Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Developer daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 288 293 305
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.66% 16.56% 13.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.37% 17.81% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 190 210
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £460 £468 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £557
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +5.07% -14.35%
75th Percentile £614 £692 £725
90th Percentile £740 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,154 1,645 2,102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 92.99% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,037 1,492
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.37% -7.29%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 17
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £16.46
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.41 £48.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £62.36 £92.75 £44.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.78
% change year-on-year -10.18% +12.76% -26.34%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2026, 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 City of London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 81 (28.13%) Java
2 51 (17.71%) Agile
2 51 (17.71%) Python
3 47 (16.32%) SQL
4 46 (15.97%) Security Cleared
5 45 (15.63%) SC Cleared
6 40 (13.89%) Azure
6 40 (13.89%) C#
7 39 (13.54%) AWS
8 38 (13.19%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.81%) JavaScript
10 32 (11.11%) React
11 31 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (10.76%) TypeScript
12 30 (10.42%) Microservices
13 29 (10.07%) Power Platform
14 28 (9.72%) Docker
15 27 (9.38%) Microsoft
16 25 (8.68%) AI
16 25 (8.68%) Spring
16 25 (8.68%) Test Automation
17 24 (8.33%) .NET
17 24 (8.33%) Containerisation
17 24 (8.33%) Git
17 24 (8.33%) Kubernetes
17 24 (8.33%) REST
18 22 (7.64%) Low Latency
18 22 (7.64%) TDD
19 21 (7.29%) DevOps
20 20 (6.94%) GitHub

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 9 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.08%) Confluence
3 4 (1.39%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.69%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) govService
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Mendix
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Endur
2 7 (2.43%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.69%) Magento
4 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.69%) Shopify
4 2 (0.69%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.35%) BASE24
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.35%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.89%) Azure
2 39 (13.54%) AWS
3 29 (10.07%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.94%) GitHub
5 13 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (4.51%) GCP
6 10 (3.47%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.43%) Serverless
10 6 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.08%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.74%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) FTP
1 2 (0.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.35%) Multicast
2 1 (0.35%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.90%) Power BI
2 16 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.43%) MySQL
7 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.74%) Redis
7 5 (1.74%) Tick Data
8 4 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.39%) KDB
8 4 (1.39%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.04%) Power Query
9 3 (1.04%) Tableau
10 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 24 (8.33%) Git
2 13 (4.51%) JIRA
3 12 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.78%) JUnit
5 6 (2.08%) Maven
6 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.39%) Gradle
7 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.04%) GitLab
7 3 (1.04%) Mockito
7 3 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.69%) Gatling
8 2 (0.69%) Mocha
8 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.69%) Selenium
8 2 (0.69%) Toad
8 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 77 (26.74%) Finance
2 32 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.72%) Banking
4 25 (8.68%) Front Office
5 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.08%) Back Office
7 6 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Legal
9 4 (1.39%) Law
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Advertising
11 2 (0.69%) Automotive
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.11%) React
2 25 (8.68%) Spring
3 24 (8.33%) .NET
3 24 (8.33%) REST
4 20 (6.94%) HTML
4 20 (6.94%) Spring Boot
5 19 (6.60%) AngularJS
6 18 (6.25%) CSS
6 18 (6.25%) RESTful
7 13 (4.51%) Kafka
8 12 (4.17%) SOAP
9 11 (3.82%) JSON
9 11 (3.82%) Web Services
10 9 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (2.78%) Node.js
12 6 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.08%) OSGi
13 5 (1.74%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.74%) Django
13 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.82%) Equities
4 10 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.43%) Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.04%) NHS
10 2 (0.69%) CMDB
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.69%) Life Science
10 2 (0.69%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.17%) Linux
1 12 (4.17%) Unix
2 3 (1.04%) Android
2 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.04%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (17.71%) Agile
2 38 (13.19%) CI/CD
3 31 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (10.42%) Microservices
5 25 (8.68%) AI
5 25 (8.68%) Test Automation
6 24 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 22 (7.64%) Low Latency
7 22 (7.64%) TDD
8 21 (7.29%) DevOps
9 20 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (6.94%) Software Engineering
10 19 (6.60%) Analytics
10 19 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (6.60%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (6.60%) Scrum
11 18 (6.25%) Unit Testing
12 16 (5.56%) Code Quality
13 14 (4.86%) API Development
13 14 (4.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.13%) Java
2 51 (17.71%) Python
3 47 (16.32%) SQL
4 40 (13.89%) C#
5 34 (11.81%) JavaScript
6 31 (10.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.13%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.74%) C++
9 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.39%) Go
10 4 (1.39%) PHP
10 4 (1.39%) Ruby
11 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 2 (0.69%) Elixir
12 2 (0.69%) Korn
12 2 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.43%) Degree
4 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.60%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) WCAG
3 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.04%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.69%) PSD2
4 2 (0.69%) SEPA
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (9.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) GridGain
2 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 24 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.51%) Terraform
3 10 (3.47%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Grafana
4 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.69%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.60%) Salesforce
3 18 (6.25%) Oracle
4 11 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.78%) OpenLink
6 6 (2.08%) Google
7 5 (1.74%) Databricks
8 3 (1.04%) Axway
8 3 (1.04%) Foundry
8 3 (1.04%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.04%) Solace
8 3 (1.04%) Talend
8 3 (1.04%) webMethods
9 2 (0.69%) Adobe
9 2 (0.69%) Confluent
9 2 (0.69%) IBM
9 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.69%) SAP
9 2 (0.69%) Sybase
9 2 (0.69%) Temenos