Software Developer Contracts in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer daily rate in England is £525 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 179 298 361
Rank change year-on-year +119 +63 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 487 417 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.31% 0.83% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.87% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 294 355
10th Percentile £400 £377 £353
25th Percentile £449 £442 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £620
90th Percentile £888 £738 £673
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 19
10th Percentile - £49.54 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.09 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +21.05% +21.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.42 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £58.72
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year +2.44% +16.76% +44.84%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software 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 Software Developer 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 +94 204 £550 -8.33% 70
North of England +110 141 £450 - 113
North West +61 63 £420 -5.62% 83
Yorkshire +64 52 £450 -2.70% 20
Midlands +53 51 £400 -23.81% 55
South West +8 41 £488 -22.31% 38
South East -10 30 £413 -8.33% 53
North East +34 26 - - 13
East Midlands +33 26 £425 -28.08% 22
West Midlands +42 25 £375 -28.57% 33
East of England +15 13 £485 -3.00% 20
Software Developer
UK

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

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

1 236 (48.46%) Degree
2 222 (45.59%) C#
3 221 (45.38%) Code Quality
4 220 (45.17%) Conversational UI
5 219 (44.97%) Artificial Intelligence
6 218 (44.76%) PayPal
6 218 (44.76%) Chatbot
7 201 (41.27%) Python
8 198 (40.66%) JavaScript
9 193 (39.63%) Software Engineering
10 171 (35.11%) SQL
11 142 (29.16%) Agile
12 140 (28.75%) HTML
13 92 (18.89%) Azure
14 91 (18.69%) .NET
15 78 (16.02%) Java
16 75 (15.40%) AWS
17 73 (14.99%) DevOps
18 65 (13.35%) CI/CD
19 63 (12.94%) SQL Server
20 59 (12.11%) Microsoft
20 59 (12.11%) Scrum
21 58 (11.91%) PowerShell
22 54 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
23 47 (9.65%) TypeScript
23 47 (9.65%) Finance
24 42 (8.62%) XML
25 40 (8.21%) Security Cleared
25 40 (8.21%) .NET Framework
26 39 (8.01%) Banking

Software 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 27 (5.54%) Apache
1 27 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.03%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 218 (44.76%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.82%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 92 (18.89%) Azure
2 75 (15.40%) AWS
3 54 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (6.37%) GCP
5 27 (5.54%) dbt
6 20 (4.11%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 14 (2.87%) GitHub
8 14 (2.87%) Serverless
9 9 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.82%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) RS-232
1 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.62%) SAN
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) MQTT
3 2 (0.41%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (5.54%) Apache Arrow
2 27 (5.54%) Apache Ignite
2 27 (5.54%) Dremio
3 21 (4.31%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.03%) MySQL
7 5 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.62%) Big Data
9 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.62%) Redis
10 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.41%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (4.11%) Git
2 15 (3.08%) SpecFlow
3 8 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.44%) Selenium
5 5 (1.03%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.82%) JIRA
6 4 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.82%) Subversion
7 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.62%) NUnit
7 3 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.41%) Mockito
8 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 47 (9.65%) Finance
2 39 (8.01%) Banking
3 38 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.78%) Front Office
5 31 (6.37%) Investment Banking
5 31 (6.37%) Social Skills
6 10 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.23%) Law
7 6 (1.23%) Local Government
7 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.82%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.62%) Back Office
10 2 (0.41%) Marketing
10 2 (0.41%) Retail
11 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.21%) Aviation
11 1 (0.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.21%) Legal
11 1 (0.21%) Military
11 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (28.75%) HTML
2 91 (18.69%) .NET
3 42 (8.62%) XML
4 40 (8.21%) .NET Framework
5 29 (5.95%) NumPy
5 29 (5.95%) Pandas
5 29 (5.95%) SciPy
6 28 (5.75%) AngularJS
6 28 (5.75%) CSS
7 27 (5.54%) gRPC
7 27 (5.54%) Protocol Buffers
8 25 (5.13%) React
9 19 (3.90%) RESTful
10 18 (3.70%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.87%) REST
12 13 (2.67%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.46%) Kafka
14 11 (2.26%) Node.js
15 9 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (1.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.13%) Derivative
1 25 (5.13%) Fixed Income
1 25 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.52%) Equities
2 22 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (4.52%) Hedge funds
3 9 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.03%) Contactless
5 5 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
6 4 (0.82%) CCTV
6 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (0.82%) NHS
6 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.62%) IoT
8 2 (0.41%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.70%) Linux
2 10 (2.05%) Windows
3 4 (0.82%) Android
3 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 4 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.62%) Debian
4 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (45.38%) Code Quality
2 220 (45.17%) Conversational UI
3 219 (44.97%) Artificial Intelligence
4 193 (39.63%) Software Engineering
5 142 (29.16%) Agile
6 73 (14.99%) DevOps
7 65 (13.35%) CI/CD
8 59 (12.11%) Scrum
9 30 (6.16%) Asset Management
10 22 (4.52%) Test Automation
11 19 (3.90%) Front End Development
11 19 (3.90%) Microservices
11 19 (3.90%) Software Testing
11 19 (3.90%) TDD
12 18 (3.70%) API Development
12 18 (3.70%) B2C
12 18 (3.70%) Investment Management
12 18 (3.70%) Line Management
13 17 (3.49%) Design Patterns
14 16 (3.29%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 222 (45.59%) C#
2 201 (41.27%) Python
3 198 (40.66%) JavaScript
4 171 (35.11%) SQL
5 78 (16.02%) Java
6 58 (11.91%) PowerShell
7 47 (9.65%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.87%) C++
9 13 (2.67%) Bicep
10 10 (2.05%) C
11 8 (1.64%) Ruby
12 7 (1.44%) Bash
13 6 (1.23%) Scala
14 5 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.82%) PHP
16 3 (0.62%) Perl
16 3 (0.62%) Rust
17 2 (0.41%) Go
18 1 (0.21%) Swift
18 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 236 (48.46%) Degree
2 40 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.85%) QA
2 6 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.82%) HL7
4 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.41%) WCAG
6 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.08%) Docker
3 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.82%) zsh
5 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (3.08%) Terraform
2 9 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Control-M
4 1 (0.21%) Istio
4 1 (0.21%) Kibana
4 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 218 (44.76%) PayPal
2 59 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.64%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.23%) Google
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle
6 4 (0.82%) Databricks
6 4 (0.82%) NEC
6 4 (0.82%) VMware
7 3 (0.62%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.41%) Apple
8 2 (0.41%) Splunk
8 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.21%) Aareon
9 1 (0.21%) IBM
9 1 (0.21%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir
9 1 (0.21%) QinetiQ
9 1 (0.21%) Remedy
9 1 (0.21%) SAP
9 1 (0.21%) Virgin Media