Developer Contracts in Oxfordshire

Developer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 20 30 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.01% 12.82% 17.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.64% 13.89% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 44
10th Percentile £333 £295 £338
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £506
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -8.15% +15.71%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £575
90th Percentile £655 £593 £593
South East median daily rate £490 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.49% +0.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +47.37% -18.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 188 216 264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.68% 92.31% 96.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 147 216
10th Percentile £131 £200 £169
25th Percentile £173 £330 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £493 £539 £575
90th Percentile £550 £625 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 18
10th Percentile £12.92 - £15.00
25th Percentile £13.97 £18.08 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.00% +6.52%
75th Percentile £26.00 £32.30 £20.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £51.20 £29.33
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.06% +139.02% -18.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Oxford +5 12 £525 +14.75% 9
Bicester - 1 £525 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Workflow
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Housing Association
3 5 (25.00%) Aareon QL
3 5 (25.00%) Aareon
4 3 (15.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (15.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Google
4 3 (15.00%) Visualforce
4 3 (15.00%) Apex Code
5 2 (10.00%) GWT
5 2 (10.00%) Django
5 2 (10.00%) Git
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) ERP
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 2 (10.00%) Virgin Media
5 2 (10.00%) Restlet
5 2 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Aareon QL
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (5.00%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) OLAP
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Local Government
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (15.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (10.00%) Celery
2 2 (10.00%) Django
2 2 (10.00%) GWT
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Restlet
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.00%) NestJS
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Workflow
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.00%) ERP
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Android Development
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) ETL
4 1 (5.00%) iOS Development
4 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Microservices
4 1 (5.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Project Management
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum
4 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Aareon
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (5.00%) Apple