Developer Contracts in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer daily rate in the South West is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 300 476 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.47% 13.07% 14.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.15% 14.12% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 366 431
10th Percentile £311 £375 £360
25th Percentile £358 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £681 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 12
10th Percentile £78.75 £49.24 £45.37
25th Percentile - £50.04 £49.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile - £65.50 £62.25
90th Percentile - £73.09 £63.47
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,957 3,370 3,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.56% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,526 2,536
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 273 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.36
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Bristol 0 151 £400 -11.11% 77
Wiltshire -23 52 £613 +11.46% 8
Gloucestershire -5 43 £548 -8.75% 21
Devon -13 19 £650 +18.18% 28
Dorset -5 12 £438 -25.85% 16
Somerset -13 11 £450 -5.26% 34
Cornwall - 5 £388 - 5
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 88 (29.33%) JavaScript
2 72 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 61 (20.33%) React
4 60 (20.00%) Python
5 57 (19.00%) TypeScript
6 56 (18.67%) SC Cleared
7 54 (18.00%) C#
7 54 (18.00%) Agile
8 51 (17.00%) AWS
9 49 (16.33%) Full Stack Development
10 48 (16.00%) Azure
10 48 (16.00%) .NET
11 46 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (14.67%) SQL
13 39 (13.00%) HTML
13 39 (13.00%) AngularJS
14 38 (12.67%) OO
15 37 (12.33%) DevOps
15 37 (12.33%) Power Platform
16 35 (11.67%) Social Skills
16 35 (11.67%) OOP
16 35 (11.67%) Java
17 32 (10.67%) Degree
18 31 (10.33%) CSS
19 28 (9.33%) JIRA
20 27 (9.00%) SharePoint
21 26 (8.67%) CI/CD
21 26 (8.67%) Code Quality
22 25 (8.33%) Conversational UI
22 25 (8.33%) .NET Core

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 27 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.00%) Confluence
3 6 (2.00%) CMS
4 5 (1.67%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.00%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.33%) Drupal
7 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (8.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.00%) AWS
2 48 (16.00%) Azure
3 37 (12.33%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 12 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.33%) GCP
6 10 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (2.67%) Azure Storage
7 8 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.67%) Serverless
10 4 (1.33%) GitHub
10 4 (1.33%) SaaS
10 4 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.00%) Firebase
11 3 (1.00%) npm
11 3 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.00%) Intranet
2 2 (0.67%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.67%) Power BI
2 13 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.67%) MySQL
4 6 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.33%) Biml
6 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.00%) CockroachDB
7 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (9.33%) JIRA
2 23 (7.67%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.00%) Bitbucket
4 20 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (3.00%) Git
6 4 (1.33%) GitLab
6 4 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.67%) git-flow
8 2 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.67%) webpack
9 1 (0.33%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.33%) Babel
9 1 (0.33%) ESLint
9 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 35 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.67%) Finance
3 22 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.00%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.00%) Military
7 5 (1.67%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.33%) Banking
8 4 (1.33%) Law
8 4 (1.33%) Marketing
8 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.67%) Billing
9 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.33%) React
2 48 (16.00%) .NET
3 39 (13.00%) AngularJS
3 39 (13.00%) HTML
4 31 (10.33%) CSS
5 25 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 23 (7.67%) REST
7 21 (7.00%) Node.js
7 21 (7.00%) Spring
8 14 (4.67%) Next.js
9 11 (3.67%) ASP.NET
10 10 (3.33%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.00%) React Native
12 8 (2.67%) Laravel
12 8 (2.67%) SAML
12 8 (2.67%) SPFx
13 7 (2.33%) Spring Boot
14 6 (2.00%) Flask
14 6 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
14 6 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.67%) Mobile App
2 5 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (1.33%) Insider Threat
4 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.00%) FPGA
4 3 (1.00%) VHDL
5 2 (0.67%) IoT
5 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.33%) Derivative
6 1 (0.33%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.33%) PKI
6 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.00%) Linux
2 11 (3.67%) Android
3 9 (3.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.33%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (18.00%) Agile
2 49 (16.33%) Full Stack Development
3 46 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (12.67%) OO
5 37 (12.33%) DevOps
6 35 (11.67%) OOP
7 26 (8.67%) CI/CD
7 26 (8.67%) Code Quality
8 25 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (8.33%) Conversational UI
8 25 (8.33%) Project Management
9 24 (8.00%) Front End Development
10 22 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (7.33%) Configuration Management
10 22 (7.33%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (7.00%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (6.33%) Software Engineering
12 19 (6.33%) Task Automation
13 18 (6.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (5.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 88 (29.33%) JavaScript
2 60 (20.00%) Python
3 57 (19.00%) TypeScript
4 54 (18.00%) C#
5 44 (14.67%) SQL
6 35 (11.67%) Java
7 22 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.33%) C
9 11 (3.67%) PHP
10 7 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.33%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.33%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.33%) Swift
12 3 (1.00%) C++
12 3 (1.00%) Go
13 2 (0.67%) Bash
13 2 (0.67%) Dart
13 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.67%) PL/1
13 2 (0.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 72 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.67%) Degree
4 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.67%) QA
2 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.00%) WCAG
4 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (3.67%) Docker
2 8 (2.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (6.67%) Ansible
2 19 (6.33%) PowerCLI
3 11 (3.67%) Terraform
4 10 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) OPNET
6 1 (0.33%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) rkt
Vendors
1 24 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 24 (8.00%) PayPal
2 20 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 18 (6.00%) Dell
3 18 (6.00%) HP
4 10 (3.33%) Oracle
5 9 (3.00%) Google
6 7 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.00%) Adobe
8 4 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.00%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.67%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.67%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.33%) IBM
11 1 (0.33%) Marketo
11 1 (0.33%) Pardot
11 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) SAP
11 1 (0.33%) VMware
11 1 (0.33%) Zend