Backend Developer Contracts in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500 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 304 352 404
Rank change year-on-year +48 +52 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 89 157 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.62% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 119 164
10th Percentile £415 £450 £438
25th Percentile £445 £513 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +6.12% +36.11%
75th Percentile £561 £681 £725
90th Percentile £650 £810 £788
England median daily rate £500 £616 £550
% change year-on-year -18.77% +11.91% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +22 11 £488 -25.00% 1
West London +24 4 £538 -2.27% 1
East London - 4 £435 -
South London - 3 £430 - 2
Backend Developer
England

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 54 (60.67%) Agile
2 47 (52.81%) C#
3 45 (50.56%) DevOps
4 44 (49.44%) Azure
5 42 (47.19%) CI/CD
5 42 (47.19%) .NET
6 41 (46.07%) SQL Server
7 40 (44.94%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (43.82%) .NET Core
8 39 (43.82%) Microsoft
8 39 (43.82%) Active Directory
9 36 (40.45%) PowerShell
10 35 (39.33%) Bicep
11 33 (37.08%) XML
11 33 (37.08%) JavaScript
12 30 (33.71%) Entra ID
13 29 (32.58%) Java
13 29 (32.58%) B2C
13 29 (32.58%) Scrum
14 26 (29.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (25.84%) TypeScript
16 22 (24.72%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (23.60%) HTML
17 21 (23.60%) AWS
18 20 (22.47%) CSS
19 18 (20.22%) Public Sector
20 16 (17.98%) Git
21 15 (16.85%) ASP.NET
21 15 (16.85%) Front End Development
21 15 (16.85%) React

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.37%) CICS
2 2 (2.25%) nginx
2 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 44 (49.44%) Azure
2 40 (44.94%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (33.71%) Entra ID
4 26 (29.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (24.72%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (23.60%) AWS
7 6 (6.74%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.62%) Serverless
9 4 (4.49%) GitHub
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.25%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) HTTP
1 2 (2.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.07%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.73%) Redis
3 8 (8.99%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.37%) DB2
5 3 (3.37%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.12%) MySQL
7 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.37%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.25%) EasyMock
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) JUnit
4 2 (2.25%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.25%) Maven
4 2 (2.25%) Mocha
4 2 (2.25%) Mockito
4 2 (2.25%) Postman
4 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 2 (2.25%) TestNG
5 1 (1.12%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.12%) Pylint
General
1 18 (20.22%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Back Office
4 5 (5.62%) Local Government
5 4 (4.49%) Finance
6 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (47.19%) .NET
2 39 (43.82%) .NET Core
3 33 (37.08%) XML
4 21 (23.60%) HTML
5 20 (22.47%) CSS
6 15 (16.85%) ASP.NET
6 15 (16.85%) React
7 13 (14.61%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (12.36%) REST
8 11 (12.36%) Spring
9 10 (11.24%) Node.js
9 10 (11.24%) Spring Boot
10 7 (7.87%) Kafka
11 6 (6.74%) OpenAPI
12 5 (5.62%) Swagger
13 4 (4.49%) Hibernate
13 4 (4.49%) JSON
14 3 (3.37%) ISPF
14 3 (3.37%) JSR 170
14 3 (3.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.74%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.49%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.49%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) zOS
2 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.67%) Agile
2 45 (50.56%) DevOps
3 42 (47.19%) CI/CD
4 29 (32.58%) B2C
4 29 (32.58%) Scrum
5 15 (16.85%) Front End Development
6 11 (12.36%) Microservices
6 11 (12.36%) TDD
7 10 (11.24%) Clean Code
7 10 (11.24%) OO
8 9 (10.11%) API Management
8 9 (10.11%) OOD
8 9 (10.11%) SDLC
9 7 (7.87%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.87%) Design Patterns
9 7 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.87%) Software Engineering
10 6 (6.74%) Database Optimisation
10 6 (6.74%) Software Architecture
11 5 (5.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) C#
2 36 (40.45%) PowerShell
3 35 (39.33%) Bicep
4 33 (37.08%) JavaScript
5 29 (32.58%) Java
6 23 (25.84%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.36%) Python
7 11 (12.36%) SQL
8 5 (5.62%) C
8 5 (5.62%) C++
9 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.37%) COBOL
11 1 (1.12%) Go
11 1 (1.12%) JCL
11 1 (1.12%) Ruby
11 1 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.87%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.37%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.25%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.25%) Packer
4 2 (2.25%) Terraform
5 1 (1.12%) Argo
Vendors
1 39 (43.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.37%) IBM
3 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe
4 1 (1.12%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle