Developer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Developer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 69 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.63% 14.50% 8.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 15.44% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 59 65
10th Percentile £292 £420 £400
25th Percentile £367 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -7.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £613 £675
South East median daily rate £463 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -6.57% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £58.91 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.87% -15.85% +32.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -10 13 £469 -8.22% 54
High Wycombe - 3 £550 - 42
Amersham - 1 £550 -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Buckinghamshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Git
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) GitLab
4 3 (16.67%) React
4 3 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (16.67%) Flask
4 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
4 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Django

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) FTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) DocumentDB
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) Django
3 3 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (16.67%) Flask
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (11.11%) Blazor
4 2 (11.11%) CSS
4 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) NHibernate
4 2 (11.11%) WCF
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) MVC
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum
4 2 (11.11%) SOLID
4 2 (11.11%) TDD
4 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.56%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.56%) COBOL
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow