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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 320 333
Rank change year-on-year +138 +13 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 462 366 566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.80% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 269 370
10th Percentile £400 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +12.30%
75th Percentile £723 £675 £622
90th Percentile £888 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £510
% change year-on-year +0.48% +2.45% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 21
10th Percentile £46.25 £48.63 -
25th Percentile £48.40 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +21.05% +23.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £74.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £58.59 £48.12
% change year-on-year +3.61% +21.76% +42.58%

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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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 +98 205 £550 -8.33% 80
North of England +105 124 £450 +0.56% 85
North West +49 55 £420 -5.62% 45
Midlands +51 47 £425 -19.05% 72
Yorkshire +51 46 £450 - 29
South West +6 41 £525 -12.50% 49
South East -21 28 £413 - 73
East Midlands +23 25 £425 -28.08% 29
North East +32 23 - - 14
West Midlands +36 22 £375 -28.57% 43
East of England +11 11 £485 -3.00% 26
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 224 (48.48%) C#
2 211 (45.67%) Degree
3 202 (43.72%) JavaScript
4 200 (43.29%) Python
5 195 (42.21%) Software Engineering
6 193 (41.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 193 (41.77%) Conversational UI
6 193 (41.77%) Code Quality
7 191 (41.34%) Chatbot
7 191 (41.34%) PayPal
8 170 (36.80%) SQL
9 144 (31.17%) HTML
9 144 (31.17%) Agile
10 97 (21.00%) Azure
11 94 (20.35%) .NET
12 82 (17.75%) Java
13 79 (17.10%) AWS
14 77 (16.67%) DevOps
15 67 (14.50%) SQL Server
16 65 (14.07%) CI/CD
17 62 (13.42%) Scrum
18 60 (12.99%) PowerShell
19 58 (12.55%) Microsoft
20 57 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
21 49 (10.61%) TypeScript
21 49 (10.61%) Finance
22 45 (9.74%) .NET Framework
23 43 (9.31%) XML
24 41 (8.87%) Banking
25 40 (8.66%) Security Cleared

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 30 (6.49%) Apache
1 30 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.08%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.87%) CMS
4 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 191 (41.34%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.87%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 97 (21.00%) Azure
2 79 (17.10%) AWS
3 57 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (7.58%) GCP
5 30 (6.49%) dbt
6 24 (5.19%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.25%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.03%) GitHub
9 13 (2.81%) Serverless
10 10 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (0.87%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) RS-232
2 3 (0.65%) VPN
3 2 (0.43%) Firewall
3 2 (0.43%) MQTT
3 2 (0.43%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.22%) 5G
4 1 (0.22%) DHCP
4 1 (0.22%) DNS
4 1 (0.22%) LTE
4 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (14.50%) SQL Server
2 30 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (6.49%) Apache Arrow
2 30 (6.49%) Apache Ignite
2 30 (6.49%) Dremio
3 25 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.73%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.08%) MySQL
7 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.65%) Big Data
9 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.65%) Redis
10 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.43%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (4.76%) Git
2 16 (3.46%) SpecFlow
3 7 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.30%) LabVIEW
4 6 (1.30%) Selenium
5 4 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.87%) JIRA
5 4 (0.87%) Subversion
6 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.43%) Mockito
7 2 (0.43%) NUnit
7 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (10.61%) Finance
2 41 (8.87%) Banking
3 38 (8.23%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.79%) Front Office
5 34 (7.36%) Investment Banking
6 31 (6.71%) Social Skills
7 8 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.52%) Law
9 6 (1.30%) Local Government
10 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.87%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 2 (0.43%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.22%) Legal
14 1 (0.22%) Marketing
14 1 (0.22%) Military
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.17%) HTML
2 94 (20.35%) .NET
3 45 (9.74%) .NET Framework
4 43 (9.31%) XML
5 32 (6.93%) NumPy
5 32 (6.93%) Pandas
5 32 (6.93%) SciPy
6 31 (6.71%) CSS
7 30 (6.49%) gRPC
7 30 (6.49%) Protocol Buffers
8 29 (6.28%) React
9 27 (5.84%) AngularJS
10 22 (4.76%) RESTful
11 19 (4.11%) .NET Core
12 16 (3.46%) REST
13 12 (2.60%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.60%) Kafka
14 11 (2.38%) Node.js
15 10 (2.16%) Flask
15 10 (2.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.28%) Derivative
1 29 (6.28%) Fixed Income
2 26 (5.63%) Equities
2 26 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (5.63%) Hedge funds
2 26 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 9 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.73%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.08%) Contactless
6 5 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.08%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.87%) CCTV
7 4 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.87%) NHS
7 4 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.65%) IoT
9 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.25%) Linux
2 10 (2.16%) Windows
3 4 (0.87%) Android
3 4 (0.87%) Unix
3 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.21%) Software Engineering
2 193 (41.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 193 (41.77%) Code Quality
2 193 (41.77%) Conversational UI
3 144 (31.17%) Agile
4 77 (16.67%) DevOps
5 65 (14.07%) CI/CD
6 62 (13.42%) Scrum
7 34 (7.36%) Asset Management
8 23 (4.98%) Test Automation
9 22 (4.76%) Line Management
10 21 (4.55%) Microservices
11 20 (4.33%) Software Testing
11 20 (4.33%) TDD
12 19 (4.11%) Front End Development
13 18 (3.90%) API Development
13 18 (3.90%) B2C
13 18 (3.90%) Design Patterns
13 18 (3.90%) Investment Management
13 18 (3.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 224 (48.48%) C#
2 202 (43.72%) JavaScript
3 200 (43.29%) Python
4 170 (36.80%) SQL
5 82 (17.75%) Java
6 60 (12.99%) PowerShell
7 49 (10.61%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.03%) C++
9 13 (2.81%) Bicep
10 9 (1.95%) C
11 7 (1.52%) Bash
11 7 (1.52%) Ruby
12 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.08%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) Go
13 4 (0.87%) PHP
14 3 (0.65%) Perl
14 3 (0.65%) Rust
15 1 (0.22%) Swift
15 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 211 (45.67%) Degree
2 40 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.73%) QA
2 6 (1.30%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.87%) HL7
4 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.46%) Docker
3 6 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.87%) zsh
5 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.03%) Terraform
2 12 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) Istio
4 1 (0.22%) Kibana
4 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 191 (41.34%) PayPal
2 58 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.52%) Google
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle
6 4 (0.87%) Databricks
6 4 (0.87%) NEC
7 2 (0.43%) Apple
7 2 (0.43%) Splunk
7 2 (0.43%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.22%) Atmel
8 1 (0.22%) Capita
8 1 (0.22%) Civica
8 1 (0.22%) Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) IBM
8 1 (0.22%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.22%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.22%) SEEBURGER
8 1 (0.22%) VMware