Developer Contracts in Luton

Developer
Bedfordshire > Luton

The median Developer daily rate in Luton is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 10 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 6.58% 7.27% 4.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% 7.34% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £263 £311 £335
25th Percentile £294 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £320 £400
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -20.00% +128.57%
75th Percentile £525 £344 £450
90th Percentile £550 - £465
Bedfordshire median daily rate £385 £325 £313
% change year-on-year +18.46% +4.00% -21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate - - £56.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Luton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Luton. 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 Luton with a recognized job title 130 109 170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.53% 99.09% 99.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 79 82
10th Percentile £300 £281 £263
25th Percentile £439 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £634 £634 £638
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +19.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 7
10th Percentile - £29.50 £30.60
25th Percentile £15.39 £51.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £15.79 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.95% +36.36% +243.75%
75th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £56.88
90th Percentile - - £59.75
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £31.80 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.12% +15.91% +243.75%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Luton

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Luton

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Luton over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Luton

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Luton

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 Luton region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Boomi
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) CMDB
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C++

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Boomi
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Microservices
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (10.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) Prescriptive Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) SOLID
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce