Low-Code Contracts

Low-Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Low-Code over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 630 765
Rank change year-on-year +85 +135 -127
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 53 89 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 65 65
10th Percentile £400 £369 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £635 £588
90th Percentile £588 £728 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £590 £494
% change year-on-year -13.35% +19.49% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £79.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.19 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Low-Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Low-Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low-Code over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Low-Code 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 +93 42 £525 -7.49% 64
Work from Home +137 33 £500 -16.67% 28
London +79 25 £525 -4.55% 25
UK excluding London +58 18 £511 -13.35% 42
East of England - 6 £498 - 3
North of England +36 5 £563 -2.17% 16
South East +23 3 £538 -3.59% 5
North West +18 3 £550 - 9
Scotland - 2 £480 - 2
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 6
Midlands +18 1 £189 -51.32% 5
Wales +16 1 £500 +16.28% 4
North East - 1 £650 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £189 - 1

Low-Code
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 15 (28.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.32%) Appian
3 5 (9.43%) Alfresco
3 5 (9.43%) Camunda
3 5 (9.43%) IBM Notes
4 3 (5.66%) IIS
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Maximo
2 2 (3.77%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Power Platform
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (24.53%) Azure
4 12 (22.64%) Power Automate
5 10 (18.87%) PowerApps
6 5 (9.43%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) IaaS
7 2 (3.77%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) AWS
8 1 (1.89%) Figma
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.89%) Miro
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.89%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.89%) DataStage
3 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.21%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Marketing
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Police
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Power Platform Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Applications Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Business Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Platform Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Power Platform Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Pega Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Salesforce Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Designer
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
10 1 (1.89%) Administrator
10 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Architect
10 1 (1.89%) Project Analyst
10 1 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) JSON
2 5 (9.43%) .NET
2 5 (9.43%) Drools
2 5 (9.43%) HTML
2 5 (9.43%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (9.43%) jBPM
3 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
3 4 (7.55%) CSS
3 4 (7.55%) REST
4 3 (5.66%) SOAP
4 3 (5.66%) XHTML
5 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.77%) Middleware
5 2 (3.77%) Swagger
6 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.89%) MACH
6 1 (1.89%) Playwright
6 1 (1.89%) PySpark
6 1 (1.89%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.43%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Workflow
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
3 10 (18.87%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (15.09%) Microservices
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps
6 6 (11.32%) BPMN
6 6 (11.32%) Data Modelling
6 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (9.43%) API Design
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.55%) Asset Management
8 4 (7.55%) Business Analysis
8 4 (7.55%) OOD
8 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.66%) Change Management
9 3 (5.66%) Migration
9 3 (5.66%) Project Management
9 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) C#
2 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.98%) Java
4 5 (9.43%) Python
5 4 (7.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Pega
3 5 (9.43%) Lotus
3 5 (9.43%) New Relic
3 5 (9.43%) Splunk
4 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.66%) Nintex
5 3 (5.66%) SAP
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) UiPath
7 1 (1.89%) Adobe
7 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.89%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.89%) Pardot
7 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.89%) TIBCO