Developer Contracts in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer daily rate in South London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 43 93 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 17.92% 24.09% 16.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.38% 26.12% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 72 49
10th Percentile £425 £450 £363
25th Percentile £456 £481 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £608 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +21.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £585 £856 £613
90th Percentile £732 £945 £675
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 234 356 351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.50% 92.23% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 282 270
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £776 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £38.49
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.00 £39.64
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £45.74
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -48.70% -1.47%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.46 £49.71
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +5 34 £488 - 4
Bromley -4 3 £650 +4.00%
Kingston Upon Thames -5 2 £500 -16.67% 1
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 31 (72.09%) SC Cleared
1 31 (72.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (67.44%) Java
3 23 (53.49%) AWS
4 20 (46.51%) Agile
5 19 (44.19%) Spring
6 18 (41.86%) Spring Boot
7 17 (39.53%) Microservices
8 16 (37.21%) Public Sector
9 15 (34.88%) REST
9 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
10 14 (32.56%) Scrum
11 13 (30.23%) TDD
12 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
12 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
12 12 (27.91%) Docker
13 11 (25.58%) DevOps
13 11 (25.58%) Full Stack Development
13 11 (25.58%) Serverless
13 11 (25.58%) HTML
14 10 (23.26%) Front End Development
14 10 (23.26%) React
15 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
15 9 (20.93%) CSS
15 9 (20.93%) Python
15 9 (20.93%) Git
16 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
16 8 (18.60%) BDD
16 8 (18.60%) Hibernate

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 6 (13.95%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Serverless
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.63%) Azure
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.60%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Flink
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.93%) Git
3 5 (11.63%) JUnit
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
5 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
6 1 (2.33%) Ant
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.33%) Gradle
6 1 (2.33%) Maven
6 1 (2.33%) Mockito
6 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 16 (37.21%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Back Office
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Front Office
4 1 (2.33%) Local Government
4 1 (2.33%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) Spring
2 18 (41.86%) Spring Boot
3 15 (34.88%) REST
4 11 (25.58%) HTML
5 10 (23.26%) React
6 9 (20.93%) CSS
7 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
8 7 (16.28%) JPA
8 7 (16.28%) RESTful
8 7 (16.28%) Spring Security
8 7 (16.28%) Web Services
9 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (13.95%) Node.js
10 5 (11.63%) .NET
10 5 (11.63%) Kafka
11 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
11 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
11 4 (9.30%) SOAP
12 3 (6.98%) J2EE
13 2 (4.65%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Derivative
3 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Agile
2 17 (39.53%) Microservices
3 14 (32.56%) Scrum
4 13 (30.23%) TDD
5 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.58%) DevOps
6 11 (25.58%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (23.26%) Front End Development
8 8 (18.60%) BDD
9 7 (16.28%) Kanban
9 7 (16.28%) Observability
10 4 (9.30%) High Availability
10 4 (9.30%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (6.98%) Static Code Analysis
12 2 (4.65%) Clean Code
12 2 (4.65%) Identity Access Management
12 2 (4.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.93%) Python
4 6 (13.95%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (72.09%) SC Cleared
1 31 (72.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) NEC
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk