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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 444 498
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 109 203 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.44% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 162 217
10th Percentile £411 £419 £404
25th Percentile £430 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £616 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +11.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £725
90th Percentile £629 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £535
% change year-on-year -24.00% +16.82% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £55.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +26 90 £500 -23.08% 38
South East +13 6 £550 -20.72% 3
North of England +7 5 £475 -9.52% 7
North West +14 3 £450 -5.26% 4
Midlands +32 2 - - 5
South West +17 2 £425 -32.00% 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 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 7 May 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 60 (55.05%) Agile
2 50 (45.87%) C#
3 47 (43.12%) Azure
4 46 (42.20%) DevOps
5 45 (41.28%) Microsoft
6 44 (40.37%) .NET
7 43 (39.45%) CI/CD
8 42 (38.53%) SQL Server
9 41 (37.61%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (36.70%) .NET Core
10 40 (36.70%) Active Directory
11 37 (33.94%) Java
11 37 (33.94%) PowerShell
12 36 (33.03%) JavaScript
12 36 (33.03%) Bicep
13 34 (31.19%) XML
14 31 (28.44%) Scrum
14 31 (28.44%) AWS
14 31 (28.44%) Entra ID
15 30 (27.52%) B2C
16 26 (23.85%) TypeScript
16 26 (23.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (21.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (20.18%) HTML
19 21 (19.27%) CSS
20 19 (17.43%) Public Sector
21 18 (16.51%) Python
21 18 (16.51%) React
22 17 (15.60%) Git
23 16 (14.68%) ASP.NET

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 (2.75%) CICS
2 2 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.83%) CMS
2 2 (1.83%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.83%) nginx
2 2 (1.83%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Endur
1 1 (0.92%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.12%) Azure
2 41 (37.61%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (28.44%) AWS
3 31 (28.44%) Entra ID
4 26 (23.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (21.10%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (6.42%) Serverless
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.83%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) SAN
1 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (38.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.76%) Redis
3 8 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.75%) DB2
7 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.75%) MySQL
8 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.92%) Big Data
9 1 (0.92%) Jackrabbit
9 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (15.60%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.75%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.83%) EasyMock
4 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) JUnit
4 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.83%) Maven
4 2 (1.83%) Mocha
4 2 (1.83%) Mockito
4 2 (1.83%) Postman
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) TestNG
5 1 (0.92%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.92%) Pylint
5 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 19 (17.43%) Public Sector
2 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.34%) Back Office
4 5 (4.59%) Finance
4 5 (4.59%) Local Government
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.37%) .NET
2 40 (36.70%) .NET Core
3 34 (31.19%) XML
4 22 (20.18%) HTML
5 21 (19.27%) CSS
6 18 (16.51%) React
7 16 (14.68%) ASP.NET
8 14 (12.84%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (12.84%) REST
9 12 (11.01%) Spring
10 11 (10.09%) Node.js
10 11 (10.09%) Spring Boot
11 8 (7.34%) Kafka
12 6 (5.50%) OpenAPI
12 6 (5.50%) RESTful
12 6 (5.50%) Web Services
13 5 (4.59%) Apache Sling
13 5 (4.59%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.59%) OSGi
13 5 (4.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (2.75%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.83%) IoT
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) CBDC
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Debian
2 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (55.05%) Agile
2 46 (42.20%) DevOps
3 43 (39.45%) CI/CD
4 31 (28.44%) Scrum
5 30 (27.52%) B2C
6 15 (13.76%) Front End Development
7 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.01%) Microservices
9 11 (10.09%) OO
9 11 (10.09%) TDD
10 10 (9.17%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.26%) API Management
11 9 (8.26%) OOD
11 9 (8.26%) SDLC
12 8 (7.34%) Design Patterns
13 7 (6.42%) Containerisation
13 7 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (6.42%) Software Architecture
14 6 (5.50%) Database Optimisation
14 6 (5.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.87%) C#
2 37 (33.94%) Java
2 37 (33.94%) PowerShell
3 36 (33.03%) Bicep
3 36 (33.03%) JavaScript
4 26 (23.85%) TypeScript
5 18 (16.51%) Python
6 14 (12.84%) SQL
7 6 (5.50%) C
7 6 (5.50%) C++
8 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.75%) COBOL
9 3 (2.75%) Go
10 2 (1.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.92%) JCL
11 1 (0.92%) PHP
11 1 (0.92%) Rust
11 1 (0.92%) Scala
11 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.83%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (36.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.75%) CA Endevor
3 3 (2.75%) Terraform
4 2 (1.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.83%) Packer
5 1 (0.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (41.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.67%) VMware
4 3 (2.75%) IBM
5 2 (1.83%) Google
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) Adobe
6 1 (0.92%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.92%) SAP