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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,301 2,846 3,967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 12.37% 13.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.26% 13.12% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,661 2,198 2,933
10th Percentile £306 £356 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £563
90th Percentile £650 £663 £631
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.18% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 55 80
10th Percentile £35.00 £48.49 £30.75
25th Percentile £47.50 £52.38 £44.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £72.46 £65.11
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +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 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
North of England +4 672 £461 -8.21% 548
South East 0 515 £490 -6.22% 536
North West +4 365 £450 -9.77% 312
Midlands +1 322 £425 -5.56% 392
South West -3 296 £450 -14.29% 229
Scotland -1 280 £450 -5.26% 135
Yorkshire +3 274 £488 -7.14% 172
West Midlands +6 227 £425 -10.53% 255
East of England +5 133 £430 -9.47% 154
East Midlands -2 95 £419 -2.90% 136
Wales +5 80 £450 -5.26% 63
North East +2 46 £475 -5.00% 69
Northern Ireland 0 17 £525 +31.25% 39
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 542 (23.55%) SQL
2 494 (21.47%) Agile
3 457 (19.86%) JavaScript
4 405 (17.60%) Java
5 397 (17.25%) Python
6 363 (15.78%) C#
7 362 (15.73%) AWS
8 332 (14.43%) Azure
9 317 (13.78%) Security Cleared
10 310 (13.47%) HTML
11 295 (12.82%) React
12 285 (12.39%) Software Engineering
13 281 (12.21%) .NET
13 281 (12.21%) DevOps
14 265 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
15 258 (11.21%) Social Skills
16 253 (11.00%) SC Cleared
17 240 (10.43%) TypeScript
18 230 (10.00%) Degree
19 228 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
20 224 (9.73%) CI/CD
21 206 (8.95%) CSS
22 205 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
23 201 (8.74%) Public Sector
24 198 (8.60%) Code Quality
24 198 (8.60%) Microservices
25 195 (8.47%) Microsoft
26 190 (8.26%) Spring
27 189 (8.21%) Power Platform
28 183 (7.95%) 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 59 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.65%) Confluence
3 33 (1.43%) CMS
4 24 (1.04%) Apache
4 24 (1.04%) SAS
5 23 (1.00%) Umbraco
6 20 (0.87%) Drupal
7 19 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 18 (0.78%) WordPress
9 12 (0.52%) CICS
10 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.26%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.26%) OpenEdge
13 5 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.17%) JBoss
14 4 (0.17%) Mule
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 162 (7.04%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.087%) Sketch
5 2 (0.087%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.043%) Blender
6 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.22%) Aareon QL
5 5 (0.22%) Maximo
5 5 (0.22%) Odoo
6 4 (0.17%) Exstream
6 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Magento
7 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
7 3 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 362 (15.73%) AWS
2 332 (14.43%) Azure
3 189 (8.21%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.87%) Serverless
5 107 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (3.35%) Power Automate
7 70 (3.04%) GitHub
8 63 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 57 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (2.35%) PowerApps
11 52 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (2.26%) GCP
12 51 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.87%) Azure Functions
13 43 (1.87%) SaaS
14 35 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 30 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 23 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 15 (0.65%) SAN
3 14 (0.61%) Intranet
4 10 (0.43%) 5G
4 10 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (0.39%) HTTP
6 6 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 6 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
6 6 (0.26%) VPN
7 5 (0.22%) Firewall
7 5 (0.22%) NAS
7 5 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.22%) SSL
8 4 (0.17%) 4G
8 4 (0.17%) Link 16
8 4 (0.17%) RS-232
8 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.087%) DNS
9 2 (0.087%) MQTT
9 2 (0.087%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.74%) Power BI
2 121 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 70 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 68 (2.96%) MySQL
6 55 (2.39%) MongoDB
7 52 (2.26%) Oracle Database
8 51 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 47 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.91%) GIS
14 19 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.78%) Big Data
16 17 (0.74%) Power Query
17 16 (0.70%) DB2
17 16 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
18 15 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 183 (7.95%) Git
2 108 (4.69%) JIRA
3 106 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.78%) JUnit
5 38 (1.65%) Visual Studio
6 36 (1.56%) GitLab
7 35 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 31 (1.35%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.13%) Mockito
10 22 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (0.91%) Maven
12 18 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
13 17 (0.74%) Android Studio
13 17 (0.74%) Selenium
14 16 (0.70%) Postman
15 15 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
15 15 (0.65%) Subversion
16 14 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
16 14 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 258 (11.21%) Social Skills
2 201 (8.74%) Public Sector
3 182 (7.91%) Finance
4 123 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (2.04%) Banking
6 32 (1.39%) Retail
7 26 (1.13%) Telecoms
8 25 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 25 (1.09%) Marketing
9 22 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.78%) Billing
12 17 (0.74%) Law
13 14 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.61%) Local Government
14 10 (0.43%) Automotive
15 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (13.47%) HTML
2 295 (12.82%) React
3 281 (12.21%) .NET
4 206 (8.95%) CSS
5 190 (8.26%) Spring
6 169 (7.34%) AngularJS
7 163 (7.08%) REST
8 148 (6.43%) Spring Boot
9 130 (5.65%) Node.js
10 123 (5.35%) RESTful
11 82 (3.56%) Web Services
12 75 (3.26%) Kafka
13 71 (3.09%) .NET Core
14 60 (2.61%) Vue
15 56 (2.43%) ASP.NET
16 55 (2.39%) .NET Framework
17 51 (2.22%) GraphQL
18 50 (2.17%) XML
19 40 (1.74%) Next.js
20 38 (1.65%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 60 (2.61%) Product Ownership
2 48 (2.09%) Mobile App
3 39 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 33 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 29 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
10 15 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (0.65%) Onboarding
11 14 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 14 (0.61%) Mainframe
11 14 (0.61%) NHS
12 13 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.52%) CMDB
13 12 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
13 12 (0.52%) Robotics
14 10 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.39%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 133 (5.78%) Linux
2 69 (3.00%) Android
3 60 (2.61%) Unix
4 54 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.09%) Windows
6 18 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.74%) Debian
8 11 (0.48%) zOS
9 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.043%) AIX
12 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.043%) VMS
12 1 (0.043%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (21.47%) Agile
2 285 (12.39%) Software Engineering
3 281 (12.21%) DevOps
4 265 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
5 228 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
6 224 (9.73%) CI/CD
7 205 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 198 (8.60%) Code Quality
8 198 (8.60%) Microservices
9 163 (7.08%) Conversational UI
10 154 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
11 153 (6.65%) Scrum
12 140 (6.08%) Unit Testing
13 123 (5.35%) TDD
14 122 (5.30%) Front End Development
15 114 (4.95%) Data Modelling
15 114 (4.95%) Test Automation
16 101 (4.39%) Analytics
16 101 (4.39%) User Experience
17 98 (4.26%) OO
Programming Languages
1 542 (23.55%) SQL
2 457 (19.86%) JavaScript
3 405 (17.60%) Java
4 397 (17.25%) Python
5 363 (15.78%) C#
6 240 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.95%) PHP
8 90 (3.91%) PL/SQL
9 65 (2.82%) C
10 58 (2.52%) C++
11 52 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 49 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 48 (2.09%) Scala
14 36 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.43%) Shell Script
16 30 (1.30%) Bash
17 29 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (1.22%) ABAP
18 28 (1.22%) Go
18 28 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 317 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 253 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 230 (10.00%) Degree
4 48 (2.09%) DV Cleared
5 36 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.087%) PMP
11 1 (0.043%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.043%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.043%) PhD
11 1 (0.043%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.043%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.04%) QA
2 46 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 21 (0.91%) HL7
4 12 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 12 (0.52%) GDPR
5 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.35%) WCAG
6 4 (0.17%) MISRA
6 4 (0.17%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.087%) IFRS
8 2 (0.087%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.043%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.043%) GRC
9 1 (0.043%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.043%) NCSC
9 1 (0.043%) PMO
System Software
1 120 (5.22%) Docker
2 30 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.48%) Firmware
4 4 (0.17%) zsh
5 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.043%) HDFS
6 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.043%) IAG
6 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.00%) Ansible
2 46 (2.00%) Terraform
3 28 (1.22%) Grafana
4 19 (0.83%) PowerCLI
5 18 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.35%) Zipkin
8 7 (0.30%) Kibana
9 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.17%) Podman
10 2 (0.087%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.087%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.087%) Puppet
11 1 (0.043%) Control-M
11 1 (0.043%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.043%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.043%) OPNET
11 1 (0.043%) rkt
Vendors
1 195 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.04%) PayPal
3 159 (6.91%) Oracle
4 92 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.39%) SAP
6 43 (1.87%) Google
6 43 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.26%) IBM
8 27 (1.17%) VMware
9 25 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 19 (0.83%) Dell
12 18 (0.78%) HP
13 17 (0.74%) IFS
14 16 (0.70%) Adobe
14 16 (0.70%) Guidewire
15 11 (0.48%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.48%) Informatica
15 11 (0.48%) Syncsort
16 10 (0.43%) Splunk