Developer Contracts in Portsmouth

Developer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Developer daily rate in Portsmouth is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 28 38 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 9.62% 16.31% 13.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.41% 17.12% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 15
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile - £406 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £419 £676 £600
90th Percentile £504 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £474 £515 £486
% change year-on-year -8.01% +5.91% +8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 16
10th Percentile £70.00 £64.75 £42.33
25th Percentile £75.00 £68.13 £44.74
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +23.89% +4.63%
75th Percentile £84.45 £71.25 £63.25
90th Percentile - £73.50 £65.52
Hampshire median hourly rate £77.50 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.77% +29.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 269 222 259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 95.28% 97.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 140 100
10th Percentile £400 £204 £165
25th Percentile £450 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £675 £570 £578
90th Percentile £850 £638 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 18 57
10th Percentile £51.06 £39.44 £18.50
25th Percentile £53.40 £51.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £59.44 £59.45 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.02% +43.26% -7.78%
75th Percentile £67.02 £67.02 £58.38
90th Percentile £78.43 £70.38 £66.02
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -27.12%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Portsmouth

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Portsmouth

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Portsmouth region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) C++
3 11 (39.29%) Linux
4 9 (32.14%) Windows
4 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (32.14%) CCTV
4 9 (32.14%) Refactoring
4 9 (32.14%) OCR
4 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
5 8 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (28.57%) ISO 9001
6 7 (25.00%) LabVIEW
6 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (21.43%) SAP
8 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
8 5 (17.86%) UML
8 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
9 4 (14.29%) Lumira
9 4 (14.29%) SAP BW
9 4 (14.29%) Scrum
10 3 (10.71%) SysML
10 3 (10.71%) CSS
10 3 (10.71%) HTML
10 3 (10.71%) ABAP
10 3 (10.71%) .NET
10 3 (10.71%) Blazor
10 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SNMP
1 2 (7.14%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Lumira
1 4 (14.29%) SAP BW
2 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (7.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) LabVIEW
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) Eclipse
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GoogleTest
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
1 3 (10.71%) Blazor
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) WCF
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) CCTV
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) OCR
3 9 (32.14%) Refactoring
3 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) UML
5 4 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (10.71%) SysML
7 2 (7.14%) Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) Business Analysis
7 2 (7.14%) ERD
7 2 (7.14%) MVC
7 2 (7.14%) OO
7 2 (7.14%) Project Planning
7 2 (7.14%) Prototyping
7 2 (7.14%) SDLC
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (7.14%) Validation
7 2 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) C#
1 12 (42.86%) C++
2 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) ABAP
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) ISO 9001
1 8 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe