Developer Contracts in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer daily rate in the South East is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 515 600 825
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 9.32% 10.29% 10.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.07% 10.89% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 446 568
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £709 £631
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 26
10th Percentile £40.63 £52.00 £20.30
25th Percentile £48.40 £56.80 £41.34
Median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +35.92% -4.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.98
90th Percentile £82.23 - £67.03
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley -1 265 £524 -0.24% 94
Berkshire +4 178 £525 +5.00% 45
Surrey +16 91 £450 -10.00% 47
Hampshire -18 79 £475 -9.09% 58
Buckinghamshire +10 69 £511 -7.09% 27
West Sussex +4 33 £412 -3.06% 19
Oxfordshire -3 18 £525 +5.00% 22
East Sussex +3 17 £350 -22.22% 18
Kent +5 15 £485 +12.46% 33
Sussex - 8 £400 - 5
Middlesex -10 3 £325 -67.50%
Home Counties +4 1 £475 +14.46%
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 146 (28.35%) Agile
2 119 (23.11%) Security Cleared
3 117 (22.72%) SQL
4 110 (21.36%) SC Cleared
5 100 (19.42%) Azure
5 100 (19.42%) DevOps
6 83 (16.12%) C#
7 82 (15.92%) JavaScript
8 74 (14.37%) Full Stack Development
9 72 (13.98%) Python
9 72 (13.98%) Git
10 64 (12.43%) Java
11 63 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (12.04%) Microsoft
13 61 (11.84%) Software Engineering
14 60 (11.65%) AWS
15 58 (11.26%) .NET
16 55 (10.68%) Linux
17 53 (10.29%) Social Skills
18 51 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (9.71%) HTML
19 50 (9.71%) Power Platform
20 48 (9.32%) CSS
21 47 (9.13%) Oracle
22 46 (8.93%) Scrum
22 46 (8.93%) AngularJS
23 45 (8.74%) Microservices
24 43 (8.35%) Public Sector
25 40 (7.77%) Migration
25 40 (7.77%) Analytical Skills

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (2.52%) SAS
1 13 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.94%) Drupal
3 8 (1.55%) Apache
4 7 (1.36%) Confluence
5 6 (1.17%) CMS
5 6 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.78%) CICS
6 4 (0.78%) Moodle
6 4 (0.78%) WordPress
7 3 (0.58%) Jadu
8 2 (0.39%) FileNet
8 2 (0.39%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Kentico
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.19%) Blender
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.19%) Simulink
3 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Aareon QL
2 4 (0.78%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 100 (19.42%) Azure
2 60 (11.65%) AWS
3 50 (9.71%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.02%) Serverless
6 25 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (4.27%) Azure Functions
7 22 (4.27%) Power Automate
8 19 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 15 (2.91%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (2.72%) GitHub
10 14 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 14 (2.72%) SaaS
11 12 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.14%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.85%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.11%) SAN
3 5 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.78%) RS-232
5 3 (0.58%) HTTP
5 3 (0.58%) Link 16
5 3 (0.58%) Tactical Data Link
6 2 (0.39%) SNMP
6 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.24%) Power BI
4 26 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.88%) MySQL
6 19 (3.69%) Oracle Database
7 16 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.91%) Oracle Database 11g
9 10 (1.94%) Couchbase
10 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.55%) GIS
11 8 (1.55%) Redis
11 8 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.17%) Tableau
14 5 (0.97%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 72 (13.98%) Git
2 27 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.85%) Visual Studio
4 20 (3.88%) JIRA
5 12 (2.33%) GitLab
6 11 (2.14%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.36%) Selenium
8 6 (1.17%) JUnit
9 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.97%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.97%) Subversion
10 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.39%) GoogleTest
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 53 (10.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.35%) Public Sector
3 40 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.57%) Finance
5 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.94%) Billing
7 8 (1.55%) Marketing
8 7 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.17%) Local Government
10 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.78%) Law
10 4 (0.78%) Police
10 4 (0.78%) Retail
11 3 (0.58%) Advertising
11 3 (0.58%) Banking
11 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.58%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.39%) Military
12 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.26%) .NET
2 50 (9.71%) HTML
3 48 (9.32%) CSS
4 46 (8.93%) AngularJS
5 40 (7.77%) React
6 29 (5.63%) REST
7 28 (5.44%) ASP.NET
8 27 (5.24%) Node.js
8 27 (5.24%) Spring
9 23 (4.47%) Kafka
10 22 (4.27%) Spring Boot
11 20 (3.88%) Web Services
12 18 (3.50%) RESTful
13 12 (2.33%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.33%) Web Dynpro
14 11 (2.14%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (1.94%) JSON
15 10 (1.94%) SOAP
15 10 (1.94%) XML
16 9 (1.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.30%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.33%) Robotics
3 9 (1.75%) CCTV
3 9 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (0.97%) Housing Association
5 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.78%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.39%) Animation
8 2 (0.39%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.39%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.39%) NHS
8 2 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.68%) Linux
2 19 (3.69%) Ubuntu
3 18 (3.50%) Debian
4 14 (2.72%) Windows
5 10 (1.94%) Unix
6 7 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.78%) zOS
8 3 (0.58%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (28.35%) Agile
2 100 (19.42%) DevOps
3 74 (14.37%) Full Stack Development
4 63 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (11.84%) Software Engineering
6 46 (8.93%) Scrum
7 45 (8.74%) Microservices
8 40 (7.77%) Migration
9 36 (6.99%) TDD
10 35 (6.80%) CI/CD
10 35 (6.80%) Unit Testing
11 33 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (6.02%) Data Modelling
14 30 (5.83%) Data Migration
15 26 (5.05%) Analytics
16 24 (4.66%) User Experience
17 23 (4.47%) Clean Code
18 21 (4.08%) Architectural Design
18 21 (4.08%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (22.72%) SQL
2 83 (16.12%) C#
3 82 (15.92%) JavaScript
4 72 (13.98%) Python
5 64 (12.43%) Java
6 39 (7.57%) PL/SQL
7 31 (6.02%) PHP
8 26 (5.05%) C++
9 24 (4.66%) C
10 19 (3.69%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.50%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.91%) ABAP
13 13 (2.52%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.94%) Scala
15 9 (1.75%) ProC
16 7 (1.36%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.17%) Go
17 6 (1.17%) VB
18 5 (0.97%) X++
Qualifications
1 119 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.52%) Degree
3 13 (2.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.72%) QA
2 8 (1.55%) ISO 9001
2 8 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.97%) GDPR
5 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.66%) Docker
2 16 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.88%) Ansible
3 8 (1.55%) Terraform
4 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (0.78%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.13%) Oracle
3 23 (4.47%) VMware
4 22 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.69%) SAP
7 17 (3.30%) Adobe
8 14 (2.72%) Guidewire
9 8 (1.55%) Informatica
10 7 (1.36%) IBM
10 7 (1.36%) IFS
11 6 (1.17%) Workday
12 5 (0.97%) Aareon
12 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.97%) Google
12 5 (0.97%) Remedy
12 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.97%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.78%) Snow
13 4 (0.78%) Syncsort