fastlane Contract Job Trends in the South East

fastlane
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring fastlane skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing fastlane 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.037% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £413 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.46%

All Development Application Skills
South East

fastlane falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 562 372 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.49% 12.66% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 215 348
10th Percentile £286 £350 £338
25th Percentile £363 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 33
10th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £51.11 £55.00
Median hourly rate £85.79 £59.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.10% -5.40% +11.14%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.22
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing fastlane relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

fastlane job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing fastlane.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing fastlane

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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 fastlane within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Surrey - 2 £413 -
fastlane
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Firebase
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (50.00%) Android SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Core Data
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
2 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Google