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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 262 271 321
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.23% 16.18% 14.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.90% 17.33% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 176 218
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.32% -15.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £738 £818 £838
Central London median daily rate £528 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +6.36% -14.60%
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 2,201 1,564 2,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 93.37% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 982 1,435
10th Percentile £350 £350 £346
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 14
10th Percentile £17.99 £19.25 £14.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.31 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.33 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +24.51% -35.00%
75th Percentile £53.44 £45.00 £28.91
90th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £27.30 £26.78
% change year-on-year -2.73% +1.94% -23.49%

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 29 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 29 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 70 (26.72%) Java
2 46 (17.56%) Python
3 42 (16.03%) C#
3 42 (16.03%) Security Cleared
4 41 (15.65%) SC Cleared
5 40 (15.27%) SQL
6 37 (14.12%) Agile
6 37 (14.12%) AWS
7 35 (13.36%) Azure
8 34 (12.98%) CI/CD
9 31 (11.83%) JavaScript
10 30 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (11.07%) React
11 29 (11.07%) TypeScript
12 28 (10.69%) Power Platform
13 25 (9.54%) Microsoft
14 24 (9.16%) Microservices
15 23 (8.78%) .NET
15 23 (8.78%) Docker
15 23 (8.78%) Test Automation
16 22 (8.40%) Containerisation
17 21 (8.02%) REST
17 21 (8.02%) Spring
18 20 (7.63%) AI
19 19 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
19 19 (7.25%) GitHub
19 19 (7.25%) Kubernetes
19 19 (7.25%) Low Latency
20 18 (6.87%) DevOps
20 18 (6.87%) 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 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.91%) CMS
2 5 (1.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.76%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) govService
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Mendix
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 9 (3.44%) Endur
2 6 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.15%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.76%) Magento
4 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.76%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.38%) BASE24
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.12%) AWS
2 35 (13.36%) Azure
3 28 (10.69%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.25%) GitHub
5 14 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (3.82%) GCP
6 10 (3.82%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.44%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.67%) Serverless
10 6 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.29%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.91%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) Multicast
2 2 (0.76%) FTP
2 2 (0.76%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.38%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.11%) Power BI
2 14 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.82%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.44%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.91%) MySQL
6 5 (1.91%) Redis
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.15%) Tableau
7 3 (1.15%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.76%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.76%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.76%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (6.11%) Git
2 12 (4.58%) JIRA
3 10 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.91%) JUnit
4 5 (1.91%) Maven
5 4 (1.53%) GitLab
5 4 (1.53%) Gradle
6 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.76%) Gatling
7 2 (0.76%) Mocha
7 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.76%) webpack
8 1 (0.38%) Appium
8 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 61 (23.28%) Finance
2 37 (14.12%) Banking
3 26 (9.92%) Front Office
3 26 (9.92%) Social Skills
4 16 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.44%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.29%) Back Office
7 6 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Advertising
10 2 (0.76%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) Local Government
10 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.07%) React
2 23 (8.78%) .NET
3 21 (8.02%) REST
3 21 (8.02%) Spring
4 17 (6.49%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.11%) Kafka
5 16 (6.11%) RESTful
6 15 (5.73%) AngularJS
6 15 (5.73%) HTML
7 13 (4.96%) CSS
8 11 (4.20%) JSON
9 10 (3.82%) Web Services
10 9 (3.44%) SOAP
11 6 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (2.29%) OSGi
12 5 (1.91%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.91%) Django
12 5 (1.91%) Node.js
12 5 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.44%) Derivative
5 8 (3.05%) Equities
6 7 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.15%) NHS
10 2 (0.76%) CMDB
10 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.38%) Life Science
11 1 (0.38%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.20%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
3 5 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.15%) Windows
4 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (14.12%) Agile
2 34 (12.98%) CI/CD
3 30 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (9.16%) Microservices
5 23 (8.78%) Test Automation
6 22 (8.40%) Containerisation
7 20 (7.63%) AI
8 19 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (7.25%) Low Latency
9 18 (6.87%) DevOps
9 18 (6.87%) TDD
10 17 (6.49%) Software Engineering
11 16 (6.11%) Event-Driven
12 15 (5.73%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (5.34%) User Experience
14 13 (4.96%) Clean Code
14 13 (4.96%) Code Quality
14 13 (4.96%) Data Modelling
14 13 (4.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (4.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.72%) Java
2 46 (17.56%) Python
3 42 (16.03%) C#
4 40 (15.27%) SQL
5 31 (11.83%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.07%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.67%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.91%) C++
8 5 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.15%) Go
9 3 (1.15%) Scala
9 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.76%) Elixir
10 2 (0.76%) Korn
10 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.76%) R
10 2 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.53%) Degree
5 2 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.11%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.15%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.76%) PSD2
4 2 (0.76%) SEPA
4 2 (0.76%) WCAG
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (8.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) GridGain
2 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.96%) Terraform
3 10 (3.82%) Ansible
4 6 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.91%) Grafana
6 2 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.49%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.73%) Oracle
4 12 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.91%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.53%) Databricks
6 4 (1.53%) Talend
7 3 (1.15%) Citrix
7 3 (1.15%) Qualtrics
7 3 (1.15%) webMethods
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) Confluent
8 2 (0.76%) Google
8 2 (0.76%) IBM
8 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.76%) Solace
8 2 (0.76%) Sybase
8 2 (0.76%) Temenos
9 1 (0.38%) Granicus
9 1 (0.38%) OpenAI