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 £280, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 389 424
Rank change year-on-year +35 +35 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 5 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.043% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.046% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £271 £317 £196
25th Percentile £273 £350 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +20.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £319 - £363
90th Percentile £320 - £418
UK median daily rate £277 £375 £338
% change year-on-year -26.27% +11.11% +12.50%

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 12,535 19,528 21,566
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 92.39% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,818 11,672 14,887
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £365 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 989 2,454 1,125
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.65 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.86 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.39% +71.78%

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 28 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
Scotland - 3 £273 - 5
South East +48 1 £321 - 16
South West - 1 £280 - 7
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 2025, 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 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
3 2 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) DocumentDB
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) JDBC
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (20.00%) DOM
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle