Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £520 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 12 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 261 274 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.92% 9.60% 8.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% 10.19% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 220 245
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £490 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.49% +0.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £41.75 - £61.41
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +8.65% +6.50%
75th Percentile £51.88 - £66.08
90th Percentile £60.50 - £66.85
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
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,438 2,690 3,407
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.29% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 1,841 2,339
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £372 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 80 99
10th Percentile £15.63 £17.02 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £19.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.00 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.49 £79.19 £63.27
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire 0 176 £525 +5.00% 41
Buckinghamshire +14 65 £511 -7.09% 39
Oxfordshire +2 20 £525 +12.90% 34
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 84 (32.18%) DevOps
2 69 (26.44%) Python
3 68 (26.05%) Agile
4 62 (23.75%) Azure
5 57 (21.84%) Security Cleared
6 56 (21.46%) SC Cleared
7 53 (20.31%) SQL
8 44 (16.86%) Git
9 42 (16.09%) Full Stack Development
10 39 (14.94%) React
11 38 (14.56%) AWS
12 37 (14.18%) Java
13 35 (13.41%) Microservices
13 35 (13.41%) CI/CD
14 34 (13.03%) Microsoft
15 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (12.64%) Unit Testing
16 32 (12.26%) JavaScript
17 31 (11.88%) C#
17 31 (11.88%) Software Engineering
18 30 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (11.49%) Power Platform
18 30 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
19 28 (10.73%) Serverless
20 27 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
20 27 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
21 25 (9.58%) Oracle
21 25 (9.58%) NoSQL
21 25 (9.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
22 23 (8.81%) Problem-Solving

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (3.45%) SAS
1 9 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.53%) CMS
3 3 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.15%) WordPress
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) Drupal
4 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.77%) Jadu
4 2 (0.77%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Sketch
4 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.38%) Blender
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Aareon QL
2 4 (1.53%) LabWindows
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.38%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.75%) Azure
2 38 (14.56%) AWS
3 30 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (11.49%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.73%) Serverless
5 27 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (9.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (8.81%) Azure Functions
8 22 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (8.05%) Entra ID
10 14 (5.36%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.83%) GitHub
12 7 (2.68%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.30%) GCP
14 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.92%) PaaS
15 4 (1.53%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.28%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.83%) SAN
3 4 (1.53%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.58%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.13%) Power BI
4 15 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 14 (5.36%) Oracle Database
6 13 (4.98%) Oracle Database 11g
7 10 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (1.92%) MySQL
9 5 (1.92%) Tableau
10 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.53%) GIS
10 4 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.53%) Redis
10 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (16.86%) Git
2 14 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.21%) JIRA
3 11 (4.21%) Selenium
4 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
4 5 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.92%) Subversion
5 4 (1.53%) GitLab
6 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.77%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.38%) Maven
8 1 (0.38%) Mockito
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 30 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (7.28%) Finance
2 19 (7.28%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.36%) Telecoms
4 8 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.30%) Local Government
5 6 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.92%) Marketing
7 4 (1.53%) Law
7 4 (1.53%) Police
8 3 (1.15%) Retail
9 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.94%) React
2 22 (8.43%) HTML
3 20 (7.66%) .NET
3 20 (7.66%) CSS
4 18 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 18 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.13%) REST
6 14 (5.36%) Kafka
7 13 (4.98%) Spring
8 12 (4.60%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.60%) Node.js
9 10 (3.83%) Django
10 7 (2.68%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.68%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.68%) Web Services
10 7 (2.68%) XML
11 6 (2.30%) Celery
11 6 (2.30%) Symfony
12 5 (1.92%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.60%) Robotics
3 7 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.92%) Housing Association
5 2 (0.77%) Animation
5 2 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.77%) Graphic Design
5 2 (0.77%) IoT
5 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.77%) NHS
5 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.38%) Life Science
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.38%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.43%) Linux
2 12 (4.60%) Debian
2 12 (4.60%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.53%) Windows
3 4 (1.53%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.77%) Android
4 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.18%) DevOps
2 68 (26.05%) Agile
3 42 (16.09%) Full Stack Development
4 35 (13.41%) CI/CD
4 35 (13.41%) Microservices
5 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (12.64%) Unit Testing
6 31 (11.88%) Software Engineering
7 23 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (8.05%) SDLC
9 20 (7.66%) Scrum
10 19 (7.28%) Data Modelling
10 19 (7.28%) User Experience
11 18 (6.90%) Analytics
11 18 (6.90%) Architectural Design
11 18 (6.90%) Migration
11 18 (6.90%) TDD
11 18 (6.90%) Test Automation
12 17 (6.51%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (6.13%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.44%) Python
2 53 (20.31%) SQL
3 37 (14.18%) Java
4 32 (12.26%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.88%) C#
6 19 (7.28%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.83%) PHP
8 9 (3.45%) C
9 8 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.07%) Scala
10 6 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.15%) Ruby
11 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.77%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) ABAP
13 1 (0.38%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.83%) Degree
4 6 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) IFRS
4 2 (0.77%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.21%) Ansible
3 6 (2.30%) Terraform
4 4 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.53%) Podman
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.58%) Oracle
3 17 (6.51%) VMware
4 14 (5.36%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.68%) Google
6 7 (2.68%) IFS
7 5 (1.92%) Aareon
8 4 (1.53%) Adobe
8 4 (1.53%) Informatica
8 4 (1.53%) Remedy
8 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.53%) SAP
8 4 (1.53%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.77%) Atmel
10 1 (0.38%) Apple
10 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.38%) Facebook
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) Twitter