Digital Developer Contracts

Digital Developer
UK

The median Digital Developer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 659 811
Rank change year-on-year +73 +152 -193
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 14 54 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.090% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.096% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 40 27
10th Percentile £395 - £415
25th Percentile £563 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile - £680 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +29.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £31.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +59.70%

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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
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 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Developer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +65 12 £750 +36.36% 7
London +93 11 £750 +10.29%
Work from Home +93 6 £750 +17.42% 5
UK excluding London +42 1 - - 7
North of England +26 1 - - 4
North West +24 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
2 6 (42.86%) BDD
2 6 (42.86%) Microservices
2 6 (42.86%) TDD
2 6 (42.86%) Pair Programming
2 6 (42.86%) Unix
2 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) Mac OS X
3 5 (35.71%) Web Design
3 5 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (35.71%) Mockito
3 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
3 5 (35.71%) Kafka
3 5 (35.71%) JAX-RS
3 5 (35.71%) Web Development
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) QA
5 2 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
5 2 (14.29%) React

Digital 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) govService
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Apigee
2 1 (7.14%) Datadog
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Mockito
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (35.71%) JAX-RS
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) Redux
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) VLE
1 1 (7.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Mac OS X
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) BDD
2 6 (42.86%) Microservices
2 6 (42.86%) Pair Programming
2 6 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
2 6 (42.86%) TDD
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (35.71%) Web Design
3 5 (35.71%) Web Development
4 1 (7.14%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (7.14%) Cryptocurrency
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Fintech
4 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
4 1 (7.14%) Kanban
4 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) UX Design
4 1 (7.14%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) Granicus
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk