fastlane Contracts

fastlane
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for fastlane skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited fastlane over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 692 813
Rank change year-on-year +120 +121 -146
Contract jobs citing fastlane 1 8 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.014% 0.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.019% 0.094% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 37
10th Percentile - £465 £443
25th Percentile £425 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £476 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -13.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £531 £588
90th Percentile - £558 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £476 £500
% change year-on-year - -4.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

fastlane is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,134 8,483 15,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 5,983 11,126
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £462 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 231 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.60 £38.48
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.50 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing fastlane as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for fastlane in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for fastlane in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for fastlane in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing fastlane within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
London +99 1 £450 -5.26%
England +90 1 £450 -5.36% 2

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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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA