Developer Contracts in Lancashire

Developer
North West > Lancashire

The median Developer daily rate in Lancashire is £715 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.28% 11.16% 11.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.84% 12.27% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 22
10th Percentile £486 £400 £325
25th Percentile £597 £454 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £520 £435
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +19.54% +8.75%
75th Percentile £720 £575 £488
90th Percentile - £595 £500
North West median daily rate £470 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +1.03% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.18
25th Percentile - - £27.19
Median hourly rate - - £30.25
75th Percentile - - £34.19
90th Percentile - - £35.73
North West median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year +91.76% +23.19% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 166 220 254
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.57% 90.91% 97.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 164
10th Percentile £200 £240 £205
25th Percentile £363 £408 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £570
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 48
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.05 £14.98
25th Percentile £24.32 £28.40 £17.19
Median hourly rate £42.91 £41.37 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +16.13% +41.09%
75th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £44.03
90th Percentile £49.84 £54.91 £53.64
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Lancashire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Lancashire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Lancashire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Lancashire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Lancashire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Blackpool +9 11 £720 +30.91% 2
Preston +7 1 £375 - 11
Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Lancashire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Line Management
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (22.22%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.11%) API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Spring
6 2 (11.11%) J2EE
6 2 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (11.11%) GitLab
6 2 (11.11%) Terraform
6 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (11.11%) REST
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (5.56%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Node.js
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) OpenLayers
4 1 (5.56%) PostGIS
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Line Management
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) API Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Open Source
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Blue Prism
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft