Backend Developer Contracts

Backend Developer
UK

The median Backend Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 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 472 497 503
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 126 227 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 171 282
10th Percentile £325 £419 £385
25th Percentile £413 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £650
90th Percentile £625 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £55.63 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £55.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the UK 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
England +31 107 £500 -16.67% 65
London +22 85 £500 -23.08% 44
Work from Home +55 51 £525 -19.23% 43
UK excluding London +54 26 £425 -19.05% 26
Scotland - 9 £398 - 5
South East +24 7 £550 -20.72% 3
North of England +18 7 £475 -8.43% 9
North West +5 4 £425 -8.11% 5
South West +23 2 £425 -32.00%
Midlands +22 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 +14.29% 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £500 - 1

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Backend 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 featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 61 (48.41%) Agile
2 47 (37.30%) Java
2 47 (37.30%) Azure
3 43 (34.13%) AWS
4 42 (33.33%) C#
5 41 (32.54%) DevOps
6 40 (31.75%) Microsoft
7 39 (30.95%) CI/CD
8 37 (29.37%) .NET
9 36 (28.57%) SQL Server
10 35 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (26.19%) .NET Core
11 33 (26.19%) Active Directory
12 30 (23.81%) JavaScript
13 29 (23.02%) PowerShell
13 29 (23.02%) Bicep
14 28 (22.22%) Scrum
15 27 (21.43%) XML
16 26 (20.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (19.05%) Entra ID
18 23 (18.25%) B2C
19 21 (16.67%) Python
19 21 (16.67%) Microservices
19 21 (16.67%) Public Sector
20 20 (15.87%) Kubernetes
20 20 (15.87%) TypeScript
21 19 (15.08%) Software Engineering
22 17 (13.49%) Git
23 16 (12.70%) REST
23 16 (12.70%) Spring

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.38%) CICS
1 3 (2.38%) CMS
2 2 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.59%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.59%) nginx
2 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Endur
1 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.30%) Azure
2 43 (34.13%) AWS
3 35 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (20.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 24 (19.05%) Entra ID
6 16 (12.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (7.14%) Serverless
8 8 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.97%) GCP
11 4 (3.17%) GitHub
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.59%) AWS KMS
13 2 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) SAN
1 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.59%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) SMS
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.35%) Redis
5 7 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.97%) MySQL
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.38%) DB2
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.79%) Big Data
10 1 (0.79%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (13.49%) Git
2 5 (3.97%) JIRA
3 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.38%) Karma Test Runner
4 3 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.59%) EasyMock
5 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.59%) JUnit
5 2 (1.59%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.59%) Maven
5 2 (1.59%) Mocha
5 2 (1.59%) Mockito
5 2 (1.59%) Postman
5 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) TestNG
6 1 (0.79%) Darcs
6 1 (0.79%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.79%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 21 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 14 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.35%) Back Office
4 5 (3.97%) Banking
4 5 (3.97%) Finance
5 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.17%) Local Government
6 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Games
7 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.37%) .NET
2 33 (26.19%) .NET Core
3 27 (21.43%) XML
4 16 (12.70%) REST
4 16 (12.70%) Spring
5 15 (11.90%) HTML
6 14 (11.11%) CSS
6 14 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 13 (10.32%) Node.js
7 13 (10.32%) RESTful
8 12 (9.52%) Kafka
9 11 (8.73%) React
10 9 (7.14%) ASP.NET
11 7 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (5.56%) AWS CDK
11 7 (5.56%) Web Services
12 6 (4.76%) OpenAPI
13 5 (3.97%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.97%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.97%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.79%) CBDC
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.76%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Debian
2 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.41%) Agile
2 41 (32.54%) DevOps
3 39 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 28 (22.22%) Scrum
5 23 (18.25%) B2C
6 21 (16.67%) Microservices
7 19 (15.08%) Software Engineering
8 15 (11.90%) Front End Development
9 14 (11.11%) SDLC
10 12 (9.52%) OO
10 12 (9.52%) TDD
11 10 (7.94%) Clean Code
12 9 (7.14%) API Management
12 9 (7.14%) OOD
13 8 (6.35%) Containerisation
13 8 (6.35%) Test Automation
14 7 (5.56%) Design Patterns
14 7 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (5.56%) Software Architecture
15 6 (4.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.30%) Java
2 42 (33.33%) C#
3 30 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 29 (23.02%) Bicep
4 29 (23.02%) PowerShell
5 21 (16.67%) Python
6 20 (15.87%) TypeScript
7 15 (11.90%) SQL
8 10 (7.94%) Kotlin
9 8 (6.35%) C++
10 7 (5.56%) Scala
11 6 (4.76%) C
12 4 (3.17%) Go
13 3 (2.38%) COBOL
14 2 (1.59%) Ruby
14 2 (1.59%) Rust
14 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.79%) ABAP
15 1 (0.79%) JCL
15 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (26.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.38%) CA Endevor
3 3 (2.38%) Terraform
4 2 (1.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.59%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.59%) Packer
4 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.59%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.17%) VMware
4 3 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (1.59%) Google
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle
5 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce