Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Backend Developer
West London > Hounslow

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Hounslow is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 5.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £382 - -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £501 - -
West London median daily rate £449 £407 £650
% change year-on-year +10.20% -37.38% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hounslow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hounslow. 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 Hounslow with a recognized job title 52 100 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.67% 96.15% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 64
10th Percentile £225 £219 £116
25th Percentile £313 £359 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% -19.81% +1.92%
75th Percentile £518 £498 £614
90th Percentile £538 £578 £674
West London median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 14
10th Percentile £39.20 £18.13 £53.28
25th Percentile £40.63 £20.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £29.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -59.72% +350.00%
75th Percentile £49.00 £65.00 £86.88
90th Percentile £52.60 £67.40 £90.00
West London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.34 £69.50
% change year-on-year -4.80% -62.10% +291.55%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Hounslow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Hounslow

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Hounslow over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in Hounslow

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Osterley - 2 £512 -
Isleworth - 1 £385 -
Backend Developer
West London

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, Backend Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hounslow region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) JWT
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Flink
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) JWT
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus