Developer Contracts in Portsmouth

Developer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Developer daily rate in Portsmouth is £514, 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 15 17 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 13 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.57% 9.70% 15.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.30% 10.55% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 21
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £504 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -27.27% +6.80%
75th Percentile £534 £419 £676
90th Percentile £675 £523 -
Hampshire median daily rate £445 £475 £523
% change year-on-year -6.32% -9.09% +8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £70.00 £64.75
25th Percentile - £75.00 £68.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £84.45 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £73.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -29.03% +6.90% +26.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 115 275 234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 91.97% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 115 145
10th Percentile £200 £400 £202
25th Percentile £400 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% +12.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £570
90th Percentile £626 £840 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 103 20
10th Percentile £25.19 £48.61 £43.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.40 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £57.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +3.14% +36.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.86 £70.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Portsmouth

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Portsmouth

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Portsmouth

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Portsmouth region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) Git
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) React
4 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
4 4 (30.77%) Java
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) Web Development
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (23.08%) Flask
5 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (23.08%) Next.js
6 2 (15.38%) Celery
6 2 (15.38%) pytest
6 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) Digital Signal Processing
6 2 (15.38%) Signal Processing

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (7.69%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.69%) MinIO
2 1 (7.69%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) ObjectStore
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Poetry
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) React
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) Flask
2 3 (23.08%) Next.js
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 2 (15.38%) Celery
3 2 (15.38%) Django
3 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 2 (15.38%) pytest
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) FPGA
1 2 (15.38%) Verilog
1 2 (15.38%) VHDL
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
3 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (23.08%) Web Development
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Signal Processing
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) Lean Software Development
6 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithmics
1 2 (15.38%) Intel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
183 Developer jobs in Hampshire