Backend Developer Contracts in England

Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Backend Developer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 452 494
Rank change year-on-year +14 +42 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 107 211 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 163 207
10th Percentile £413 £416 £396
25th Percentile £445 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £556 £681 £725
90th Percentile £634 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £55.63 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £55.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +30 85 £500 -21.88% 44
South East +23 7 £550 -20.72% 3
North of England +12 7 £475 -8.43% 10
North West +9 4 £425 -8.11% 6
Midlands +27 2 - - 4
South West +24 2 £425 -32.00%
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 +14.29% 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Backend Developer
UK

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Backend 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 England region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 54 (50.47%) Agile
2 42 (39.25%) C#
3 41 (38.32%) Azure
4 40 (37.38%) DevOps
5 39 (36.45%) Microsoft
6 38 (35.51%) Java
7 37 (34.58%) .NET
8 36 (33.64%) SQL Server
8 36 (33.64%) CI/CD
9 35 (32.71%) AWS
9 35 (32.71%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (30.84%) .NET Core
10 33 (30.84%) Active Directory
11 29 (27.10%) PowerShell
11 29 (27.10%) Bicep
12 28 (26.17%) JavaScript
13 27 (25.23%) XML
14 26 (24.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (22.43%) Scrum
15 24 (22.43%) Entra ID
16 23 (21.50%) B2C
17 21 (19.63%) Python
17 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
18 19 (17.76%) TypeScript
19 17 (15.89%) Git
20 16 (14.95%) Azure Service Bus
21 15 (14.02%) HTML
21 15 (14.02%) Front End Development
22 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
22 14 (13.08%) REST

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.80%) CICS
1 3 (2.80%) CMS
2 2 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.87%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.87%) nginx
2 2 (1.87%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Endur
1 1 (0.93%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) Azure
2 35 (32.71%) AWS
2 35 (32.71%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (24.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 24 (22.43%) Entra ID
5 16 (14.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (7.48%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (7.48%) Serverless
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.74%) GitHub
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) SAN
1 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.87%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) SMS
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (33.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.48%) Redis
3 5 (4.67%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.80%) DB2
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) Jackrabbit
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (15.89%) Git
2 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.80%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.87%) EasyMock
4 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.87%) JUnit
4 2 (1.87%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 2 (1.87%) Mocha
4 2 (1.87%) Mockito
4 2 (1.87%) Postman
4 2 (1.87%) Selenium
4 2 (1.87%) TestNG
5 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.93%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.93%) Pylint
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.48%) Back Office
4 5 (4.67%) Finance
5 4 (3.74%) Banking
5 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.74%) Local Government
6 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (34.58%) .NET
2 33 (30.84%) .NET Core
3 27 (25.23%) XML
4 15 (14.02%) HTML
5 14 (13.08%) CSS
5 14 (13.08%) REST
6 13 (12.15%) Spring
7 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
8 11 (10.28%) Node.js
8 11 (10.28%) React
9 9 (8.41%) ASP.NET
10 8 (7.48%) Kafka
11 7 (6.54%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (6.54%) RESTful
11 7 (6.54%) Web Services
12 6 (5.61%) OpenAPI
13 5 (4.67%) Apache Sling
13 5 (4.67%) AWS CDK
13 5 (4.67%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.67%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.61%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.80%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.87%) IoT
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) CBDC
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Linux
2 4 (3.74%) Debian
2 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) Agile
2 40 (37.38%) DevOps
3 36 (33.64%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.43%) Scrum
5 23 (21.50%) B2C
6 15 (14.02%) Front End Development
7 12 (11.21%) Microservices
7 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
7 12 (11.21%) TDD
8 11 (10.28%) OO
9 10 (9.35%) Clean Code
10 9 (8.41%) API Management
10 9 (8.41%) OOD
11 8 (7.48%) Containerisation
11 8 (7.48%) SDLC
12 7 (6.54%) Design Patterns
12 7 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (6.54%) Software Architecture
13 6 (5.61%) Test Automation
13 6 (5.61%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.25%) C#
2 38 (35.51%) Java
3 29 (27.10%) Bicep
3 29 (27.10%) PowerShell
4 28 (26.17%) JavaScript
5 21 (19.63%) Python
6 19 (17.76%) TypeScript
7 14 (13.08%) SQL
8 8 (7.48%) C++
9 6 (5.61%) C
10 4 (3.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.80%) COBOL
11 3 (2.80%) Go
12 2 (1.87%) Ruby
12 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) JCL
13 1 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.93%) Rust
13 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (30.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.80%) CA Endevor
3 3 (2.80%) Terraform
4 2 (1.87%) Ansible
4 2 (1.87%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.87%) Packer
5 1 (0.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 39 (36.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.74%) VMware
4 3 (2.80%) IBM
5 2 (1.87%) Google
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) SAP