Developer Contracts in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5,114 7,964 13,263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 14.05% 16.53% 18.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.16% 17.47% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 6,093 10,362
10th Percentile £325 £385 £388
25th Percentile £413 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £806 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 89 123
10th Percentile £35.50 £39.20 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.85 £52.38 £40.48
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.55%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £82.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +17.27% +22.22%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £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 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in England

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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 0 3,020 £575 -4.17% 971
North of England +4 686 £463 -9.31% 508
South East -2 515 £495 -5.04% 310
North West +4 370 £453 -8.35% 309
Midlands +2 327 £425 -5.56% 349
South West -3 297 £450 -14.29% 219
Yorkshire +3 280 £475 -9.52% 142
West Midlands +6 229 £425 -10.53% 220
East of England +7 134 £430 -9.47% 131
East Midlands -1 96 £425 -2.86% 128
North East +2 49 £488 -2.50% 61
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,336 (26.12%) Agile
2 1,213 (23.72%) SQL
3 1,103 (21.57%) C#
4 1,060 (20.73%) JavaScript
5 1,053 (20.59%) Finance
6 1,013 (19.81%) Java
7 981 (19.18%) Azure
8 963 (18.83%) Python
9 909 (17.77%) AWS
10 830 (16.23%) .NET
11 769 (15.04%) React
12 729 (14.25%) DevOps
13 712 (13.92%) Full Stack Development
14 709 (13.86%) Social Skills
15 676 (13.22%) Software Engineering
16 622 (12.16%) TypeScript
17 620 (12.12%) HTML
18 594 (11.62%) CI/CD
19 575 (11.24%) Security Cleared
20 519 (10.15%) Microsoft
21 504 (9.86%) Banking
22 503 (9.84%) CSS
23 502 (9.82%) SQL Server
24 498 (9.74%) SC Cleared
25 495 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
26 458 (8.96%) Degree
27 445 (8.70%) Microservices
28 436 (8.53%) Front Office
29 427 (8.35%) Git
30 412 (8.06%) TDD

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
1 149 (2.91%) Apache
2 126 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
3 115 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.66%) CMS
5 61 (1.19%) Confluence
6 36 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.70%) SAS
7 33 (0.65%) WordPress
8 32 (0.63%) Umbraco
9 27 (0.53%) nginx
10 23 (0.45%) Drupal
11 17 (0.33%) CICS
11 17 (0.33%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.31%) IIS
13 14 (0.27%) Anypoint
14 12 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
15 9 (0.18%) ColdFusion
15 9 (0.18%) MQSeries
15 9 (0.18%) Mule
15 9 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 201 (3.93%) Chatbot
2 75 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.12%) Sketch
4 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.059%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.059%) Trello
6 2 (0.039%) InVision
6 2 (0.039%) Simulink
7 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.020%) Blender
7 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.020%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.020%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.020%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 52 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.49%) Endur
3 14 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.23%) ION MarketView
5 11 (0.22%) Shopify
6 10 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
9 6 (0.12%) Aareon QL
9 6 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.12%) Magento
9 6 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.098%) Odoo
11 4 (0.078%) Exstream
11 4 (0.078%) IntelliMatch
11 4 (0.078%) LabWindows
11 4 (0.078%) Maximo
11 4 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 981 (19.18%) Azure
2 909 (17.77%) AWS
3 335 (6.55%) GCP
4 332 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 315 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 216 (4.22%) Serverless
7 158 (3.09%) GitHub
8 145 (2.84%) Power Automate
9 131 (2.56%) PowerApps
10 115 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
11 108 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 102 (1.99%) Azure Functions
13 93 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
14 88 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 81 (1.58%) Entra ID
16 76 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 70 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
20 66 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.08%) HTTP
2 32 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.39%) Intranet
4 15 (0.29%) Internet
4 15 (0.29%) SAN
5 11 (0.22%) VPN
6 10 (0.20%) SSL
7 9 (0.18%) 5G
7 9 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
8 8 (0.16%) DNS
8 8 (0.16%) Firewall
8 8 (0.16%) SSH
9 7 (0.14%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.12%) MQTT
10 6 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
11 5 (0.098%) DHCP
11 5 (0.098%) FTP
11 5 (0.098%) NAS
11 5 (0.098%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.078%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 502 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 290 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
3 229 (4.48%) Power BI
4 212 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 147 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 142 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 122 (2.39%) MySQL
8 107 (2.09%) Apache Ignite
8 107 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 101 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 84 (1.64%) Oracle Database
11 80 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 75 (1.47%) KDB
13 62 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (1.00%) Redis
15 46 (0.90%) Data Lake
16 45 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
17 40 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
18 39 (0.76%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 427 (8.35%) Git
2 202 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 182 (3.56%) JIRA
4 93 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 87 (1.70%) GitLab
6 83 (1.62%) JUnit
7 70 (1.37%) Mockito
8 66 (1.29%) Visual Studio
9 60 (1.17%) Selenium
10 55 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 53 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.00%) TeamCity
13 40 (0.78%) webpack
14 39 (0.76%) Maven
15 32 (0.63%) SpecFlow
16 25 (0.49%) NUnit
16 25 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (0.47%) Android Studio
17 24 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 23 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 1,053 (20.59%) Finance
