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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 274 288 313
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.98% 16.49% 14.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.66% 17.73% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 185 215
10th Percentile £366 £413 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £620 £700 £725
90th Percentile £738 £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 2,165 1,624 2,072
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 93.01% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 1,020 1,469
10th Percentile £356 £350 £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 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 15
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £15.62
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 £27.25
90th Percentile £62.36 £92.75 £40.00
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 12 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 12 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 (26.64%) Java
2 51 (18.61%) Python
3 44 (16.06%) Agile
4 43 (15.69%) Security Cleared
4 43 (15.69%) SQL
5 42 (15.33%) SC Cleared
6 40 (14.60%) C#
7 39 (14.23%) AWS
7 39 (14.23%) CI/CD
8 38 (13.87%) Azure
9 36 (13.14%) JavaScript
10 32 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (11.68%) React
11 31 (11.31%) TypeScript
12 27 (9.85%) Docker
12 27 (9.85%) Microservices
12 27 (9.85%) Power Platform
13 25 (9.12%) Microsoft
13 25 (9.12%) Test Automation
14 24 (8.76%) Containerisation
15 23 (8.39%) .NET
15 23 (8.39%) AI
15 23 (8.39%) Spring
16 22 (8.03%) DevOps
16 22 (8.03%) Kubernetes
16 22 (8.03%) REST
17 20 (7.30%) GitHub
17 20 (7.30%) HTML
17 20 (7.30%) TDD
18 19 (6.93%) Performance Tuning

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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.82%) CMS
2 5 (1.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.73%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.36%) govService
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) Mendix
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.38%) Endur
2 6 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.09%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.73%) Magento
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.73%) Shopify
4 2 (0.73%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.36%) BASE24
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.36%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.23%) AWS
2 38 (13.87%) Azure
3 27 (9.85%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.30%) GitHub
5 13 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (4.38%) GCP
7 10 (3.65%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (2.92%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.55%) Serverless
11 6 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.19%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.82%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) FTP
1 2 (0.73%) HTTP
1 2 (0.73%) Multicast
2 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (5.84%) Power BI
2 11 (4.01%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.28%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.19%) MySQL
8 5 (1.82%) Redis
9 4 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.09%) Tableau
10 3 (1.09%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.73%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.73%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.73%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 18 (6.57%) Git
2 12 (4.38%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.38%) JIRA
3 8 (2.92%) JUnit
4 5 (1.82%) Maven
5 4 (1.46%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.46%) GitLab
5 4 (1.46%) Gradle
6 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.09%) Mockito
7 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.73%) Gatling
7 2 (0.73%) Mocha
7 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.73%) Toad
7 2 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 67 (24.45%) Finance
2 31 (11.31%) Banking
3 28 (10.22%) Social Skills
4 24 (8.76%) Front Office
5 16 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.19%) Back Office
9 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.46%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Law
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.68%) React
2 23 (8.39%) .NET
2 23 (8.39%) Spring
3 22 (8.03%) REST
4 20 (7.30%) HTML
5 19 (6.93%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.57%) CSS
6 18 (6.57%) RESTful
7 16 (5.84%) AngularJS
8 15 (5.47%) Kafka
9 11 (4.01%) JSON
9 11 (4.01%) SOAP
9 11 (4.01%) Web Services
10 8 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (2.19%) Node.js
11 6 (2.19%) OSGi
11 6 (2.19%) XML
12 5 (1.82%) Django
12 5 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.92%) Derivative
5 7 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.55%) Equities
5 7 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.09%) NHS
8 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.73%) CMDB
8 2 (0.73%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.73%) Life Science
9 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.01%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) Unix
3 4 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.09%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.06%) Agile
2 39 (14.23%) CI/CD
3 32 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (9.85%) Microservices
5 25 (9.12%) Test Automation
6 24 (8.76%) Containerisation
7 23 (8.39%) AI
8 22 (8.03%) DevOps
9 20 (7.30%) TDD
10 19 (6.93%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (6.93%) Software Engineering
11 18 (6.57%) Low Latency
12 17 (6.20%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (5.47%) Event-Driven
13 15 (5.47%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (5.11%) Code Quality
14 14 (5.11%) User Experience
15 13 (4.74%) Analytics
15 13 (4.74%) Mentoring
15 13 (4.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.64%) Java
2 51 (18.61%) Python
3 43 (15.69%) SQL
4 40 (14.60%) C#
5 36 (13.14%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.31%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.28%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.19%) C++
9 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.46%) Go
10 4 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.46%) PHP
11 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.09%) Ruby
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) C
12 2 (0.73%) Korn
12 2 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.82%) Degree
4 2 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.47%) QA
2 4 (1.46%) WCAG
3 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.09%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.73%) PSD2
4 2 (0.73%) SEPA
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (9.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) GridGain
2 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.11%) Terraform
3 10 (3.65%) Ansible
4 6 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.82%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.93%) Salesforce
3 16 (5.84%) Oracle
4 13 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.92%) OpenLink
6 6 (2.19%) Google
7 4 (1.46%) Databricks
7 4 (1.46%) Talend
8 3 (1.09%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.09%) webMethods
9 2 (0.73%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Axway
9 2 (0.73%) Confluent
9 2 (0.73%) Foundry
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.73%) Solace
9 2 (0.73%) Sybase
9 2 (0.73%) Temenos