Developer Contracts in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer daily rate in the South East is £480 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 12 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 519 610 828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 9.33% 10.45% 10.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.07% 11.07% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 452 574
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £736 £631
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 26
10th Percentile £40.63 £52.00 £20.30
25th Percentile £48.40 £56.80 £41.34
Median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +35.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.66
90th Percentile £82.23 - £67.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +8.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 5,153 5,511 7,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.43% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,838 5,032
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 242 335
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +2 269 £514 -2.14% 109
Berkshire -2 180 £514 +2.75% 48
Surrey +16 91 £450 -10.00% 44
Hampshire -17 79 £475 -9.31% 55
Buckinghamshire +11 71 £511 -7.09% 33
West Sussex +1 33 £412 -4.02% 21
Oxfordshire -3 18 £525 +5.00% 28
East Sussex +3 17 £350 -22.22% 14
Kent +7 15 £485 +12.46% 28
Sussex - 8 £400 - 6
Middlesex -10 3 £325 -67.50% 1
Home Counties +4 1 £475 +14.46%
Developer
England

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

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 East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 147 (28.32%) Agile
2 120 (23.12%) Security Cleared
3 118 (22.74%) SQL
4 111 (21.39%) SC Cleared
5 103 (19.85%) Azure
6 99 (19.08%) DevOps
7 84 (16.18%) C#
8 82 (15.80%) JavaScript
9 73 (14.07%) Full Stack Development
10 72 (13.87%) Git
11 71 (13.68%) Python
12 64 (12.33%) Java
13 63 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (11.95%) Microsoft
15 61 (11.75%) Software Engineering
16 60 (11.56%) AWS
17 59 (11.37%) .NET
18 55 (10.60%) Linux
19 54 (10.40%) Social Skills
20 53 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
21 51 (9.83%) Power Platform
22 50 (9.63%) HTML
23 48 (9.25%) CSS
23 48 (9.25%) Microservices
24 47 (9.06%) AngularJS
24 47 (9.06%) Oracle
24 47 (9.06%) Scrum
25 43 (8.29%) Public Sector
26 41 (7.90%) Migration
27 40 (7.71%) React

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (2.50%) SAS
1 13 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.93%) Drupal
3 8 (1.54%) Apache
4 7 (1.35%) Confluence
5 6 (1.16%) CMS
5 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.77%) CICS
6 4 (0.77%) Moodle
6 4 (0.77%) WordPress
7 3 (0.58%) Jadu
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.39%) FileNet
8 2 (0.39%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Kentico
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.19%) Blender
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.19%) Simulink
3 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Aareon QL
2 4 (0.77%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.85%) Azure
2 60 (11.56%) AWS
3 51 (9.83%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (5.78%) Serverless
6 24 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (4.24%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.05%) Azure Functions
9 19 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 14 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.70%) GitHub
10 14 (2.70%) PowerApps
10 14 (2.70%) SaaS
11 12 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.08%) SAN
3 5 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.77%) RS-232
5 3 (0.58%) HTTP
5 3 (0.58%) Link 16
5 3 (0.58%) Tactical Data Link
6 2 (0.39%) SNMP
6 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.39%) Power BI
4 25 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.85%) MySQL
6 19 (3.66%) Oracle Database
7 18 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 15 (2.89%) Oracle Database 11g
10 11 (2.12%) Redis
11 10 (1.93%) Couchbase
12 9 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.54%) GIS
13 8 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.35%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (1.35%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.16%) Tableau
16 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (13.87%) Git
2 27 (5.20%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.01%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.05%) JIRA
5 12 (2.31%) GitLab
6 11 (2.12%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.35%) Selenium
8 6 (1.16%) JUnit
9 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.96%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.96%) Subversion
10 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.39%) GoogleTest
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 54 (10.40%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.29%) Public Sector
3 39 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (7.51%) Finance
4 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
5 10 (1.93%) Billing
6 8 (1.54%) Marketing
7 7 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.16%) Local Government
9 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.77%) Law
9 4 (0.77%) Police
9 4 (0.77%) Retail
10 3 (0.58%) Advertising
10 3 (0.58%) Banking
10 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.58%) Music Industry
11 2 (0.39%) Military
11 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.37%) .NET
2 50 (9.63%) HTML
3 48 (9.25%) CSS
4 47 (9.06%) AngularJS
5 40 (7.71%) React
6 30 (5.78%) Node.js
7 29 (5.59%) REST
8 28 (5.39%) ASP.NET
9 27 (5.20%) Spring
10 24 (4.62%) Kafka
11 22 (4.24%) Spring Boot
12 20 (3.85%) Web Services
13 18 (3.47%) RESTful
14 13 (2.50%) .NET Core
15 12 (2.31%) Web Dynpro
16 11 (2.12%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (1.93%) JSON
17 10 (1.93%) SOAP
17 10 (1.93%) XML
18 9 (1.73%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.08%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.31%) Robotics
3 9 (1.73%) CCTV
3 9 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (0.96%) Housing Association
5 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.77%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (0.77%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.39%) Animation
8 2 (0.39%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.39%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.39%) IoT
8 2 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.39%) NHS
8 2 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.60%) Linux
2 19 (3.66%) Ubuntu
3 18 (3.47%) Debian
4 14 (2.70%) Windows
5 10 (1.93%) Unix
6 7 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) zOS
8 3 (0.58%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (28.32%) Agile
2 99 (19.08%) DevOps
3 73 (14.07%) Full Stack Development
4 63 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (11.75%) Software Engineering
6 48 (9.25%) Microservices
7 47 (9.06%) Scrum
8 41 (7.90%) Migration
9 37 (7.13%) TDD
10 35 (6.74%) Unit Testing
11 34 (6.55%) CI/CD
12 33 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (6.17%) Data Modelling
14 31 (5.97%) Data Migration
15 27 (5.20%) Analytics
16 24 (4.62%) User Experience
17 23 (4.43%) Clean Code
18 21 (4.05%) Architectural Design
18 21 (4.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 118 (22.74%) SQL
2 84 (16.18%) C#
3 82 (15.80%) JavaScript
4 71 (13.68%) Python
5 64 (12.33%) Java
6 39 (7.51%) PL/SQL
7 31 (5.97%) PHP
8 26 (5.01%) C++
9 24 (4.62%) C
10 21 (4.05%) TypeScript
11 19 (3.66%) PowerShell
12 15 (2.89%) ABAP
13 14 (2.70%) T-SQL
14 11 (2.12%) Scala
15 9 (1.73%) ProC
16 7 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.16%) Go
17 6 (1.16%) VB
18 5 (0.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 120 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 111 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.50%) Degree
3 13 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.70%) QA
2 8 (1.54%) ISO 9001
2 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.62%) Docker
2 15 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.85%) Ansible
3 8 (1.54%) Terraform
4 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (0.77%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.06%) Oracle
3 23 (4.43%) VMware
4 22 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.66%) SAP
7 17 (3.28%) Adobe
8 14 (2.70%) Guidewire
9 8 (1.54%) Informatica
10 7 (1.35%) IBM
10 7 (1.35%) IFS
11 6 (1.16%) Workday
12 5 (0.96%) Aareon
12 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.96%) Google
12 5 (0.96%) Remedy
12 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.96%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.77%) Snow
13 4 (0.77%) Syncsort