Backend Developer Contracts in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 335 407
Rank change year-on-year +20 +72 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 70 120 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.58% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 81 156
10th Percentile £414 £450 £463
25th Percentile £445 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £725
90th Percentile £575 £825 £825
England median daily rate £475 £600 £579
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.63% +21.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 15,290 20,761 37,387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 94.36% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,206 15,152 27,262
10th Percentile £343 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £689 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 226 306
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.08 £15.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £22.06 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.27 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +12.47% +7.50%
75th Percentile £56.75 £62.31 £55.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +5 12 £500 -25.23% 3
East London - 4 £435 - 2
South London - 3 £430 - 1
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 51 (72.86%) Agile
2 49 (70.00%) C#
3 43 (61.43%) .NET
3 43 (61.43%) DevOps
4 42 (60.00%) Azure
5 41 (58.57%) SQL Server
6 40 (57.14%) Active Directory
6 40 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (57.14%) .NET Core
7 38 (54.29%) Microsoft
8 37 (52.86%) PowerShell
9 36 (51.43%) Bicep
10 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
10 33 (47.14%) XML
11 31 (44.29%) Scrum
11 31 (44.29%) Entra ID
12 30 (42.86%) B2C
13 27 (38.57%) JavaScript
14 26 (37.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (32.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (25.71%) TypeScript
17 17 (24.29%) React
17 17 (24.29%) HTML
17 17 (24.29%) Java
17 17 (24.29%) CSS
18 16 (22.86%) ASP.NET
19 15 (21.43%) Public Sector
20 14 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
20 14 (20.00%) Redis
21 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering

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 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.43%) Liferay
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.00%) Azure
2 40 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (44.29%) Entra ID
4 26 (37.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (32.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (15.71%) AWS
7 6 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.14%) Serverless
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (58.57%) SQL Server
2 14 (20.00%) Redis
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Git
General
1 15 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.43%) Back Office
3 7 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Local Government
5 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (61.43%) .NET
2 40 (57.14%) .NET Core
3 33 (47.14%) XML
4 17 (24.29%) CSS
4 17 (24.29%) HTML
4 17 (24.29%) React
5 16 (22.86%) ASP.NET
6 14 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (10.00%) Node.js
8 4 (5.71%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.71%) RESTful
8 4 (5.71%) Spring
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.86%) Kafka
11 1 (1.43%) Apache Sling
11 1 (1.43%) JAX-RS
11 1 (1.43%) Laravel
11 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (1.43%) REST
11 1 (1.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.43%) Mobile App
3 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.71%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (72.86%) Agile
2 43 (61.43%) DevOps
3 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
4 31 (44.29%) Scrum
5 30 (42.86%) B2C
6 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
7 12 (17.14%) TDD
8 9 (12.86%) API Management
8 9 (12.86%) OO
8 9 (12.86%) OOD
9 8 (11.43%) Clean Code
9 8 (11.43%) Front End Development
10 7 (10.00%) SDLC
11 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (7.14%) Content Management
12 5 (7.14%) Database Optimisation
12 5 (7.14%) Design Patterns
13 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 3 (4.29%) Microservices
14 2 (2.86%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 49 (70.00%) C#
2 37 (52.86%) PowerShell
3 36 (51.43%) Bicep
4 27 (38.57%) JavaScript
5 18 (25.71%) TypeScript
6 17 (24.29%) Java
7 7 (10.00%) SQL
8 4 (5.71%) Python
9 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.43%) C
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 40 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe
2 1 (1.43%) Google
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle
2 1 (1.43%) Solace