Developer Contracts in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer daily rate in the South East is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 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
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 254 541 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.41% 9.42% 9.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.24% 10.22% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 403 408
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £407 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 23
10th Percentile - £39.50 £50.50
25th Percentile £32.94 £46.25 £58.59
Median hourly rate £37.24 £58.91 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.78% -15.85% +35.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £82.67 -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.55% - +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,749 5,293 5,347
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.16% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 3,116 3,698
10th Percentile £220 £243 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £605
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 553 235
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.92 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% -4.76% +150.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.74 £66.21
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.50 £44.53
% change year-on-year -26.90% -11.30% +85.54%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Thames Valley -4 144 £501 -2.20% 470
Berkshire -1 107 £525 - 389
Hampshire +19 72 £485 +3.19% 105
Buckinghamshire -5 30 £475 -5.00% 42
Surrey -18 19 £475 -5.00% 54
West Sussex +2 11 £368 -2.00% 19
East Sussex -6 8 £363 -9.38% 37
Oxfordshire -12 7 £363 -27.50% 45
Kent -18 1 £475 -13.64% 12
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 72 (28.35%) Agile
2 69 (27.17%) SQL
2 69 (27.17%) Azure
2 69 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.87%) React
4 50 (19.69%) JavaScript
4 50 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (18.90%) CI/CD
5 48 (18.90%) Microsoft
6 47 (18.50%) DevOps
7 45 (17.72%) Python
8 44 (17.32%) Security Cleared
9 42 (16.54%) AWS
9 42 (16.54%) Java
10 40 (15.75%) REST
11 39 (15.35%) C#
11 39 (15.35%) .NET
12 36 (14.17%) Git
13 35 (13.78%) SC Cleared
13 35 (13.78%) HTML
14 34 (13.39%) CSS
15 32 (12.60%) Oracle
15 32 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (11.81%) RESTful
17 29 (11.42%) JIRA
18 26 (10.24%) Finance
18 26 (10.24%) Docker
19 25 (9.84%) Microservices
19 25 (9.84%) Test Automation
19 25 (9.84%) PostgreSQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (5.91%) Confluence
2 12 (4.72%) Anypoint
3 9 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.97%) Mule
4 5 (1.97%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.57%) CMS
5 4 (1.57%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.18%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) Apache
8 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.39%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.39%) IIS
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.39%) Moodle
8 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.36%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (2.36%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.18%) 3ds Max
5 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Maximo
2 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.17%) Azure
2 42 (16.54%) AWS
3 22 (8.66%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.94%) GitHub
6 9 (3.54%) SaaS
7 8 (3.15%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.15%) Serverless
8 7 (2.76%) Figma
8 7 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.36%) Azure API Management
9 6 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.36%) GCP
9 6 (2.36%) OCI
9 6 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.97%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.97%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.97%) SAN
2 4 (1.57%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (1.18%) VPN
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) BGP
5 1 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.39%) FTP
5 1 (0.39%) MPLS
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.27%) Relational Database
3 17 (6.69%) MySQL
4 15 (5.91%) Power BI
5 12 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.97%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.97%) Power Query
7 5 (1.97%) Redis
8 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.79%) Big Data
9 2 (0.79%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (14.17%) Git
2 29 (11.42%) JIRA
3 14 (5.51%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.72%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.33%) GitLab
6 8 (3.15%) Selenium
7 6 (2.36%) Subversion
8 5 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.57%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.57%) Vite
10 3 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (1.18%) JUnit
10 3 (1.18%) Maven
10 3 (1.18%) Mockito
11 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.79%) JMeter
11 2 (0.79%) Moq
General
1 69 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.24%) Finance
3 23 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.12%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.12%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.76%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.97%) Law
8 4 (1.57%) Military
9 3 (1.18%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.87%) React
2 40 (15.75%) REST
3 39 (15.35%) .NET
4 35 (13.78%) HTML
5 34 (13.39%) CSS
6 30 (11.81%) RESTful
7 24 (9.45%) Web Services
8 20 (7.87%) JSON
9 19 (7.48%) XML
10 18 (7.09%) SOAP
11 17 (6.69%) Node.js
12 15 (5.91%) .NET Core
13 14 (5.51%) AngularJS
14 13 (5.12%) GraphQL
15 12 (4.72%) Spring Boot
16 11 (4.33%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (4.33%) Spring
17 10 (3.94%) Next.js
18 9 (3.54%) Hibernate
18 9 (3.54%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.15%) Algorithms
2 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.36%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (2.36%) Vector Graphics
4 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.18%) Animation
5 3 (1.18%) CMDB
5 3 (1.18%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.18%) FPGA
5 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.18%) Verilog
5 3 (1.18%) VHDL
6 2 (0.79%) NHS
6 2 (0.79%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.79%) Robotics
6 2 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.48%) Windows
2 11 (4.33%) Linux
3 6 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.97%) Debian
4 5 (1.97%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.35%) Agile
2 50 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (18.90%) CI/CD
4 47 (18.50%) DevOps
5 32 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (9.84%) Microservices
6 25 (9.84%) Test Automation
7 24 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (9.06%) Front End Development
9 22 (8.66%) Data Modelling
10 20 (7.87%) User Experience
11 18 (7.09%) API Development
11 18 (7.09%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (7.09%) Containerisation
11 18 (7.09%) Scrum
11 18 (7.09%) UX Design
11 18 (7.09%) Workflow
12 16 (6.30%) Software Engineering
13 15 (5.91%) Design Patterns
14 13 (5.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.17%) SQL
2 50 (19.69%) JavaScript
3 45 (17.72%) Python
4 42 (16.54%) Java
5 39 (15.35%) C#
6 24 (9.45%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.48%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.12%) Apex Code
9 11 (4.33%) Delphi
10 6 (2.36%) DataWeave
11 5 (1.97%) ABAP
12 4 (1.57%) C++
12 4 (1.57%) Go
12 4 (1.57%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.18%) PHP
13 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.18%) VBA
13 3 (1.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 44 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.76%) Degree
5 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.18%) OCP
6 3 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.79%) CEH
7 2 (0.79%) ECSA
7 2 (0.79%) GCFA
7 2 (0.79%) GCIA
7 2 (0.79%) GCIH
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.97%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.97%) COBIT
1 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.97%) NIST
2 4 (1.57%) QA
2 4 (1.57%) WCAG
3 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (10.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.33%) Terraform
3 7 (2.76%) CloudHub
4 5 (1.97%) Ansible
5 4 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.57%) Podman
6 2 (0.79%) Grafana
6 2 (0.79%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.60%) Oracle
3 18 (7.09%) Salesforce
4 16 (6.30%) MuleSoft
5 11 (4.33%) Adobe
6 7 (2.76%) SAP
6 7 (2.76%) Splunk
6 7 (2.76%) Virgin Media
7 6 (2.36%) Autodesk
7 6 (2.36%) IBM
7 6 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.97%) VMware
9 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.18%) Algorithmics
10 3 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.18%) Cognos
10 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.18%) Intel