Junior Developer Contracts in London

Junior Developer
England > London

The median Junior Developer daily rate in London is £259, 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 342 374 471
Rank change year-on-year +32 +97 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 11 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.095% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.10% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 15
10th Percentile £155 £223 £230
25th Percentile £213 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year -30.93% +7.14% +14.75%
75th Percentile £391 £488 £569
90th Percentile £411 £534 £575
England median daily rate £274 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -26.93% +7.14% +16.67%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in London

Junior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Developer in London

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Developer in London

Junior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Developer in London

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 3 £375 +25.00% 12
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) Servlets
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) OO
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Migration

Junior 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) npm
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
2 1 (9.09%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Babel
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
1 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) React
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
2 1 (9.09%) boto
2 1 (9.09%) CSS3
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) J2SE
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Servlets
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Web Design
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) API Management
3 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
3 1 (9.09%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Straight-Through Processing
3 1 (9.09%) Technology Enablement
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Axway
1 1 (9.09%) GoCardless
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk
1 1 (9.09%) webMethods