Developer Contracts in East London

Developer
London > East London

The median Developer daily rate in East London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 28 38 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 13.08% 19.69% 20.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.51% 21.47% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 46
10th Percentile £413 £486 £306
25th Percentile £425 £523 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £650 £465
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +39.94% -6.16%
75th Percentile £775 £950 £703
90th Percentile £838 - £900
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year - +33.43% -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £42.02
% change year-on-year - +59.45% -34.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 193 177 242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 91.71% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 144 198
10th Percentile £285 £200 £236
25th Percentile £418 £374 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £534 £580
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% -7.93% +24.73%
75th Percentile £625 £730 £738
90th Percentile £677 £775 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 6
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.64 £16.50
25th Percentile £13.13 £23.20 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.47 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +27.49% +36.17%
75th Percentile £25.66 £31.73 £26.61
90th Percentile £38.28 £34.29 £29.79
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in East London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in East London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in East London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in East London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the East London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Greenwich +3 12 £450 -16.67%
Tower Hamlets -10 8 £788 +15.60% 3
Docklands, London 0 3 £850 +30.77%
Developer
London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 East London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) C#
3 13 (46.43%) SQL
4 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 11 (39.29%) Java
6 10 (35.71%) Finance
7 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
7 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
8 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
8 8 (28.57%) Azure
8 8 (28.57%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 8 (28.57%) Design Patterns
9 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
9 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
9 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (25.00%) Degree
9 7 (25.00%) XML
9 7 (25.00%) .NET
9 7 (25.00%) TDD
10 6 (21.43%) Scrum
10 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
11 5 (17.86%) PCI DSS
11 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
11 5 (17.86%) Content Management
11 5 (17.86%) SDLC
11 5 (17.86%) Database Optimisation
11 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 2 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) Appian
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) FTP
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (7.14%) KDB
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Gradle
2 2 (7.14%) IntelliJ
2 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
2 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.57%) fastlane
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Front Office
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Back Office
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
1 7 (25.00%) XML
2 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) JSON
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (7.14%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) JMS
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.57%) J2EE
5 1 (3.57%) jQuery
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) Sass
5 1 (3.57%) WCF
5 1 (3.57%) Web Services
5 1 (3.57%) WinForms
5 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Derivative
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (25.00%) TDD
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) Content Management
5 5 (17.86%) Database Optimisation
5 5 (17.86%) SDLC
6 3 (10.71%) B2C
6 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.71%) OO
6 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.14%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (7.14%) Multithreading
7 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) C#
2 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 11 (39.29%) Java
5 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
6 4 (14.29%) Scala
7 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.57%) Bicep
8 1 (3.57%) Python
8 1 (3.57%) Ruby
8 1 (3.57%) Swift
8 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.57%) VB
8 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk