Developer Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Developer
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The median Developer daily rate in Canary Wharf is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 14 2 26
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 25.93% 3.23% 15.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 29.17% 4.17% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 22
10th Percentile £423 £403 £463
25th Percentile £450 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -5.66% -13.11%
75th Percentile £1,000 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £598 £650
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £540 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +8.00% -5.66% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Canary Wharf

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Canary Wharf. 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 Canary Wharf with a recognized job title 48 48 159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 77.42% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 45 143
10th Percentile £371 £260 £450
25th Percentile £450 £388 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.91% +4.55%
75th Percentile £681 £595 £650
90th Percentile £1,000 £660 £724
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £540 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.91% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £31.12 - £15.13
25th Percentile £40.08 - £16.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £18.93
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £55.00 - £18.93

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Canary Wharf.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Canary Wharf

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Canary Wharf

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Canary Wharf.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Canary Wharf

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Canary Wharf region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) C++
3 6 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (42.86%) Mathematics
3 6 (42.86%) Physics
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Sophis
4 5 (35.71%) XML
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Kafka
5 4 (28.57%) Middleware
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) BDD
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
6 3 (21.43%) JPA
6 3 (21.43%) JSON
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
6 3 (21.43%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) SDLC
6 3 (21.43%) SoapUI
6 3 (21.43%) Spring
6 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MemSQL
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SoapUI
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) NeoLoad
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Financial Institution
3 6 (42.86%) Front Office
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) XML
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 3 (21.43%) JPA
3 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (21.43%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) EDI
4 2 (14.29%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) JMS
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Sass
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Derivative
1 6 (42.86%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (35.71%) Equities
2 5 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) AIX
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (42.86%) Mathematics
1 6 (42.86%) Physics
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Graceful Degradation
5 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (42.86%) C++
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Korn
6 2 (14.29%) Perl
7 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SEPA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Sophis
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) IBM