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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 605 766
Rank change year-on-year +78 +161 -106
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 52 89 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.47% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 63 77
10th Percentile £400 £370 £371
25th Percentile £465 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £613
90th Percentile £586 £792 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -11.44% +12.38% +5.00%
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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +81 41 £525 -8.10% 61
Work from Home +117 33 £523 -12.92% 41
London +76 22 £525 -10.06% 16
UK excluding London +46 19 £523 -11.44% 55
North of England +34 6 £550 -4.35% 16
East of England - 6 £498 - 4
North West +19 4 £550 - 10
South East +17 3 £538 +7.50% 5
Scotland - 2 £480 - 6
Wales +20 1 £500 +16.28% 4
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 5
Midlands +13 1 £189 -51.32% 12
North East - 1 £650 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £189 - 4

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 16 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.54%) Appian
3 5 (9.62%) Alfresco
3 5 (9.62%) Camunda
3 5 (9.62%) IBM Notes
4 3 (5.77%) IIS
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.92%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Maximo
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) Power Platform
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (28.85%) Azure
4 14 (26.92%) Power Automate
5 12 (23.08%) PowerApps
6 7 (13.46%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.77%) Serverless
8 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) IaaS
8 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 2 (3.85%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) AWS
9 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.92%) Figma
9 1 (1.92%) GCP
9 1 (1.92%) Miro
9 1 (1.92%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.92%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Power BI
2 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) DataStage
3 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Games
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Local Government
6 1 (1.92%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Architect
3 10 (19.23%) Power Platform Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (13.46%) Applications Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Business Analyst
7 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 5 (9.62%) Platform Architect
7 5 (9.62%) Power Platform Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Lead
9 3 (5.77%) Pega Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Salesforce Architect
10 2 (3.85%) Consultant
10 2 (3.85%) Designer
10 2 (3.85%) Power Apps Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
11 1 (1.92%) Low-Code Developer
11 1 (1.92%) Power Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) JSON
2 6 (11.54%) HTML
2 6 (11.54%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (9.62%) .NET
3 5 (9.62%) CSS
3 5 (9.62%) Drools
3 5 (9.62%) jBPM
4 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (5.77%) SOAP
5 3 (5.77%) XHTML
6 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.85%) Swagger
7 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.92%) MACH
7 1 (1.92%) Middleware
7 1 (1.92%) Playwright
7 1 (1.92%) PySpark
7 1 (1.92%) SPFx
7 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Agile
1 12 (23.08%) Workflow
2 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (15.38%) DevOps
3 8 (15.38%) Microservices
4 7 (13.46%) Data Modelling
5 6 (11.54%) BPMN
5 6 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (9.62%) API Design
6 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
7 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
7 4 (7.69%) OOD
7 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 3 (5.77%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (5.77%) API Management
8 3 (5.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (5.77%) Product Vision
8 3 (5.77%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) C#
2 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 9 (17.31%) Java
4 5 (9.62%) Python
4 5 (9.62%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) Degree
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Pega
3 5 (9.62%) Lotus
3 5 (9.62%) New Relic
3 5 (9.62%) Splunk
4 4 (7.69%) IBM
5 3 (5.77%) Nintex
5 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.77%) SAP
6 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) UiPath
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe
7 1 (1.92%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.92%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.92%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.92%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.92%) TIBCO