Software Developer Contracts in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer daily rate in England is £529 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 298 347
Rank change year-on-year +117 +49 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 488 416 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.32% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.88% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 296 363
10th Percentile £400 £368 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £710 £669 £616
90th Percentile £888 £738 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 21
10th Percentile £46.25 £48.33 -
25th Percentile £48.40 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +21.05% +21.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £85.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £48.12
% change year-on-year +5.57% +19.49% +41.53%

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £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 £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +114 206 £550 -10.20% 74
North of England +107 140 £450 - 71
North West +61 62 £420 -5.62% 44
Yorkshire +63 52 £450 - 17
Midlands +56 51 £400 -23.81% 63
South West +21 41 £488 -18.75% 47
South East -17 30 £413 -8.33% 48
North East +32 26 - - 12
East Midlands +30 26 £425 -28.08% 26
West Midlands +34 25 £375 -28.57% 37
East of England +11 13 £485 -3.00% 24
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 236 (48.36%) Degree
2 223 (45.70%) C#
3 220 (45.08%) Conversational UI
3 220 (45.08%) Code Quality
4 219 (44.88%) Artificial Intelligence
5 218 (44.67%) Chatbot
5 218 (44.67%) PayPal
6 200 (40.98%) Python
7 198 (40.57%) JavaScript
8 193 (39.55%) Software Engineering
9 170 (34.84%) SQL
10 144 (29.51%) Agile
11 140 (28.69%) HTML
12 94 (19.26%) .NET
12 94 (19.26%) Azure
13 78 (15.98%) Java
14 75 (15.37%) AWS
15 74 (15.16%) DevOps
16 66 (13.52%) CI/CD
17 65 (13.32%) SQL Server
18 61 (12.50%) Microsoft
18 61 (12.50%) Scrum
19 60 (12.30%) PowerShell
20 56 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
21 48 (9.84%) TypeScript
21 48 (9.84%) Finance
22 44 (9.02%) XML
23 43 (8.81%) .NET Framework
24 39 (7.99%) Banking
24 39 (7.99%) Security Cleared

Software 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 28 (5.74%) Apache
1 28 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.02%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 218 (44.67%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.82%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 94 (19.26%) Azure
2 75 (15.37%) AWS
3 56 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (6.56%) GCP
5 28 (5.74%) dbt
6 22 (4.51%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 14 (2.87%) GitHub
8 14 (2.87%) Serverless
9 9 (1.84%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.82%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) RS-232
1 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.61%) SAN
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) MQTT
3 2 (0.41%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.32%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (5.74%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (5.74%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (5.74%) Dremio
3 23 (4.71%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.02%) MySQL
7 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.61%) Big Data
9 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.61%) Redis
10 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.41%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (4.10%) Git
2 17 (3.48%) SpecFlow
3 7 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.23%) LabVIEW
4 6 (1.23%) Selenium
5 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.82%) JIRA
5 4 (0.82%) Subversion
6 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.61%) NUnit
6 3 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.41%) Maven
7 2 (0.41%) Mockito
7 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.41%) Postman
7 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (9.84%) Finance
2 39 (7.99%) Banking
3 37 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.97%) Front Office
5 32 (6.56%) Investment Banking
6 31 (6.35%) Social Skills
7 9 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.43%) Law
9 6 (1.23%) Local Government
9 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.82%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.61%) Back Office
12 2 (0.41%) Marketing
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Electronics
13 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.20%) Legal
13 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.20%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (28.69%) HTML
2 94 (19.26%) .NET
3 44 (9.02%) XML
4 43 (8.81%) .NET Framework
5 30 (6.15%) NumPy
5 30 (6.15%) Pandas
5 30 (6.15%) SciPy
6 29 (5.94%) AngularJS
7 28 (5.74%) CSS
7 28 (5.74%) gRPC
7 28 (5.74%) Protocol Buffers
8 25 (5.12%) React
9 19 (3.89%) RESTful
10 18 (3.69%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.87%) REST
12 13 (2.66%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.46%) Kafka
14 11 (2.25%) Node.js
15 9 (1.84%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (1.84%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.53%) Derivative
1 27 (5.53%) Fixed Income
2 26 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.92%) Equities
3 24 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (4.92%) Hedge funds
4 9 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.02%) Contactless
6 5 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.82%) CCTV
7 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.82%) NHS
7 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.61%) IoT
9 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.48%) Linux
2 10 (2.05%) Windows
3 4 (0.82%) Android
3 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 4 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.61%) Debian
4 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (45.08%) Code Quality
1 220 (45.08%) Conversational UI
2 219 (44.88%) Artificial Intelligence
3 193 (39.55%) Software Engineering
4 144 (29.51%) Agile
5 74 (15.16%) DevOps
6 66 (13.52%) CI/CD
7 61 (12.50%) Scrum
8 32 (6.56%) Asset Management
9 21 (4.30%) Test Automation
10 20 (4.10%) Line Management
11 19 (3.89%) Front End Development
11 19 (3.89%) Microservices
11 19 (3.89%) TDD
12 18 (3.69%) API Development
12 18 (3.69%) B2C
12 18 (3.69%) Investment Management
12 18 (3.69%) Software Testing
13 17 (3.48%) Design Patterns
14 16 (3.28%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 223 (45.70%) C#
2 200 (40.98%) Python
3 198 (40.57%) JavaScript
4 170 (34.84%) SQL
5 78 (15.98%) Java
6 60 (12.30%) PowerShell
7 48 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.87%) C++
9 13 (2.66%) Bicep
10 9 (1.84%) C
11 7 (1.43%) Bash
11 7 (1.43%) Ruby
12 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.02%) Scala
13 4 (0.82%) PHP
14 3 (0.61%) Perl
14 3 (0.61%) Rust
15 2 (0.41%) Go
16 1 (0.20%) Swift
16 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 236 (48.36%) Degree
2 39 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.64%) QA
2 6 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.82%) HL7
4 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.41%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.07%) Docker
3 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.82%) zsh
5 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (3.07%) Terraform
2 9 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) Istio
4 1 (0.20%) Kibana
4 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 218 (44.67%) PayPal
2 61 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.64%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.23%) Google
5 5 (1.02%) Oracle
6 4 (0.82%) Databricks
6 4 (0.82%) NEC
6 4 (0.82%) VMware
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.41%) Apple
8 2 (0.41%) Splunk
8 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) Aareon
9 1 (0.20%) Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir
9 1 (0.20%) Remedy
9 1 (0.20%) SAP
9 1 (0.20%) Virgin Media