Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Backend Developer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Bournemouth is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 2.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Dorset median daily rate £350 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 83 50 97
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.81% 100.00% 98.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 66
10th Percentile £310 £306 £170
25th Percentile £375 £384 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £441 £298
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +48.24% -39.44%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £711
90th Percentile £688 £665 £825
Dorset median daily rate £500 £446 £498
% change year-on-year +12.23% -10.45% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 22
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.41 £14.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £14.81 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -3.27% -12.51%
75th Percentile £33.41 £20.11 £17.49
90th Percentile £40.25 £23.04 £18.50
Dorset median hourly rate £65.00 £14.81 £47.83
% change year-on-year +338.89% -69.04% -13.16%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Bournemouth

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Backend Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bournemouth region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Flink
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Flink
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks