fastlane Contract Job Trends in London

fastlane
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring fastlane skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 374 434
Rank change year-on-year +15 +60 +124
Contract jobs citing fastlane 2 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.088% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.094% 0.61% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £423 £481 -
25th Percentile £438 £522 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £513 £603 -
90th Percentile £528 £606 -
England median daily rate £475 £600 £515
% change year-on-year -20.83% +16.50% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.43 -
England median hourly rate - £61.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -15.27% -

All Development Application Skills
London

fastlane falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,138 2,308 2,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.96% 14.43% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,545 2,174
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £421 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £642 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 29
10th Percentile £36.63 £25.99 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £28.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -34.78% +32.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.34 £75.00
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.88 £87.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

fastlane
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing fastlane relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

fastlane job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing fastlane.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing fastlane

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing fastlane.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing fastlane

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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 fastlane within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +7 1 £525 - 1
fastlane
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CocoaPods
1 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) React Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AVFoundation
1 1 (50.00%) Core Animation
1 1 (50.00%) Core Data
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) React Native
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) RxSwift
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
1 1 (50.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Animation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Google