Backend Developer Contracts

Backend Developer
UK

The median Backend Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 481 491
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 122 221 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 170 296
10th Percentile £329 £420 £400
25th Percentile £410 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £616 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +14.56% +19.44%
75th Percentile £548 £675 £721
90th Percentile £620 £753 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £57.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 39,413 53,669 84,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,677 37,466 59,216
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,499 2,051
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 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
England -1 101 £500 -17.12% 69
London +30 83 £500 -23.08% 46
Work from Home +37 47 £513 -18.65% 35
UK excluding London +23 23 £413 -25.00% 37
Scotland - 10 £400 - 3
South East +11 6 £550 -20.72% 12
North of England +8 4 £463 -10.84% 6
Midlands +21 2 - - 7
North West +17 2 £425 -10.53% 4
South West +11 2 £425 -32.00% 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 66 (54.10%) Agile
2 54 (44.26%) Azure
3 49 (40.16%) C#
4 46 (37.70%) Microsoft
4 46 (37.70%) DevOps
5 45 (36.89%) Java
6 43 (35.25%) .NET
7 42 (34.43%) SQL Server
7 42 (34.43%) CI/CD
8 41 (33.61%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (32.79%) Active Directory
9 40 (32.79%) .NET Core
10 37 (30.33%) JavaScript
10 37 (30.33%) PowerShell
11 36 (29.51%) Scrum
11 36 (29.51%) Bicep
12 34 (27.87%) XML
12 34 (27.87%) AWS
13 31 (25.41%) Entra ID
14 30 (24.59%) B2C
15 26 (21.31%) TypeScript
15 26 (21.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (18.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (17.21%) HTML
18 20 (16.39%) CSS
18 20 (16.39%) Software Engineering
19 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
20 18 (14.75%) React
20 18 (14.75%) Microservices
21 17 (13.93%) Kubernetes

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 (2.46%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.46%) CICS
2 2 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.64%) CMS
2 2 (1.64%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Endur
1 1 (0.82%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) Azure
2 41 (33.61%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (27.87%) AWS
4 31 (25.41%) Entra ID
5 26 (21.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (18.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (6.56%) Serverless
8 7 (5.74%) GCP
9 6 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.64%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) SAN
1 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.64%) HTTP
2 2 (1.64%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (34.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.30%) Redis
3 13 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.74%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.10%) MySQL
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.46%) DB2
8 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.82%) Big Data
9 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.82%) Jackrabbit
9 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.46%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.64%) Maven
4 2 (1.64%) Mocha
4 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.82%) EasyMock
5 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) JUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.82%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.82%) Mockito
5 1 (0.82%) Postman
5 1 (0.82%) Pylint
5 1 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) TestNG
5 1 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.30%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.56%) Back Office
4 6 (4.92%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Local Government
6 4 (3.28%) Finance
6 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (35.25%) .NET
2 40 (32.79%) .NET Core
3 34 (27.87%) XML
4 21 (17.21%) HTML
5 20 (16.39%) CSS
6 18 (14.75%) React
7 16 (13.11%) ASP.NET
8 15 (12.30%) REST
8 15 (12.30%) Spring
9 14 (11.48%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (10.66%) Node.js
10 13 (10.66%) Spring Boot
11 12 (9.84%) Kafka
12 11 (9.02%) RESTful
13 6 (4.92%) AWS CDK
14 5 (4.10%) Apache Sling
14 5 (4.10%) GraphQL
14 5 (4.10%) NestJS
14 5 (4.10%) OSGi
14 5 (4.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.66%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.74%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.74%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.46%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.64%) IoT
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.82%) CBDC
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Debian
2 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.10%) Agile
2 46 (37.70%) DevOps
3 42 (34.43%) CI/CD
4 36 (29.51%) Scrum
5 30 (24.59%) B2C
6 20 (16.39%) Software Engineering
7 18 (14.75%) Microservices
8 15 (12.30%) SDLC
9 14 (11.48%) Front End Development
10 12 (9.84%) OO
11 11 (9.02%) TDD
12 9 (7.38%) API Management
12 9 (7.38%) Clean Code
12 9 (7.38%) Design Patterns
12 9 (7.38%) OOD
13 7 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (5.74%) Test Automation
13 7 (5.74%) Unit Testing
14 6 (4.92%) Database Optimisation
14 6 (4.92%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) C#
2 45 (36.89%) Java
3 37 (30.33%) JavaScript
3 37 (30.33%) PowerShell
4 36 (29.51%) Bicep
5 26 (21.31%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.30%) Python
6 15 (12.30%) SQL
7 10 (8.20%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.74%) Scala
9 5 (4.10%) C
9 5 (4.10%) C++
10 4 (3.28%) Go
11 3 (2.46%) COBOL
12 2 (1.64%) Rust
13 1 (0.82%) ABAP
13 1 (0.82%) JCL
13 1 (0.82%) PHP
13 1 (0.82%) Ruby
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.56%) Degree
2 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.64%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.82%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (32.79%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (13.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.46%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.64%) Terraform
4 2 (1.64%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.82%) Ansible
5 1 (0.82%) Argo
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.28%) VMware
4 3 (2.46%) Google
4 3 (2.46%) IBM
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle
5 2 (1.64%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) Adobe
6 1 (0.82%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.82%) Splunk