Backend Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backend Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 344 379
Rank change year-on-year +48 +35 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 51 125 257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.52% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 97 185
10th Percentile £325 £435 £385
25th Percentile £404 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £725
90th Percentile £625 £800 £773
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £535
% change year-on-year -24.00% +16.82% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Backend Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backend Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backend Developer.

Backend Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backend Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Backend Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backend Developer.

Backend Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Backend 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 23 (45.10%) Agile
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) AWS
3 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 16 (31.37%) C#
4 16 (31.37%) .NET
4 16 (31.37%) DevOps
5 14 (27.45%) SQL Server
5 14 (27.45%) Java
5 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
5 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (27.45%) .NET Core
5 14 (27.45%) Bicep
6 12 (23.53%) Scrum
6 12 (23.53%) PowerShell
7 11 (21.57%) B2C
7 11 (21.57%) XML
7 11 (21.57%) Entra ID
8 10 (19.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
9 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
10 8 (15.69%) Python
10 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
11 7 (13.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (11.76%) Kotlin
12 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
12 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.96%) CICS
1 1 (1.96%) nginx
1 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (21.57%) Entra ID
4 10 (19.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (13.73%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.84%) Serverless
7 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.88%) GCP
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.92%) GitHub
8 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) SAN
1 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Redis
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) DB2
5 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Maven
2 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.96%) EasyMock
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) JUnit
3 1 (1.96%) Mockito
3 1 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) TestNG
General
1 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Back Office
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Games
4 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) .NET
2 14 (27.45%) .NET Core
3 11 (21.57%) XML
4 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET
5 5 (9.80%) CSS
5 5 (9.80%) HTML
5 5 (9.80%) Kafka
5 5 (9.80%) RESTful
5 5 (9.80%) Spring
6 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
6 4 (7.84%) NestJS
6 4 (7.84%) React
6 4 (7.84%) Web Services
7 3 (5.88%) Node.js
7 3 (5.88%) REST
8 2 (3.92%) JSON
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth
8 2 (3.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Debian
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
1 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Agile
2 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (31.37%) DevOps
4 12 (23.53%) Scrum
5 11 (21.57%) B2C
6 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
8 4 (7.84%) Clean Code
8 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
8 4 (7.84%) Data Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Data Modelling
8 4 (7.84%) Front End Development
8 4 (7.84%) ITIL
8 4 (7.84%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (7.84%) Microservices
8 4 (7.84%) Prototyping
8 4 (7.84%) Software Architecture
8 4 (7.84%) TDD
8 4 (7.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) C#
2 14 (27.45%) Bicep
2 14 (27.45%) Java
3 12 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.69%) Python
6 6 (11.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.84%) SQL
8 3 (5.88%) C
8 3 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (5.88%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) COBOL
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Rust
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) Argo
3 1 (1.96%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
3 1 (1.96%) Packer
3 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.84%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.96%) IBM