Junior Developer Contracts in England

Junior Developer
UK > England

The median Junior Developer daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 606 738
Rank change year-on-year +88 +132 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 25 42 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.083% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.088% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 29
10th Percentile £254 £205 £160
25th Percentile £316 £261 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +54.84%
75th Percentile £476 £566 £360
90th Percentile £523 £630 £432
UK median daily rate £375 £350 £305
% change year-on-year +7.14% +14.75% +52.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.68
25th Percentile - - £20.18
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £21.00

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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 +102 17 £375 +7.14% 20
North of England +34 6 £375 +7.14% 16
North West - 3 £375 - 11
Yorkshire +24 2 £375 +7.14% 3
South East +13 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £283 - 2
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
1 10 (40.00%) React
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
3 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) REST
4 7 (28.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (28.00%) Git
4 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (28.00%) C#
4 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Spring
5 6 (24.00%) .NET
5 6 (24.00%) JUnit
5 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (24.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
5 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) JPA
5 6 (24.00%) Docker
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (24.00%) High Availability

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 (4.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) JUnit
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) REST
3 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (24.00%) .NET
4 6 (24.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (24.00%) JPA
4 6 (24.00%) Spring
5 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (12.00%) CSS
5 3 (12.00%) HTML
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.00%) Matplotlib
6 2 (8.00%) NumPy
6 2 (8.00%) Pandas
6 2 (8.00%) Vue
7 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.00%) CSS3
7 1 (4.00%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (8.00%) Derivative
1 2 (8.00%) Equities
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
3 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 6 (24.00%) High Availability
4 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (24.00%) Microservices
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
5 4 (16.00%) User Experience
6 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis
7 2 (8.00%) Mathematics
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Quantitative Research
7 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (32.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) ABAP
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Talend