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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5,200 8,362 13,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 14.02% 16.66% 18.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.12% 17.60% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,863 6,333 10,473
10th Percentile £325 £388 £386
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 99 110
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.70 £34.73
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £36.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80.00 £74.38 £67.08
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.45 £77.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% +13.76% +21.11%

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 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 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
London -1 3,072 £575 -4.17% 905
North of England +4 707 £453 -9.50% 499
South East 0 523 £500 -4.76% 299
North West +4 387 £453 -7.18% 330
Midlands +5 325 £419 -6.94% 340
South West -2 300 £450 -14.29% 190
Yorkshire +5 281 £463 -11.90% 127
West Midlands +6 230 £425 -15.00% 214
East of England +5 138 £430 -9.47% 143
East Midlands -2 93 £400 -6.43% 125
North East +3 52 £500 +0.05% 47
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,367 (26.29%) Agile
2 1,216 (23.38%) SQL
3 1,117 (21.48%) C#
4 1,082 (20.81%) JavaScript
5 1,028 (19.77%) Finance
6 1,013 (19.48%) Java
7 976 (18.77%) Azure
8 955 (18.37%) Python
9 940 (18.08%) AWS
10 845 (16.25%) .NET
11 767 (14.75%) React
12 731 (14.06%) DevOps
13 729 (14.02%) Social Skills
14 696 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
15 669 (12.87%) Software Engineering
16 625 (12.02%) TypeScript
17 614 (11.81%) HTML
18 607 (11.67%) Security Cleared
19 600 (11.54%) CI/CD
20 525 (10.10%) Microsoft
21 524 (10.08%) SC Cleared
22 508 (9.77%) SQL Server
23 507 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
24 499 (9.60%) CSS
25 487 (9.37%) Degree
26 482 (9.27%) Banking
27 464 (8.92%) Microservices
28 434 (8.35%) Git
29 418 (8.04%) TDD
29 418 (8.04%) AngularJS

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
1 128 (2.46%) Apache
2 119 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 109 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 84 (1.62%) CMS
5 64 (1.23%) Confluence
6 38 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.65%) SAS
7 34 (0.65%) Umbraco
7 34 (0.65%) WordPress
8 25 (0.48%) Drupal
9 24 (0.46%) 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 9 (0.17%) ColdFusion
14 9 (0.17%) Mule
14 9 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
15 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 225 (4.33%) Chatbot
2 80 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.096%) Sketch
6 3 (0.058%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.038%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.038%) InVision
7 2 (0.038%) Simulink
7 2 (0.038%) Trello
8 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.019%) Blender
8 1 (0.019%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.019%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.019%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.019%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 51 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.42%) Endur
3 14 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.21%) Shopify
4 11 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.17%) ION MarketView
6 8 (0.15%) Magento
6 8 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.12%) Aareon QL
8 6 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.096%) IntelliMatch
9 5 (0.096%) Odoo
10 4 (0.077%) LabWindows
10 4 (0.077%) Maximo
10 4 (0.077%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.058%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 976 (18.77%) Azure
2 940 (18.08%) AWS
3 328 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 320 (6.15%) GCP
5 314 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
6 217 (4.17%) Serverless
7 158 (3.04%) GitHub
8 142 (2.73%) Power Automate
9 133 (2.56%) PowerApps
10 108 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 100 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 98 (1.88%) Azure Functions
13 87 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
14 83 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
15 81 (1.56%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.46%) Entra ID
17 75 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
18 68 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (1.31%) SaaS
19 62 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (0.96%) HTTP
2 38 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.44%) Intranet
4 21 (0.40%) 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 (0.15%) Firewall
10 7 (0.13%) FTP
10 7 (0.13%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.12%) MQTT
11 6 (0.12%) SSH
12 5 (0.096%) 4G
12 5 (0.096%) DHCP
12 5 (0.096%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.096%) Tactical Data Link
12 5 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (9.77%) SQL Server
2 301 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 224 (4.31%) Power BI
4 207 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 150 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 144 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.29%) MySQL
7 119 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
9 92 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 91 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 88 (1.69%) Apache Ignite
12 64 (1.23%) KDB
13 56 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (0.98%) Redis
15 43 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
15 43 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 36 (0.69%) DynamoDB
17 35 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
17 35 (0.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 434 (8.35%) Git
2 217 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 185 (3.56%) JIRA
4 91 (1.75%) GitLab
5 88 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 88 (1.69%) JUnit
6 71 (1.37%) Mockito
7 66 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 55 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 54 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 54 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 53 (1.02%) Selenium
11 51 (0.98%) Maven
12 44 (0.85%) webpack
13 35 (0.67%) SpecFlow
14 29 (0.56%) NUnit
15 28 (0.54%) Postman
16 25 (0.48%) Android Studio
17 23 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 22 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,028 (19.77%) Finance
2 729 (14.02%) Social Skills
3 482 (9.27%) Banking
4 416 (8.00%) Front Office
5 358 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 354 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.69%) Investment Banking
8 86 (1.65%) Marketing
9 66 (1.27%) Retail
10 64 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 57 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 44 (0.85%) Back Office
13 42 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 39 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 39 (0.75%) Law
15 33 (0.63%) Local Government
16 28 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (0.48%) Aerospace
18 24 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.40%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 845 (16.25%) .NET
2 767 (14.75%) React
3 614 (11.81%) HTML
4 499 (9.60%) CSS
5 418 (8.04%) AngularJS
6 379 (7.29%) REST
7 341 (6.56%) Node.js
8 298 (5.73%) Spring
9 248 (4.77%) .NET Core
10 247 (4.75%) RESTful
11 233 (4.48%) Spring Boot
12 202 (3.88%) Kafka
13 188 (3.62%) Web Services
14 181 (3.48%) .NET Framework
14 181 (3.48%) ASP.NET
15 172 (3.31%) Redux
16 170 (3.27%) XML
17 124 (2.38%) GraphQL
17 124 (2.38%) Vue
18 102 (1.96%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 265 (5.10%) Fixed Income
2 207 (3.98%) Derivative
3 184 (3.54%) Hedge funds
4 141 (2.71%) Equities
5 140 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 122 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 115 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 107 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 87 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 85 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 63 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 63 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 61 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 53 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (0.98%) Management Information System
15 44 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
16 40 (0.77%) Cloud Native
17 36 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
18 27 (0.52%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 250 (4.81%) Linux
2 154 (2.96%) Unix
3 118 (2.27%) Android
4 93 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.73%) Windows
6 26 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.46%) Debian
8 20 (0.38%) Mac OS X
9 19 (0.37%) zOS
10 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.13%) VMS
11 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.038%) 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 1,367 (26.29%) Agile
2 731 (14.06%) DevOps
3 696 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
4 669 (12.87%) Software Engineering
5 600 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 507 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
7 464 (8.92%) Microservices
8 418 (8.04%) TDD
9 393 (7.56%) Front End Development
10 347 (6.67%) Scrum
11 346 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 315 (6.06%) Code Quality
13 292 (5.62%) Business Intelligence
14 278 (5.35%) Test Automation
15 267 (5.13%) Unit Testing
16 254 (4.88%) Analytics
17 242 (4.65%) SDLC
18 235 (4.52%) Continuous Integration
19 231 (4.44%) OO
20 229 (4.40%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 1,216 (23.38%) SQL
2 1,117 (21.48%) C#
3 1,082 (20.81%) JavaScript
4 1,013 (19.48%) Java
5 955 (18.37%) Python
6 625 (12.02%) TypeScript
7 199 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 183 (3.52%) C++
9 175 (3.37%) PHP
10 174 (3.35%) PL/SQL
11 131 (2.52%) Scala
12 112 (2.15%) Kotlin
13 97 (1.87%) C
14 90 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 79 (1.52%) Go
16 72 (1.38%) Bicep
17 69 (1.33%) Ruby
18 48 (0.92%) Bash
19 45 (0.87%) Perl
19 45 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 607 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 524 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 487 (9.37%) Degree
4 116 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 49 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 45 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (0.23%) PhD
11 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.12%) CCNA
12 6 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.077%) PMP
14 3 (0.058%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.058%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.038%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (2.94%) QA
2 94 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 44 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 40 (0.77%) WCAG
5 20 (0.38%) HL7
6 19 (0.37%) MiFID
7 13 (0.25%) GDPR
7 13 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
8 8 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.13%) SLA
10 5 (0.096%) EMIR
10 5 (0.096%) IFRS
10 5 (0.096%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.077%) GRC
11 4 (0.077%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.077%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.077%) SEPA
12 3 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 286 (5.50%) Docker
2 115 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.25%) Firmware
5 9 (0.17%) IAG
6 8 (0.15%) ACF2
6 8 (0.15%) RACF
7 4 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.077%) zsh
8 2 (0.038%) HDFS
8 2 (0.038%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.019%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.019%) GridGain
9 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.019%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 324 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 155 (2.98%) Terraform
3 82 (1.58%) Ansible
4 39 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.48%) Grafana
6 19 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 13 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.15%) Puppet
9 7 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.12%) CA Endevor
10 6 (0.12%) Podman
10 6 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.096%) CloudHub
11 5 (0.096%) Packer
12 4 (0.077%) Control-M
12 4 (0.077%) Istio
12 4 (0.077%) Kibana
13 3 (0.058%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.058%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.038%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 525 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 330 (6.35%) Oracle
3 218 (4.19%) PayPal
4 158 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 154 (2.96%) Google
6 127 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 108 (2.08%) SAP
8 55 (1.06%) IBM
9 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
10 42 (0.81%) Adobe
11 36 (0.69%) Databricks
12 34 (0.65%) Red Hat
13 32 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 32 (0.62%) VMware
14 29 (0.56%) Virgin Media
15 27 (0.52%) ION Trading
16 26 (0.50%) Splunk
17 22 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 22 (0.42%) TIBCO
18 21 (0.40%) Citrix