Developer Contracts in the City of London

Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Developer daily rate in the City of London is £551 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 322 769 1,005
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 14.87% 21.80% 23.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.65% 22.96% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 561 818
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £459 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £719
90th Percentile £838 £875 £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% -
Central London median hourly rate - £80.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,058 3,350 3,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 94.98% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 2,281 3,010
10th Percentile £350 £360 £363
25th Percentile £446 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £19.46
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -7.89% +117.14%
75th Percentile £28.44 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £26.41 £35.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -24.56% -9.09% +120.00%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 2024, 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.

1 102 (31.68%) SQL
2 100 (31.06%) Azure
3 92 (28.57%) Agile
4 82 (25.47%) Finance
5 80 (24.84%) C#
6 77 (23.91%) Java
7 73 (22.67%) Python
8 68 (21.12%) AWS
9 63 (19.57%) JavaScript
9 63 (19.57%) .NET
10 58 (18.01%) Banking
11 55 (17.08%) DevOps
11 55 (17.08%) Full Stack Development
12 53 (16.46%) CI/CD
13 52 (16.15%) SQL Server
14 47 (14.60%) Social Skills
15 42 (13.04%) Microsoft
16 41 (12.73%) HTML
16 41 (12.73%) React
17 40 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
18 39 (12.11%) CSS
19 38 (11.80%) Front End Development
20 34 (10.56%) Microservices
21 32 (9.94%) Kubernetes
21 32 (9.94%) AngularJS
21 32 (9.94%) Investment Banking
22 30 (9.32%) Docker
22 30 (9.32%) SDLC
22 30 (9.32%) Security Cleared
23 29 (9.01%) Software Engineering

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 11 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (1.24%) MQSeries
3 4 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.93%) nginx
5 2 (0.62%) Apache
5 2 (0.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) Gunicorn
5 2 (0.62%) Site Server
5 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) CICS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Tornado
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.31%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.55%) Endur
3 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.31%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (31.06%) Azure
2 68 (21.12%) AWS
3 27 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.90%) Serverless
6 16 (4.97%) GCP
7 13 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 11 (3.42%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (3.42%) GitHub
9 9 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.48%) Azure Storage
10 8 (2.48%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.62%) WAN
2 1 (0.31%) DHCP
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) MQTT
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
2 1 (0.31%) VLAN
2 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.90%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.28%) Power BI
6 12 (3.73%) KDB
7 8 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.17%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.86%) Siebel EIM
10 5 (1.55%) MySQL
10 5 (1.55%) Redis
11 4 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.24%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.93%) Metadata
12 3 (0.93%) Power Query
12 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.52%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.48%) Mockito
3 7 (2.17%) GitLab
3 7 (2.17%) Selenium
4 6 (1.86%) JUnit
4 6 (1.86%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.55%) JIRA
5 5 (1.55%) Maven
5 5 (1.55%) Mercurial
5 5 (1.55%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.24%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.24%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.93%) PHPUnit
7 3 (0.93%) Postman
7 3 (0.93%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 82 (25.47%) Finance
2 58 (18.01%) Banking
3 47 (14.60%) Social Skills
4 32 (9.94%) Investment Banking
5 28 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.70%) Front Office
6 19 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.17%) Retail
7 7 (2.17%) Retail Banking
8 6 (1.86%) Back Office
9 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 3 (0.93%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Publishing
13 1 (0.31%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (19.57%) .NET
2 41 (12.73%) HTML
2 41 (12.73%) React
3 39 (12.11%) CSS
4 32 (9.94%) AngularJS
5 25 (7.76%) Kafka
6 21 (6.52%) Spring
7 20 (6.21%) .NET Core
7 20 (6.21%) REST
7 20 (6.21%) Web Services
7 20 (6.21%) XML
8 17 (5.28%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.97%) ASP.NET
10 15 (4.66%) RESTful
11 13 (4.04%) Node.js
12 12 (3.73%) Blazor
12 12 (3.73%) jQuery
13 11 (3.42%) .NET Framework
14 10 (3.11%) JSON
15 9 (2.80%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.73%) Market Risk
2 11 (3.42%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.80%) Equities
3 9 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.48%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.48%) Derivative
4 8 (2.48%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.93%) AS400
8 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.93%) iSeries
9 2 (0.62%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.28%) Linux
1 17 (5.28%) Windows
2 9 (2.80%) Unix
3 5 (1.55%) Android
4 4 (1.24%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.57%) Agile
2 55 (17.08%) DevOps
2 55 (17.08%) Full Stack Development
3 53 (16.46%) CI/CD
4 40 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (11.80%) Front End Development
6 34 (10.56%) Microservices
7 30 (9.32%) SDLC
8 29 (9.01%) Software Engineering
9 28 (8.70%) Test Automation
10 27 (8.39%) TDD
11 22 (6.83%) Unit Testing
12 21 (6.52%) Scrum
12 21 (6.52%) User Experience
13 20 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (6.21%) Computer Science
13 20 (6.21%) OO
14 19 (5.90%) Web Development
15 18 (5.59%) Analytics
16 16 (4.97%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 102 (31.68%) SQL
2 80 (24.84%) C#
3 77 (23.91%) Java
4 73 (22.67%) Python
5 63 (19.57%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.83%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.59%) C++
7 18 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.42%) Go
8 11 (3.42%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.11%) PHP
10 9 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (2.48%) Bicep
12 4 (1.24%) Rust
12 4 (1.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.93%) ABAP
13 3 (0.93%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.93%) RPG
Qualifications
1 30 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.45%) Degree
4 10 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
8 1 (0.31%) SANS
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.35%) QA
2 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.55%) WCAG
3 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (9.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.55%) Terraform
3 4 (1.24%) Ansible
4 3 (0.93%) Control-M
4 3 (0.93%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.62%) Packer
6 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) logstash
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.01%) Oracle
3 13 (4.04%) Databricks
4 9 (2.80%) Google
4 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 6 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.86%) Siebel
7 5 (1.55%) IBM
8 4 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.24%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.24%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.24%) SAP
9 3 (0.93%) Proofpoint
9 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.93%) Symantec
10 2 (0.62%) Cisco
10 2 (0.62%) Citrix
10 2 (0.62%) ESRI
10 2 (0.62%) Murex