Low-Code Contract Job Trends in the South East

Low-Code
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low-Code over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 156 203
Rank change year-on-year -48 +47 +21
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.035% 0.23% 0.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.69% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £495 £394
25th Percentile £588 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +2.33% -12.60%
75th Percentile £663 £575 £641
90th Percentile - £680 £691
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
South East

Low-Code falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,704 1,008 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.97% 33.63% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 632 938
10th Percentile £250 £206 £205
25th Percentile £394 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +0.85% -3.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% -0.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 59 155
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.95 £11.74
25th Percentile £25.72 £23.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% -23.53% -6.59%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.00 £61.30
90th Percentile - £85.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.75
% change year-on-year +26.47% +29.53% +23.42%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Low-Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Low-Code
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low-Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low-Code

Low-Code
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low-Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low-Code

Low-Code
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 Low-Code within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Berkshire -34 1 - -
Thames Valley -57 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £625 -
Low-Code
England

Low-Code
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) iPaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Product Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) BPMN
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision Table
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Management
2 1 (50.00%) RAD
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath