Developer Contracts in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer daily rate in the South West is £442, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 128 310 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.23% 9.45% 10.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 10.22% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 224 279
10th Percentile £355 £313 £363
25th Percentile £372 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £588
90th Percentile £619 £689 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 14
10th Percentile £22.30 £36.63 £50.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £62.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +24.44% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £63.31
90th Percentile - - £73.85
England median hourly rate £40.30 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -38.01% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,592 3,034 3,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 92.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,911 2,341
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £373 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 459 263
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.86 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.78 £27.75 £44.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £55.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% -11.20% +29.48%
75th Percentile £67.63 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile £72.63 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Bristol -14 52 £400 -5.88% 160
Dorset +11 23 £475 +8.57% 48
Wiltshire 0 18 £606 +15.48% 47
Devon +6 15 £450 -5.26% 78
Gloucestershire -5 11 £500 +5.26% 186
Somerset -8 5 £413 -8.33% 132
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 42 (32.81%) Azure
2 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.47%) Agile
3 38 (29.69%) AWS
4 36 (28.13%) JavaScript
5 32 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 31 (24.22%) Python
7 29 (22.66%) SQL
8 27 (21.09%) C#
8 27 (21.09%) Public Sector
9 26 (20.31%) Social Skills
9 26 (20.31%) DevOps
10 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (17.97%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (16.41%) Finance
13 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
13 20 (15.63%) HTML
13 20 (15.63%) .NET
13 20 (15.63%) CI/CD
14 19 (14.84%) CSS
14 19 (14.84%) Microsoft
14 19 (14.84%) TDD
14 19 (14.84%) Test Automation
15 18 (14.06%) Terraform
15 18 (14.06%) Serverless
16 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
18 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
19 14 (10.94%) User Experience
19 14 (10.94%) Marketing

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.34%) Camunda
3 2 (1.56%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Moodle
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.56%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) BASE24
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.81%) Azure
2 38 (29.69%) AWS
3 18 (14.06%) Serverless
4 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.59%) GitHub
6 10 (7.81%) GCP
7 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (4.69%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.69%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.91%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.56%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) Power BI
2 11 (8.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.34%) GIS
6 3 (2.34%) Power Query
7 2 (1.56%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.56%) MySQL
7 2 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.56%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Looker
8 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) JIRA
3 6 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.34%) GitLab
5 2 (1.56%) JUnit
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.78%) Ant
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.78%) VersaTest
General
1 27 (21.09%) Public Sector
2 26 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.41%) Finance
4 14 (10.94%) Marketing
5 11 (8.59%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.81%) Electronics
6 10 (7.81%) Telecoms
7 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
8 2 (1.56%) Military
8 2 (1.56%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.78%) Aviation
9 1 (0.78%) Billing
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.63%) .NET
1 20 (15.63%) HTML
2 19 (14.84%) CSS
3 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
4 11 (8.59%) React
5 10 (7.81%) Node.js
6 8 (6.25%) AWS CDK
7 7 (5.47%) OpenID
7 7 (5.47%) REST
8 6 (4.69%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.69%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.91%) ARM Templates
9 5 (3.91%) XML
10 4 (3.13%) jQuery
10 4 (3.13%) RESTful
10 4 (3.13%) Spring
11 3 (2.34%) Django
11 3 (2.34%) JSON
11 3 (2.34%) Kafka
11 3 (2.34%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.03%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.56%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.56%) EMV
5 2 (1.56%) PKI
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) FMCG
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Windows
2 2 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.47%) Agile
2 26 (20.31%) DevOps
3 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (17.97%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (15.63%) CI/CD
5 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
6 19 (14.84%) TDD
6 19 (14.84%) Test Automation
7 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (10.94%) User Experience
8 14 (10.94%) Web Development
9 12 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.59%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (7.81%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (7.81%) ETL
11 10 (7.81%) Programme Management
11 10 (7.81%) SOLID
12 9 (7.03%) BDD
13 8 (6.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) JavaScript
2 31 (24.22%) Python
3 29 (22.66%) SQL
4 27 (21.09%) C#
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.25%) Java
7 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.34%) Ada
8 3 (2.34%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.34%) C++
8 3 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.56%) COBOL
9 2 (1.56%) Go
9 2 (1.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) Bash
10 1 (0.78%) Dart
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) Degree
3 10 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) Def Stans
2 3 (2.34%) IEC 61508
2 3 (2.34%) MISRA
2 3 (2.34%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 13 (10.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (14.06%) Terraform
2 9 (7.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.69%) MIIS
4 3 (2.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) SAP
3 11 (8.59%) Oracle
4 7 (5.47%) Google
4 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.69%) IFS
5 6 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.56%) Ariba
7 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.56%) ESRI
7 2 (1.56%) HP
7 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.78%) Dell
8 1 (0.78%) Genesys
8 1 (0.78%) Pardot
8 1 (0.78%) webMethods