Code Optimisation Contracts in London

Code Optimisation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Code Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 477 570
Rank change year-on-year +92 +93 -121
Contract jobs citing Code Optimisation 4 23 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.085% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.093% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 23
10th Percentile £563 £758 £633
25th Percentile £619 £778 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £825 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £1,074 £763
90th Percentile - - £800
England median daily rate £588 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -26.56% +14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Code Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in London.

Daily rate trend for Code Optimisation in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Optimisation in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Optimisation in London

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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 Code Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 26 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 +43 2 £725 -20.85% 1
Code Optimisation
England

Code Optimisation
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) React Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python