Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in South London

Backend Developer
London > South London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in South London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.03% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
London median daily rate £525 £409 £650
% change year-on-year +28.36% -37.08% +7.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 187 206 257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.71% 96.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 131 192
10th Percentile £255 £225 £159
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £709 £725 £673
London median daily rate £543 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -1.36% -3.38% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £17.98 - £13.16
25th Percentile £27.08 £17.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £58.74 £19.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +201.21% -55.51% -0.62%
75th Percentile £73.21 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £61.41 £67.50
London median hourly rate £26.89 £36.80 £38.08
% change year-on-year -26.93% -3.35% +18.99%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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 South London.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in South London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in South London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Croydon - 1 £500 - 1
Backend Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 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 South London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI