Junior Contracts in the South East

Junior
England > South East

The median Junior daily rate in the South East is £343 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 182 226
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 29 35 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.60% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.64% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 18
10th Percentile £143 £130 £116
25th Percentile £200 £136 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £190 £283
Median % change year-on-year +80.53% -32.74% +41.25%
75th Percentile £409 £199 £331
90th Percentile £438 £274 £409
England median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £13.30 £12.24
25th Percentile £41.25 £17.13 £13.62
Median hourly rate £42.50 £24.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% +16.67% -23.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £32.13 -
90th Percentile - £36.10 -
England median hourly rate £10.42 £14.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -25.57% -33.33% +13.51%

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 5,153 5,511 7,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.43% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,838 5,032
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £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 479 242 335
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the South East

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in the South East

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the South East

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the South East

Junior
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 Junior within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Hampshire +10 14 £200 +5.26% 10
Thames Valley +6 13 £400 +64.95% 27
Berkshire -14 9 £400 +88.24% 10
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £315 -10.00% 11
Oxfordshire +7 2 - - 7
Surrey +2 2 £190 +28.81% 17
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 South East region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) Project Management
3 6 (20.69%) Unix
3 6 (20.69%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
3 6 (20.69%) Value Proposition
3 6 (20.69%) Customer Value Proposition
4 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 4 (13.79%) Automotive
5 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Windows
5 3 (10.34%) IBM
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.34%) Netcool
5 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.34%) Energy Management
5 3 (10.34%) Driving Licence
5 3 (10.34%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
6 2 (6.90%) GitOps
6 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (6.90%) Istio
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (6.90%) Workshop Facilitation

Junior 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 2 (6.90%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
1 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (13.79%) Automotive
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
2 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Electronics
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Publishing
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Project Management
2 6 (20.69%) Customer Value Proposition
2 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
2 6 (20.69%) Value Proposition
3 3 (10.34%) Energy Management
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.90%) Analytics
4 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.90%) ITIL
4 2 (6.90%) Network Architecture
4 2 (6.90%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (6.90%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
4 2 (6.90%) Supplier Management
4 2 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Netcool
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Istio
2 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.90%) RSA Archer
3 1 (3.45%) AppManager
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) IBM
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) BT
3 1 (3.45%) Optimizely