Backend Developer Contracts in Liverpool

Backend Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Liverpool is £475, 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 24 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 0.74% - 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £350
75th Percentile £488 - £375
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £475 - £350

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 129 176 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 94.62% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 87 193
10th Percentile £140 £143 £251
25th Percentile £163 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £545
90th Percentile £638 £593 £650
Merseyside median daily rate £400 £400 £475
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 11
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.06 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +12.84% +8.47%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £18.25
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £18.75
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
% change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Liverpool

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Backend 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 Liverpool region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker