Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 261 285 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.88% 10.10% 8.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 10.68% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 229 239
10th Percentile £363 £363 £358
25th Percentile £428 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £645 £608
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £41.75 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - -
75th Percentile £51.88 - -
90th Percentile £60.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -15.85% +43.59% -2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,451 2,669 3,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.54% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,849 2,251
10th Percentile £205 £304 £200
25th Percentile £363 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 77 98
10th Percentile £15.63 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £23.25
90th Percentile £85.49 £79.19 £55.71
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire -2 175 £525 +2.44% 38
Buckinghamshire +9 65 £511 -7.09% 35
Oxfordshire +1 21 £525 +5.00% 20
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 10 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 Thames Valley region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 86 (32.95%) DevOps
2 72 (27.59%) Agile
3 68 (26.05%) Python
4 63 (24.14%) Azure
5 61 (23.37%) Security Cleared
6 60 (22.99%) SC Cleared
7 54 (20.69%) SQL
8 44 (16.86%) Git
9 40 (15.33%) AWS
9 40 (15.33%) Full Stack Development
10 37 (14.18%) Microsoft
11 36 (13.79%) React
12 35 (13.41%) Microservices
12 35 (13.41%) Java
13 34 (13.03%) C#
13 34 (13.03%) Unit Testing
13 34 (13.03%) CI/CD
14 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (12.64%) JavaScript
15 32 (12.26%) Software Engineering
16 29 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
16 29 (11.11%) Power Platform
16 29 (11.11%) Serverless
17 28 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
17 28 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
18 27 (10.34%) Oracle
18 27 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
19 25 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (9.58%) Linux
20 24 (9.20%) NoSQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (3.45%) SAS
1 9 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.53%) CMS
2 4 (1.53%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.15%) WordPress
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) Drupal
4 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.77%) Jadu
4 2 (0.77%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Sketch
4 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.38%) Blender
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Aareon QL
2 4 (1.53%) LabWindows
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.38%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (24.14%) Azure
2 40 (15.33%) AWS
3 29 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 29 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 29 (11.11%) Serverless
4 27 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (8.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (8.81%) Azure Functions
7 19 (7.28%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.36%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.83%) GitHub
10 7 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.68%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.68%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.30%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.30%) PaaS
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.43%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.98%) SAN
3 4 (1.53%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.20%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.13%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.75%) Oracle Database
4 15 (5.75%) Power BI
5 14 (5.36%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (4.60%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.53%) GIS
9 4 (1.53%) MySQL
9 4 (1.53%) Redis
9 4 (1.53%) Tableau
10 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.77%) Power Query
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (16.86%) Git
2 16 (6.13%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.60%) JIRA
5 10 (3.83%) Selenium
6 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.92%) Subversion
7 4 (1.53%) GitLab
8 3 (1.15%) JUnit
8 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.77%) Postman
10 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.38%) JMeter
10 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.38%) Maven
10 1 (0.38%) Mockito
10 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 28 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (6.51%) Finance
2 17 (6.51%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.60%) Telecoms
4 8 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.30%) Local Government
7 5 (1.92%) Marketing
8 4 (1.53%) Law
8 4 (1.53%) Police
9 3 (1.15%) Retail
10 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.79%) React
2 23 (8.81%) HTML
3 22 (8.43%) .NET
4 21 (8.05%) CSS
5 19 (7.28%) AngularJS
5 19 (7.28%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.90%) REST
7 14 (5.36%) Kafka
7 14 (5.36%) Spring
8 12 (4.60%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.60%) Node.js
9 10 (3.83%) Django
10 8 (3.07%) ARM Templates
10 8 (3.07%) Web Services
11 7 (2.68%) GraphQL
11 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.68%) SOAP
11 7 (2.68%) XML
12 6 (2.30%) Celery
12 6 (2.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.60%) Robotics
3 6 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.92%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.77%) Animation
6 2 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.77%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.77%) IoT
6 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.77%) NHS
7 1 (0.38%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.38%) Life Science
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.38%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.58%) Linux
2 16 (6.13%) Ubuntu
3 15 (5.75%) Debian
4 4 (1.53%) Windows
4 4 (1.53%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.15%) Android
5 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.95%) DevOps
2 72 (27.59%) Agile
3 40 (15.33%) Full Stack Development
4 35 (13.41%) Microservices
5 34 (13.03%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.03%) Unit Testing
6 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (12.26%) Software Engineering
8 22 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (8.05%) TDD
10 20 (7.66%) Data Modelling
10 20 (7.66%) Scrum
10 20 (7.66%) SDLC
11 19 (7.28%) Architectural Design
11 19 (7.28%) Test Automation
11 19 (7.28%) User Experience
12 18 (6.90%) Analytics
12 18 (6.90%) Migration
12 18 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (6.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.05%) Python
2 54 (20.69%) SQL
3 35 (13.41%) Java
4 34 (13.03%) C#
5 33 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.66%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.83%) PHP
8 9 (3.45%) C
8 9 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.07%) Scala
10 6 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.15%) Ruby
11 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.77%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) ABAP
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 60 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.83%) Degree
4 8 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.83%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) IFRS
4 2 (0.77%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.60%) Ansible
3 6 (2.30%) Terraform
4 4 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.53%) Podman
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.34%) Oracle
3 20 (7.66%) VMware
4 17 (6.51%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.68%) IFS
7 6 (2.30%) Google
8 5 (1.92%) Aareon
8 5 (1.92%) Remedy
8 5 (1.92%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.53%) Adobe
9 4 (1.53%) Informatica
9 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.53%) SAP
10 2 (0.77%) Atmel
11 1 (0.38%) Apple
11 1 (0.38%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.38%) Splunk