Pricing Developer Contracts

Pricing Developer
UK

The median Pricing Developer daily rate in the UK is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 671 832
Rank change year-on-year +94 +161 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Pricing Developer 21 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.069% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.073% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 20
10th Percentile £600 £738 £531
25th Percentile £759 £775 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £900 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £850 - £775
90th Percentile £1,170 - £927
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Pricing Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pricing Developer in the UK

Pricing Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pricing Developer in the UK

Pricing Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pricing Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pricing Developer in the UK

Pricing Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pricing Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +112 21 £825 -8.33% 3
London +80 21 £825 -8.33% 3
Work from Home +100 4 £800 -11.11% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Pricing 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 Pricing Developer in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) Java
2 14 (66.67%) Finance
3 12 (57.14%) Spring
3 12 (57.14%) Spring Boot
4 9 (42.86%) Banking
5 8 (38.10%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) Front Office
6 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (28.57%) TDD
6 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 4 (19.05%) Migration
7 4 (19.05%) Fixed Income
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle
7 4 (19.05%) JUnit
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (19.05%) Docker
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
7 4 (19.05%) AWS
7 4 (19.05%) Mockito
7 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (19.05%) Derivative
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (19.05%) Microservices
7 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes

Pricing 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (9.52%) KDB
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JUnit
2 4 (19.05%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) CircleCI
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Banking
3 8 (38.10%) Front Office
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Spring
1 12 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (19.05%) Credit Derivative
2 4 (19.05%) Derivative
2 4 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
4 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
5 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) TDD
3 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Microservices
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.52%) Multithreaded Programming
5 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
5 2 (9.52%) OOP
5 2 (9.52%) SOLID
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) C++
2 3 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) ION Trading
3 1 (4.76%) MarketAxess
3 1 (4.76%) Tradeweb