Developer Contracts in the City of London

Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Developer daily rate in the City of London is £585, 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 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 291 306 827
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.57% 13.93% 22.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.83% 14.67% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 212 596
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £468 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £692 £725 £775
90th Percentile £825 £838 £875
Central London median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.63 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 - £68.75
75th Percentile £34.68 - £85.82
90th Percentile - - £87.31
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 - £68.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Developer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

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 City of London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 90 (30.93%) Finance
2 87 (29.90%) Java
3 80 (27.49%) Agile
4 73 (25.09%) Social Skills
5 72 (24.74%) SQL
6 68 (23.37%) AWS
7 67 (23.02%) DevOps
8 65 (22.34%) C#
9 63 (21.65%) Python
10 62 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (20.96%) JavaScript
12 57 (19.59%) React
12 57 (19.59%) CI/CD
13 51 (17.53%) Azure
14 50 (17.18%) Banking
15 48 (16.49%) .NET
15 48 (16.49%) Security Cleared
16 47 (16.15%) Kubernetes
17 40 (13.75%) Microservices
18 39 (13.40%) SC Cleared
19 37 (12.71%) HTML
19 37 (12.71%) Spring
20 35 (12.03%) SQL Server
20 35 (12.03%) Clean Code
21 34 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
21 34 (11.68%) Public Sector
22 33 (11.34%) Git
23 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
23 32 (11.00%) SOLID
24 31 (10.65%) PostgreSQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.09%) Apache
2 9 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Confluence
4 6 (2.06%) CMS
5 3 (1.03%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Mule
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 9 (3.09%) Endur
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (23.37%) AWS
2 51 (17.53%) Azure
3 30 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.47%) Power Automate
5 12 (4.12%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.44%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.44%) GitHub
6 10 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.75%) GCP
8 7 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.41%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.41%) Serverless
9 6 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 6 (2.06%) CloudFront
9 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) Firewall
2 2 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) SMS
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.97%) NoSQL
4 24 (8.25%) MongoDB
5 20 (6.87%) Power BI
6 12 (4.12%) Big Data
6 12 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.12%) Tableau
7 11 (3.78%) Redis
8 9 (3.09%) Crystal Reports
9 8 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.06%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.06%) MySQL
11 6 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (1.37%) DB2
13 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (11.34%) Git
2 25 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.44%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.09%) JIRA
4 9 (3.09%) JUnit
5 8 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (2.41%) Maven
7 5 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.37%) Gradle
8 4 (1.37%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.03%) NUnit
10 2 (0.69%) Ant
10 2 (0.69%) Babel
10 2 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
10 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 90 (30.93%) Finance
2 73 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 50 (17.18%) Banking
4 34 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (8.59%) Front Office
6 25 (8.59%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.44%) Back Office
7 10 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.75%) Marketing
8 8 (2.75%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.03%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Local Government
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (19.59%) React
2 48 (16.49%) .NET
3 37 (12.71%) HTML
3 37 (12.71%) Spring
4 29 (9.97%) Kafka
5 27 (9.28%) AngularJS
5 27 (9.28%) Spring Boot
6 26 (8.93%) CSS
6 26 (8.93%) RESTful
7 18 (6.19%) REST
7 18 (6.19%) Web Services
8 14 (4.81%) GraphQL
9 9 (3.09%) Node.js
9 9 (3.09%) WPF
10 8 (2.75%) HTML5
11 7 (2.41%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.41%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.41%) jQuery
11 7 (2.41%) JSON
11 7 (2.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.44%) Derivative
4 9 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.41%) Equities
5 7 (2.41%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.41%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.06%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.72%) CMDB
7 5 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.03%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.84%) Linux
2 9 (3.09%) Unix
3 6 (2.06%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.49%) Agile
2 67 (23.02%) DevOps
3 62 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (19.59%) CI/CD
5 40 (13.75%) Microservices
6 35 (12.03%) Clean Code
7 34 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (11.00%) SOLID
9 26 (8.93%) User Experience
10 25 (8.59%) API Development
11 24 (8.25%) Unit Testing
12 23 (7.90%) SDLC
12 23 (7.90%) TDD
13 22 (7.56%) Software Engineering
14 20 (6.87%) Analytics
14 20 (6.87%) Code Quality
15 17 (5.84%) Migration
16 16 (5.50%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (5.50%) Low Latency
17 15 (5.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (29.90%) Java
2 72 (24.74%) SQL
3 65 (22.34%) C#
4 63 (21.65%) Python
5 61 (20.96%) JavaScript
6 26 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.47%) C++
8 8 (2.75%) Apex Code
8 8 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.41%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.37%) Go
11 4 (1.37%) Scala
11 4 (1.37%) Swift
11 4 (1.37%) VBA
12 3 (1.03%) Groovy
12 3 (1.03%) Perl
13 2 (0.69%) RPG
13 2 (0.69%) RPG IV
13 2 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 48 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.87%) Degree
4 17 (5.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.03%) PhD
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.41%) QA
3 5 (1.72%) EMIR
3 5 (1.72%) MiFID
4 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) GRC
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (8.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 47 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.81%) Terraform
3 9 (3.09%) Ansible
4 2 (0.69%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.34%) Control-M
5 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.34%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.56%) Oracle
3 18 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.44%) OpenLink
6 7 (2.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.72%) IBM
8 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.37%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) Ab Initio
9 3 (1.03%) Sybase
10 2 (0.69%) Adobe
10 2 (0.69%) Apple
10 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.69%) Calypso
10 2 (0.69%) Google
10 2 (0.69%) IFS
10 2 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud