Junior Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375 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 384 437 482
Rank change year-on-year +53 +45 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 7 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.099% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.11% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 17
10th Percentile £286 £215 £146
25th Percentile £323 £255 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +140.00%
75th Percentile - £438 £425
90th Percentile - £700 £444
UK median daily rate £375 £350 £305
% change year-on-year +7.14% +14.75% +57.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
UK median hourly rate - - £21.00

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%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior 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
North of England +38 6 £375 +7.14% 15
North West - 3 £375 - 9
Yorkshire +28 2 £375 +7.14% 4
South East +7 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £283 - 2
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 5 (71.43%) React
2 5 (71.43%) Front End Development
2 5 (71.43%) REST
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) JPA
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
3 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (57.14%) Docker
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Data Structures

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (57.14%) JPA
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Front End Development
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) ABAP
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) Talend