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The median contractor rate for a Developer was £525 per day in advertised job vacancies in London during the 6 months to 5 December 2019. The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Developer |
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6 months to
5 Dec 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
0 |
+1 |
| Contract jobs requiring a Developer |
10,040 |
14,917 |
14,643 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London |
28.77% |
31.93% |
30.86% |
| As % of the Job Titles category |
30.75% |
33.66% |
32.49% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,726 |
11,780 |
11,643 |
| London median daily rate |
£525 |
£525 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.00% |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£375 |
£369 |
£363 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£675 |
£669 |
| England median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
42 |
31 |
24 |
| London median hourly rate |
£51.50 |
£40.00 |
£39.65 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+28.75% |
+0.90% |
-13.82% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.56 |
£19.00 |
£15.23 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78.75 |
£100.75 |
£55.85 |
| England median hourly rate |
£42.00 |
£45.00 |
£42.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-6.67% |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
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.
| All Contract IT Job Vacancies London |
| Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title |
32,651 |
44,312 |
45,063 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title |
93.56% |
94.86% |
94.96% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
23,416 |
32,037 |
32,718 |
| London median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+0.10% |
+8.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£313 |
£300 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£675 |
£663 |
| England median daily rate |
£463 |
£455 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.65% |
+1.11% |
+5.88% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
477 |
617 |
549 |
| London median hourly rate |
£21.56 |
£20.00 |
£20.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+7.80% |
-2.44% |
+6.60% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.44 |
£12.65 |
£12.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£53.75 |
£47.83 |
| England median hourly rate |
£19.31 |
£18.38 |
£18.70 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.07% |
-1.72% |
+2.47% |
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Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London
Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.
Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Developer in London.
Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 5 December 2019.
Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer in London.
Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 5 December 2019.
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 December 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London
For the 6 months to 5 December 2019, Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills 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 Developer in the job title.
| 1 |
3,975 (39.59%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,298 (32.85%) |
JavaScript |
| 3 |
2,918 (29.06%) |
Java |
| 4 |
2,313 (23.04%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
2,287 (22.78%) |
Finance |
| 6 |
2,221 (22.12%) |
TDD |
| 7 |
2,030 (20.22%) |
HTML |
| 8 |
1,913 (19.05%) |
C# |
| 9 |
1,833 (18.26%) |
CSS |
| 10 |
1,692 (16.85%) |
.NET |
| 11 |
1,688 (16.81%) |
React |
| 12 |
1,583 (15.77%) |
AngularJS |
| 13 |
1,574 (15.68%) |
Python |
| 14 |
1,572 (15.66%) |
Microservices |
| 15 |
1,358 (13.53%) |
AWS |
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Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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