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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 270 288 313
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.92% 16.57% 14.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.59% 17.81% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 185 215
10th Percentile £360 £413 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £725
90th Percentile £738 £824 £838
Central London median daily rate £528 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +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 2,144 1,617 2,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 93.04% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,014 1,453
10th Percentile £355 £349 £350
25th Percentile £450 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 15
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +28.59% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.41 £47.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £62.36 £89.13 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £25.78
% change year-on-year -8.74% +10.98% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 73 (27.04%) Java
2 49 (18.15%) Python
3 44 (16.30%) Agile
4 42 (15.56%) SQL
5 41 (15.19%) C#
5 41 (15.19%) Security Cleared
6 40 (14.81%) SC Cleared
7 38 (14.07%) AWS
7 38 (14.07%) Azure
7 38 (14.07%) CI/CD
8 34 (12.59%) JavaScript
9 32 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (11.85%) React
10 30 (11.11%) TypeScript
11 27 (10.00%) Microservices
11 27 (10.00%) Power Platform
12 26 (9.63%) Docker
13 25 (9.26%) Microsoft
14 24 (8.89%) .NET
15 23 (8.52%) Containerisation
15 23 (8.52%) Spring
15 23 (8.52%) Test Automation
16 22 (8.15%) AI
16 22 (8.15%) Kubernetes
17 21 (7.78%) DevOps
17 21 (7.78%) REST
18 20 (7.41%) GitHub
19 19 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
19 19 (7.04%) Spring Boot
19 19 (7.04%) TDD

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 8 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.85%) CMS
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 3 (1.11%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.74%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) govService
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Mendix
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.44%) Endur
2 6 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.74%) Magento
4 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.74%) Shopify
4 2 (0.74%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.37%) BASE24
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.07%) AWS
1 38 (14.07%) Azure
2 27 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 20 (7.41%) GitHub
4 13 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.07%) GCP
6 10 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.96%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.59%) Serverless
10 6 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.22%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.85%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) FTP
1 2 (0.74%) HTTP
1 2 (0.74%) Multicast
2 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.37%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.93%) Power BI
2 15 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.22%) MySQL
8 5 (1.85%) Redis
9 4 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.11%) Tableau
10 3 (1.11%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.74%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.74%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.74%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 18 (6.67%) Git
2 12 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.44%) JIRA
3 8 (2.96%) JUnit
4 5 (1.85%) Maven
5 4 (1.48%) GitLab
5 4 (1.48%) Gradle
6 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.11%) Mockito
7 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.74%) Gatling
7 2 (0.74%) Mocha
7 2 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.74%) Toad
7 2 (0.74%) webpack
8 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
General
1 66 (24.44%) Finance
2 32 (11.85%) Banking
3 27 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 24 (8.89%) Front Office
5 16 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.22%) Back Office
9 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.48%) Legal
11 3 (1.11%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.85%) React
2 24 (8.89%) .NET
3 23 (8.52%) Spring
4 21 (7.78%) REST
5 19 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.67%) HTML
6 18 (6.67%) RESTful
7 16 (5.93%) AngularJS
7 16 (5.93%) CSS
8 15 (5.56%) Kafka
9 10 (3.70%) JSON
9 10 (3.70%) SOAP
9 10 (3.70%) Web Services
10 7 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (2.22%) Node.js
11 6 (2.22%) OSGi
11 6 (2.22%) XML
12 5 (1.85%) Django
12 5 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.96%) Derivative
5 7 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.59%) Equities
6 6 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.11%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.11%) NHS
9 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.74%) CMDB
9 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.37%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.37%) Life Science
10 1 (0.37%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.07%) Linux
2 8 (2.96%) Unix
3 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.11%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Windows
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.30%) Agile
2 38 (14.07%) CI/CD
3 32 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (10.00%) Microservices
5 23 (8.52%) Containerisation
5 23 (8.52%) Test Automation
6 22 (8.15%) AI
7 21 (7.78%) DevOps
8 19 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (7.04%) TDD
9 18 (6.67%) Low Latency
9 18 (6.67%) Software Engineering
10 17 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (5.56%) Event-Driven
12 14 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (5.19%) User Experience
13 13 (4.81%) Analytics
13 13 (4.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (4.81%) Mentoring
13 13 (4.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.04%) Java
2 49 (18.15%) Python
3 42 (15.56%) SQL
4 41 (15.19%) C#
5 34 (12.59%) JavaScript
6 30 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.96%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.22%) C++
8 6 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.48%) Go
10 4 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.48%) PHP
11 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.11%) Ruby
11 3 (1.11%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) C
12 2 (0.74%) Korn
12 2 (0.74%) Perl
12 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.85%) Degree
4 2 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.11%) ISO 8583
2 3 (1.11%) WCAG
3 2 (0.74%) GDPR
3 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.74%) PSD2
3 2 (0.74%) SEPA
4 1 (0.37%) GRC
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (9.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) GridGain
2 1 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.81%) Terraform
3 10 (3.70%) Ansible
4 6 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.85%) Grafana
6 2 (0.74%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 17 (6.30%) Oracle
4 13 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.96%) OpenLink
6 5 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.48%) Databricks
7 4 (1.48%) Talend
8 3 (1.11%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.11%) webMethods
9 2 (0.74%) Adobe
9 2 (0.74%) Citrix
9 2 (0.74%) Confluent
9 2 (0.74%) Foundry
9 2 (0.74%) IBM
9 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) Solace
9 2 (0.74%) Sybase
9 2 (0.74%) Temenos