Developer Contracts in Swindon

Developer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Developer daily rate in Swindon is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 4 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 4.21% 8.21% 15.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.65% 9.65% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 29
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile - £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile - £538 £588
90th Percentile - £563 -
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £525 £549
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.37% +12.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 86 114 210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 85.07% 99.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 73 169
10th Percentile £241 £150 £200
25th Percentile £308 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £600
90th Percentile £613 £638 £694
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £16.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +14.36% -74.81% +21.30%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Swindon

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Swindon.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Swindon

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Swindon.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Swindon

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 Swindon region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (25.00%) Camunda
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 (25.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (25.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EMV
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle