 13 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.16%) Puppet
9 7 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.097%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.097%) CloudHub
11 5 (0.097%) Packer
11 5 (0.097%) Podman
12 4 (0.078%) Control-M
12 4 (0.078%) Istio
12 4 (0.078%) Kibana
13 3 (0.058%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.058%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.039%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 507 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 332 (6.45%) Oracle
3 218 (4.23%) PayPal
4 161 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 137 (2.66%) Google
6 124 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 108 (2.10%) SAP
8 54 (1.05%) IBM
9 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
10 42 (0.82%) Adobe
11 37 (0.72%) Databricks
12 34 (0.66%) Red Hat
13 33 (0.64%) VMware
14 32 (0.62%) Atlassian
15 27 (0.52%) Virgin Media
16 25 (0.49%) ION Trading
16 25 (0.49%) Splunk
17 23 (0.45%) Citrix
18 22 (0.43%) Informatica
18 22 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud