Digital Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 391 428
Rank change year-on-year +53 +37 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.005% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.005% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.36%
75th Percentile £388 - £597
90th Percentile - - £659
UK median daily rate £375 £725 £640
% change year-on-year -48.28% +13.28% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.19 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 12,000 19,293 21,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 92.46% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,573 11,580 14,790
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 883 2,443 1,073
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.85 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +83.97%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK excluding London

Digital 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 Digital Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 June 2025. 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
South West - 3 £375 - 10
North of England +13 1 - - 5
North West +11 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 2
Digital Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 2025, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) API Management
3 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (50.00%) API Development
3 3 (50.00%) API Design
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation

Digital 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) API Design
2 3 (50.00%) API Development
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) A/B Testing
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Design Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Infor