Backend Developer Contracts in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 337 402
Rank change year-on-year +31 +65 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 86 162 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.60% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.63% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 122 157
10th Percentile £418 £450 £425
25th Percentile £452 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +12.46% +28.44%
75th Percentile £575 £693 £725
90th Percentile £663 £845 £788
England median daily rate £500 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -17.49% +10.18% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backend Developer in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +16 10 £475 -26.92% 2
West London +17 4 £538 -2.27% 1
South London - 3 £430 - 2
East London - 3 £435 -
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Backend 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 London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 49 (56.98%) Agile
2 41 (47.67%) C#
3 40 (46.51%) DevOps
4 39 (45.35%) Azure
5 37 (43.02%) .NET
5 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
6 36 (41.86%) SQL Server
7 35 (40.70%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (39.53%) .NET Core
8 34 (39.53%) Microsoft
8 34 (39.53%) Active Directory
9 30 (34.88%) PowerShell
9 30 (34.88%) Bicep
10 28 (32.56%) XML
10 28 (32.56%) Java
11 27 (31.40%) JavaScript
12 26 (30.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 25 (29.07%) Entra ID
14 24 (27.91%) B2C
14 24 (27.91%) Scrum
14 24 (27.91%) AWS
15 19 (22.09%) Public Sector
16 18 (20.93%) TypeScript
17 17 (19.77%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (18.60%) Git
18 16 (18.60%) HTML
19 15 (17.44%) CSS
19 15 (17.44%) Front End Development
20 14 (16.28%) Python
21 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.49%) CICS
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
2 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.35%) Azure
2 35 (40.70%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (30.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (29.07%) Entra ID
5 24 (27.91%) AWS
6 17 (19.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.98%) Serverless
8 4 (4.65%) GitHub
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
1 2 (2.33%) SMS
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (41.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.47%) Redis
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.49%) DB2
6 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.16%) MySQL
8 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (18.60%) Git
2 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.49%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.33%) EasyMock
4 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.33%) JUnit
4 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.33%) Maven
4 2 (2.33%) Mocha
4 2 (2.33%) Mockito
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
4 2 (2.33%) TestNG
5 1 (1.16%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.16%) Pylint
General
1 19 (22.09%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Back Office
4 4 (4.65%) Finance
4 4 (4.65%) Local Government
5 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (43.02%) .NET
2 34 (39.53%) .NET Core
3 28 (32.56%) XML
4 16 (18.60%) HTML
5 15 (17.44%) CSS
6 11 (12.79%) REST
6 11 (12.79%) Spring
7 10 (11.63%) ASP.NET
7 10 (11.63%) Node.js
7 10 (11.63%) React
7 10 (11.63%) Spring Boot
8 8 (9.30%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (8.14%) Kafka
10 6 (6.98%) OpenAPI
11 5 (5.81%) Swagger
12 4 (4.65%) AWS CDK
12 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.65%) JSON
13 3 (3.49%) ISPF
13 3 (3.49%) JSR 170
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.98%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.49%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) IoT
6 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) zOS
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) Agile
2 40 (46.51%) DevOps
3 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
4 24 (27.91%) B2C
4 24 (27.91%) Scrum
5 15 (17.44%) Front End Development
6 11 (12.79%) Microservices
6 11 (12.79%) TDD
7 10 (11.63%) Clean Code
7 10 (11.63%) OO
8 9 (10.47%) API Management
8 9 (10.47%) OOD
9 8 (9.30%) Containerisation
9 8 (9.30%) SDLC
10 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.98%) Design Patterns
11 6 (6.98%) Software Architecture
11 6 (6.98%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.81%) Computer Science
12 5 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) C#
2 30 (34.88%) Bicep
2 30 (34.88%) PowerShell
3 28 (32.56%) Java
4 27 (31.40%) JavaScript
5 18 (20.93%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.28%) Python
7 10 (11.63%) SQL
8 7 (8.14%) C++
9 5 (5.81%) C
10 4 (4.65%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.49%) COBOL
12 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.16%) Go
13 1 (1.16%) JCL
13 1 (1.16%) Ruby
13 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.14%) Degree
1 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (39.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.49%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.33%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.33%) Packer
4 2 (2.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.16%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) IBM
3 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe
4 1 (1.16%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce