Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Backend Developer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

As of 4 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Backend Developer daily rate in Oxford.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.85% - 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 52 55 109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.30% 93.22% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 77
10th Percentile £222 £160 £162
25th Percentile £252 £274 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £475
90th Percentile £688 £569 £643
Oxfordshire median daily rate £406 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -9.72% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £25.15 £14.09 -
Median hourly rate £51.08 £20.50 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +149.15% +13.38% +6.35%
75th Percentile £87.97 £21.75 -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.83 £20.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +25.98% -36.53% +90.00%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Oxford

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Oxford

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Backend Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform