Junior Contracts in England

Junior
UK > England

The median Junior daily rate in England is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 376 475
Rank change year-on-year +9 +99 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 179 293 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.58% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 208 205
10th Percentile £123 £136 £139
25th Percentile £204 £180 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £270 £300
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £400 £388 £388
90th Percentile £500 £477 £468
UK median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 24
10th Percentile - £10.93 £12.62
25th Percentile - £11.84 £17.43
Median hourly rate £10.42 £13.48 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% -35.83% +13.51%
75th Percentile £16.65 £22.45 £22.40
90th Percentile £37.89 £34.65 £27.15
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £13.48 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.67% -35.83% +13.51%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
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 Junior within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +66 88 £319 +15.91% 106
South East +12 30 £343 +80.53% 99
North of England +11 22 £370 +23.33% 80
South West +9 17 £369 +84.38% 51
Midlands +9 10 £200 -30.43% 83
North East +28 9 £283 -24.67% 14
West Midlands +16 8 £200 -30.43% 53
North West +1 7 £363 +17.89% 44
Yorkshire +19 6 £373 +65.56% 22
East of England -13 5 £290 +7.41% 51
East Midlands +15 2 £175 -27.84% 30
Junior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 46 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (18.44%) Social Skills
4 30 (16.76%) Project Management
5 25 (13.97%) Agile
5 25 (13.97%) Azure
6 22 (12.29%) Python
7 19 (10.61%) Windows
7 19 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (9.50%) Degree
8 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.50%) PMO
9 16 (8.94%) DevOps
9 16 (8.94%) SQL
9 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
10 15 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.82%) Microsoft
11 14 (7.82%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (7.82%) AWS
11 14 (7.82%) Data Protection
12 13 (7.26%) Finance
13 12 (6.70%) Scrum
13 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
14 11 (6.15%) Java
14 11 (6.15%) DV Cleared
14 11 (6.15%) Analytics
15 10 (5.59%) React
15 10 (5.59%) TypeScript
15 10 (5.59%) Banking
16 9 (5.03%) JavaScript

Junior 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 5 (2.79%) Apache
1 5 (2.79%) CMS
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.97%) Azure
2 14 (7.82%) AWS
3 8 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.68%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.12%) dbt
7 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.12%) Serverless
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.56%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.56%) Google Pay
8 1 (0.56%) Route 53
8 1 (0.56%) SaaS
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) DNS
2 3 (1.68%) FTP
2 3 (1.68%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) LAN
2 3 (1.68%) SMTP
2 3 (1.68%) SSL
2 3 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.68%) Wireless
3 2 (1.12%) Intranet
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) DSL
4 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.79%) Flink
4 3 (1.68%) Power BI
4 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) MySQL
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.56%) Power Query
6 1 (0.56%) Redis
6 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Git
2 6 (3.35%) JUnit
3 3 (1.68%) GitLab
3 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.68%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Gatling
5 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 33 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.26%) Finance
5 10 (5.59%) Banking
6 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.79%) Marketing
8 5 (2.79%) Retail
9 4 (2.23%) Automotive
9 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
10 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Publishing
11 2 (1.12%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.12%) Electronics
11 2 (1.12%) Front Office
11 2 (1.12%) German Language
11 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.59%) React
2 8 (4.47%) REST
3 7 (3.91%) Kafka
3 7 (3.91%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.35%) .NET
4 6 (3.35%) Hibernate
4 6 (3.35%) JPA
4 6 (3.35%) Spring
5 4 (2.23%) CSS
5 4 (2.23%) HTML
6 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.68%) LDAP
7 2 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.12%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.12%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.12%) NumPy
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.12%) Vue
7 2 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.23%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.68%) Cyberattack
4 3 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.68%) iPhone
4 3 (1.68%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.12%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.12%) Derivative
5 2 (1.12%) Equities
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) Life Science
5 2 (1.12%) NHS
5 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.61%) Windows
2 8 (4.47%) Linux
3 7 (3.91%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.23%) Android
6 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.12%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.56%) AIX
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.76%) Project Management
2 25 (13.97%) Agile
3 19 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (8.94%) DevOps
5 15 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (7.82%) Data Protection
7 12 (6.70%) Scrum
8 11 (6.15%) Analytics
9 9 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (4.47%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (4.47%) Customer Service
10 8 (4.47%) Front End Development
10 8 (4.47%) PRINCE2
10 8 (4.47%) User Experience
10 8 (4.47%) Value Proposition
11 7 (3.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (3.91%) Customer Value Proposition
11 7 (3.91%) Data Analysis
11 7 (3.91%) Unit Testing
11 7 (3.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.29%) Python
2 16 (8.94%) SQL
3 11 (6.15%) Java
4 10 (5.59%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.03%) C#
5 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.68%) Go
8 2 (1.12%) VBA
9 1 (0.56%) ABAP
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.50%) Degree
4 11 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.23%) CCNA
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.68%) PMP
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (1.12%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.12%) GIAC
8 2 (1.12%) MCSE
8 2 (1.12%) OSCP
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.50%) PMO
2 4 (2.23%) QA
3 3 (1.68%) NIST
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.23%) Netcool
2 4 (2.23%) SCCM
2 4 (2.23%) Terraform
3 3 (1.68%) Grafana
4 2 (1.12%) Istio
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.12%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) AppManager
5 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) Cisco
5 4 (2.23%) Apple
5 4 (2.23%) IBM
5 4 (2.23%) SAP
5 4 (2.23%) VMware
6 3 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.68%) Darktrace
6 3 (1.68%) FireEye
6 3 (1.68%) IronPort
6 3 (1.68%) LogRhythm
6 3 (1.68%) Splunk
6 3 (1.68%) Symantec
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.56%) Qualys
8 1 (0.56%) Talend