Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,362 3,061 4,141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.36% 12.56% 13.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.26% 13.35% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,671 2,360 3,089
10th Percentile £306 £360 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 63 69
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.80 £25.15
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £43.95
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +10.09% +28.99%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £67.76
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +22.22%

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 19,271 22,924 30,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,866 16,072 21,068
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £573
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 2,189 1,202 1,498
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +5 703 £450 -10.00% 521
South East -2 514 £475 -9.52% 305
North West +3 390 £453 -6.92% 333
Midlands +5 322 £418 -7.22% 294
South West -4 306 £438 -16.67% 177
Scotland -1 301 £458 -4.33% 124
Yorkshire +5 275 £463 -11.90% 149
West Midlands +6 223 £425 -10.53% 186
East of England +6 137 £430 -11.11% 139
East Midlands +1 97 £400 -6.98% 107
Wales +2 79 £450 - 62
North East +3 51 £500 - 49
Northern Ireland -6 14 £500 +25.00% 26
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 558 (23.62%) SQL
2 517 (21.89%) Agile
3 493 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 413 (17.49%) Java
5 401 (16.98%) Python
6 385 (16.30%) AWS
7 361 (15.28%) C#
8 327 (13.84%) Security Cleared
9 321 (13.59%) Azure
10 315 (13.34%) HTML
11 308 (13.04%) React
12 291 (12.32%) .NET
13 285 (12.07%) Software Engineering
14 281 (11.90%) Degree
15 278 (11.77%) Social Skills
16 273 (11.56%) Full Stack Development
17 270 (11.43%) SC Cleared
18 265 (11.22%) DevOps
19 260 (11.01%) Code Quality
20 256 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
21 251 (10.63%) TypeScript
22 236 (9.99%) Problem-Solving
23 220 (9.31%) CI/CD
24 218 (9.23%) Conversational UI
25 217 (9.19%) Chatbot
26 216 (9.14%) PayPal
27 207 (8.76%) CSS
28 204 (8.64%) Public Sector
29 196 (8.30%) Microservices
30 193 (8.17%) Git

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 68 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.12%) Confluence
3 36 (1.52%) CMS
4 24 (1.02%) SAS
5 23 (0.97%) Apache
6 21 (0.89%) Drupal
7 20 (0.85%) Umbraco
8 18 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 18 (0.76%) WordPress
9 12 (0.51%) CICS
10 11 (0.47%) ColdFusion
11 10 (0.42%) IIS
12 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.25%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
15 4 (0.17%) Moodle
15 4 (0.17%) Mule
15 4 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 217 (9.19%) Chatbot
2 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.042%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.042%) Blender
5 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.042%) Simulink
5 1 (0.042%) Sketch
5 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.25%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 5 (0.21%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Odoo
3 5 (0.21%) Shopify
4 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.17%) Magento
4 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
5 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
6 2 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.085%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.042%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 385 (16.30%) AWS
2 321 (13.59%) Azure
3 176 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 101 (4.28%) Serverless
5 99 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (3.05%) Power Automate
7 60 (2.54%) GitHub
8 57 (2.41%) Amazon S3
9 48 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.03%) PowerApps
10 47 (1.99%) SaaS
11 44 (1.86%) GCP
12 38 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 33 (1.40%) Azure Functions
14 31 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 21 (0.89%) SAN
3 16 (0.68%) Intranet
4 14 (0.59%) 5G
4 14 (0.59%) HTTP
5 11 (0.47%) SSL
6 10 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.30%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.21%) 4G
9 5 (0.21%) Firewall
9 5 (0.21%) NAS
9 5 (0.21%) Tactical Data Link
9 5 (0.21%) VPN
10 4 (0.17%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.17%) RS-232
10 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.13%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.08%) Power BI
3 116 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 67 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 63 (2.67%) MySQL
6 58 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 54 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 50 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 45 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 29 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (0.93%) Redis
13 21 (0.89%) GIS
14 20 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
15 19 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.80%) DB2
16 18 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
16 18 (0.76%) Tableau
17 17 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 193 (8.17%) Git
2 125 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 105 (4.45%) JIRA
4 43 (1.82%) JUnit
5 41 (1.74%) GitLab
6 34 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 33 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 26 (1.10%) Mockito
9 25 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 22 (0.93%) Postman
11 21 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
13 18 (0.76%) Android Studio
14 16 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
15 15 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
16 14 (0.59%) Maven
16 14 (0.59%) Subversion
16 14 (0.59%) webpack
17 11 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 278 (11.77%) Social Skills
2 204 (8.64%) Public Sector
3 168 (7.11%) Finance
4 111 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (1.69%) Banking
6 30 (1.27%) Retail
7 27 (1.14%) Marketing
8 26 (1.10%) Telecoms
9 23 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 22 (0.93%) Law
11 18 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (0.64%) Billing
13 15 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.51%) Local Government
15 11 (0.47%) Military
16 10 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.38%) Automotive
17 9 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (13.34%) HTML
2 308 (13.04%) React
3 291 (12.32%) .NET
4 207 (8.76%) CSS
5 190 (8.04%) Spring
6 183 (7.75%) AngularJS
7 177 (7.49%) REST
8 159 (6.73%) Node.js
9 141 (5.97%) Spring Boot
10 133 (5.63%) RESTful
11 79 (3.34%) Web Services
12 73 (3.09%) .NET Core
13 72 (3.05%) Kafka
14 62 (2.62%) ASP.NET
15 56 (2.37%) Vue
16 53 (2.24%) GraphQL
17 48 (2.03%) XML
18 46 (1.95%) .NET Framework
19 41 (1.74%) JSON
19 41 (1.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (2.58%) Product Ownership
2 43 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 40 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 38 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 26 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 20 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 16 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.64%) Onboarding
12 14 (0.59%) Mainframe
12 14 (0.59%) NHS
13 13 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.51%) CMDB
14 12 (0.51%) IBM Mainframe
14 12 (0.51%) Robotics
14 12 (0.51%) Wiki
15 11 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.31%) Linux
2 67 (2.84%) Unix
3 64 (2.71%) Android
4 47 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 36 (1.52%) Windows
6 26 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.06%) Debian
8 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.47%) zOS
9 7 (0.30%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.085%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.042%) AIX
12 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.042%) VMS
12 1 (0.042%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (21.89%) Agile
2 285 (12.07%) Software Engineering
3 273 (11.56%) Full Stack Development
4 265 (11.22%) DevOps
5 260 (11.01%) Code Quality
6 256 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
7 236 (9.99%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 218 (9.23%) Conversational UI
10 196 (8.30%) Microservices
11 142 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
11 142 (6.01%) Scrum
12 139 (5.88%) Unit Testing
13 135 (5.72%) TDD
14 119 (5.04%) Front End Development
15 110 (4.66%) Data Modelling
16 107 (4.53%) Analytics
17 104 (4.40%) Test Automation
17 104 (4.40%) User Experience
18 100 (4.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 558 (23.62%) SQL
2 493 (20.87%) JavaScript
3 413 (17.49%) Java
4 401 (16.98%) Python
5 361 (15.28%) C#
6 251 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 103 (4.36%) PHP
8 100 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 69 (2.92%) C
10 62 (2.62%) C++
11 52 (2.20%) PowerShell
12 50 (2.12%) Scala
13 49 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 39 (1.65%) Bash
15 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
16 31 (1.31%) ABAP
17 30 (1.27%) Go
18 26 (1.10%) Swift
19 25 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 23 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 327 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 281 (11.90%) Degree
3 270 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 34 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.085%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.085%) PMP
11 1 (0.042%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.042%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.042%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.042%) RHCE
11 1 (0.042%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.042%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (2.84%) QA
2 52 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.93%) HL7
4 20 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 12 (0.51%) GDPR
7 7 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.30%) WCAG
8 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.085%) IFRS
9 2 (0.085%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.085%) SLA
10 1 (0.042%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.042%) GRC
10 1 (0.042%) GxP
10 1 (0.042%) MISRA
10 1 (0.042%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.042%) NCSC
10 1 (0.042%) PMO
System Software
1 121 (5.12%) Docker
2 24 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.47%) Firmware
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) zsh
6 2 (0.085%) IAG
6 2 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.042%) HDFS
7 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.042%) NFS
7 1 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 54 (2.29%) Terraform
3 51 (2.16%) Ansible
4 22 (0.93%) Grafana
5 19 (0.80%) PowerCLI
6 16 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.38%) Kibana
8 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.21%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.17%) Podman
10 4 (0.17%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.085%) Puppet
12 1 (0.042%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.042%) Control-M
12 1 (0.042%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.042%) OPNET
12 1 (0.042%) Packer
12 1 (0.042%) rkt
Vendors
1 216 (9.14%) PayPal
2 187 (7.92%) Microsoft
3 148 (6.27%) Oracle
4 84 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 54 (2.29%) SAP
6 42 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 34 (1.44%) VMware
8 32 (1.35%) Google
9 29 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.19%) IBM
11 26 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 24 (1.02%) Adobe
13 18 (0.76%) Dell
13 18 (0.76%) HP
14 17 (0.72%) IFS
15 13 (0.55%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.47%) Databricks
16 11 (0.47%) Syncsort
17 10 (0.42%) Avaloq
18 9 (0.38%) Informatica