Software Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 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 137 212 253
Rank change year-on-year +75 +41 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 323 273 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.16% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.23% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 200 167
10th Percentile £338 £361 £345
25th Percentile £407 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.46% +15.76%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £570
90th Percentile £638 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -0.71% +2.69% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 19
10th Percentile - £48.11 £39.83
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.95 £46.25
Median hourly rate £58.91 £57.42 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +5.36% +50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £73.09 £58.72
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £58.59 £48.12
% change year-on-year +3.61% +21.76% +42.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +111 140 £450 +1.12% 71
North West +60 62 £420 -5.62% 45
Yorkshire +69 52 £450 +1.12% 16
Midlands +55 51 £400 -23.81% 62
South West +18 41 £488 -18.75% 50
Scotland +10 40 £463 -2.63% 18
South East -27 31 £413 -8.33% 52
North East +33 26 - - 12
East Midlands +30 26 £425 -28.08% 25
West Midlands +40 25 £375 -28.57% 37
East of England +7 13 £485 -3.00% 25
Wales +13 7 £520 +22.35% 7
Software Developer
UK

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Software 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 222 (68.73%) Degree
1 222 (68.73%) Code Quality
2 218 (67.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 216 (66.87%) PayPal
3 216 (66.87%) Chatbot
3 216 (66.87%) Conversational UI
4 148 (45.82%) JavaScript
5 143 (44.27%) C#
6 134 (41.49%) HTML
7 133 (41.18%) Python
8 132 (40.87%) Software Engineering
9 128 (39.63%) SQL
10 45 (13.93%) Agile
11 29 (8.98%) .NET
12 26 (8.05%) CSS
13 23 (7.12%) Java
14 22 (6.81%) Security Cleared
15 19 (5.88%) Linux
15 19 (5.88%) Public Sector
16 18 (5.57%) Azure
17 17 (5.26%) AWS
18 16 (4.95%) TypeScript
19 15 (4.64%) CI/CD
19 15 (4.64%) React
20 14 (4.33%) DevOps
20 14 (4.33%) Scrum
21 13 (4.02%) TDD
21 13 (4.02%) Microsoft
21 13 (4.02%) Front End Development
22 12 (3.72%) Clean Code

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.55%) Umbraco
2 3 (0.93%) CMS
3 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 216 (66.87%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (5.57%) Azure
2 17 (5.26%) AWS
3 9 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.48%) Amazon S3
4 8 (2.48%) Serverless
5 7 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.55%) GitHub
7 4 (1.24%) GCP
7 4 (1.24%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.62%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.62%) Rekognition
9 2 (0.62%) Textract
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.31%) npm
10 1 (0.31%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) RS-232
1 4 (1.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.93%) SAN
3 2 (0.62%) Firewall
3 2 (0.62%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.31%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.24%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.62%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.62%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.62%) Power BI
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.31%) DB2
6 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Git
2 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.86%) LabVIEW
2 6 (1.86%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.24%) JIRA
3 4 (1.24%) Subversion
4 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.62%) Mockito
5 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.62%) Postman
5 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.62%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.31%) JMeter
6 1 (0.31%) Mocha
6 1 (0.31%) NUnit
6 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 19 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 6 (1.86%) Finance
2 6 (1.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (1.55%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.24%) Tech for Good
5 2 (0.62%) Banking
6 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.31%) Aviation
6 1 (0.31%) Law
6 1 (0.31%) Marketing
6 1 (0.31%) Military
6 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (41.49%) HTML
2 29 (8.98%) .NET
3 26 (8.05%) CSS
4 15 (4.64%) React
5 12 (3.72%) REST
6 11 (3.41%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.79%) Node.js
8 8 (2.48%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (2.48%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.86%) Blazor
10 5 (1.55%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.55%) Flask
11 4 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.24%) Kafka
11 4 (1.24%) RESTful
11 4 (1.24%) XML
12 3 (0.93%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.93%) JSON
12 3 (0.93%) Razor View Engine
12 3 (0.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (1.55%) NHS
2 4 (1.24%) CCTV
3 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
3 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.62%) Data Structures
3 2 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.31%) Clustering
4 1 (0.31%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.31%) IoT
4 1 (0.31%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.31%) Life Science
4 1 (0.31%) Replication
4 1 (0.31%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.88%) Linux
2 11 (3.41%) Windows
3 4 (1.24%) Unix
3 4 (1.24%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.93%) Debian
4 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.62%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (68.73%) Code Quality
2 218 (67.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 216 (66.87%) Conversational UI
4 132 (40.87%) Software Engineering
5 45 (13.93%) Agile
6 15 (4.64%) CI/CD
7 14 (4.33%) DevOps
7 14 (4.33%) Scrum
8 13 (4.02%) Front End Development
8 13 (4.02%) TDD
9 12 (3.72%) Clean Code
9 12 (3.72%) Test Automation
10 11 (3.41%) MVC
10 11 (3.41%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (3.10%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (3.10%) OO
12 8 (2.48%) Microservices
12 8 (2.48%) Pair Programming
12 8 (2.48%) Software Testing
13 7 (2.17%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 148 (45.82%) JavaScript
2 143 (44.27%) C#
3 133 (41.18%) Python
4 128 (39.63%) SQL
5 23 (7.12%) Java
6 16 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.41%) C++
8 7 (2.17%) Bash
8 7 (2.17%) C
9 5 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.62%) PHP
11 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) Ada
12 1 (0.31%) Go
12 1 (0.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 222 (68.73%) Degree
2 22 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.31%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.86%) QA
3 5 (1.55%) HL7
4 3 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.31%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.31%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.24%) zsh
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.24%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Terraform
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Kibana
4 1 (0.31%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 216 (66.87%) PayPal
2 13 (4.02%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.86%) Oracle
4 4 (1.24%) Google
4 4 (1.24%) RedGate
4 4 (1.24%) VMware
5 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.62%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.31%) Atmel
7 1 (0.31%) Databricks
7 1 (0.31%) IBM
7 1 (0.31%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.31%) Remedy