2 709 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 504 (9.86%) Banking
4 436 (8.53%) Front Office
5 357 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 330 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 78 (1.53%) Marketing
9 70 (1.37%) Retail
10 63 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 58 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 43 (0.84%) Back Office
13 40 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 38 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 33 (0.65%) Law
16 32 (0.63%) Local Government
17 27 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.49%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.41%) Billing
19 21 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 830 (16.23%) .NET
2 769 (15.04%) React
3 620 (12.12%) HTML
4 503 (9.84%) CSS
5 406 (7.94%) AngularJS
6 367 (7.18%) REST
7 308 (6.02%) Node.js
8 293 (5.73%) Spring
9 244 (4.77%) RESTful
10 241 (4.71%) .NET Core
11 222 (4.34%) Spring Boot
12 205 (4.01%) Kafka
13 187 (3.66%) Web Services
14 186 (3.64%) XML
15 184 (3.60%) Redux
16 178 (3.48%) .NET Framework
17 171 (3.34%) ASP.NET
18 120 (2.35%) gRPC
18 120 (2.35%) Vue
19 117 (2.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 278 (5.44%) Fixed Income
2 206 (4.03%) Derivative
3 194 (3.79%) Hedge funds
4 151 (2.95%) Equities
5 149 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 126 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 110 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 107 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 93 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 90 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 66 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 54 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 53 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 49 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 49 (0.96%) Management Information System
16 40 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
17 37 (0.72%) Cloud Native
18 35 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (0.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 255 (4.99%) Linux
2 151 (2.95%) Unix
3 119 (2.33%) Android
4 97 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 88 (1.72%) Windows
6 20 (0.39%) Mac OS X
7 19 (0.37%) zOS
8 18 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.33%) Debian
10 8 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.12%) VMS
11 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.059%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.059%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.020%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,336 (26.12%) Agile
2 729 (14.25%) DevOps
3 712 (13.92%) Full Stack Development
4 676 (13.22%) Software Engineering
5 594 (11.62%) CI/CD
6 495 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 445 (8.70%) Microservices
8 412 (8.06%) TDD
9 374 (7.31%) Front End Development
10 336 (6.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 336 (6.57%) Scrum
11 296 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
12 292 (5.71%) Code Quality
13 291 (5.69%) Test Automation
14 272 (5.32%) Unit Testing
15 250 (4.89%) SDLC
16 247 (4.83%) Analytics
17 236 (4.61%) OO
18 230 (4.50%) Continuous Integration
19 213 (4.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,213 (23.72%) SQL
2 1,103 (21.57%) C#
3 1,060 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 1,013 (19.81%) Java
5 963 (18.83%) Python
6 622 (12.16%) TypeScript
7 201 (3.93%) PowerShell
8 190 (3.72%) C++
9 171 (3.34%) PHP
10 166 (3.25%) PL/SQL
11 129 (2.52%) Scala
12 107 (2.09%) Kotlin
13 95 (1.86%) C
14 89 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 87 (1.70%) Go
16 76 (1.49%) Bicep
17 63 (1.23%) Ruby
18 48 (0.94%) Swift
19 46 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 46 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 575 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 498 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 458 (8.96%) Degree
4 112 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 50 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 40 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.25%) PhD
10 12 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
11 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.12%) CCNA
12 6 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.078%) PMP
14 3 (0.059%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.039%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.039%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.020%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (2.89%) QA
2 90 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 46 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 38 (0.74%) WCAG
5 21 (0.41%) MiFID
6 19 (0.37%) HL7
7 13 (0.25%) GDPR
7 13 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
9 8 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.14%) EMIR
10 7 (0.14%) SLA
11 6 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.078%) GRC
12 4 (0.078%) MISRA
12 4 (0.078%) SEPA
13 3 (0.059%) IFRS
13 3 (0.059%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.059%) NIST
System Software
1 282 (5.51%) Docker
2 122 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.25%) Firmware
5 9 (0.18%) IAG
6 8 (0.16%) ACF2
6 8 (0.16%) RACF
7 4 (0.078%) zsh
8 3 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.039%) HDFS
9 2 (0.039%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.020%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.020%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 326 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.82%) Terraform
3 77 (1.51%) Ansible
4 40 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.49%) Grafana
6 19 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 13 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.12%) CA Endevor
9 6 (0.12%) Control-M
9 6 (0.12%) Podman
9 6 (0.12%) Puppet
10 5 (0.098%) CloudHub
10 5 (0.098%) Kibana
11 4 (0.078%) Istio
12 3 (0.059%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.059%) Packer
12 3 (0.059%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.059%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.039%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 519 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 339 (6.63%) Oracle
3 191 (3.73%) PayPal
4 177 (3.46%) Google
5 157 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 120 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 104 (2.03%) SAP
8 53 (1.04%) IBM
9 48 (0.94%) MuleSoft
10 41 (0.80%) Databricks
11 35 (0.68%) ION Trading
12 32 (0.63%) Adobe
13 30 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.57%) Virgin Media
15 28 (0.55%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.51%) VMware
17 24 (0.47%) Splunk
18 21 (0.41%) Dell
18 21 (0.41%) Informatica
18 21 (0.41%) TIBCO