Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £511 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 264 266 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.85% 9.24% 8.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.62% 9.79% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 212 242
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +5.53% +10.56%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £551
90th Percentile £688 £675 £612
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £41.75 - £61.41
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -22.40% +17.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £60.00 £66.08
90th Percentile £60.50 £66.00 £66.85
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +40.00% -9.09%

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 2,487 2,718 3,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.44% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,848 2,344
10th Percentile £213 £300 £209
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 82 97
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.17 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £48.29 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £64.29
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +138.10% -13.47%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -1 169 £525 +5.00% 43
Buckinghamshire +13 71 £500 -9.09% 25
Oxfordshire +1 24 £500 +7.53% 33
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 78 (29.55%) DevOps
2 73 (27.65%) Python
3 67 (25.38%) Agile
4 60 (22.73%) Azure
5 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
5 53 (20.08%) SQL
6 52 (19.70%) SC Cleared
7 44 (16.67%) Git
8 42 (15.91%) Full Stack Development
9 41 (15.53%) Java
10 40 (15.15%) React
11 36 (13.64%) AWS
12 35 (13.26%) Microservices
12 35 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.50%) CI/CD
14 32 (12.12%) JavaScript
15 31 (11.74%) Unit Testing
16 30 (11.36%) Microsoft
16 30 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
17 29 (10.98%) Power Platform
17 29 (10.98%) C#
17 29 (10.98%) Software Engineering
18 28 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (10.61%) Serverless
19 27 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
21 25 (9.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
21 25 (9.47%) NoSQL
22 24 (9.09%) Azure Functions
23 23 (8.71%) HTML

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 (3.41%) SAS
1 9 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.14%) CMS
3 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.14%) WordPress
4 2 (0.76%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Drupal
4 2 (0.76%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.76%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) Jadu
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) Sketch
4 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.38%) Blender
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Aareon QL
2 4 (1.52%) LabWindows
3 3 (1.14%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.38%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.73%) Azure
2 36 (13.64%) AWS
3 29 (10.98%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.61%) Serverless
5 27 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (9.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 24 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 20 (7.58%) Entra ID
9 19 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.92%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.79%) GitHub
12 6 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.27%) GCP
13 5 (1.89%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.89%) SaaS
14 4 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.52%) Azure API Management
14 4 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.82%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.79%) SAN
3 4 (1.52%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.47%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.68%) Power BI
5 12 (4.55%) Oracle Database
6 11 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
7 10 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.65%) Crystal Reports
9 6 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.89%) Impala
10 5 (1.89%) MySQL
10 5 (1.89%) Tableau
11 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.52%) Big Data
11 4 (1.52%) GIS
11 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.52%) Redis
11 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (16.67%) Git
2 16 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.68%) JIRA
4 14 (5.30%) Selenium
5 13 (4.92%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.89%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.89%) Subversion
7 4 (1.52%) GitLab
8 3 (1.14%) Maven
8 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.76%) JUnit
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%) Mockito
10 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 30 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (7.95%) Finance
3 19 (7.20%) Telecoms
4 16 (6.06%) Social Skills
5 9 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.27%) Local Government
7 6 (2.27%) Marketing
7 6 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.89%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Law
9 4 (1.52%) Police
10 3 (1.14%) Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.15%) React
2 23 (8.71%) HTML
3 20 (7.58%) CSS
4 19 (7.20%) .NET
5 17 (6.44%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.44%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.06%) Kafka
6 16 (6.06%) REST
7 14 (5.30%) Spring
8 13 (4.92%) Node.js
9 11 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 10 (3.79%) Django
11 7 (2.65%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.65%) XML
12 6 (2.27%) Celery
12 6 (2.27%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.27%) Web Services
13 5 (1.89%) Java EE
13 5 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.55%) Robotics
3 6 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.89%) Housing Association
5 4 (1.52%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.76%) Animation
6 2 (0.76%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.76%) IoT
6 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.76%) NHS
6 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.38%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.38%) Life Science
7 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.33%) Linux
2 12 (4.55%) Debian
2 12 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.52%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.55%) DevOps
2 67 (25.38%) Agile
3 42 (15.91%) Full Stack Development
4 35 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (13.26%) Microservices
5 33 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 31 (11.74%) Unit Testing
7 29 (10.98%) Software Engineering
8 21 (7.95%) Data Modelling
8 21 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (7.58%) SDLC
10 19 (7.20%) Analytics
10 19 (7.20%) Test Automation
10 19 (7.20%) User Experience
11 18 (6.82%) Data Engineering
12 17 (6.44%) TDD
13 16 (6.06%) Architectural Design
13 16 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (5.68%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.65%) Python
2 53 (20.08%) SQL
3 41 (15.53%) Java
4 32 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.98%) C#
6 17 (6.44%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.79%) Scala
8 9 (3.41%) C
9 8 (3.03%) PHP
9 8 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.14%) Ruby
13 2 (0.76%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) ABAP
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) VBA
14 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 52 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.17%) Degree
4 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) IFRS
3 2 (0.76%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.38%) PMO
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.17%) Ansible
3 6 (2.27%) Terraform
4 4 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.52%) Podman
5 2 (0.76%) Control-M
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.71%) Oracle
3 17 (6.44%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.06%) VMware
5 14 (5.30%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.65%) Google
6 7 (2.65%) IFS
7 6 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.89%) Aareon
9 4 (1.52%) Informatica
9 4 (1.52%) Remedy
9 4 (1.52%) SAP
9 4 (1.52%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.14%) Adobe
11 2 (0.76%) Atmel
12 1 (0.38%) Apple
12 1 (0.38%) Avaloq
12 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.38%) Facebook
12 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud