Junior Developer Contracts in the South West

Junior Developer
England > South West

The median Junior Developer daily rate in the South West is £280, 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 110 - 161
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +94.44%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £274 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -26.93% +7.14% +16.67%

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 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the South West 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
Dorset - 1 £280 -
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Junior 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle