Developer Contracts in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer daily rate in the South West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 303 448 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.56% 12.63% 14.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.25% 13.67% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 343 431
10th Percentile £313 £375 £360
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £585
90th Percentile £700 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
10th Percentile £78.75 £48.19 £45.37
25th Percentile - £50.00 £49.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile - £64.00 £62.25
90th Percentile - £72.70 £63.47
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% +20.48% +6.06%

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 2,956 3,277 3,495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.41% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,878 2,453 2,501
10th Percentile £210 £271 £225
25th Percentile £397 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +5.00% +9.14%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 261 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.68 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £63.68
90th Percentile £77.75 £83.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 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
Bristol +1 156 £405 -10.00% 85
Wiltshire -19 51 £613 +11.57% 10
Gloucestershire -1 44 £500 -16.67% 16
Devon -16 18 £650 +18.18% 28
Dorset -9 11 £438 -24.89% 19
Somerset -13 11 £450 -2.44% 30
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 9 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 85 (28.05%) JavaScript
2 68 (22.44%) Security Cleared
3 61 (20.13%) Python
4 59 (19.47%) React
5 54 (17.82%) TypeScript
6 53 (17.49%) Agile
6 53 (17.49%) SC Cleared
7 52 (17.16%) C#
8 50 (16.50%) AWS
9 49 (16.17%) .NET
10 48 (15.84%) Full Stack Development
11 46 (15.18%) Azure
12 45 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (13.86%) SQL
14 40 (13.20%) HTML
14 40 (13.20%) Power Platform
15 39 (12.87%) DevOps
16 38 (12.54%) Java
16 38 (12.54%) AngularJS
17 37 (12.21%) OO
18 36 (11.88%) Social Skills
19 34 (11.22%) OOP
20 32 (10.56%) CSS
20 32 (10.56%) Degree
21 29 (9.57%) JIRA
22 27 (8.91%) REST
22 27 (8.91%) Microsoft
22 27 (8.91%) CI/CD
23 26 (8.58%) Code Quality
24 25 (8.25%) Conversational UI

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 24 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.93%) Confluence
3 6 (1.98%) CMS
3 6 (1.98%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.66%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (7.92%) 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 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.66%) 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 50 (16.50%) AWS
2 46 (15.18%) Azure
3 40 (13.20%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.94%) Power Automate
5 12 (3.96%) GCP
5 12 (3.96%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (1.98%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.65%) GitHub
9 5 (1.65%) Serverless
10 4 (1.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.99%) Firebase
11 3 (0.99%) npm
11 3 (0.99%) SaaS
11 3 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.30%) Intranet
2 2 (0.66%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.59%) Power BI
2 14 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.64%) MySQL
4 6 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.32%) Biml
6 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.99%) CockroachDB
7 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.33%) Power Query
9 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 29 (9.57%) JIRA
2 23 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.93%) Bitbucket
4 20 (6.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.97%) Git
6 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.32%) Maven
8 3 (0.99%) GitLab
8 3 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.66%) git-flow
9 2 (0.66%) Postman
9 2 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.66%) webpack
10 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.33%) Selenium
10 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 36 (11.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (7.26%) Finance
3 18 (5.94%) Aerospace
4 12 (3.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (1.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.65%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.32%) Banking
7 4 (1.32%) Marketing
7 4 (1.32%) Military
7 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Billing
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Electronics
10 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.47%) React
2 49 (16.17%) .NET
3 40 (13.20%) HTML
4 38 (12.54%) AngularJS
5 32 (10.56%) CSS
6 27 (8.91%) REST
7 24 (7.92%) .NET Core
8 23 (7.59%) Spring
9 20 (6.60%) Node.js
10 13 (4.29%) Next.js
11 11 (3.63%) SAML
12 10 (3.30%) ASP.NET
12 10 (3.30%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.30%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.64%) React Native
14 7 (2.31%) GWT
14 7 (2.31%) JAX-RS
14 7 (2.31%) Laravel
14 7 (2.31%) Restlet
15 6 (1.98%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.97%) Mobile App
2 5 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.32%) Insider Threat
4 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (0.99%) FPGA
4 3 (0.99%) VHDL
5 2 (0.66%) IoT
5 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.33%) Derivative
6 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
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 25 (8.25%) Linux
2 11 (3.63%) Android
3 9 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.99%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Windows
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (17.49%) Agile
2 48 (15.84%) Full Stack Development
3 45 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (12.87%) DevOps
5 37 (12.21%) OO
6 34 (11.22%) OOP
7 27 (8.91%) CI/CD
8 26 (8.58%) Code Quality
9 25 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (8.25%) Conversational UI
9 25 (8.25%) Front End Development
10 24 (7.92%) Project Management
11 22 (7.26%) Configuration Management
12 21 (6.93%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (6.93%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (6.27%) Software Engineering
13 19 (6.27%) Task Automation
14 18 (5.94%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (5.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.05%) JavaScript
2 61 (20.13%) Python
3 54 (17.82%) TypeScript
4 52 (17.16%) C#
5 42 (13.86%) SQL
6 38 (12.54%) Java
7 22 (7.26%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.95%) C
9 10 (3.30%) PHP
10 5 (1.65%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.32%) Swift
12 3 (0.99%) C++
13 2 (0.66%) Bash
13 2 (0.66%) Dart
13 2 (0.66%) Go
13 2 (0.66%) PL/1
13 2 (0.66%) SOQL
14 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 68 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.56%) Degree
4 13 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) QA
2 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 11 (3.63%) Docker
2 8 (2.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (6.60%) Ansible
2 19 (6.27%) PowerCLI
3 11 (3.63%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.97%) Terraform
5 1 (0.33%) OPNET
5 1 (0.33%) Packer
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) rkt
Vendors
1 27 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.92%) PayPal
3 20 (6.60%) Atlassian
4 18 (5.94%) Dell
4 18 (5.94%) HP
5 13 (4.29%) Google
6 11 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.64%) Oracle
8 6 (1.98%) Adobe
9 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.99%) OutSystems
10 3 (0.99%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.99%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.33%) IBM
11 1 (0.33%) Marketo
11 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.33%) Pardot
11 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) SAP
11 1 (0.33%) VMware