Backend Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 423 432
Rank change year-on-year +58 +9 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 26 38 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 46
10th Percentile £325 £350 £328
25th Percentile £400 £412 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £519 £441
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +17.56% +6.97%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £475
90th Percentile £550 £737 £571
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Scotland - 9 £398 - 4
North of England +17 7 £475 -7.32% 10
South East +10 7 £550 -20.72% 2
North West +4 4 £425 -10.53% 5
Midlands +25 2 - - 4
South West +23 2 £425 -32.00%
Yorkshire +22 2 £600 +14.29% 4
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Backend Developer
UK

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Backend 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 UK excluding London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) RESTful
3 11 (42.31%) AWS
4 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 7 (26.92%) Microservices
6 6 (23.08%) Python
7 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
7 5 (19.23%) Web Services
7 5 (19.23%) Scala
7 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
7 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (19.23%) Kotlin
7 5 (19.23%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) Prototyping
8 4 (15.38%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (15.38%) Data Structures
8 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
8 4 (15.38%) Azure
8 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
8 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) VMware
8 4 (15.38%) Spring

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (11.54%) CMS
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) SAN
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 1 (3.85%) Banking
1 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
1 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
1 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) RESTful
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth2
4 3 (11.54%) OpenID
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Sling
5 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) NestJS
5 2 (7.69%) OSGi
5 2 (7.69%) React
5 2 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.85%) DOM
6 1 (3.85%) Next.js
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js
6 1 (3.85%) OpenTracing
6 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Debian
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
4 5 (19.23%) SDLC
5 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) Matrix Organization
5 4 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 4 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (11.54%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (11.54%) Release Management
6 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (7.69%) OOP
8 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Kotlin
3 5 (19.23%) Scala
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle