Junior Contracts in London

Junior
England > London

The median Junior daily rate in London is £313 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 374 413
Rank change year-on-year +70 +39 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 91 128 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.48% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.50% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 94 115
10th Percentile £123 £135 £150
25th Percentile £208 £185 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £394 £409 £400
90th Percentile £490 £563 £494
England median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £21.04 - £12.15
25th Percentile £24.20 £12.13 £14.63
Median hourly rate £29.47 £12.25 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +140.53% -25.76% +15.79%
75th Percentile £34.73 £12.38 £23.13
90th Percentile £37.89 - £30.35
England median hourly rate £10.42 £13.15 £20.50
% change year-on-year -20.76% -35.85% +10.81%

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 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
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 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in London

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in London

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in London

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in London

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in London

Junior
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 Junior within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +44 20 £216 -4.95% 15
South London - 4 £288 -
West London +15 2 £184 +35.93% 6
East London -4 2 £173 +32.69% 2
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Python
3 16 (17.58%) Azure
4 15 (16.48%) Security Cleared
4 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
5 13 (14.29%) Agile
6 12 (13.19%) SQL
7 11 (12.09%) AWS
7 11 (12.09%) Windows
7 11 (12.09%) PMO
8 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
8 10 (10.99%) Project Management
8 10 (10.99%) Finance
8 10 (10.99%) Degree
9 9 (9.89%) C#
9 9 (9.89%) DevOps
10 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (7.69%) Java
11 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
11 7 (7.69%) Oracle
11 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
11 7 (7.69%) Banking
11 7 (7.69%) Analytics
12 6 (6.59%) Kafka
12 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (6.59%) Computer Science
12 6 (6.59%) Data Protection
12 6 (6.59%) .NET
12 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
12 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps

Junior 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 5 (5.49%) Apache
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 11 (12.09%) AWS
3 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.20%) Serverless
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.10%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.10%) dbt
7 1 (1.10%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.10%) Google Pay
7 1 (1.10%) Route 53
7 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) LAN
2 3 (3.30%) Network Security
2 3 (3.30%) WAN
2 3 (3.30%) Wireless
3 2 (2.20%) Firewall
3 2 (2.20%) Intranet
4 1 (1.10%) BGP
4 1 (1.10%) DSL
4 1 (1.10%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.10%) IGRP
4 1 (1.10%) OSPF
4 1 (1.10%) RIP
4 1 (1.10%) VoIP
4 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Flink
2 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.10%) Big Data
4 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Redis
4 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) JUnit
3 2 (2.20%) Selenium
4 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.10%) Gatling
General
1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Finance
2 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Front Office
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Legal
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.10%) Billing
7 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) .NET
1 6 (6.59%) Kafka
2 5 (5.49%) React
3 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.20%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.20%) HTML
4 2 (2.20%) JPA
4 2 (2.20%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.20%) NumPy
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.20%) Pandas
4 2 (2.20%) Spring
5 1 (1.10%) Next.js
5 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.40%) iPhone
2 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.20%) Derivative
4 2 (2.20%) Equities
4 2 (2.20%) IoT
4 2 (2.20%) NHS
4 2 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.10%) Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) iPad
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.30%) Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.29%) Agile
2 10 (10.99%) Project Management
3 9 (9.89%) DevOps
4 7 (7.69%) Analytics
5 6 (6.59%) Computer Science
5 6 (6.59%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (6.59%) Data Protection
5 6 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (5.49%) CI/CD
6 5 (5.49%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (5.49%) Customer Service
6 5 (5.49%) Data Transformation
6 5 (5.49%) User Experience
6 5 (5.49%) Visualisation
7 4 (4.40%) Asset Management
7 4 (4.40%) Business Strategy
7 4 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (4.40%) Data Analysis
7 4 (4.40%) Logistics
7 4 (4.40%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) C#
4 7 (7.69%) Java
4 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.20%) C
7 2 (2.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
1 15 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 3 (3.30%) CCNA
3 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.20%) CHECK Team Leader
4 2 (2.20%) CREST Certified
4 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) GIAC
4 2 (2.20%) OSCP
5 1 (1.10%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) CAPM
5 1 (1.10%) CCNP
5 1 (1.10%) MCSA
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) PMO
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.40%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.10%) SCCM
3 1 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 7 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (3.30%) Cisco
2 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.20%) Apple
3 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.20%) VMware
4 1 (1.10%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) HP
4 1 (1.10%) Huawei
4 1 (1.10%) Trend Micro