Developer Contracts in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 512 608 801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 9.34% 10.69% 10.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.13% 11.28% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 449 553
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.23%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 24
10th Percentile £41.75 £52.25 £19.95
25th Percentile £50.55 £57.69 £40.59
Median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +43.59% -2.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.78 - £64.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +6.06%

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 5,056 5,391 7,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.75% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,042 3,766 4,994
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 £619 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 241 330
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £58.42
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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
Thames Valley +1 260 £525 - 99
Berkshire -3 171 £525 +5.00% 42
Surrey +15 96 £488 -2.50% 42
Hampshire -16 80 £475 -7.77% 54
Buckinghamshire +14 68 £511 -7.09% 34
West Sussex -3 26 £400 -3.38% 15
Oxfordshire 0 21 £525 +5.00% 23
East Sussex +4 17 £365 -18.89% 16
Kent +11 16 £470 +13.94% 38
Sussex - 9 £400 - 3
Middlesex -9 3 £325 -67.50% 2
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 7 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 139 (27.15%) Agile
2 115 (22.46%) SQL
3 110 (21.48%) Security Cleared
4 101 (19.73%) SC Cleared
5 99 (19.34%) DevOps
6 96 (18.75%) Azure
7 83 (16.21%) C#
8 81 (15.82%) JavaScript
9 75 (14.65%) Python
10 73 (14.26%) Full Stack Development
11 71 (13.87%) Git
12 66 (12.89%) Java
13 60 (11.72%) Microsoft
13 60 (11.72%) Software Engineering
14 59 (11.52%) AWS
15 58 (11.33%) .NET
15 58 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (10.35%) Linux
17 51 (9.96%) HTML
18 50 (9.77%) CSS
18 50 (9.77%) Power Platform
19 48 (9.38%) Oracle
20 47 (9.18%) Social Skills
21 45 (8.79%) AngularJS
22 44 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
22 44 (8.59%) Scrum
23 42 (8.20%) React
23 42 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
23 42 (8.20%) Microservices
24 40 (7.81%) Public Sector

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 (2.54%) SAS
1 13 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.95%) Drupal
3 8 (1.56%) Apache
4 6 (1.17%) CMS
5 5 (0.98%) Confluence
6 4 (0.78%) CICS
6 4 (0.78%) Jadu
6 4 (0.78%) Moodle
6 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.78%) WordPress
7 2 (0.39%) FileNet
7 2 (0.39%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.39%) Kentico
7 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.20%) Blender
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Aareon QL
2 4 (0.78%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (0.59%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.75%) Azure
2 59 (11.52%) AWS
3 50 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (6.25%) Serverless
6 26 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
7 23 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (4.49%) Azure Functions
8 22 (4.30%) Power Automate
9 20 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.93%) GitHub
11 15 (2.93%) SaaS
12 14 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.73%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.34%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.76%) Azure AKS
14 9 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.93%) SAN
3 5 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.78%) HTTP
4 4 (0.78%) RS-232
5 3 (0.59%) Link 16
5 3 (0.59%) Tactical Data Link
6 2 (0.39%) SNMP
6 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.27%) NoSQL
3 27 (5.27%) Power BI
4 20 (3.91%) MySQL
5 18 (3.52%) Oracle Database
6 14 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.73%) Oracle Database 11g
6 14 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.95%) Couchbase
8 8 (1.56%) GIS
8 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.37%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.98%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (13.87%) Git
2 25 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.69%) Visual Studio
4 19 (3.71%) JIRA
5 12 (2.34%) LabVIEW
6 11 (2.15%) GitLab
7 7 (1.37%) Selenium
8 6 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.98%) JUnit
9 5 (0.98%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.98%) Subversion
10 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.59%) 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 47 (9.18%) Social Skills
2 42 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.42%) Finance
5 11 (2.15%) Billing
5 11 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.56%) Marketing
6 8 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.37%) Local Government
8 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 4 (0.78%) Law
8 4 (0.78%) Police
8 4 (0.78%) Retail
9 3 (0.59%) Advertising
9 3 (0.59%) Banking
9 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.59%) Music Industry
10 2 (0.39%) Aviation
10 2 (0.39%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.33%) .NET
2 51 (9.96%) HTML
3 50 (9.77%) CSS
4 45 (8.79%) AngularJS
5 42 (8.20%) React
6 29 (5.66%) REST
7 27 (5.27%) ASP.NET
7 27 (5.27%) Spring
8 24 (4.69%) Kafka
9 22 (4.30%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.10%) Node.js
11 20 (3.91%) Web Services
12 15 (2.93%) RESTful
13 12 (2.34%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.15%) ASP.NET MVC
14 11 (2.15%) JSON
14 11 (2.15%) XML
15 10 (1.95%) SOAP
16 9 (1.76%) GraphQL
17 8 (1.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.32%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.34%) Robotics
3 9 (1.76%) CCTV
4 8 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (0.98%) Housing Association
6 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.78%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.39%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.39%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.39%) NHS
9 2 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (10.35%) Linux
2 18 (3.52%) Ubuntu
3 17 (3.32%) Debian
4 14 (2.73%) Windows
5 10 (1.95%) Unix
6 7 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.98%) Android
9 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.78%) zOS
10 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.15%) Agile
2 99 (19.34%) DevOps
3 73 (14.26%) Full Stack Development
4 60 (11.72%) Software Engineering
5 58 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (8.59%) Scrum
7 42 (8.20%) Microservices
8 37 (7.23%) CI/CD
9 36 (7.03%) TDD
9 36 (7.03%) Unit Testing
10 35 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (6.45%) Migration
12 32 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (6.05%) Data Modelling
14 27 (5.27%) Analytics
15 25 (4.88%) User Experience
16 22 (4.30%) Clean Code
16 22 (4.30%) Data Migration
17 21 (4.10%) SDLC
17 21 (4.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (22.46%) SQL
2 83 (16.21%) C#
3 81 (15.82%) JavaScript
4 75 (14.65%) Python
5 66 (12.89%) Java
6 38 (7.42%) PL/SQL
7 32 (6.25%) PHP
8 26 (5.08%) C++
9 23 (4.49%) C
10 19 (3.71%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.73%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.54%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.95%) Scala
14 9 (1.76%) ProC
15 8 (1.56%) ABAP
16 7 (1.37%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.17%) VB
18 5 (0.98%) Go
18 5 (0.98%) X++
Qualifications
1 110 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 101 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.54%) Degree
4 12 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.54%) QA
2 8 (1.56%) ISO 9001
2 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.98%) GDPR
5 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (4.10%) Docker
2 17 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.52%) Ansible
3 8 (1.56%) Terraform
4 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (0.78%) Podman
5 2 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.38%) Oracle
3 24 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.30%) VMware
5 21 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.93%) Guidewire
7 13 (2.54%) SAP
8 10 (1.95%) Adobe
9 8 (1.56%) Informatica
10 7 (1.37%) Google
10 7 (1.37%) IBM
10 7 (1.37%) IFS
11 6 (1.17%) Workday
12 5 (0.98%) Aareon
12 5 (0.98%) Remedy
12 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.98%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.78%) Snow
13 4 (0.78%) Syncsort