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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 43 91 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 17.84% 23.45% 16.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.30% 25.35% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 69 50
10th Percentile £425 £452 £363
25th Percentile £449 £481 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £850 £638
90th Percentile £727 £910 £681
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 235 359 356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.51% 92.53% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 282 274
10th Percentile £247 £213 £233
25th Percentile £413 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +1.98%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £632 £773 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.13 £39.43
25th Percentile £20.25 £19.06 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.09% +1.31%
75th Percentile £77.19 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.08
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +3 33 £485 -0.51% 6
Bromley -4 3 £650 +4.00% 1
Kingston Upon Thames -5 2 £500 -16.67% 2
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
1 30 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (65.12%) Java
3 21 (48.84%) AWS
4 19 (44.19%) Agile
5 17 (39.53%) Spring
6 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
7 15 (34.88%) Microservices
8 14 (32.56%) Public Sector
8 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
9 13 (30.23%) Scrum
9 13 (30.23%) REST
9 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
10 12 (27.91%) HTML
11 11 (25.58%) TDD
11 11 (25.58%) React
12 10 (23.26%) Front End Development
12 10 (23.26%) Docker
12 10 (23.26%) DevOps
12 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (23.26%) CSS
12 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
13 9 (20.93%) Python
13 9 (20.93%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (20.93%) Serverless
14 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
14 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
15 7 (16.28%) Git
15 7 (16.28%) JPA
15 7 (16.28%) Spring Security

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 4 (9.30%) 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 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Serverless
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
4 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (13.95%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (13.95%) Azure
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
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 Service Bus
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
3 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.65%) Redis
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.33%) Flink
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.28%) Git
3 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 3 (6.98%) JUnit
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 14 (32.56%) 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 17 (39.53%) Spring
2 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
3 13 (30.23%) REST
4 12 (27.91%) HTML
5 11 (25.58%) React
6 10 (23.26%) CSS
7 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
8 7 (16.28%) JPA
8 7 (16.28%) Spring Security
9 6 (13.95%) .NET
10 5 (11.63%) .NET Core
10 5 (11.63%) Kafka
10 5 (11.63%) RESTful
10 5 (11.63%) Web Services
11 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (9.30%) Node.js
12 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
12 2 (4.65%) Guice
12 2 (4.65%) OAuth
12 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile Payment
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%) 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 19 (44.19%) Agile
2 15 (34.88%) Microservices
3 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.23%) Scrum
4 11 (25.58%) TDD
5 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Front End Development
6 9 (20.93%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (16.28%) Observability
8 6 (13.95%) BDD
9 5 (11.63%) Kanban
10 4 (9.30%) High Availability
10 4 (9.30%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.98%) ETL
11 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (6.98%) Static Code Analysis
12 2 (4.65%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Java
2 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.93%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) SQL
5 4 (9.30%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) Bicep
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
1 30 (69.77%) 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 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) NEC
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk