Junior Developer Contracts in England

Junior Developer
UK > England

The median Junior Developer daily rate in England is £274, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 517 611
Rank change year-on-year +45 +94 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 13 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.067% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.072% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 28
10th Percentile £168 £254 £205
25th Percentile £231 £316 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £371 £476 £566
90th Percentile £404 £523 £630
UK median daily rate £270 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -28.00% +7.14% +14.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in England

Junior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Developer in England

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Developer in England

Junior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Developer in England

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +32 11 £259 -30.93% 29
South East +46 1 £321 - 32
South West - 1 £280 - 20
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) .NET
5 2 (15.38%) CSS
5 2 (15.38%) Unix
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
5 2 (15.38%) Docker
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) React
5 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Terraform

Junior 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 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Drupal
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) npm
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
2 1 (7.69%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) DocumentDB
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Babel
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
2 1 (7.69%) boto
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) J2EE
2 1 (7.69%) J2SE
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Servlets
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 1 (7.69%) Adaptive Web Design
4 1 (7.69%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Fintech
4 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) SOLID
4 1 (7.69%) User Experience
4 1 (7.69%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.69%) C
6 1 (7.69%) Go
6 1 (7.69%) Ruby
6 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Axway
1 1 (7.69%) GoCardless
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk
1 1 (7.69%) webMethods