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 £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 264 284 325
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.09% 16.65% 14.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% 17.76% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 182 215
10th Percentile £352 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £745 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -13.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +21.21% - -

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 2,244 1,599 2,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 93.73% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 1,005 1,435
10th Percentile £355 £355 £342
25th Percentile £453 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £774 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 15
10th Percentile £17.49 £19.25 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% +32.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.24 £52.50 £34.69
90th Percentile £65.00 £94.38 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.91% -22.86%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 (26.52%) Java
2 51 (19.32%) C#
3 45 (17.05%) Python
4 43 (16.29%) SQL
5 42 (15.91%) Agile
6 40 (15.15%) Security Cleared
7 39 (14.77%) SC Cleared
8 36 (13.64%) AWS
9 35 (13.26%) CI/CD
10 33 (12.50%) JavaScript
10 33 (12.50%) TypeScript
11 32 (12.12%) Azure
12 31 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (11.74%) React
13 28 (10.61%) Power Platform
14 25 (9.47%) REST
15 24 (9.09%) Microsoft
16 23 (8.71%) .NET
16 23 (8.71%) Microservices
17 22 (8.33%) AI
17 22 (8.33%) Low Latency
18 21 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (7.95%) Spring
19 20 (7.58%) Containerisation
19 20 (7.58%) Test Automation
20 19 (7.20%) DevOps
20 19 (7.20%) Docker
20 19 (7.20%) GitHub
20 19 (7.20%) Kubernetes
20 19 (7.20%) QA

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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.27%) Confluence
3 5 (1.89%) CMS
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.76%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Appian
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) govService
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Mendix
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Endur
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.14%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.76%) Magento
4 2 (0.76%) Orchestrade
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%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (13.64%) AWS
2 32 (12.12%) Azure
3 28 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.20%) GitHub
5 11 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.41%) GCP
6 9 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.41%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.65%) Serverless
9 6 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.89%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.14%) Multicast
2 2 (0.76%) FTP
2 2 (0.76%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) Power BI
2 11 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.41%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.89%) Redis
8 4 (1.52%) MySQL
8 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.14%) Tableau
9 3 (1.14%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.76%) Db2
10 2 (0.76%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.76%) KDB
10 2 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (6.82%) Git
2 14 (5.30%) JIRA
3 11 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Gradle
4 5 (1.89%) JUnit
4 5 (1.89%) Maven
5 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.76%) Gatling
6 2 (0.76%) Mocha
6 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.76%) webpack
7 1 (0.38%) Appium
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
General
1 59 (22.35%) Finance
2 40 (15.15%) Banking
3 35 (13.26%) Social Skills
4 30 (11.36%) Front Office
5 21 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.27%) Back Office
7 6 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.89%) Legal
9 4 (1.52%) Law
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.76%) Advertising
11 2 (0.76%) Automotive
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.74%) React
2 25 (9.47%) REST
3 23 (8.71%) .NET
4 21 (7.95%) Spring
5 17 (6.44%) Kafka
5 17 (6.44%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.06%) AngularJS
7 15 (5.68%) HTML
7 15 (5.68%) RESTful
8 13 (4.92%) CSS
8 13 (4.92%) Web Services
9 12 (4.55%) JSON
10 11 (4.17%) SOAP
11 8 (3.03%) XML
12 6 (2.27%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.27%) OSGi
12 6 (2.27%) Redux
13 5 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (1.89%) Node.js
13 5 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.55%) Derivative
4 11 (4.17%) Equities
5 7 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.65%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.14%) CMDB
8 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.14%) NHS
9 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
10 1 (0.38%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.38%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.55%) Linux
2 9 (3.41%) Unix
3 7 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.52%) Windows
5 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (15.91%) Agile
2 35 (13.26%) CI/CD
3 31 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (8.71%) Microservices
5 22 (8.33%) AI
5 22 (8.33%) Low Latency
6 21 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (7.58%) Containerisation
7 20 (7.58%) Test Automation
8 19 (7.20%) DevOps
9 18 (6.82%) Software Engineering
10 16 (6.06%) Event-Driven
10 16 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (5.68%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (5.68%) TDD
11 15 (5.68%) User Experience
12 14 (5.30%) Code Quality
12 14 (5.30%) Data Modelling
12 14 (5.30%) Unit Testing
13 13 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.52%) Java
2 51 (19.32%) C#
3 45 (17.05%) Python
4 43 (16.29%) SQL
5 33 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.65%) C++
6 7 (2.65%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.27%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.14%) C
9 3 (1.14%) Go
9 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.14%) Scala
10 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.76%) ProC
10 2 (0.76%) R
10 2 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.65%) Degree
4 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.20%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.14%) 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 19 (7.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) GridGain
2 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.55%) Terraform
3 10 (3.79%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.89%) Grafana
6 2 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.44%) Oracle
3 15 (5.68%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.52%) Databricks
5 4 (1.52%) IBM
5 4 (1.52%) Talend
6 3 (1.14%) Citrix
6 3 (1.14%) Qualtrics
6 3 (1.14%) Sybase
6 3 (1.14%) webMethods
7 2 (0.76%) Adobe
7 2 (0.76%) Confluent
7 2 (0.76%) Google
7 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.76%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.76%) Solace
7 2 (0.76%) Temenos
7 2 (0.76%) UiPath