Developer Contracts in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer daily rate in South London is £925, 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 10 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 27 45 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 18.60% 23.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.79% 19.07% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 69
10th Percentile £449 £425 £452
25th Percentile £470 £449 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +85.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £938 £575 £850
90th Percentile - £727 £910
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in South London

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 Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bromley -1 8 £738 +13.46% 4
Croydon -13 8 £473 -2.58% 3
Developer
London

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

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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 17 (62.96%) Python
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
1 17 (62.96%) Banking
2 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (48.15%) Front Office
4 11 (40.74%) Java
5 10 (37.04%) OO
5 10 (37.04%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (29.63%) Agile
6 8 (29.63%) AWS
6 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
7 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
7 7 (25.93%) Design Patterns
7 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 7 (25.93%) Docker
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
7 7 (25.93%) Spring
7 7 (25.93%) XML
8 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
9 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
9 5 (18.52%) High Availability
9 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
9 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
9 5 (18.52%) HTML
9 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
9 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (18.52%) TDD
9 5 (18.52%) Public Sector

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 2 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Camunda
1 2 (7.41%) Jupyter
1 2 (7.41%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.81%) Redis
3 2 (7.41%) GIS
3 2 (7.41%) Impala
3 2 (7.41%) KDB
3 2 (7.41%) Kdb+
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.41%) JMeter
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.70%) NUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Subversion
5 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 17 (62.96%) Banking
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (48.15%) Front Office
4 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Spring
1 7 (25.93%) XML
2 5 (18.52%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) REST
3 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.11%) JSON
4 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 3 (11.11%) Swing
5 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
5 2 (7.41%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.41%) jQuery
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 2 (7.41%) pytest
5 2 (7.41%) React
5 2 (7.41%) Rendezvous
5 2 (7.41%) Web Services
5 2 (7.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (11.11%) Fixed Income
4 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Equities
4 2 (7.41%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) OO
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
3 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
3 7 (25.93%) Design Patterns
3 7 (25.93%) Microservices
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (18.52%) High Availability
4 5 (18.52%) TDD
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Investment Management
5 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) CQRS
6 3 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Istio
2 2 (7.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
1 2 (7.41%) IBM
1 2 (7.41%) Splunk
1 2 (7.41%) Sybase
1 2 (7.41%) TIBCO
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle