Flyway Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Flyway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 - 369
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Flyway 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% - 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
UK median daily rate £563 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Flyway falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,930 2,267 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.40% 14.66% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,799 1,552 1,343
10th Percentile £337 £311 £350
25th Percentile £403 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £630 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 90 154
10th Percentile £44.86 £45.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £55.00 £54.78
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.88 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Flyway
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Flyway relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Flyway job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Flyway
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flyway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flyway

Flyway
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flyway in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flyway in the UK excluding London

Flyway
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 Flyway within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. 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 £400 -
Yorkshire - 4 £400 -
North West - 1 £550 -
Flyway
UK

Flyway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 1 (20.00%) DTS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) git-flow
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (40.00%) Mockito
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Law
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (40.00%) Drools
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) HATEOAS
1 2 (40.00%) Jasypt
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (40.00%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) PromQL
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Consul
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Zipkin
3 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (20.00%) Foglight
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle